Gammalite

Probably was. That being said GUS is an extremely Hard horse to drive. A bit in the Scotch Tar mould lol. Wolfie and Bob Cameron used to have all sorts of trouble driving him back in the day (when slim Dykman put them on) But they often Won with him anyway as were the Top of the Top as far as drivers go. Alas in his Interdominion Trot Final that No Response won at Addington , Scotch Tar broke on Wolfie and tailed out after starting near equal Favourite after winning his 2 mile heat in the same time as No Response in the other. Made up a huge amount of ground for 7th. Possibly could of Won without the 'gallop' alright. Our QLD trotter drivers not as experienced as the NZ ones in Big races, so that is a handicap for them for sure. Sanderson drove a great race for Mark on OScarB though last night. . so that was nice to see . Sanderson Also Won with RUBIRA for Marky as well . Was a quick first quarter, as he held the Dixon Colt out for the lead which surprised me. Rubira rallied Hard to Win very well too. Looks a Huge QLD Derby prospect.

New Zealands Best Trotter , the millionaire OSCAR BONAVENA does Nz proud and donkey licks the locals at Albion park in preparation for his Interdominion tilt next month. Well driven in a spot-on 10/10 drive by Adam Sanderson from a bad alley , so I'll stop picking on him now lol 😎. The Galah Bags the 16 points for the competition 🏆 , with a fine second placing by his horse. and the Quinella paying $16. 'Zealous Spur' going quite well . well done Mr Galah. 'Gus' Locked wheels with some dipstick at the quarter but a great finishing burst saw him grab 3rd for Gamma (2pts) heading off the 'Love Gun' for Brodie late on , who ran 4th. (1 pt) BOAY INTERDOMINION Points Update Ranga 20 points , The Galah 16 points , Gamma 2 points , Brodster 1 point. Look out for a new quiz horse tomorrow sometime

yes , he won by lengths today and very well could of given it a shake . FLOOZIE !! no not Chief. But the Dane Ripper winner for Tony Gollan and Angela Jones. beats up Team Waller 😎 Go the Queenslanders!!! . halfway through Quaddie with 2 picks 2 wins 2 to go . bring it on

That's the way to knock off Jmac and Waller and all the Southern Big wigs. Chris Munce (all time nice guy) and son Corey in their first season as Partnership Trainers togeather. WIN the JJ Atkins Big 2 year-old with COOL ARCHIE . Cooool Banana's !!! what a little champ 🏆 stuck an unknown Irishman on to ride it too . Up the Battlers !!!! Nice win by PIER for NZ earlier today too Chief. one for the kiwi's today. Waterhouse knocked off the Waller wonders back into 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the BRISBANE CUP too. very nice. Waller has a few in the DANE RIPPER Mares shortly to make up for it . might run the Tri lol. what a great race-day .

Great tracks like Harold Park , right in Sydney closed 2010 after decades of fine tradition (50,000 went along to see NZer Caduceus win the Interdominion. and so NSW Metro shifted to the Bush and Menangle with the 200 person crowd. People don't need to go on-course these days. All of us at the forum 'Do it from home' lol.😂😉 Vic trotting got chucked 40 kms out of town from Moonee Valley to Melton. They are currently trying to get back in to there as they are going broke, just like NZ harness. no one betting on them much. So you are right the Population is irrelevant. People don't bet on these things much now. The cost of living has greater priorities. Mortgages and rent are really expensive these days. 🙄. only the fairly wealthy bothering to race a horse these days. so Really if ATC sell Alexandra Park , and develope Franklin with the excess , and have it like Menangle or something, crowd and population figures don't matter. Those attending these meetings are friends and family of horses racing like unhinged Nigel and that. No Big time punters. they're at the gallops. 😆 or using their computer at home. so look after the participants, like they do in NSW and VIC. don't shut the buggers down. Help them out . The ATC already own that asset at Franklin Pukekohe, so selling it will NOT achieve the best outcome, as it won't cover the entire debt. plus a lot of trainers and horses lose their home. Game OVER as they say .

My goodness . you're getting more like the Brodster every day. you can decide if that's a smart thing or an aging thing .Chief seems grumpy ALL the time lately too. 😂 cold weather NZ ? you have Moved from Auckland to Cambridge now to give them a hammering 😁 Betcha race and TAB trot are excellent and I enjoy them , and they pull a crowd for that event . and the Participants PAY a HUUGE chunk of the modern sized (deserved) Prizemoney on offer to the Best horses. so quite good 😉 My question is What the Hell happened to Hutt Park ? What happened to Forbury Park ? Wellington and Dunedin have large populations and were unable the clubs were unable to keep trading , long before ALL the perceived 'Ailments' you and Brodie come out with all the time in recent times, blaming the Tab, HRNZ, CEO aussies and others that seem to be the ones that actually keep the Sport going IMO lol 😎 so seems to me with places like New Plymouth Paceway 'gone as well into Oblivion' for example, that I really enjoyed racing at . all your ailments have been Happening for A LOT longer than what you guys make Out. JMHO

About time . think it was 2020 he went out DQ. Appealed a heap of times at the Totally rediculous length of sentence for administering milkshake race-day of 8 years . Failing again in his appeal last May 2024. Perhaps he appealed again this year ? and someone at HRNZ has seen the light and re-licensed him. (the penalty in Aus for milkshake is one year DQ, and would be longer if offended a 2nd time)

Looks like you haven't made these Amatuer races non tote yet to avoid all this trouble. as Nowornever once said maybe it's so you can back Ms Wigg who seems to win all these type of races. he was right too and she took the win again. Any driver Not in the correct position at the start should be fined. I even remember Mark Purdon getting fined for hanging back once , when drawn high on the second row lol. Even the greatest can go astray sometimes 😁 They had that time when the 2 HOPE trained horses starting numbers 5 and 6 in the score up but the 6 scored up INSIDE the 5 and the race was run. that was quite comical that no-one noticed (horse or starter) in the score-up 😂

absolutely true. for the routine slow class horses meetings. I go along 2 or 3 times a year in QLD. Saturday night had a fairly mild numbered crowd , even with Leap To Fame racing. The day meetings are incredibly quiet , with most horses not even having their owners attending it seems. It's just a business for the Trainers and their staff to operate and compete at as a sport. Up in the grandstand . just a handful of people. I asked one of the officials why no-one here? since most (nearly all) of the suburban TAB outlets have closed the past 3 years. His answer was , we don't want them at the track . Ladbrokes (the Main sponsor ) want them at home hammering their keyboard with bets rather than using the TAB. they spend Way more money that way. And the cost of Security is nil now as it was a huge expense before ( and tote staff, bar staff , etc) Security at sports events is a huge expense like at the footy and that. and indeed the young lass that took my order for a beef roll for lunch , then dashed around to the bar (not far from the eats) when I approached it , as she was serving the drinks as well !! 😳 that's how quiet it is . the food orders girl also serves the bar. The racing was still quite good with amazing horsemen out on the track , so still very hard to Win a Race.

you wrapped that 6 points up like an old bit of gum mate. Very well done. Call Me Now too slick in the slop ⛈️. Masterly was trained by Paul Nairn in NZ just last summer I see . and See he won 4 of his last 10 starts too for the great Trainer of trotters as well . very nice. Will be hard to beat NZ old mate 'OscarB' this week though lol 😎 An interesting thing from that 1995 Trotting Grand Final at Addington was the red Hot favourite, after Winning both his heats impressively, was DAVID MOSS. Maurice McKendry driving . But isn't he was a South Island horse? anyway DAVID MOSS got held up along the inner after drawing one on the 2nd line for the Grand Final and ran 4th. He went to Australia and won 3 out of 4 starts he had there , and this was enough for DAVID MOSS to be voted Australian Trotter of the year 1995 😂. Aussie trotters must of been pretty crappy 🙄 . New Zealand trotters Won all 10 of the Trotting Grand Finals All through the 1990's . a Fantastic Achievement.

you're only a youngster Ranga. plenty of drive in you yet. Join the local cricket Club if you want to chew your Wrigley's. Tubby Taylor, Warnie, Waugh 's never seen without some lol . Here's one for you in photo my friend . Having drawn MASTERLY for this Saturday night. Might spring memories of a dreary Wet Addington a long time ago when this horse beat not one , but 2 Interdominion Trot Grand Final Winners into the placings. 1/ Can you name this trotter, driver, trainer .? 2/ The 2 Stablemates that ran 2nd and 3rd were both Grand Final Winners too? . Whatta trifecta of Greatness !!! Anyone can answer to get points ahead of Ranga, if they're up to the challenge . 😁

Ranga leads the BOAY Interdominion Competition points 14 - 0 so far. So in an endeavour to get some BOAY slow beginners 'off the mark' we will use the greatest Mark of all (Mark Purdon ) to earn someone someone some points. Mark part owns and trains the NZ star trotter OSCAR BONAVENA . a huge chance in the trotting Interdominion. In the field Race listed above OscarB should be able to 'clean up' local QLD opposition no trouble at all. QLD very weak as far as trotters go. Oscar B had a Summer campaign in Aus that netted 2 wins from 5 starts in Vic and NSW when driven by the late great Greg Sugars for a win and ex-pat NZ great Anthony Butt in another. For the BOAY Comp , I will Quinella OSCAR Bonavena with your runner and the Quinella Divvie will be your points scored at the completion of the race. . here's your runner to Quinella with him as your alter Ego rep 😉. Race 4 Albion Sat night at 8.57 NZ time. TAB4ever gets number 1. as blazes about the place like a 'Fireball' lol. Rangatira gets the number 3. a great old kiwi horse he would of seen many times. and Ranga 'Masterly' has the lead. Brodster gets number number 5 as Loves to Gun down the TAb entain ATC HRNZ + anyone in the firing line😎 NoworNever gets number 7 as Not as Promised a three barrelled name statement , just like himself. Blackie gets number 9 as doesn't mind a 'Victory' so can Victree deliver. The Galah on number 10. he is a zealous runner and birds have spurs don't they? for mating or defending territory 😁 Chief on number 12 , probably won't get a run. The class of field a bit seemingly a bit too strong for him 😋 Gamma lucky 13 . G is for Goodness gracious Gamma and Great Galloping Gus too. (Hopefully minus the gallop bit ) ANYone is Welcome to Enter Just POST your Quinella pick numbers here ( before the race lol) and you are in with a chance for points. Points will be allocated for the Placegetters as well. (The Hardy competitors above with a runner, are also welcome to enter their own Quinella selection of course ) POST 2 Horse Numbers here is all you need to do to enter . race 4 Albion Sat.

Good to see Chief has come out of oblivion to try and get involved in the Interdominion .😁 Here we have the Trotters field for this Saturday night Albion, of horses trying to get into the Interdom heats. we will use this race for the BOAY Interdominion Competition this week. I may have to allocate the runners if the BOAY trotting stalwarts are unable to pick the Quinella to gain points 🤣. Chief's 'Alter Ego' 😉 from NZ No 12 in the below race, has had a few Issues , and gone cranky with manners, BUT after 10 trials this year (where he galloped madly everytime nearly) , he's gone through 2 more trainers and Lo and Behold some new trainer has miracles up, and has got him to Trot all the way and he qualified the other day at the trials to race from the mobile once again. Alas he is balloted out as Emergency but great to see him still having a crack at making it too the July Interdominion.😋 Form Horse Trainer Other Eng. Driver 1 24672 DARCYS FIREBALL Graham Dwyer Angus Garrard (C) FR1 2 76902 EUROKASH NZ Graham Dwyer Layne Dwyer (C) FR2 3 32665 MASTERLY NZ Jack Butler Chloe Butler (C) FR3 4 8s835 MAJESTIC LAVROS NZ Tayla Gillespie Adam Richardson FR4 5 86214 LOVE GUN Grant Dixon Grant Dixon FR5 6 73442 VAN SANK Shannon Price Mitch Cox (C) FR6 7 27498 NOT AS PROMISED Graham Dwyer Nathan Dawson FR7 ------------------------------ Second Row ------------------------------ 8 08575 BERRIESANDCHERRIES Brendan Barnes Brendan Barnes SR1 9 07799 VICTREE HILL Shane Graham Shane Graham SR2 10 22141 ZEALOUS SPUR NZ Grant Dixon Trista Dixon SR3 11 21666 OSCAR BONAVENA NZ M Purdon, N Purdon Adam Sanderson SR4 12 0966s Chief Stipe NZ (Em 1) Steve Borg Chloe Butler (C) SR- 13 0s331 GUS NZ Chantal Turpin Pete McMullen SR5

nearly. behind the winner 1999 Special Force (Todd McFarlane) trotted in AFRICA (CJ Defilippi )2nd, PRIDE OF PETITE (Marky)4th, SUNDONS WAY (TonyH ) 7th, SUNNY ACTION (big Barry driving for little brother) 8th. Pride Of Petite had run 4th the Previous year as well with Mark driving , But his Stablemate BUSTER HANOVER won the final (with brother-in-law Tony Herlihy driving) . They were both off the backmark of 30m at Harold Park too, so was a supreme effort to run 1st and 4th from back there. Pride of Petite one of the Best Handicap achievers of all time though , getting into the Interdominion HAll of FAME with a Pair of Grand Final Magnificent Victories herself off 30m at Moonee Valley 1996 (driven by Mark) and a hefty 40m at Adelaide Globe Derby Park 1997 (driven by Tony ) defeating the local hero Wagon Apollo of Graeme Lang's both times. here she is . Pride of Petite had 6 of her 8 foals get to the races but were only battlers who scratched about a long time to get just 2 to 3 wins each roughly. nothing like their sensational mother.

been some good ones over the years.

A five star performance again from Ranga , sweeps up the 8 points. very well done !! If someone names a horse Rangatira it would go out favourite in the Interdominion on that form. What a great night of racing that was in 2001. The NZ Cup Winner Yulestar turned up to demolish them in the Final after a couple of 2nd placings in the heats. the great Courage Under Fire not even close to beating him . Jim Smith's old trotter Mountain Gold, that he sold to Barry Purdon finished a fine 2nd to Take A Moment in the trot Grand final final. 3rd home was Special Force to round out the NZ Trifecta 💰💰💰👍 . Special Force a fine Trotter who himself had WON the Interdominion Trot Final at Auckland 2 years earlier 1999 for trainer Dave McGowan and driver Todd McFarlane . here he goes winning at Alexandra Park with someone beating Marky boy for a change . Special Force. (Mark Purdon's 4 runners were 2nd ,4th, 7th , and 8th) with Mountain Gold 5th for Jim blocked in 3 back the fence as the chance of Interdominion Glory blocked along with him sadly 😪 )

Day 2 Horse another NZ ripper. Points update : (Day 1 comp points : Rangatira 6 points with a clean sweep of the 6 answers ) With LEAP TO FAME winning the last Albion Park Interdominion Grand Final , and a Red hot favourite to repeat next month, we can find a better NZ result from earlier on at Albion Park. Todays horse seen here winning was part of a NZ Bred First 4. 1/ Who is todays winning horse and driver in photo ? 2/ 2nd home was a double heat winner bred in NZ , out of mare RAIN GIRL, who raced in a grand Final herself behind Gammalite at Auckland. 3rd home was a NZ trained and driven horses by a Pair of Famous Brothers . Can you name the Brothers ? Clue = they won the Trotting Grand Final very easily this same night. Who might that trotter of been ? n.b NZ trained trotters ran a terrific trifecta in a dominant display 3/ Name the 4th horse ? sorry he only got his nose in the photo 😁 . clue = a NZ champ who was series hot favourite and I think this stallion was undefeated in NZ , and won a swag in Aus after. This was as close as he got in 3 Grand Finals attempts though, which damaged his reputation a bit , trying to Win the greatest race there is for his CV.

Tassie worse off then NZ. with the cost of everything these days , they have gone completely broke. Long time ago since Boony and Punter Ponting carried the place in the cricket 😂. (33% of adult Tasmanians already live on a pension of one type or another) I just did a small bit on Tassie horse in the BOAY harness section that was repping for NZ winning the Interdominion . Stanley Rio. my dad went to NZ with Halwes (a Top Tassie horse like Stanley Rio ) in the 60's as the Farrier, which is how I come to be in NZ for some years. HALWES won his Interdominion heats at Alexandra Park in track record times but scratched from the final in a Bookie sting. HALWES won the Miracle Mile in Sydney 3 weeks later 😁. anyway , back to Tassie and > with losing $400,000,000 cost blowout on the 'Spirit of Tasmania 'ferries ( the Bass Strait ones between Tas and Vic) the government has gone belly up and can't afford the New Stadium (would be near a billion?) the current State Liberal gov promised to build to before 2027 when Tas is supposed to enter the AFL competition. it's just total chaos with their budget now. So last week they had a VOTE of NO CONFIDENCE in the leader !!! the 'Aye's' won 15-14 , so now they are facing another election . Labor have swept the votes in the Federal Parliament Canberra in the recent national election. so guess Labor will win easy Tasmania and take up the challenge of a completely broken (broke) place? . whatta mess.

Also on an Interdominion flavour. Just now at Albion Park young Riley Butt , son of ex-pat Lyell Creek trainer Tim Butt trained the winner Bottecelli. Was only going to run second but the Long Odds on favourite JillibyGiddy Jumped the dark Shadow of the large floodlight Pole 100m out.🙄 Lucky he didn't do a Liquid Lightning NZ Derby trick ? The previous race TAYLAD TO USE from the North Island having his 2nd start for Grant won easy. Last week the Punters got burnt when he ran 4th first up at $2.40. They didn't back up today and he went from $2.40 opening out to $3.50 lol. The Trot field is out for next Saturday night too with Nz champ Oscar B v GUS a big highlight as they prepare for the Interdom next month. Sanderson is down to drive Oscar B and Rubira NZ for Marky on Saturday night. bit risky putting him on lol. but he might fluke it like he just did on Botticelli for Riley Butt 🤣

Yep , foaled in Tasmania (like both George and John in earlier years before shifting to Canterbury. Roydon Lodge? Owner Wayne Francis who was thirds in ownership with George and John ( tragically died at Young age 56 cancer) in blue suit seen with George after winning the 1976 NZ Cup. and then the win here at this years venue of Albion Park Brisbane when we went the wrong way round. Corrected a couple of years after Stanley Rio had won here. Wayne Francis became a NZ HALL of Famer with helping establish Nevele R and Spreydon Lodge, to set up Standardbred breeding for years to come. Many horses with the FRANCO in front of their names . Well done Ranga !!!

Here's the race. !! anyone can have a crack . Even galloping folk are most welcome. Points for picking place getters, Quinella, or BIG points if you nail the Trifecta. Post your 3 (Three ONLY please) numbers of your selections here. The Race is Race 8 Menangle today run at 7..48 NZ time. A true Interdominion flavour to it with 6 old beautiful horses that have won in NZ as well as OZ. (marked with a NZ beside their name in this field ) they are now in the twilight of their careers but still toughing it out on a slow Tuesday , giving it their best shot. 1 80959 WAVETHEBILL NZ KerryAnn Morris Lochie Painting (C,3) FR1 2 88085 HES A MEISTER NZ Chris Judd Cameron Hart FR2 3 42758 AMERICAN HAMMER NZ David Aiken Bailey McDonough FR3 4 53762 RED REACTOR NZ Ian Wilson Jim Douglass FR4 5 89976 TINDER SURPRISE NZ J A Rando, M J Rando SCRATCHED SCR 6 44943 PROMISING Leon Jurd Will Rixon FR5 7 11476 VINKE B NZ Trevor Munday Chris Geary FR6 8 466s4 JORDY NZ Kevin Pizzuto Joshua Gallagher FR7 9 88860 CAULONIA COURAGE Troy Williams Robert Morris FR8 10 69459 SAHARA SIROCCO Trevor Munday Ashleigh Delosa (C) FR9

Todays Champion a true Interdominion horse . He is seen winning the final here for New Zealand. 1/ Who is our horse and driver ? 1/ What track are we winning at ? 2/ What is unusual about the breeding of both horse and driver 😁 . Place of birth ? 3/ Can you name his 2 fabulous stalwart owners in the photo seen after a big Win in NZ who did massive amounts for the sport in NZ.?

With the 2025 Contest coming up soon , and some great NZ reps in Republican Party in the Pacers section and Bet N Win in the Trotters > It's time for a Competition for BOAY harness racing supporters to get in and remember and respect ( and/or Learn About ) some of the Greats of the Best Race of All. I will daily put up a question or 2 , where you can earn points as we go to Find the great BOAY Interdominion Champ. In addition , if can't answer the questions as you are too young 🤣, I will Pop on a Race each day , that is being run on that day , featuring Fine NZ v Aus horses , where you can earn points as well. so look out for that race daily. The true Meaning of the Unique and Traditional and Harness racing specific INTERDOMINION is (inter =inside/between and then Dominion = NZ and Aus ) a contest inside the British dominions of New Zealand and Australia. Let's get it going and go with Horse Number 1

Don't be too harsh on him TABman . A lot of washouts and 'horse slips' and that had caused a lot of worry about some of the tracks from time to time. With Ellerslie getting all the work done on it , seems Wise to use it if State-of-the-art. A lot of money and Time and experts spent a lot of time 'Fixing 'up Ellerslie so I reckon they should race there Every week . Mainly because that's where the population base is in Auckland to attend lol 😎 mind you I've only ever been to Ellerslie, Puk'e and Arawa Park (Rotorua )where drove on once. think I threw up after lol. We needed the Chief Stipe years ago in Tassie. (to fix the surface 😎) They still race at Elwick , the trotters used too, as well, was like a ploughed field so they put a lot of the drivers up on the horses back down there , rather than 'Bog-in to the surface lol. 🤣 so a few saddle pacers won ok. my dad said he won in the saddle his first race at age 13 as was light as a sparrow, during the war years. here's grand-dad winning a race at Elwick in this amazing old photo. ( Elwick,Hobart is the Tas equal of Ellerslie )

This is quite something. You probably had it on here at the time 6 years ago Chief , but some Might not of seen this incredible Win. I just saw it for first time today and is very impressive . That jockey AAron Kuru must of been a legend after this effort?. whatta champ