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  1. Some of the Best racing ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere will be on the next 3 Saturdays at Albion Park. well , some of the fastest anyway πŸ˜‚ , so some 'best and fast' BOAY racers can race for the BOAY Interdominion Title with a stable of 5 horses to race against each other. Have drawn 5 playing cards Per PLAYER that represented 3 of the 'better' Pacers and 2 Trotters each competing. This took only a few minutes so am giving tomorrow night and Friday night Draft the flick and Drawing All your FIVE horses right now. lets hope you're Happy with your Stable team !! remember it's 3 Pacers and 2 Trotters each. Your stable will score points based on the horses finishing position for it's 3 starts across the 3 race nights. The Points score-table is the Interdominion Official one seen in the rules at the beginning of thread . I will give a Points Up-date here after each race. Feel happy to join in and Chat about your horse (or any horses prospects/ performances as we go along !!!! with no further Ado here are the Seven Stables in Contention . in no particular order. TEAM BRODIE : Beach Ball (NZ), Cya Art (NZ/NSW) , Max Delight (Vic) plus trotters Eurokash (NZ) , Zealous Spur (QLD) TEAM RANGATIRA : Bettor Eclipse (Vic), Aroda (QLD), Pinseeker (NZ) plus trotters Taylad To Use (NZ), Arcee Phoenix (Vic) TEAM GALAH : Speak The Truth (QLD), Don Hugo (NSW), Turn It Up (QLD) plus trotters Gus (QLD), Masterly (NZ) TEAM MIKEY : Tango Tara (Vic), Blacks A Dance (QLD), Break The Line (NSW) plus trotters Oscar Bonavena (NZ), MAjestic Lavros (QLD) TEAM GAMMAlite : Sure Thing Captain (QLD), Nyak (TAS/NSW) , Pete's Said So (NSW) plus trotters Aldebaran Acrux (Vic) , Harold Smith (Vic) TEAM CHIEF STIPE: Rakero Rocket (Vic), Captains Knock (NSW), Mossdale Terry (NZ/Qld) plus trotters London To A Brick (NSW) , Harry Stamper (NZ/Vic) TEAM TAB4Ever : Catch A Wave (Vic), Jimartee (QLD), Wisper A Secret (QLD) plus trotters Parisian Artiste (Vic) and BET N WIN (NZ) (a nice one there Tabman ?😊 ) TEAM Leap To Fame : Leap To Fame Feel free to discuss horse prospects here anytime , or anything about the runners. Points Up-date here after each race as well . A Happy InTerdominion to ALL
  2. been some great traditions with those sort of things . Some of the best ever were off long handicaps in Big fields for a lot of their race like Lordship, Johnny Globe, Caduceus, Highland Fling, False Step, and of Course Cardigan Bay. they became household names because of it. Great Old Days for sure !πŸ‘ Lazarus and Copy That and Swayzee running off the front is just a waste of time from a stand . as with no Handicap they are gifted a second NZ NZ Cup each ..might as well be a mobile. like they did with the Interdominion over 40 years ago , To make sure THey ALL get away safely being the main reason , and Not a Fiasco. Last Friday nights the racing at Alexandra Park and Addington was excellent , as EVERY runner had EVERY hope to Win in the world. That's the thing Most owners/trainers/drivers like about it . A better product. If you are back last at the quarter in a 14 horse field NO CHANCE whatsoever, even if you dodged all the bad luck that happens when too many run. they're a disaster these days and times. with horses knocking each other over and that. The 14-18 horse fields look spectacular , and you can get a Big price. (Melbourne Cup with 24 in it for example and a long priced winner won it) Burt a Gazzilion Punter dollars are lost on the Also rans . Only ONE can win. and a Heap of horses end up with a zero in their form line. USA model is better for horses to pay their way. 8 across the front, or Australia with regular 9- 10 horse fields which STOP most of the Bad Luck and Bad beginnings. think we step up to 12 horses fields for the racecard and BIG bucks for the Interdominion carnival though , so will be interesting tactics by some on Saturday night racing for Big dollars the next 3 weeks . will be some BIG wins.
  3. no worries Mikey. You will get a stable of 5 horses for the 3 Saturday nights . 3 Pacers and 2 Trotters. Think I will draw all 5 of everyone's horses in about 2 hours time. I Imagine the Saturday night Heats are all available in NZ and able to be viewed ?
  4. Yeah it's the Bookies who try to do the Duping. They'll say anything to extract a buck out of their 'victims' I usually watch the Saturday Gallops on TV . a 24 hour/day racing station sponsored by SportsBet. there must be a thousand Sportsbet Ad's per day broadcast between races lol. All sorts of BS trying to Dupe stupid people. BUT the worse bit to me , Is right before they jump in a race , and are assembling behind the barrier , ALL this Stuff comes On that is SUCH BS . e.g . Like market movers , Big bet of 3000 just went on this runner blah blah, the Smart money is has come for blah blah .... is just horrendous. there's anything they can think of to extract a dollar from the viewer. trying to lure them onto limited hope runners sometimes. total Duping (it's like doping !πŸ˜‚) They don't know which horse is a mover, or which punter is smart , even try to Dupe you with PICK of the Yard and Best Roughie to confuse the case more , and just have Anyone , Betting on anything if they had their way. . I don't bet on just anything. Just the horse I think will win a race. And Trotters are WAY more reliable than Gallopers. So galloping folks get DUPED all the time lol. (not the right distance for horse, needed the run , wasn't his Grand final , so much bullshit like that you throw up after wasting your money on them. lol Duped. 🀣 Pacers better value . Always have been and always will. some horses give 100% Every start of their lives and a re easy to recognize. just get rid of the silly standing starts and the crazy 15 horse fields (make it 10) and Easy money.
  5. Exactly πŸ†πŸ‘. Now you're talking !!! You are obviously excellent at saving for the future and budgeting what you need , well ahead of time. Running a Government , a HRNZ , and funding all the goings on , they just spend what they have , as they go. Even most people just Live week to week (50% of people these days apparently) with out saving for the future. Thank God for Superannuation being brought in the 90's to force us to save for the future . I'm amazed at what they can spend on racing Prizemoney. This July in Brisbane we are racing for 100's of thousands of dollars. I asked David Brick (the new QLD racing general manager , who was the Manager of QLD harness for 7 years prior ) where the hell does All the money come from , .When I applied to be Handicapper . He just said from all sorts of sources. YES the Prizemoney flutuates over the years to do With Sponsors and all sorts of things. You've seen it ? The NZ Cup goes up and down like a yo-yo . The Interdominion has varied greatly over the years. This year the winner (Probably 'Leap To Fame' ) will get $520,000 first prize. When I went to Tassie with his illustrious QLD predecessor 'Blacks A Fake' , Blackie got $1,000,000 first prize. It's all to do with Sponsorship and Interested parties at the time ( the years the racing is run) . Currently in NZ , Interest in Harness is high for a major interested Party > ENTAIN . so you (HRNZ ) can lap it up while the going is good. and spend it. And the Participants Get a quid for a while. Excellent stuff.!!!!! Brodie keeps saying it stops at 5 years , so if that's the case , someone else will step up to the plate. Even if the prizemoney for the NZ Cup has to Cut in half . so be it. Victoria has slashed prizemoney recent years from what it was as they are running broke. But press on anyway with out grizzling too much. still optimistic . someone like Seymour might step in . Seymour currently is bailing out the broke South Australia trotting board. What a legend he is !!! that's what you need mate. more legends πŸ‘πŸ˜‰πŸ’°
  6. yes it is. and they do . at small scale country meetings and that. On the city meetings , they take biggish bets all the time. There's a 1000 Brodies trying to get a Brodie size bet on at the gallops . and just him and that Stonewall Bloke at the TROTS lol. and they've got Brodie under control. I haven't Bet on the TAB in years. there's way to many Corporate on-line bookies that have better deals. They even pay you in full for dead-heats . something the TAB gleefully cuts in half. Of course they are Gambling (the corporate bookies) . they're addicts 100% of the time and day lol πŸ˜‚πŸ€£. The ONLY reason you think the Bookies are losing, (which they're Not) is because of all the winning odds spotted by Brodster and NoworNever and the Stonewall bloke that you are reading in the threads. They are NOT however , saying what their Staking plan is and how many LOSING Bets they are making . thus you are being Duped by not having the FULL report . The Bookies are RACKING in the CASH . make no mistake. I'd BET that Stonewall Bloke is behind , but he's having some fun with his Millions , while he's still alive πŸ˜‰. Buys a whack of horses too. so do hope some of them Win for him.
  7. Will see who is holding all the 'Aces' shortly. Have just pulled out a beautiful deck of cards with some great equine harness stars on the back . Even a VILLAGE KID card there . A beautiful NZ horse that even got a book wrote about him in the end. He won the Interdominion here at Brissie . (the first of 4 i've been too here) so is sure to bring you Luck in the 2025 BOAY Draft today. Five 2025 Interdominion runners will make their way into each BOAY harness racing supporter stable later today. WHO will get fine NZ reps 'OscarB' ? Who will get 'Bet N Win' ? Who will be on edge getting 'Pinseeker' ? not long now till we find out . will be a fun contest.
  8. FIELDS are Out for Round 1. Tomorrow evening 7pm we will Draft Heat 1 of the Pacers and Heat 1 of the trotters for the BOAY Interdominion. Join in if you would like a horse ! Heat 1 Pacers Field . 1. BettorEclipse, 2. RakeroRebel, 3. AlwaysSmokin, 4. SureThingCaptain 5. SpeakTheTruth, 6. Captain Hammerhead 7. Free Thinker, 8. TangoTara, 9. BeachBall, 10. FrankieFerocious, 11. CatchAWave 12.Luvbite. So far IN the Draft for Chief, Brodie, Galah, Gamma, TABman and Ranga . are these runners > (more horses will be drafted if more people join in . don't be shy lol πŸ˜… BETTOR ECLIPSE (Vic) an Auckland Cup winner, 2nd in the last Grand Final here that Leap To Fame won 2023. RAKERO REBEL (Vic) ex-pat NZer SURE THING CAPTAIN (QLD) who did well last year Interdom. SPEAK THE TRUTH (QLD) a miracle mile placegetter BEACH BALL (NZ) the NZ rep here CATCH A WAVE (Vic) star horse Chariots of Fire and Nullibor slot winner
  9. Mind you , MARK JONES does have the right idea here in these thoughts , for a BIG solution here at the start of this Thread . to this financial problem which is exactly the same as the one I offered over the whole time this saga has gone on.. It seems the only way to clear that awful ATC Debt before the whole thing (industry) just shuts down broke. You Need Pukeohe (Franklin) however, you could re-locate Alexandra Park out of town , like Sydney did with Harold Park, because the Land was valuable at that site) . have it going the correct direction too lol πŸ˜‚. clear the ATC debt and move on to bigger and better things. !!! Yeehaa lets do it. Have on-site Big horse BArns (like young 'Grimson' and his kiwi mate 'Trainor' have at Menangle ) for the young trainers to LEASE. young 'Seaton' is probably there as well, and just getting better and better. that is so important !!! as the Galah mentioned often, to have somewhere for the New Young trainers to train in a world class Facility in NZ . ( Woodend Beach not the answer to locating trainers in world class facility lol )
  10. Exactly NOT . Many of you guys complain about much, but the Solutions are Complicated. The whole NZ country is Struggling Financially in every sector. We blame governments for acting irresponsibly and causing the pain. I've seen plenty of folk everywhere that are blaming their Government's for everything and anything, and you Guys are Sadly Putting HRNZ in the same boat.πŸ˜ͺ PEOPLE everywhere are struggling to Balance their VERY OWN Home budgets , let alone Run a HUGE organisation like the Government , or the HRNZ or the NZTR racing budgets. example : very recently The Tasmanian State Government has gone completely bust so a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE has actually been passed in state Parliament there late May , and they are forced to go to the Polls in July again very soon(, where Labour will landslide out the current Liberal State Government in all likelihood ) . Things are very tough to run Financially. HRNZ are injecting HEAPS of funds into the Stakemoney for harness racing . via ENTAIN . that's gotta be a good thing really ??? . Prizemoney and racing NEVER BETTER , all across the nation. Yet this site posters Completely gives them a pasting . can't understand it. When the funding decreases so will your prizemoney . Just a normal progression. Has happened ALL through history. and when some bright spark comes along , like the GENIUS I applaud , that made Slot racing . the Prizemoney jumps up to a Million dollars in some of them . What a GREAT great thing . reward for your participants at Last !!!! There's a WHOLE GROUP of people at HRNZ that help put togeather the racing . IN VERY DIFFICULT times . they are putting on great races and concepts. (SLots racing and all sorts of things and schemes to try and help) . Is just Amazing what they've done, In difficult Financial times and yet HRNZ have Lifted literally lifted Harness racing out of the Ashes. And yet ZERO optimism at BOAY for harness racing Officialdom ? in Any office Whatsoever, No appreciation of anyone's efforts , the Handicapper?, the Stakes board, the underwriters ENTAIN , the whole lot cop a flogging the whole time . A TOTAL Vote of NO CONFIDENCE in your Very Own Countrymen all the time ?? .when they're trying to do the best they can in hard times to actually run a business . Some just WANT TO BITE THE HAND That FEEDS them Clean off 🀣. maybe sign up at the greyhounds instead?
  11. For 3 weeks the Interdominion will be run at Albion Park each Saturday Evening. July 5th and 12th heats into the 2 Grand Finals on 19th July. To support the runners and enjoy the racing We will get a 2025 BOAY Interdominion Championship winner as well.πŸ†πŸŽ‰ 1/ EACH CONTESTANT will get FIVE different horses Each to Earn points through the Heats and Final with. (Points scored will be what the actual horse itself earns in the race) 2/ There are 3 Pacers heats and 2 Trotters heats during the first 2 weeks . with 2 Grand Finals and 2 Consolations run on 19th July to earn the points in. 3/ Your runners will be drawn by Draft at 7pm NZ Time . on Wed2nd, Thurs3rd and Fri4th July. A runner on these evenings from the Pool of Horses listed on those evenings will be randomly selected (from deck of cards) for each gun BOAY player competing. (LEAP TO FAME will be excluded from the draw) ( random draw is to stop any star punter like the Brodster picking the 5 Best horses πŸ˜‚ ) 4/ Horses will be Allocated to BOAY players at approx 7.00pm NZ time each of those evenings until they have their 'Stable ' of 5 runners to support throughout the series on Friday evening during the Friday night lights. (3 Pacers and 2 Trotters each) 5/ POINTS from each round are scored from the Horses Finishing Placing in Each heat and Final . Here is the Official scoring table for the Interdominion . Points Table Position 1st scores 16 points, 2nd =13, 3rd =11, 4th =9, 5th =8, 6th =7, 7th =6, 8th =5 9th =4, 10th =3, 11th =2, and 12th (last place) = 1 point scored. 6/ Mr Rangatira has a head start of 10 points , and TAB4ever has 5 points accrued from the first half of the BOAY Interdominion Competition that they played well. 7/ If any of your 5 horse's is withdrawn / scratched for any reason , Another runner will be allocated for you instantly by me , to that race so you can still Earn Points . and FINALLY I would like to keep the BOAY Championship at 10 Competitors max. this will give 50 horses a supporter for the Interdominion (Leap to Fame still excluded πŸ˜† he will trying to beat your stable on his lonesome ) * So we have Ranga, Chief, Mr Galah, TABman, Brodster , and Gamma lining up for a unique stable of 5 Interdominion runners so far . The Stable accruing the Most Points by end of Grand Final night at Brissie on July 19th will be the NZ INTERDOMINION Grand Champion (no matter what Larry does lol 🀣) FOUR more players ( that are Interdom fans please ) needed to complete the Draftees List . Express your interest with a quick post here (before 7pm Tues)
  12. Yes 'I'm TheMightyQuinn' one of the All time greats in Interdominion History . One of many great NZ bred or ex-pat magnificent standardbreds that went on to be the Champion of 2 Nations by winning the Interdominion . along with greats like Village Kid , My Lightning Blue, Our Sir Vancelot and more. we barely scratched the surface of some great horses in this Comp so far..... but we can declare Rangatira the Winner in a runaway victory , from TAB4ever in the first half of the Comp. They will earn a few bonus points for the second half of the Comp . ( that will be on a new thread ) for their support on this thread. I thank them for their support. Ranga 10 points. TABman 5 points from this thread. In a few hours FINAL ACCEPTANCES are declared for INTERDOMINION 2025 at Brisbane 's fabulous track at Albion Park . The 2nd half of the Comp will see a BOAY INTERDOMINION DRAFT. Details coming soon !!!! , but the BOAY Contestants will have a Drafted Team of 5 horses Each ( composed of 3 Pacers and 2 trotters each ) to cheer through the next 3 Saturday nights . Draft nights are Wedneday Thursday , Friday evenings this week. FINISHING with the BOAY Interdominion Champion Winner on JUly 19th Interdom Grand Final night. Keep your next THREE Saturday Nights FREE gentlemen , to Enjoy the action .
  13. Quite a risky buy for a yearling? . several million ? cannot understand it. The first Winx foal is still an un-raced 2 year old as yet ? Chicken king-ess Debbie buying it herself for a Humungous $10,000,000 😳 good grief. The Yulong bloke paid $6,000,000 odd for Via Vistina from overseas to bring to Waller. That seems a much more sensible idea.? ? she was winning Group 1's already at Ascot/Newmarket /UK if you've got a bunch of cash like Several Million dollars like those people, SURELY you'll just buy a 'race winning already' horse ? across a few years, I purchased approx 50 horses from NZ to race in Oz , back in the day. 100% of them already racing in NZ . 100% I think , won races for their new Australian owners. You could trial to buy .Excellent stuff. you knew straight away, if they could run or not. Never bought a yearling in my life. Just too risky . I'd say broke in roughly 100-150 yearlings at the stable, and only a small percentage won races. probably only half actually got to the races. there's still a lot of slow horses around. 🀣
  14. Great wins tonight for new Zealand . RUBIRA wins the Redcliffe Derby in a Fantastic display , beating our Best 3 yearold 'Fate Awaits' of Dixons to the line, no worries at all. and in a bonus CAPTAINS MISTRESS with Nathan Williamson , not worrying about the obtuse angles of triangle racing just goes 3 Wide the whole Last LAP to take Geometry right out of the equation πŸ˜‚ . an amazing Oaks win, and she wins easy , from the 2 Dixon Fillies. Mr 'Swayzee' Boots will be smiling like Gamma , with that win 10-1 for the kiwi Double !! money for Jam boys. You can't help but win on these fantastic horsemen and horses. It was fantastic to see the 2 sets of famous New Zealand colours Winning at Redcliffe again after all the years. Think South East Derby will be the next One for RUBIRA . get ready for more Wins! πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ—πŸ—πŸ†πŸ†
  15. well Derby night about to go at Redcliffe . Not far off at all the BIG 4k win last night (about a length) at the Friday night Lightss thread with 5-6 kiwi winners and a half head 2nd, and a 4th from the Multi. Let's grab one tonight then with a few kiwi breds tonight. πŸ’°πŸ’° Race 3 Redcliffe PANDAIA $6.00 Menangle horse too quick for these? won Addington last year. Race 4/ TAyLAD To USE $3.00 recent NI arrival . sure to close in this Redcliffe Trotters Cup. Race 5/ CAPTAINS MISTRESS $4.20 to be driven by Nathan Williamson Redcliffe Oaks. you know her well. see if Nathan can handle the Triangle shaped track though ?? πŸ˜‚πŸ‘ Race 6/ RUBIRA $2.00 Purdon super horse . drawn 1 . wins from here to the post office. Race 7/ OUR Vincent Van Gogh $2.00 NZ horse with champ Luke McCarthy now. Wins Race 8/ SIX NZ bred horses in the Big Feature G2 Redcliffe Cup. 'ARODA' (NZ bred) ran in a NZ Cup so must be alright ? but a few chances here. Maybe 'Petes Said So' old kiwi from NSW a good chance too. Lets just take the a PICK 5 , as the Redcliffe Cup seems pretty tough to win. Pandaia x Taylad x Mistress x Rubira x VincentVG $6 x $3 x $4.20 x $2 x $2 = so that's 300-1 spend a dollar = win $300 . might try a Fiver to win $1500 . very strong chance? LETS get this Done !!! πŸ†πŸ˜
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