Gammalite

Fight or Flight response is common . Humans or animals. Racehorses are a combo of both (we hope anyway)

Just a small correction Galah , with Majestic Man actually grabbing second late, in the heat in a 1.53.1 mile rate. That's is motoring. ! Great drive by Kate Gath in the BIG final to rest her horse TORNADO VALLEY behind the pace in the trail after that 'Gutbuster' early in night, when holding out MMan in that fast Heat. That Gave Tornado Valley enough reserves of energy, to Sprint-lane , and win well. The win took his amazing record to 30 wins from 44 starts in Oz. My Aussie hope, the little filly PINK GALAHS not quite up to the 'big boys' yet , but still 2 x good 4ths. She'll be winning again soon and hopefully be a Galah favourite in the future.

Well this looks a special in the Group 3 Mares Race 7 at Caulfield for Waitangi Day. Two kiwi bred horses are in, with Two kiwi Trainers and one Kiwi jockey. (Damian Lane on one but he goes ok !!!) With PROBABEEL (Jamie .Richards training) and SIERRA SUE (Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young training) and Michael Walker Up on top. Looks a great Waitangi Day NZ Special Quinella. !!!! Happy national Day New Zealand !!

Rangatira = Maori Chief David Butcher = harness racing 'Chief' great connection !!!! iceman, wizardman , magicman, superman, Does that commentator give Blair a name, surely not 'Orangeman'? llol..

Whether you have a whip or not a jockey /harness driver is virtually trying to 'Scare ' the horse into going faster. There is a LOT of noise (vocally) on the ' home bend' at any racetrack in I would say every race!, as the ' human component' tries to coerce his charge to give it all they've got . The whip can make a lot of noise and is useful in this task as well. (You can only yell and scream so much) unless you are Damien Oliver who has endless resource of vocal energy at a great decibel too !!! lol.... The whip can be handy to wave up outside the winkers to 'Threaten' the horse and scare it to give more effort as well. Jockeys do a GREAT job with this technique. NO JOCKEY or DRIVER wants to physically hurt a horse with the whip. They are just trying to win the race. I would be happy to go without a Whip if so requested by Rule Changes and try it out. BUT I can say in the 500 odd races I competed in , a whip helped 'coerce' the horse in some way in 100% of those races. Definitely would of been far fewer Placed results without it. It's very hard keeping them going after a pressure event like a horse race at those speeds.!!

Well gotta say after being around a few decades, been to plenty of Race Meetings (a british term) but never once heard of a 'Trials' meeting. They're just called Barrier Trials.

Great article, tells what happened (tests and suspensions) Driver gives apology which is important (we all make mistakes) Harness officials took action which is important ( for the image of the sport projected) councilling offered to make sure no underlining/ ongoing issues, ( bad party timing really) Mentioned the other racing code fellow CJ, which is important ( so racing and Harness racing are projected in the same light) and hopefully ALL industry participants are fully aware of expectations from both codes. so all good moving forward. wonder if they test greyhound handling folk ??? hahaha......

Well it's not as bad as all that . Afterall NZ rates higher than nearly every country in just about everything. Here's the world rankings and NINE of them are just too Cold !!!! so give me Number 4 anyday !! lol........ Denmark (192.53) Switzerland (190.92) Finland (186.40) Australia (185.03) Netherlands (184.18) Austria (181.68) Iceland (180.74) New Zealand (178.22) Germany (177.25) Estonia (175.99) The table below has each country’s index score for safety, health care, pollution, climate, and the overall quality of life index score.

That would of been a thrill of a lifetime , to drive a 16 time Group 1 winner like him. What a dream that would be!! Bruce Clarke did a great job and drove him to 65 of his 94 wins. (including 2 Interdominion finals and an Auckland Cup. One of Gammalites BIGGEST efforts in NZ (Google 1981 Allan Matson FFA youtube ) and enjoy a treat. !!!! circled to the deathseat attacking Armalight for the last lap. Then potential champion, LORD MODULE ,who was having bad barrier manners in those times, came Roaring Home from near last turning for home, to WIN running away, with the crowd going berserk. amazing moment in harness history. One of the most memorable wins ever seen at Addington !!! Gammalite held 2nd well anyway lol........

It's such a hard one. So often you see a horse win because of the 'extra' jockey effort. Just now in the last Race R8 at Sandown , D MOOR had to get stuck into horse Good and Proper as the 2 favourites in the race came at him up the straight. No way was he using the 5 Whip strike policy on this occasion.!! Held on by 1/2 head, with 1/2 head to third. He would of been only third if he didn't ride it like he did. What to do ? Just run third , I guess?

Hahaha, not many Gammalite named ponies around , but would be hard and tough if they were. As the former GREAT horses (and ex- BOAY stallions) NOODLUM and HAPPY SUNRISE attacked for honour in the BOAY trotting cup , and then disappeared as they carved each other up, so fell by the wayside, A truly great stallion emerged to be a force in Trans Tasman challenge's !!! (seen here winning Auckland 83 Interdominion)

Yes a Snap reaction , like the Auckland one from a quarantine Hotel worker as well. Preparing public for 'bigger' outbreaks probably part of the plan in both places. Flying in folk from South Africa seems a risky dance with the devil. just Like betting against Melody Belle .

The WORST field of trotters (by perfromance standards) ever assembled for a Group 1 in Australia ever ! (not counting the fab Majestic Man) Only the third placegetter named MAJESTUOSO has won 2 at GROUP 1 level. (so credit to that i should say) Majestuoso actually galloped and lost 30m in the home straight , and STILL ran 3rd !!!! lol..... my goodness. how bad was that lot? I'm so embarrassed. Second-rate is a compliment. None of the runners apart from the placegetters could or have , won or placed in a GROUP 3 let alone a Feature Group 1. They're Not even third-rate level horses......... sad day for G1 trotting.

Geez you talk some Shit, ............ 9 shits in 9 lines,,,,, that's a real shitty effort !!

Racing is good. Magic Millions at Gold Coast just completed and HUGE sales (like your Karaka one) with record prices. and Million dollar 2 year old race and large crowd. Crowds returned to all tracks all States now this year , Limited numbers /areas etc AFL final was at the Gabba (Brisbane) which was neat as got to go . Is a bit like the Melbourne Cup of racing. State borders nearly all open. Western Australia release to VIC and QLD this coming week so all good. Hopefully NZ has something for the ALL STAR MILE in a few weeks . Melody Belle ???

Keep open to Aussie only (The virus virtually Kicked out of Oz as well, done great job like NZ health) and make it cheap travel (as NZ is great for Aussies to holiday !! and great places in Oz too , for the kiwis to visit. (and lots of kiwi families here already to visit) The racing USED to be great with Kiwi, Empire Rose Ethereal, and others winning the Melbourne Cup for NZ !!. Harness racing still has wonderful Tasman competition (Intredominion) so Racing could have something too ?? Veerry Eleegant returning to NZ for a clash with Melody Belle or something like that ? how good it could be.

OMG !!!.... i mean wow!!!..... Geeeezzzzzz... that is just mind boggling. great job by jockeys missing the dickhead and avoiding accident. Trains not running in Wellington? so that moron can use those .?

Ants has 2 in the GROUP1 , 100k purse three year old tonight. Platinum Stride is smart but with 6 seconds from 11 aussie runs seems a 'cog' off taking a big race. Maybe get 2nd again? to David Moran (the LOCHINVAR ART guy) who has all the luck at present. He has drawn 1 with a 1.55 horse PATSBEACHSTORM. 2-1 on odds. Ants should use 'Stablemate Power' and attack PatsBStorm with Vanquish Stride and soften it up a bit. lol.......

SUB ZERO was the grand champion of visiting disabled, older persons, sick persons , loved by everybody and he knew the joy he brought those people too, always putting his lovely head right there for them to scratch and rub. When 'Subbie ' won the 1992 Melbourne Cup (beating 2 kiwis in Veandercross and Castletown ) think he was even popular then , as the Trifecta divi a record small one ($17) unlikely to ever have that record broken lol. Subbie passed away recently at about 30 odd years old . His Legend lives on.

No chance..... hahaha well done Mark . Congrats to Hayden on first winner !!

Mataderos stablemate was only 4th though ????

Chris Gleeson !! the colgate kid , now there's a name!!!. Top of the tree Harold Park in the 90's. Made a huge mistake training horses for Bookmakers !! only asking for trouble that is. Chris could of applied for licence again after 14 year DQ in 2010 but has/had plumbing business. His brother Matt Gleeson got 100 years DQ sentence !!! (they cut a horses hopples) That must be a record sentence lol......

P.S BTW Brodster in your rant about ROBBIE HOLMES drive on Silk last Friday , and needing RIU attention. You forgot to mention Matty Williamson 's part in that Charge for the lead ???? His horse SWELL TIME in race 8 at the Met last Friday , got that tired , the horse gave up pacing altogeather on the home turn !!!!! hahahahaha Share the blame I think?? couldn't they have spoken just after the start? would of saved that pain.

Hahaha ....you need some policing Chief or not just the racing but society would collapse in general. It is a GREAT result then !! for Harness racing if nothing was actually happening! I'm very pleased... Sure , people hate breathalisers (like mr Orange/ Butt) as well, but would be TOTAL chaos on road (and racetrack it does seem ) without them. and not a great look for harness racing as a PROFESSIONAL SPORT. I had opportunity to be a VIC harness steward , when retired from training/driving but turned it down as (apart from aversion to flying on small aircraft to country tracks) I was told you do stable RAIDS every second day. ! I said "Fuck that , that's Police work,!! isn't that trespass without a warrant? isn't that burglary going through trainers 'Toolboxes' ? " so needless to say they can investigate without me. Blair spent $1000 telling them to fuck off hahaha I just would of liked to Pull apart drivers/tactics in a race as a steward, Just like any good BOAY poster!!!! lol......

Well at least it is being investigated in some form , ,,,, if you mean INCA then it is good. If industry participants were acting outside the guidelines of Fair play , maybe they're NOT now?? the thought of getting caught too great?? So is good to have them (investigators) around for that reason Chief. even if not catching anyone. Maybe not enough evidence to convict ? at the rate you would like. All industry (and even COURT offences , some take years) are a long drawn out process , that can lead to stale-mates in the end. Lamb , seems a bit of a stalemate, McGrath was caught-out, every case is different , and yeah , quite slow at times,....... like the whole WHIP debacle in Harness and gallops.... slow progress , but people are still working on it to make changes for benefit animal welfare , public perception, good racing, punters getting run for their money, Very very tough on the riders and drivers though (the SLOW tinkering with rules) Things take time though.