Gammalite

And the Horseman is right on the money . so he takes the lead in the Nz Cup. (until Mark or Natalie turn up anyway) TheHorseman up to 3 points, Brodie 2, Chief 1 . Ok , fire away Chief , and first in with the answer can gain a point too. Brodie now un-restricted lol....

The thing with Young Werther is he has only won the One race. His maiden more than a year ago. He was set for the Victoria Derby for big glory then , and was backed from 10's into 3-1 favourite. Ollie gave him every hope in the run and loomed to win , but paddled late against JohnnyGetAngry. many left a little disappointed including self (crying through pocket and missing big payout) so just don't want to imagine him toughing out a Caulfield Cup win a year later lol........ Shouldn't wish ill luck on horses I spose , so may the best horse win on the day . Does Incentivise go for lead from 20 alley will be interesting? SHE'S IDEAL has a BIG finish on her from the back usually , so I am gunna go with that.

A Nz Cup great sadly passed away last month. Mr Denis Nyhan . An immortal at Cup time and remembered forever for his Cup exploits. Seen here winning with the horse everyone loves ROBALAN , as he powers to victory in front of the crazed Addington Fans. For 2 Points today in the Cup quiz , How many NZ Cups did Denis WIn ? and who with ? or if you want , just go for the 1 point and................. (points to date Brodie 2, Chief 1 ) Name the 2nd placegetter sneaking into the photo, who brilliantly managed to push the race favourite Young Quinn and Wolfie back into 3rd placing.

Very good Chief . Wee Win often carried one of those White neck straps along with Rocky Tryax, Trevira and Sapling. Wee Win was indeed the 4th horse across the line !!! TRUSTY SCOT went on to win the Nz FFA on Show-day as well , ( from Lord Module placed ) First day cup Quiz Points : Brodie 2, Chief 1.

Brodie with 2 points with the 2 horses correct, from the 1978 NZ Cup with Trusty Scot winning for the Hunter family. Brodster now 'Restricted" for second part point . (sorry Brodster ) to get another expert 1 point. For this bonus point , That isn't the third placegetter Rocky Tryax in the photo. Can anyone pick............... Who is that fine Canterbury stallion pacer No 6 in the photo ?

Not long to the next edition of the big race, and a lot of fantastic performances and Wins and big crowds enjoying the racing over the years . Todays quiz NZ Cup number 1 has the Huge Addington crowd with probably some BOAY folk in the stands as well. Can anyone Name these 2 battling out , that hail from some of the area's loved by a few Boay posters.?

Every court case . some of the smartest in society trying to 'decieve' a jury or judge with truth spinning. How convincing they are comes with time and experience. Just like a harness driver !!!! therefore the more experinced drivers ARE more convincing and much more likely to get off charges in a race. Cameron and Williams were both trying to win the races , and circumstances prevented that happening. Both did Nothing to reduce other runners chances, so all the perception is just that .................Perception of the Viewer. every race day you can listen to the comments of the 'viewer' and his perception of a bad ride/ drive. Makes every race different and keeps the un-predictability alive !! excellent ! You'll see FAR FAR worse errors than Cameron or Williams incidents. SURE , they made an error or whatever, DRIVERS IN EVERY RACE make an error of some kind somewhere in the running . Cameron and Williams both VERY TAME to some of the stuff Going On. making 'bad guys' out of the 'good guys' hahaha SHAMEFUL it is i reckon. just a shame.

Well a quinella to save the day in the last , but the BOAY boys have taken the spoils with the Yearning -Elusive Express G1 quinella . excellent stuff. she's having a great run alright . and Chief got last Saturdays big price winner ridden by her too. great racing !

The last start Grand National Hurdle winner is winning today too. Wouldn't of picked that in Metro company today. WIL JOHN ridden brilliantly to an easy win by Linda Meech. Linda just back after a year off with having a baby too. She's come back well . She rode great ride for 2nd in Race 3 as well on MANKAYAN . 2 x Maher/Eustice Quinellas in a row too. They are going gang-busters with winners.

Some fillies are on the prestigious Vic Oaks trail , and on the way can bag a Group 1 at Caulfield with the Thousand Guinea's over the mile today. BARB RAIDER with Willow up , might camp right on the back of leaders Waterhouse/Bott pair (No 's 1 + 8 ) until in the home straight, and give them the Go-by ! all going well. and for a great shot chance at 100-1 , couple BARB RAIDER R7 with FOXY FRIDA R8 . In race 8 the mares race, Daniel Moor replaces the apprentice who rode last time, and MOOR won brilliantly at Flemington with 'Foxy Frida' in Winter. The Mile distance today, will be right up her alley !!! . Foxy Frida does have a bad barrier draw, so a saver on SIRILEO MISS (also in R8) not a bad idea , as she is racing very well too.

Mr Galah , after the disappointments with this Tim Williams trotter pulling up on him , and Tornado Valley and Tough Monarch doing the same at Melton on Friday. Did you catch the GROUP 1 at Bendigo Saturday night ???? A gammalite Favourite the tiny PINK GALAHS (5-1 you beauty) winning the Big mile for the second year running !! TROTTERS redemption ! after a couple of bad nights. AND 1.54.2 as well not too shabby. 2nd was the hot fav, also a very small horse nz bred by Majestic Son,,, MAJESTUOSO and Kate Gath . Loved it !! after the post ,all the way around to the back straight Kate was giving Matty Craven a Gobful as seemingly not impressed, as he only won by a nose with a exceptionally well timed thrust , laying in on Kate a bit !! hahahaha Group driving at it's Best !!!!!!!

Could be an Extremely big pay day this week with Nature Strip all going well. Jmac will be hoping Eduardo isn't eye-balling. That Sydney Metro racing is just so Darn TIGHT. they are bumping and bashing every race now it seems. Berry and Bowman have completely bumped over opponents past year (Avdulla still out I think) it's like a charge of the Light Brigade !!! all cannons firing. Can see it is very hard to even contemplate winning race after race in that arena. Jmac grabbing some anyway.

Is that blinkers Chief? You can almost See the great mare trying harder than ever, as Nonconformist looms outside her ? and comes in to her view. (tongue in cheek) difference between win or 2nd maybe ? hehehe

That's a tough one ! but will have to add Sunline into the NZ mares team (along with Jeezabeel and Ethereal for taking Cup honours in the last 1/4 century brilliantly) Like-wise Makybe Diva goes in for Oz with 3 x MC's and Cox Plate. and also Miss Andretti with her 5 track records. so we have Probabeel, Melody Belle, Verry Elleegant, Sunline, Jezabeel, and Ethereal for NZ versus ........Winx, Arcadia Queen, Black Caviar, Makybe Diva and Miss Andretti for Oz looks like Aussie mares showing a heap of 'Dash' but completely 'outstayed' by the great kiwi mares in the end !

She's a gem . Probabeel and Melody Belle and Verry Elleegant are the NZ equal of ........... Winx and Arcadia Queen and Black Caviar of Oz great mares ... (and my best favourite mare Amazing Dream !! with a very honourable mention lol)

Great tippin Nomates!!! ... now for a Probabeel stable double for the kiwis would be something

Going great guns then is Mr Yole with his 50 runners each meeting lol. Shame Yole can't get a horse in a feature race , or even get one to win a 'Metro ' race . speaks volumes of his stable. Well before you get abusive take a look at your Poor wording then mate. Makes it SEEM to the READER that you were talking about the one combination of Shan Noble and Natalie driving. ...and I can talk fine thank-you

I tell ya what , there is a SWITCH OFF disease going around with the trotters.? Tonight at Melton R8, in a 20k trot Anthony Butt and Kate Gath got to experience that TIM WILLIAMS feeling !!! Just Like WannaPlayWithMe didn't want to play late in race for Tim, 2 of the Best trotters ever seen in Aus and NZ refused to go on with the job either !!!!!!!!!! the darndest thing ! we were just talking about. TORNADO VALLEY was 5 lengths clear of field home bend and just dug the toes in, much to the distress of Kate , and ran 5 lengths second. Very strange. He would of passed $1,000,000 earnings if won as well. And the Gammalite fav trotter TOUGH MONARCH was even worse !! refused to go for Ant's and was 40m back 5th.

If you liked her being a nose back driving the second place-getter behind Shan Noble that is yesterday. Mark just in front of her, is No Pretender anyway lol.

Yes indeed . Penalties are always controversial , even all the footy codes have trouble all the time , even with set rules of play. One week or 2 for the bad tackle? . Red card or sin-bin for the high shot? . I prefer the Interference suspension personally. Herlihy avoided that KRUG drive suspension that time , when tightening first corner at Alex Park caused a galloper on inside , so a bit lucky to get away with it. With the NZ Cup approaching , Does anyone remember CAMELOT winning for Robin Butt ? a very solid win in 4.06, that had Gammalite struggling a long way out, and fin near last. George Shand on BORANA caused a massive Pile -up when pushing out down the back. Down went Diamond Moose, Enterprise and 3 others, Paul Young near catapaulted into orbit ..... George got 4 weeks for that , but blamed the horse not steering well lol. (as you always do naturally ) fun times. Was a Bit more 'serious' in my mind than a horse clocking off early like Tim's did though....lol

yes Dougie was saying the same thing. What should the penalty be then in that case ? Last weekends double Randwick Group 1 jockey Regan Bayliss got Three weeks suspension ???? yesterday at Gosford on a scrubby old Maiden R4, that he rode 'hard and well ', all up the home straight , and sat up 5m out. Poor bugger got beaten a nose . just a tragic state of affairs for him. (3 weeks with lots of Top rides 'lost 'now) Is that for public perception ? bloody mean. harsh beyond words. I would of been quite happy with his effort in that race on a scrubby maiden. Back to Tim then, should it be 3 weeks ? (or like Bayliss got,),,, or 3 months like Teaz wants Ross Cameron to get lol...) for public perception of course !!! on that rank outsider. did Ross get a suspension in the end?

Error and mis-judgement s occur every race. How many times do you see someone rattling home late to just miss? Happens all the time . And plenty of times at the gallops a jockey gets the lead too soon in the home straight , and the horse clocks off , and gets beaten late. I see that happen every week-end. that was sort of an error too by the jockey. Doesn't happen as often at the trots , so this Tim Williams incident is standing out like dogs balls..... Drivers getting suspended and fined is NOT something I like ..... or think solves anything . Unless they cause 'Interference' to another runner and stop it's chances of winning. (Williams and Ross Cameron in the Saginaw incident recently did not cause interference) so why suspend them? Take a look at Sydney gallops, (from experienced jocks) ....... BOWMAN (winter last year bowling A.Adkins (very badly injured) on Hot'n'Hazy over) and BERRY (this year recently bowled Xtremetime over severely injuring Avdulla) near killing fellow jocks !!! ( the opposition horse dead on both occasions) They got 6 weeks and 8 weeks suspension each . Should be 6 months each IMO, and pay restitution to their peers. Bit more serious than worrying about who was favourite on the punt or not ?? or whether you have a party or not like Kah .

Hehehe.... what a good one. The Galah will have good judgement, But Teaz (after getting stuck into the Saginaw bloke) should have a field day with this one . Top rated driver making an error thinking he had the leader covered. Still ......his efforts weren't like he was trying to lose or help anyone else or anything , just a mis-judgement. Plenty of errors occur in races, as only one can win . Not like the 13th May race at Auckland with Dylan Ferguson completely driving his 2 yearold against the older horses for the complete benefit of MeetmeinSorrento , (driven by Zac Butcher on that one occasion). Classy Operator may be the horse name , but surely not Fergusons nicname on that occasion.

Doing super well Hunter !!!! Julie has just over 130 wins this year (season), exactly the same as Emma . both Trainers in Victoria too. The thing with EMMA STEWART is the staggering amount of Group Race wins. Almost same as Allstars !!! EMMA might run the First 4 in the Group1 Vic Oaks this weekend , and finish first 5 with 3 lady drivers and Chris Alford and David Moran on the Fav. 5 runners. and quinella the Vic Derby too. ! (with 2 more different drivers !! ) share the winning joy around ? ... go Emma !!!!

Hey what do you know, there goes ENJOY ME going around just now at Addington ! a very good 2nd placing first up since Summer as well ! she'll be winning Very Soon. AND the first Three Races at Addington today All won by the 'Juniors' driving with great aplomb !!...lol