Gammalite

Tim Williams with Darling Me, for Team Willow and Mikey take out the 5th race. HunterthePunter is on the board with 3rd and 4th placegetters for his team so picks up 6 points. Gammalite 22pts, Mikey 20pts, Chief Stipe 14 pts, The Galah 8pts, Unhinged 8, Hunter 6, Blackie 6, The Horseman 4, Ranga 4, Davis 2.

Sure does !! with a 14 pointer ! well done Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan with that great training Quinella in the feature 2 year old trot . straight into 2nd place for you Chief . North island Rules !! Unhinged and Mikey pick up the 4 and 2 points for the Dunn stable. Gammalite 22pts, Chief Stipe 14 pts, Mikey 12, The Galah 8pts, Blackie 6pts, Unhinged 6, The Horseman 4, Ranga 4, Davis 2.

wow. a $75k 2 year old trotters race . No wonder 4 North Islanders came down for it Race 4. Can 'Chief Stipe' get on the board with his North Island Team? or will he jinx the Northerners into a wild gallop ?

The Galah strikes with the heavily backed NO TIME LIKE NOW and the Orange man. way too good. Sam Ottley see's another 6 points in the bag for Gammalite. You guys better pull your socks up ? Williams and Williamson pick up the 4 and the 2 points for Mikey and Ranga in race 3. Gammalite 22pts, Mikey 10, The Galah 8pts, Blackie 6pts, The Horseman 4 , Unhinged 4, Ranga 4, Davis 2.

The 2 yearolds hit the line and Olivia on the board for Davis and the Juniors Team with 2 points but not in the Trifecta unfortunately. Still ... an impressive Allstars $5 quinella that Newmarket must of got with his accurate tip tonight. very nice divvie with No Sherlock Holmes needed to get that one. Points after 2 races. That girl Natalie showing the kiwis how to do it in style Gammalite 16pts, Blackie 6pts (with Marky nearly taking that out , but out-driven late on😉 ??) Mikey 6, The Horseman 4 , Unhinged 4, Ranga 2, Davis 2.

Race 1 hits the line and the wallet bulges with the Queensland lass Natalie Rasmussen getting the win as she often does sneaking up the passing lane. Mikey in for 2nd place with a near winning Tim Williams drive out in front. Teams EOR's and SON's take the minor points. Gammalite 8, Mikey 6, The Horseman 4 and Ranga 2 points after race 1.

With every runner in a Team it's All go for some great harness racing tonight, with a few stars of the track and BOAY getting a win. 10 Teams vying for the Win . The Horses in each team are LISTed with their race number beside name on the TOP TEAM thread. The Top Teams are (with BOAY supporter) Team Nat-Sam for Gammalite, Team BlairOrange for The Galah, Team Williams-Cox for Mikey, Team Markyboy Purdon for Blackie Team Williamson,Morrison,Tomlinson for Rangatira, Team JuniorDrivers for Davis, Team North-Island for Chief Stipe, Team John Dunn for Unhinged, Team Close-May- Butt for Hunter and the final Team EOR (every other runner) for The Horseman. Points are 8 for 1st place, 6 for 2nd placings, 4 for 3rd placings, 2 for 4th place.

Teams for Addington today Team NatalieRass-SamOttley = Gammalite Team Blair Orange = The Galah Team Mark Purdon = Blackie (will Millwood Nike hurt his chances?) Team Juniors = Davis (contains Sarah O'Reilly one of his favs and Muscle Mountain too) Team NORTH Islanders = Chief Stipe ( contains 'Chief of Staff' driven by a northerner for Chief) Team John Dunn = Unhinged (beat Hunter to the jump as a Dunn stable fan) Team Close/Butt/May = HunterthePunter (sure to of supported these boys at times) Team EOR (every other runner) = The Horseman (gets a bag of 20 horses not in other teams) Team Son Williamson, Tomlinson, Morrison = Rangatira (haven't heard from Ranga but reckon he likes a few of the lads and lasses from the deep South) Team Williams = Mikey (Tim Williams helped with a couple of Jonny Cox Allstars drives too) As BAD (Big Audio Dynamite) band would say in their lyrics in a great song ..... "The horses are on the track " Good luck to all . great night of racing coming up. i'm just having lunch Qld and can't pick the winner. will post results after each race .

yes... totally agree. Only one word to describe that incident . Un-necessary and Shocking.

The Pacers handicap tonight R11, is named the Harness Racing UNHINGED Handicap . Is that in honour of all your great work ? maybe John Dunn can 'Steal the show' in it too lol.

@Chief Stipe com'on matey . you're a North islander. think all the posters are Southern lads, so surely you want to fly the Patriotic Flag for the North Island (does the NI have a flag?) and Run with Team NORTH ISLAND today ? you'll get one of the Cup fav's in BD Joe being steered by the NorthIslander as well as the master AGHerlihy icing up the track ?

hahaha in his younger days (even a year ago) Marky would of been snapped up first cab off the rank , way ahead of the rest ? Is He getting Old and Slow ? like some of us lol. Still AKUTA looks like easy 8 points gained for Blackie tonight, and you'll just have to ride hard on the rest. Millwood Nike 'handicap' could see you stay back with the field a bit lol.😆😉🏆

Four Teams Claimed. 6 Teams to go looking for a Claim So far Nat+SamO, BlairO, and Mr Dunn and Mr Williams are driving for BOAY ambassadors. Teams of drivers/horses still available to be Selected are >>>>>>>>>> Team North-island, Juniors, The 'Son's (Williamson and Co) , CloseButtMay, MarkP and EOR (every other runner) gets All the rest of about 20 horses. So Every horse racing gets some support ! on a great night of harness action !! can't wait.

Nah... all good thanks Mikey . was just doing the form and see it's some great racing with Akuta and Sundee etc all having a crack. took about 1/2 hour to jot down some great drivers ! Thanks for your support and best of luck with 'Team Williams' . anyone could win it really so thought it might be interesting to see who has the best night. maybe the Northeners ??? Mr Galah can have Nat and Sam ok I'll find something else. He has a good eye for the ladies ! lol...

10 Teams . 10 players needed . First in best dressed. Pick a Team to win the most points at Addington Friday night. Support the great kiwi trotting action and see if your squad out-performs the rest. !!! Points allocated 8 points for every winner, 6 points for 2nd place, 4 points for 3rd place 2 points for 4th place across the 12 races. ********** I'll do a results thread with points up-dates after each race.*********** *Gammalite has Team Nat-Sam BUT all other teams will go to any poster 'first in' to pick /claim that team !!!! (from the remaining 9) 1/ Team NAT-SAM . every runner driven by Natalie R or Sam O. Go girls !! (race number followed by horse name) 1ParamountExpress, 2Sherlock, 3Artatac, 4EyreIWill, 5LaRosa, 6Luvstruck, 8SportyCharlie, 8FrancoMac, 9VinkeB 9MajorTalk, 11ShanNoble, 12MajorMemphis 2/ Team DUNN DEAL . every runner driven by John Dunn Friday evening. 1LoveRose, 2Who'sDelight, 3Emma'sBoy, 4OneoverDaLine, 5SoundsofCash, 6Judine, 7AardieBytheHill, 8MajorFour, 9CharlieBrown, 10Sundee'sSon, 11SteeltheShow, 12SophiaBromac 3/ Team STARE BLAIR. every runner driven by Blair Orange. 1TakeAfterMe, 2FrancoMecca, 3NoTimeLikeNow, 4She'sGotSass, 5KikorangiBlue, 6Carmelite, 7MysticMax, 8RepublicanParty, 9 FinalCollect, 10Matederos, 11OneChange, 12GetBack 4/ Team MARKY-BOY every runner driven by Mark Purdon. (Because Millwood Nike has scared everyone off only 4 Points should she win>> handicap lol) 1WyFi, 2Sinbad, 3BestTrio, 6MillwoodNike, 7IDreamOfJeanie, 8Akuta, 9Don'tStopDreaming, 10OscarBonavena, 11It'sAllAboutFaith, 12Riveered 5/ Team SON any runner trained/driven by a name ending in SON. >>> Williamson, Morrison, Tomlinson 1ShandonBells, 1OurPinocchio, 1DwindleStar, 1BossKenny, 2Outmazing, 3DeceptiveLee, 3HarriSON😄, 5Katherine, 5Life'sABeach, 7CodyBanner, 7FrancoJosiah, 8FaveauxGambler, 9SpiritofArion, 10MidnightDash, 10MajesticMan, 10SmokeyBandar, 11Cranbourne, 12TakeMyBreathAway, 12Acento 6/ Team NORTH-ISLAND any runner trained in the North or driven by North island based drivers. 2GuestArtist, 3Jazelle, 3RightHandMan, 4Halberg, 4LubyLil, 4RegalGal, 4SouthernDiamond, 7SonofPatrick, 7HaroldSmith, 9Gandalf, 9Merlin, 10ChiefofStaff, 11BDJoe, 11 Kango 7/ Team WILLOW-COX every runner driven by Tim Williams , and since he misses out on Allstars drives to Cox you get those two too 😅 1MakeMySundon, 2WishMeLuck, 3CloudyBay, 4KissandRun, 5DarlingMe, 7MyMomentsNow, 8Bach, 9AltaMeteor, 9OKBoomer, 10FiveWiseMen, 11AllAmericanLover 8/ Team BUTT-CLOSE-MAY horses driven by Ricky May, Robbie Close or trained/driven by any member of the Butt clan. 1TKMegastar, 2CommanderBen, 3TigerTaylor, 3Cheezel, 4MonarchPrince, 4Fearless, 5StylishMemphis, 5Evangelist, 5Manhatten, 7WithIce, 7Kahress, 7MajesticLavros, 9SonofMac, 10Enghien, 11Terry, 12Sargent'sBest, 12HappyPlace. 9/ Team JUNIOR any runner driven by a Junior Driver 2DaltonShard, 2WildWillow, 2CougarExpress, 5FirstRose, 7KingofLove, 7TheBloss, 7RoyalDel, 8InvitationOnly, 9WatermelonSugar, 9WithStyle, 10MuscleMountain, 11Heisenberg, 11Krug, 12ArizonaWildcat, 12KowhaiShadow, 12Rakanotta, 12MossdaleTerry 10/ Team E-OR that is short for (Every Other Runner) or it could be the donkeys lol. Not listing names for Team E-or as you get Every runner NOT IN Teams 1-9 above. Don't worry I'll score the points for any to let you know as we go. Best of Luck !! Whose TEAM will win the BOAY fun night ? ONCE SOMEONE PICKS A TEAM (please reply below) that Team is 'Claimed' ! ......so pick another Team

Dead right Ranga ! The Tim Butt stable-mates had been Headed off by the 'Monkey ' , but in true 'Hands Down' style or even 'tough Tasmanian' style FLASHING RED is off the canvas, to take the win . Tribute running 3rd in the end. great drive by Anthony on the winner off 10m handicap. Not sure who David Earnshaw is so take your word for it. 😉. 10 points in the bag......

A real Action Shot Today !! fabulous !! What the hell is going on here ? Who are these stable-mates ? and drivers ? and Why are they so desparate against each other ? (10 points)

Great photo Blackie . Has actually captured 3 NZ Cup winners in it. !!! The year 'before' Steel Jaw here, and the year 'after' winners there many lengths behind !!!

Has Blair gone to sleep ? He's that far clear of the field that it was hard to stay awake in this win. Ant's may of got the choc's in the FFA yesterday , but back to 2nd for the big Show Day Classic as the kiwis repel the Aussie raider in the form of this Trotter . Who is todays Big Winner?

shoulda ,woulda , coulda lol.😆 Hey what do you think of that great crowd in the photo background there witnessing the NZ trotting FFA ? (counting that as an Aussie quinella ? even though 2 of them are kiwis ? lol😅) Ranga spot on BTW and takes the points.🥇 Nearly all youngsters and all dressed up very Spiffy and looking good there in the background ?. What a fantastic sight at the harness racing. !!!! nice and classy in Christchurch. They had some Vic Cup coverage on free to air TV the other night from Melton, and most of the crowd looked like they were going to a barbie, camping or something. The trainers and owners they interviewed even looked average. (in comparison to that nz photo)

With Cup week approaching I'm Lovin this photo of a couple of the greats ! A Couple of the best drivers I've ever seen , as in their Will To Win and ability to jump on any horse and give it a go , and go close to winning. They are 2 of the greats alright. The 2 Trotters in the photo here weren't absolute stars , but tried hard (and did leave 'Sundee' down the track in this one lol ) So who is this Handy 'quartet' in for 10 points ??

Could be some hope in the Cup?. Ray Green would of been very 'easy' on him , after that little health issue of blood in the nostril and was just a head from 3rd horse in Vic Cup. (winner way too good for everyone in that) Ray has prepared him to win the Cup already (last year) so knows how to do it. not many do. so that gives him plenty of kudos/respect to do the job again possibly . He prepared American Dealer to win the QLD Derby here over Krug so is impressive trainer from what I have seen. Set the KING OF SWING (best in the land) on his road to glory as well prior as well. If ROCK N ROLL DOO steps clean in the Nz Cup next month, he wins it. That Vic Cup win was ultra impressive , and the horse is well , and enjoying it , and flying at the moment.

Well he's not going around anymore. and this looks to be part of the reason. I didn't know any of this stuff so was interesting in finding out why /what happened. Yes it would be nicer to retire from the sport in nicer circumstances. (But many don't alas) Why can't Phil Butcher and Geoff Small make a come-back this year then with a horse ? That would be more recent for you? 😉 . and un-tarnish their reputation with some Training and driving

Caulfield Last 5 races yesterday were a Great Example. Yes, the racing show and blokes and broadcasters were patting themslves on the backs yesterday and getting extremely cocky as the 3 near Even money, heavily backed favourites went bang,bang,bang. and they had picked 3 winners in a row !! (doesn't happen often lol ) Paulele, Anamoe then Golden Mile, .... so then were saying their 'all ups' and 'Multis' were looking good with the 'best 2 horses' at even money still to come in the shape of I Wish i Win and Zapateo. (both unplaced by the expert 'mock' in the last 2 races ) back to the grindstone lol.

hahaha clean forgot about him. Won the very first Miracle Mile run at Menangle too. should of remembered. (Blacks A Fake ran last in it)... probably why I put that race out of mind !! lol.....