Gammalite

you gentlemen don't realize the costs involved in maintaining a racing industry these days . The ATC has done well to keep trading while in debt with the failure to raise capital from the disastrous Apartments project that failed due to the building company declaring Bankrupcy. Instead of feeling compassion for your 'fellow' Harness racing supporters that make up the ATC , it's sink the boot in and scoff at their predicament all the time. Victoria (HRV) managed to bail out of their losses for the moment. The Australian Turf Club , in the much more popular Thoroughbred industry has debts of $145,000,000 and are unable to pay back the bank loan of $30 mill due this year. They even tried to sell Rosehill Gardens track for $5 Billion to the state Government, to support themselves well into the future . Members voted against the sale in the end. I think an administrator is going to be appointed In a nut-shell , you can see that running a racing/harness club is Not a Prosperous Enterprise these days. Why pick on someone and people TRYING TO KEEP Your sport going in Difficult times ?? Jump in and help with some ideas. Brodie says get young people involved, Galah says create a training/racing establishment with barns and stables and training facilities to lease to the young trainers who don't Have property of their own. 2 top ideas that can be expanded on and implemented . and probably will be in the future too as no choice really , Example = like what Menangle did 2010 (shifting out of Harold Park in the city and funding themselves and setting up well) ATC may have to do this too?. ( *and help the young participants simultaneously with training facility)

wow Brodster . those horses are just amazing. I'm just watching some great athletes at the Olympics at the moment but looking at these yearlings today is just sensational. The full brother to new superstar Captain's Mistress ( and half brother to Merlin ) a bargain at $180,000 to Peter Lagan Standardbreds Canterbury. Who are they with as Trainer ? Waikato 's legend Mark Purdon bought the 3 Lots that I liked . He'll WIN with all 3 of these. 1/ A Bettor's Delight out of John Greens champion mare The Orange Agent for just $70,000 2/ Captain Treacherous -Dream On Me Colt for $50,000 3/ Captain Treacherous - Millwood Maizey Colt for $82,500 watch for Mark winning trifecta's with those 3 next year Brodster !! 👍💰🏆💪 Kennards paid huge money for a few lots , as you would expect. trying to look for their next Lazarus. dreaming on.

Violence ? elbowing ? Crimes committed ? Battering rams ? just another day at the races lol. Thomass needs to follow a more 'Gentle' sport . for his own sanity. She's a rough and Tumble game. As Murray has said here , you need an ambulance in attendance before anyone can go to work. Pushing out in races has happened ( for centuriee nearly) Is part of what most would expect in a race ? . I've had wheels and legs jammed under my horse that many times from inside runners that it's like rush hour on the Auckland M1,( but with less stack up's) because the fearless combatants can take a bit of 'Battering rams' and go with the flow. Alas in this case Win Pinn decided to lean back in and not go with the flow at al , causing the incident . a few elbows out for balance and that , but Violence ?? No way. just riders trying to get to the post in best possible position . The young lady possibly coming out a bit too hard, but like Chief says it's a pretty heavy animal at 500kg , and sometimes they react sharply , and are indeed great battering Rams ! they love it too. 😎🏇👍 So the Stipes dished out the penalties as they see fit . Racing incident with errors made in the heat of battle. No Need to get the Police involved 😂

Sometimes you have to have faith. That officials at ANY Sport can make decisions based on what they see. I like a lot of your ideas , but you are a fraction to pedantic. (Nothing wrong with being Pedantic as you get more results in your favour that way , whatever you might be tackling , like Fishing for example lol 😆🤣) Horses and drivers do funny things in races. Stewards have to make sense of it , BUT They CANNOT tell you how to drive your horse. Drivers still make split second decisions , horses make bad errors , and vice versa ) things happen. Case 1/ I argued the driverless horse case at Hawera with you , over which we had differing views. The stewards probably even had a view different to BOTH of us . It's just the way it is . You wanted drivers suspended in that particular case. I didn't , as they were juniors and a driverless horse does Weird and wonderful things. Leeway is needed . and the race should of been called off to like a subscriber here pointed out . NoworNever I think it was. CASE 2/ Not of interest to anyone except you Mr Galah , as you would remember this handy NZ horse named HOT and TREACHEROUS. he raced last Saturday night Albion at Long odds, against the FFA top class horses. And the driver went a bit 'Ballistic ' and tried to leave the hot favourite SPEAK THE TRUTH out 3 wide , and then tried to cross the leader not long after. A terrible effort as no way would that horse be giving him the lead. Anyway , The Classy 'Speak The Truth' ( a miracle Mile placegetter and started in the Slot races at Cambridge once he's that good) powered to an easy Victory . The Mug driver of Hot and Treacherous was quizzed as to his driving tactics by stewards. I thought his drive was quite ordinary at the time . Livingstone doesn't drive much at all though. and he was having a Go. to Win the race. And what could stipes do ?? suspend him for having a go ?? He tried to beat them , what you're spose to do . Didn't go about it as you might like as was shown to be futile against quality opponents. Anyway they didn't suspend him , and I can only imagine when quizzed he just said I was trying to lead and win . About 1 hour ago at our Tuesday Albion meet , we now run FFA stands for the old boys who can't keep up Saturday nights. to give them a race they can still win. Old TURN IT UP won one of these last month bless him. what a trooper he is. today, HOT and Treacherous in the stand FFA off 30m handicap ran a great 2nd , and paid $6 the place (starting 30-1) and Livingstone drove him beautifully and all but beat the hot favourite that he did head off for a few strides. well done to them. Each race is different , and looked at differently. Is quite funny for getting quizzed for having a go. Or not having a Go . But in the end the Stipes Can't tell them how to drive........ and the public has to accept that too. Case 3/ Lack of vigour things just happen in your Big silly fields in NZ . If you're last at the 1/4 in those Big 14 horse fields , why be vigorous ? you're NO HOPE of getting any of the money. might as well wait till next time and still have a horse lol... thankfully in Oz the 6-10 horse fields mean everyone can have a Go Everytime and lack of vigour not an issue at all.

well you have to have 2 yearold races at some stage Brodster. 8 youngsters went around in 2 heats at Pukekohe today. They went about 2 minutes to 2.01 so pretty good on that track. They Were a bit strung out though . But hopefully the programmer will give them a race soon. There are 2 scratchings in the Addington race , so you're being unfair on the Programmer , who is not going to pick that would happen. was spose to be 5 starters. Why accept for a race then scratch? trainers should be fined for that sort of rubbish lol 😉😂 Hey the Two (2) x maiden races are being run for 15k in races 7 and 8 straight after the 2 yearolds on Thursday. So is that the prize you thinking the 2 year-olds should run for instead of 17k that is programmed ? you're probably right. I'd only run ALL maidens for $9k races if I was doing it lol 🤣😎 save a few bucks that way. wouldn't be too popular with a trainers and owners though lol. 😆 they'd get used to it quick enough though and actually try and win a race to get better prizemoney when better rating. that's the way to do it.

You could question every driver , every race about their tactics/ improvement or whatever. In the end there is just one winner. we have very few problems around Australia as the field size is a sensible 9-10 in every state , therefore they all get a chance in a race and you can't 'cover up' 'drive quiet' or 'keep for next time' like they do in the silly 12- 14 horse races of yesteryear. Where it's VERY easy to get your horse beat. Stewards in Aus will just look for one of Brodies big bet moves , and assess whether there were accomplices in helping the punted horse land the prize. Doesn't happen very often thankfully , there were some in country Victoria a while back with family members 'helping each other' out. and There was a DQed former leading trainer did want to put $3000 on a horse a few years ago here in Queensland, which resulted in the leading Trainer Vicki Rasmussen (Vicki never recovered and just races 2 horses she owns herself now after that year out) and leading driver Shane Graham. getting very long DQ's . People wanting to put Big bets on = are nothing but trouble lol 😆🤣

yes they are treated as Important. Nigel with his regular people syndicates has 3 or 4 horses at the Dunn's stable. So gets some Wins. They seem like nice small time folk. Allstars and Roy and BarryP . unfortunately were a BIT Too GOOD . therefore just the millionaires get a look in , as pay top dollar for horses and top dollar for training. ( Dixon stable and Pete MCMullen are very dominant in Brisbane as have 4 Millionaire owners each , and near 100 horses between them , so they Dominate the Metro racing Landscape for the same reasons) All my mates can't compete with that very well so go round and round at Redcliffe. Although one did sneak into town and win the Open Mares race last Saturday night . so that was nice. NZ will have to do the same as Emma Stewart and the LEE Stable Mr Galah . which is have Syndicates race with as near to the top barns as you can find. KEAYANG ZAHARA is part of the Margaret LEE camp , and they are out in the Bush and look after a LOT of Normal people. (AS in Not All are Super Rich ) How good is that !! Here's Keayang Zahara with some of her connections. She'll be winning the TAB Trot at Cambridge very soon . and has lots of Normal people in the ownership Syndicate. So there you go !! The Best trotter around and money not in the Millionaires pocket ? . How cool !! she earned a half million dollar bonus for something the other night at Melton too, to split up between them . so Some might be on the road to being the millionaire elite now ? 😎💰😉 Whatta great Sport we Have !!!! best sport on the planet for regular people involvement. If you let them.

nearly accurate. I think for a long time the features have Mainly gone to the Mega-rich for decades. Even Roy and Barry's owners were the 'elite' back in the day. All of Allstars owners Megarich for their whole decade of success (like Lazarus owners Kennards and that) , a few Aussies amongst them like Mre Feiss from Victoria with a few good horses like Self Assured , etc and the Butterworths. Merv Butterworth even so blessed he had Copy That as well with Ray Green . The Canadian TANev bloke (with all the Aaardie horses ) has a few Big wins around the place. Stonewall and Breckon obviously , and now Shannon , Boots and Seymour and Mick Harvey who has Kingman are sending horses to NZ and winning the Big ones. Interestingly Mick Boots , who won his 2nd Hunter Cup the other night to go with the 2 NZ Cups of Swayzee , is really invested now , and the amazing Brittany Graham interviewing him was mentioning how he is gone right into it now like Seymour , and breeding some as well . not just buying horses like The Falcon for example, or yearlings. And is using way more than the 17 trainers now , and is up over 30 trainers winning races with his horses now . !! What support that is to the Participants !! that is amazing . as he gets good quality stock to a lot of small time trainers. even with young Gemma Hewitt at Albion winning for him the other night, just one example. Actually I was surprised the other night at Albion , when Grant Dixon told me that Seymour DIDn't Breed Leap To Fame himself. I was very surprised. Most of his horses are bred by himself and Kay at their stud. Instead, Grant said he and his wife Trista went to the Sydney Yearling sale and picked it (LTF) out for the Seymours themselves , and paid just $42,000 for him . Bit of a Bargain ? lol 😂🤣💰 not a bad purchase at all lol. He's over $5,000,000 in earnings now I think.

yes it has been great enjoying the sport with you blokes over a few years since Covid now. Was just hoping your enjoyment of the sport could be refreshed and some bright spots appear. I don't think the CEO saying everything is going down the toilet is Not the solution for anything. lol 😎 any company CEO The many new Changes are still mixed with the old ones , and we all have ideas what works best and what doesn't , but all the ideas are not going to match . you guys still like big fields on the grass for example (and standing starts which I would do away with altogether ) for example. You guys are quite intelligent and say what you would like to happen on occasion, as well as conflicting with what is happening in NZ harness. Brodie always worried for the stakes money drop in 2 years time. I guess he is not accepting that should and will happen with lower participation levels and much smaller betting making it going to happen. But you have to adapt as the trainers all around Australia did. (regular racing over short distances to earn the smaller prize- money to pay your way.) a sure way to help them earn some income. As I mentioned previously even the slowest horses can still win 4 races per year withe the current rating system and pay their way. Which is a good thing) ) Smaller 8 horse fields ARE the answer too (like USA) as it means that a horse should be winning Once every 8 starts. This is SO Important these days .It works all around Australia and USA , and no reason it wouldn't work in NZ. So you Have regular Winning horses, Winning owners and winning Trainers to all stay interested in the sport. The 'Pool of Drivers' does drop off dramatically though. so is certainly one loss. Brodie often mentions the Big Bets too . That the betting agencies should take them . To help the situation out a bit. Sounds like a good idea if that was to work. they take big bets on footy and gallops and that. I loved your idea of with the FORBURY PARK Sale money developing a track facility in Canterbury , complete with Stabling barns for the young horsepeople of today to still get a look in , and top facilities (with swimming etc) to be able to compete with those vastly experienced top quality trainers all around our countries. Young NZer Jack Trainor took advantage of that opportunity provided at Menangle and really went well. (along with his mate Grimson) This is probably what the North Island Needs as well. You mentioned the Struggling Victoria. Yes !!! the stakes was Ludicrously small for our annual feature Hunter CuP last night. Swayzee only got 150k winning I think 🙄, for our feature 'NZ Cup equivalent 'race. So Brodie is right . The prizemoney will drop in NZ as well eventually. Victoria only recently 'Bailed out ' by the state Government . as were $66 mill in debt. They got 100 mill for land and to fund the next 2 years of racing for the whole state. back to losing after that it would seem until the next adjustment is made. Something Auckland trotting tried to do too as are many millions behind ? Sell some land. but no-one bought the land yet ? think the Government should buy it ? that's the best way. they could help participants then. QLD Government were thinking of buying Albion Park too for the Olympics 2032. But its a crap place on a creek and floods now and then, so Very hard to develop. so why buy it? . we've been lucky over the years to continue . Seymour (Leap To Fame owner) saved the day (Albion Park racing) a few times over the years Gold Coast trotting Club went extinct 😭, as the Government did buy their beautiful Gold Coast facility for the Commonwealth Games there a few years ago. developed the site for an athletes village. so Gold Coast trotting died altogether without a track . our 4th major track closure in my time in QLD . just 3 are left now. I'll bet they collapse in QLD before NZ does. we recently had Chris Garrard pass away and when Seymour is gone (he's very old now) there will be huge drop off of Benefactors of the sport. where-as You guys have wonderful people keeping you going , and you don't seem to appreciate it. (Which is why I argue back against you and Brodie bagging the men actually trying things, to try and keep behind the sport ) I don't expect these men to Jump up and say ''things are bad ' as you might like from us fools lol. As long as the sport is running = well things are Good (in some folks opinion) 🙂 just opened curtains , and it's raining here today 😂 Haleluhah !! been dry as a dogs biscuit these parts. good now.

You 2 old boys have really drawn the Curtains and Pulled down the Blinds on your view of NZ harness racing. And trying to Board up the windows as well lol. No wonder no-one talks to you anymore here. Do you seriously expect the CEO or HRNZ or anyone to be disappointed in and back your Shocking judgements of every aspect of the sport ? They Can't Do That. It's their job to put a Racing product on for the participants. Calling everyone 'Fools' 10 times solves nothing Mr Galah. Let's have a look at why they say The Sport is never Been better. Get some Optimism going maties . Pull that Blind up and remove your deafeners !! (I think they're glued in with you 2 though ) 😂😋😉 1/ Fabulous racing all year round. Amazing concepts like the November Slot races, The Cambridge Million Betcha and TAB trot attracting the best horses in the world nearly the past 2 years. HRNZ ONLY have to put in a Small portion of the prizes pool so the BIG-time racing is on the cusp of being 'Self Sufficient ' excellent stuff !! 2/ The NZ CUP racing for a great purse with the Aussie involvement through the ceiling now . because the racing is doing so well in NZ . The last 2 Dominion trots have been fantastic. ( I guess that makes up for NZ not running the Interdominion anymore ) 3/ The yearlings Prices are amazing . Stonewall bought 2 yearlings a year ago for NZ record Prices . $360,000 each I think it was. The breeders will be smiling at this like real estate agents lol. 4/ The Golden Gait concept at Auckland is amazing with people like Unhinged Nigel for example winning them with his syndicates and getting good reward for their Input to the industry and participation . Like wise the recent Ashburton 5000 concept saw normal rated horses winning $60,000 races for normal grass roots participants. How good was that. The millionaires have enough races put on for them like the harness millions etc. 5/ BIG time Aussie owners like Boots and Shannon have taken over where Mark Purdon's left off , and are supporting the trainers with a stack of purchases at your yearling sales, 6/ GUS and Muscle Mountain are trotting at an amazing level, showing NZ bred trotters are near best on the planet. There are ways to expand on that by running More Trotting races. Wait on . Auckland already do !! for Bernie Hackett, Dr Chin, Balle, McGowan and other fantastic trotter trainers in the North . Well done ATC. 7/ The horses are going blistering times . Because the Trainers are the best around. Dunn's , Telfers, Cullins ,Dalgety and the Masters themselves the 3 brothers/in law = BarryP and MarkP and Tony H STILL training and WINNING after all these 5 decades. The best in the World still Representing your Amazing Sport . So HOW Lucky are you guys to Have them ? 8/ New Zealand Very Abily represented last night at Melton Victoria on our Biggest night of the year at the Hunter Cup. NOOO . Not by Mick Guiren (who droned on like a man in a asylum lol 😂😋 that no-one could understand) But by Republican Party, Captain's Mistress and Chase A Dream storming into the money showing GOOD the kiwis really are . (and people could bet on them too 👍) how is there anything to complain about . and you Expect the CEO to say things are going Bad. 😂🤣😁 Adapt and pull up your blinds and open the curtains , and enjoy the sunshine boys. try and enjoy the sport. better than tiddly winks the Chief was trying to sell someone lol 😂 Amazing Horses, Amazing Horse people, Amazing races. Heaps more coming up soon too. have a good Sunday. ( get the Mrs to open the curtains or something lol ) 😁😉

no ya nong, he's the current voted 2025 Longines WORLD"s BEST JOCKEY. for the 3rd time. he ain't crying none. Who the hell wants him on the sidelines? when some of the best horses in the world were awaiting his talent today (Joliestar and Autumn Glory ) that he rode to easy victories with his fine talent. It's only YOU Bawling your eyes out all the time Thommo, like a big baby about whip strikes. wah wah wah . 😭 Its a bloody 500kg animal mate. you ain't gunna hurt the bastard with a floppy little hand whip. I've been whacked by whips from other drivers during a race . it just stuns you into action if anything. just like it does for the horse. gets your concentration up a bit. Some blokes need it in the bedroom too 🤭😉😎

Don't worry about those Tipsters Mr Galah. they couldn't care what comes in really unless they have a vested interest in the horse . just the same as most folk around. Anyway , best stick to the South Island where the skies are bluer and the grass is greener for horses and Punters lol. Addington away soon . looking at some Last Start Winners. Let's See if these horses are capable of scoring a double ?? Two wins in a row to win todays Multi 👍💰 A very hard feat to achieve but we'll see if any are capable lol . Race 1 has Four last start winners so we'll leave that out , and go for races 2 to 8 inclusive. Race 9 has 3 of the trotters that won last time so we'll skip that too. Race 2/ He Ain't Fakin $3.40 , Race 3/ Scottlyn Crunch $3.60, Race 4/ Ukraine $1.75 , Race 5/ Warrior Chief $6.50, Race 6/ Pinseeker $1.55, Race 7/ Mr Love $2.10, Race 8/ General Gen $5.00 Taken a few trebles with this lot to Go 2 on the Bounce, and along with the 7 SPOT Multi for all 7 to win is worth $2265-1 . Hope they can all double down on their last starts victories !! lol 😁🍻💰

should try for it anyway. Lead and won the race last year. seems a winning formula to try again. The 2 New Zealanders were drawn one and two and were very close at the post too ( beaten a metre or 2 only) on that occasion. so maybe Republican Party can make up for that narrow miss last year? , and take Victory this time ? sitting behind the leader. I hope so .Carter is making a great go of it with this horse lately and would love to see him take it out. Kingman was quite extraordinary in the huge Victoria Cup, NZ Cup , Christian Cullen treble late 2025 . phenomenal wins . we are truly' spoilt for good horses these days. can't write him off as a chance as you mentioned.

yes a scintillating run off the Lead. Out in 27 to lead , then a pedestrian 30 . then quarters of 26 and 26 to win well. A very quick last half mile ! with The Janitor sitting outside him and getting beat only a head after circling the field. Miracle Mile winner Don Hugo was 3 lengths away couldn't get near them. Pete said he'll win the NZ Cup with THE JANITOR this year , and win the trot with GUS again in Cup week too. so that will be interesting lol. can't wait to see if that happens lol. They are 6-1 and 3-1 for the July Interdominion Grand Finals at Albion . Big year for Pete McMullen if he can win any one of those. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🍻 Latest 2026 Miracle Mile odds on Sportsbet are (will be a 8 horse invitational final field early March ) Leap to Fame $3.50, Rakero Rocket $4.00, Kingman $4.50, Swayzee $8.00, Don Hugo $9.00, Captain's Mistress $9.00, Hi ManameisJeff and The Janitor both at 15-1 (even after that big Albion mile quinella 😅 ) and New Zealanders 'Republican Party' and 'Pinseeker' both are 21-1 . it's a tough lot to beat lol 😂💰

Leap To Fame only 4 starts at Menangle in the past 2 -3 years. for 2 x wins and 2 x 2nds . Hi MaNameisJeff is a 'Menangle star' as you suggest. just on 2 years ago he was equal Favourite with Leap To Fame in the Miracle Mile after winning his 8 lead up races to that event . he got the speed wobbles however and broke, so Leap To Fame sat parked out and won in 1.48.3. . since that night 2 years ago Hi MaNameisJeff has had issues and only 12 more race starts . which included 5 more Menangle wins and a big Group 1 Albion Park QLD win too, where he ran 1.49.3 just two months ago defeating our 2nd best horse (The Janitor) . last week he ran 1.49.3 as well . Leap To Fame ran 1.48.4 Parked out in last years Miracle Mile when 2nd to Don Hugo . 'Jeff ' might be a second slower than that these days ?? so might finish 10m behind them I'm guessing next month ?. (Miracle Mile is nearly always a 1.48 event for the very best around. ) As you say his NZ mare Captain's Mistress is absolutely air-borne . She might make the field and Win it too !! she can go 1.48 I reckon and be very hard to beat . Yes indeed , McCarthy's mare named EYE KEEP SMILING is indeed our very best mare with a very creditable 28 wins from 42 starts and near a million won. best win time of 1.49.3 . so won't make a Miracle Mile field though. and got left many lengths behind by 'Captain's Mistress' , who automatically takes up the Queen of the track now after that thumping win you just described here from last week.