Gammalite

Not a junior and hasn't claimed for a good while. This is Not a Junior driver Championship. It is the Australasian Young Drivers Championship being run currently. you have to be 25 or younger to qualify. The competitors were selected by their states. Junior drivers are much more like galloping Apprentices getting a claim. In QLD you get 5 Ratings point drop on a horse if it has a junior driver with under 100 career wins. and 3 ratings points off a starter if the Junior is 100-200 wins. Our 2 best Juniors in Jack Chappell at Dixons and Layne Dwyer are in that 2nd category. able to claim 3 ratings points as are both on about 180 wins. Funnily enough our QLD Rep in this Young Drivers Championship has 460 career wins and is only 22 years old 😆. CHLOE BUTLER is a part time trainer too, she sometimes puts a 'Junior' on her horses to get a claim and ratings relief !! incredible but true. at 22 she has to use another driver lol. Further, you can come back One Class on a Metro horse ( race for BIGGER prizemoney Saturday nights) i.e A race for One Win only Metro horses, those boys could drive a horse with 2 Metro wins in it. They claimed a class reduction. They can do this for up to 50 Career Metro wins. So really , No matter what their age , they are not a junior anymore when they have outdriven the claims, and allowed to start in Group racing as Senior driver. As James Herbertson has done more than 2 years now.

Best to keep Franklin for the trainers. otherwise No Participants = No racing. Sell Alexandra Park . it goes the WRONG WAY anyway and needs a Red Arrow to go with it's In the Red Books , to be turned in the other direction !! Albion Park "The Creek" Used to go that way round . to the right . Stanley Rio winning the Interdominion here 1978 for George and John Noble for New Zealand . a fine win against Paleface Adios and co. But We saw the light 😇, and threw out the gallopers 🏇 and turned the track Left handed. to Modern standards. And of course don't mind a bit of water on the track . Not called The Creek for nothing. They've gone a bit woosies in NZ with their thoroughbreds, and call the gallops off when light rains nowadays.😉

Put a bit of Shellgrit on the old Car racing Track Ranga !! . and send the trotters around that. 👍😁😂 would be some great action . Sure to be a bit of fun and tightening at the hair-pin at the far right there, at the end of the Back straight. That'll sort the men out from the boys. 😋 You can see the top bend of current Franklin training track top centre of this photo just the other side of the railway. Trainers not far to go to race.

No he wasn't . Herbie drove 3 x 3rd favourites for 2 wins and a 4th so far. It's a level playing field Brodster, and I made a point of saying all the horses were fairly even. all those 3 horses yesterday, had all run 6th and worse at their last 2 starts each. But with Herbie on they were always going to do better , and were well backed in the market accordingly. Alas our best Queensland Young Driver didn't get a start. ANGUS GARRARD (alias The Kid) is coming up on 1000 wins and is only 22 years old. He won the World drivers Championship here defeating Dexter and Pete so probably eliminated himself from todays contest for being 'Too good' 😋 James Herbertson driving 3 absolute Pussy-cats tonight, so we'll see if he can still win. even your old ENTAIN mate Dean Shannons horse he has drawn tonight . DRAGON in race 2. Am sure Herbie can get much closer than presenter Brittany Graham (a poor driver) did with Dragon last start. they compete in race 2 tonight at 7.54 NZ time. young Harrison Orange probably win that with Vinsanity as it performed quite well last week in a fast Metro Class race. Should be head and heels above a field of Redcliffe country horses . But can he Drive to win ?? 🤣😅 Better than being a Late Galah is what I always say 😁 Lets go kiwis . show us what ya got . 🏆😎

Its a race for the old veterans . 7 years old plus. Most of these old boys won their races many years ago to win that money. Think i'll stick with Herbertson. Miracle Moose a Cambridge winner twice back in 2019 🤣. old Barry Purdon horse there too. ''Major Jellis' started in a Franklin Cup once. they still try hard. Jordy, Major Jellis , Obi One and Miracle Moose still ran placings in 1.51 and a tick last start . home in 55 seconds last half . How good are these old warriors ? juniors might make em' go 1.50 ???? 🤣😎 Tuesdays are nearly always $9,000 races , so one of these old pensioners, will be taking home $5,481 to add to his rocking chair collection of cash.

A Fair call mate. I've been quite happy backing Crystal, and Harrison and Carter over the past year. And got quite good results really. The juniors here in Oz go round and round that often they make you giddy. you couldn't possibly follow them and get anywhere. Tassie very good at supporting juniors as are 'cheap' horses racing there. Our 2 Big QLD stables both give their NSW junior stable driver about 20 drives per week . young Tom Callaghan for Pete McMullens stable ( driving in race 10 today) and the young Chappell lad , another teen from NSW gets a whole heap of Dixon stable (slow horses) drives. That's the way to do it Brodster ! send em' round and round. they can only get better and learn more each drive👍. Your NZ most experienced Bloke , Sam Thornley drove a 'bold' race just now (on 'Kash Tin' in the 2nd Heat ) . But didn't quite get there . 3rd was his lot. certainly made them run hard down the back in 27 seconds though 😅. got them off the bit lol. maybe went for it a bit too soon.?

Tuesdays are usually good . 1.55 horses. Wednesday night is usually Redcliffe with 1.58 horses . but they're running it here this week so the Juniors can drive on nearly the best track in the Southern Hemisphere. As predicted James Herbertson Completely OUT-drove All of them in Heat one . Except for Carter. who followed him all the way for a clear-cut Second. so easy to see the better drivers. 👍 Gamma Collects 5 bucks of the quinella paying $18 without even having to think or raise a sweat lol 😋 ?? (should of taken 10 bucks worth but am not greedy 😉)

Yah sound like you're going like PINSEEKER there Blackie? . Welcome to Albion ! the fast lane .😎 Hope Pinseeker can actually finish his race next time. ? you better give Jonny some tips old mate 😉 your juniors look a good bunch there ok. Crystal a bit stiff not to get a gallop though ?

All the top horses made the Pacers Final above ok . Driving standard of NZ and Aus is just superb these days. Like wise the TOP trotters are All through and here's the Field !!! 12 Grand Final Runners with the BOAY boys in Great form getting 2 Trotters each through to the Grand Final . (except for Gamma whose Yank trotter broke, and Ranga with old NI horse Taylad To Use who just couldn't keep up so they have one horse each in the Interdominion Trotter Grand Final below.) Here's the field with Barrier draw and BOAY owner for the race. 1. Arcee Phoenix ( Ranga ) 2. Love Gun ( Gamma ) 3. Sir Fahrenheit (emergency) 4. Parisian Artiste ( TABman ) 5. Bet N Win NZ ( TABman ) 6. Not As Promised ( Mikey ) 7. Golden Sunset ( Galah ) 8. Constantinople ( Brodster ) 9. Harry Stamper ( Chief ) 10. Zealous Spur ( Brodie ) 11. London To A Brick ( Chief ) 12. Oscar Bonavena ( Mikey ) 13. GUS ( Mr Galah ) there is No Interdom Trot consolation. Just a FFA with Ranga and Gamma's 2nd runner 's in it. so no points 😢.

About to go , and was going to go check out the action , but the horses are that slow it's almost embarrassing. the ones that they have put in the heats. haven't even heard of most of them they're that obscure lol. 🤣 Tomorrow night at Albion Park in Heat rounds 4 , 5 and 6 , they are on the slowest of the slow even. NR 30 rated horses in heat 6 😳 is as slow as you can get. You can't get any lower. Poor old Wilson House has drawn one of those 🙄. They can't break a. 2.00 mile so will be strung out like Browns Cows . James Herbertson is a bit of a smokey here 😅🤣. nah seriously he has been driving for 9 years already and has near a couple of thousand race Wins nearly. He is driving Rakero Rebel in the Interdominion Final on Saturday night even, , and has won 6 x Group 1's by the age of 25. He should run rings around these Juniors , that are jumping on these strange slow horses. I'll call it Now, that he'll win 5 of the 10 Heats. so half of the races being run for this championship. He's that far ahead of the rest. he might as well be named Leap To Fame. Give him the Cup now ? Like in photo below lol 👍😎 Carter of course has Group 1's wins with Republican Party , so will run second for New Zealand in it (all going well ). Good luck to All the Combatants !!!!

Fields are Out for the 2025 Interdominion Grand Finals. Here are the Horse draws with the BOAY owner for the Grand Finals . with the Pacers Grand Final worth twice as much in dollars than the trotters DOUBLE POINTS will be scored in it. 1. LEAP TO FAME (Leap to Fame) 2. RAKERO REBEL ( Chief) 3. SPEAK THE TRUTH (the Galah ) 4. CYA ART ( Brodie ) 5. PETES SAID SO ( Gamma ) 6. DON HUGO (the Galah ) 7. CATCH A WAVE ( Tab4ever ) 8. NYACK (emergency) 9. CAPTAINS KNOCK (Chief) 10. TIMS A TROOPER ( Chief ) 11. MAX DELIGHT ( Brodie ) 12. SURE THING CAPTAIN (Gamma ) 13. ARODA (Rangatira ) In the Pacers Consolation Race 3 (earning same points as the Heats) Number is their barrier draw. 1.Beach Ball NZ (Brodie), 3.Jimartee (Tab), 4.BetterEclipse (Ranga), 6.TangoTara (Mikey), 9.WispaASecret (Tab) 10.I Break The Line (Mikey), 11.Nyack (Gamma) and sorry Ranga but the kiwi 'Pinseeker' is Out of Play altogeather. the 2025 Trotters Interdominon Grand Final Field will be up here later too.

You can have some close calls with horses for sure. Wishing Samantha a speedy recovery. Alas the Oz based successful NZers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young lost a popular stable worker 2 weeks ago , while on the job at Cranbourne training . tragically receiving a kick to the head from a horse, and was unable to be revived. A very experienced horse- lady too , Peta Tait had been a picnic jockey , a full-time track work rider and lately strapping horses at race meetings from several stables. Peta working hard behind the scenes , sadly killed in the sport we love attending to the horses she loved working with for nearly 3 decades. Peta now passed at just 43. RIP Peta. Busuttin Racing released a statement to reflect her contributions and condolences including this “At this time our thoughts are with those nearest and dearest to Peta, her immediate family and many friends, both inside and outside of the racing industry, as well as her team of colleagues of whom she had maintained strong personal and professional relationships. “Peta was an incredible person who was dedicated to her role and will leave a long-standing legacy. We are heartbroken by her loss.”

After 2 Rounds of Heats LEAP To FAME (pacing) and BET N WIN (trotting for NZ ) look near invincible next week for the Interdominon Grand Final night . No-one is invincible at BOAY though , all champions , and with a hot contest for the Draft BOAY Interdominon Champion next week is up for grabs. One round to Go !! the Grand Finals and Consolations !! next Saturday night. Carry over points . Space POINTS UPDATE BOAY Interdominion. TAB4ever 103 points , Gamma 97 pts, Ranga 96 pts, The Galah 93 points, Chief Stipe 96 points, Brodster 88 points, Mikey 57 points (OscarB didn't want to play Mikey) Leap To Fame 48 points. sleeping soundly.

Final Heat hits the Line . Beach Ball disappointing. Former NZ pacer Rakero Rebel makes the Grand Final running 4th to join the Jess Tubbs trained stable-mate Better Eclipse to race Leap To Fame next week. am sad Greg Sugars not here to drive one of them for his wife 😪 RESULT the Final Pacing Heat Speak The Truth gets the Win and the 16 pts for The Galah Captains Knock 2nd and with Rakero Rebel 4th and DOUgs Platter 7th pick up 28 points for Chief. sneaking in-between them is Cya Art 3rd for the Brodster , who also bounced 7 points with the beach Ball to score 18.

TABman cracks the ton with a Pair of Trotting Winners tonight !!! crack a champers for that 🍾. well done team TAB. Ranga 18pts from his 2 Trotters, Gamma 14 from his 2. Chief got 9, Brodster 6, and Mikey 7 with OscarB. POINTS UPDATE BOAY Interdominion. TAB4ever 103 points , Gamma 97 pts, Ranga 96 pts, The Galah 77 points, Chief Stipe 68 points, Brodster 70 points, Mikey 55 points Leap To Fame 48 points. (and on the way home) TABman , Gamma and Ranga are finished for the night , so can these Stragglers of Galah, Brodster and Chief make any ground or Not ?? one heat to go.

Final Trotters Heat. Parisian Artiste wins for TABman and gets 16 points. You would think he would be happy to have just Bet N Win 🙄 Arcee Phoenix trots boldly into 2nd for Ranga for 13 pts Love Gun , the local outsider 3rd and 11 pts for Gamma. Harry Stamper 4th with Anthony Butt driving is into the Grand Final for Chief (and got Chief 9 pts) Oscar Bonavana just hates trotting slowly behind the mobile , and being a Stallion is getting too cunning for it. Full points shortly. One Pacing Heat to go . Beach Ball is in it for New Zealand .

Anyway it's 17 points to Ranga still with his team. Better Eclipse 4th and Aroda 5th. No points for Pinseeker . FIRST 4 Heat 5 Pacers. Leap to Fame 1st scores the 16 points for himself. Gamma on the Tassie horse NYACK 2nd gets 13 points .Up the Tassie !!!! no one on 3rd horse Ranga on the 4th and 5th (as above) TABman has 6th and 7th with Jimartee and Catch a Wave to score 13 points and keeps the lead . and The Galah a meazley 5 points from the current Interdominion champ Don Hugo 8th . POINTS UPDATE BOAY Interdominion. TAB4ever 87 points (hard driven now) 😎 , Gamma 83 pts, Ranga 78 pts, The Galah 77 points, Chief Stipe 59 points, Brodster 64 points, Mikey 48 points Leap To Fame 48 points. (and feeling cruisey)

well that was an easy win by the Champ . Paid $1.70 here too. The best horse in the World. Put my $100 on at $1.50 though , as couldn't believe a horse like that was gifting money. Luke McCarthy cheated a bit in that, and gave PINSEEKER a jolly good whack in the head with his helmet with a mile to go. Maybe Jonny got too close and he was hitting his cart. ? anyway Pinseeker took off bolting, a bit like he did in that Country Championship Final at Addington (when BetterThanCash beat him) think he needs a different Bit in his mouth is what someone should tell Jonny.

The Brodster picking up a handy 15 points with Zealous Spur and Eurokash 5th and 6th. The Galah also scoring 15 points also from Gus 3rd and Golden Sunset 9th. Ranga flat footed as yet 😋. POINTS UPDATE BOAY Interdominion. TAB4ever 74 points (and New leader ) , Gamma 70 pts, The Galah 72 points, Chief Stipe 59 points, Brodster 64 points, Ranga 61 pts, Mikey 48 points

HEAT 3 Trotters. BET N WIN does the kiwi's proud, smashing the 2 Best Aussies no worries at all. FIRST 4 Bet N Win (Bob Butt) NZ 1st and 16 points for the TAB4ever. LonDon To A Brick 2nd for NSW and Chief (13 pts) . surprising me trotting all the way . great effort. GUS 3rd comes from last as he always has too. a solid 3rd and 11 pts for Galah Not As Promised 4th for Mikey with a good honest effort and into the Grand Final for him too Points up date for all runners in a minute. The TAB getting the better of Gamma now 🙄🙄, and taking over the BOAY Interdominion comp lead . You can Bet and Win with a TABman in the Comp 🤣💰

you're looking pretty relaxed there Ranga. you forgot to light the pipe though. Bet N Win didn't . he cruised in for New Zealand !!! what a star.

HEAT 4 Pacers . Ranga under the Pump now as Gamma surges up to attack hard with QLDer Sure Thing Captain . and take the 16 points. Gammalite already a 2 time Interdominion winner in the 80's is eyeing up another 😂. FIRST 4 was Sure Thing Captain 1st 16 points for Gamma Max Delight 2nd and 13 for the Brodster Tims A Trooper 3rd with 11 points for Chief 'Pete's Said So 4th another 9 points for Gamma and a swishy 25 points haul from the race . and heads off Ranga !! Other runners . 11pts for Mikey's 2 horses and 7pts for TABman running 6th with WispaASecret Turn It Up got near last the poor old horse, so just 1 point for The Galah in that one. 😪 POINTS UPDATE BOAY Interdominion. Gamma 70 points (and New leader ) Ranga 61 points, The Galah 57 points, TABman 58 points, Chief Stipe 46 points, Brodster 49 points, Mikey 39 points

Not long to wait now Ranga. Could be one of the greatest performances ever seen coming up in Race 4. Jonny Cox might be proud to be just part of it. VERY very happy to see Pete McMullen win the First race. One of our Feature races for Mid class horses named after his Grandfather 'Hollywood' John McMullen. Race one was the 'JC McMullen' John Snr a real Pioneer of training in QLD. At one time would of been our equal of your great man Roy Purdon. and Grant Dixon running the quinella paying $26 with NZ horse Demon Blue .excellent stuff for Gamma lol😎💰 those 2 drivers are LIGHT Years ahead of the rest of them here training and driving. is like backing Mark and Nat 🍻.

Rangatira has thrown 'Caution To The Wind' and pitted all 3 of his star Pacers against the Very Best tonight. In a bold move in Race 4 tonight at Albion, his NZ Rep PINSEEKER for Jonny Cox, along with Better Eclipse and Aroda are being sent around against the Winners of the Last 2 Interdominion Grand Finals in superstar pacers Don Hugo and Leap To Fame. Ranga is the current BOAY Interdominion Draft Comp leader but is likely to 'Come a Gutsa' taking on the BIG boys in the NZ How Bizarre type fashion. Here's the teams and RACE number for tonight. Getting under way Race 2 about 7.30 NZ time. Ranga : Better Eclipse , Aroda , Pinseeker (all in race 4), Taylad to Use + Arcee Phoenix (both race 5) The Galah : Turn It Up R2, Don Hugo R4, Speak The Truth R6, Gus + Golden Sunset (both race 3) TAB4ever : Wispa A Secret R2, Catch A Wave + Jimartee (both race 4) Bet N Win R3, Parisian Artiste R5. Gamma : Sure Thing Captain + Petes Said So (both race 2), Nyack R4, Love Gun + Aldebaran Acrux R5. Brodster : Max Delight R2, Cya Art + Beach Ball (both race 6), Eurokash + Zealous Spur R3, Constantinople R5. Mikey : I Break the Line + Tango Tara R2, Free Thinker R6, Naot as Promised R3, Oscar Bonavena R5. Chiefy : Rakero Rebel , Dougs Platter, Captains Knock (all race 6), Tims A Trooper R2, and Chief's trotters London To A Brick R3, and Harry Stamper (for Anthony Butt) in race 5. POINTS UPDATE after ROUND 1 BOAY Interdominion. Ranga 61 points, The Galah 56 points, TABman 51 points, Gamma 45 points Chief Stipe 35 points, Brodster 33 points, Mikey 28 points Points for tonight's 5 Heats will be added here as the races go . Good Luck to All Runners !!

I'm guessing the Dickie Driving is bothering you ? Forbury had a good old Blast about that here one time a few weeks back. 🤣 him not real keen on the Dickie Bird. BD Joe a serial 'just missed' horse really. 48 starts for 14 wins ,400k . (2 were Group 3's, 2 were Group 2's ) and did get the One BIG one the Group 1 Jewel he won at Cambridge when he defeated KRUG 4 years ago. picked up 50k. That last win of his above you have listed above is the NEW BRIGHTON Cup, defeating Mossdale Ben and Anything Goes . those 2 aren't even Open Class horses, so no world breaking accomplishment. Joe won 22k in that Grp3 win . I think the Telfer Stable runners of Alta Wiseguy (10 wins from 45 , 200k earned) and AllAmerican Lover (13 wins from 35 for 300k) finished with solid records racing in the same era . They are pretty fair trainers ok. getting some horses in the features and all. Nice trying well above average horses but NOT Cup or Interdominion Class winning horses . Dunn's haven't even got that Quality of Pacer either. Purdon's and Cullens and Dalgety's and RTodd are taking all the Big races.