Gammalite

Yeah it is quite amazing Brodie. Ben Yole starts around 30-40 at the Tas meetings and scratches out a winner from 'Weight of Numbers" Usually 2 a meeting currently so this season 70 wins from 1000 starters. Very poor strikerate

Yes very good , I am still smarting as to how many here think they can out-drive Nat and Mark. But dreams are free. I guess they are my favourite stable as in performance. didn't help on the punt though with was looking at a massive collect on Tiger Tara 2 NZ cups ago , and Nat THE FIXER bloused it by 1/2head . Thanks Nat !!!! not. As for detecting irregularities, surely they would be convicted like anyone else if something detected ?? I did 6 months once with a little steroid detection Lol. but got to see the neighbourhood on a delivery truck for a while hahaha

You scored a goal there Ronaldo, I didn't pick up on that cynical approach at all. Blossom has got me rattled, lol One big race win in Oz, if I was a steward, where you would of seen the team driving was the GOAT Lazarus winning Perth Interdominion in Dec 2017. Nothing wrong with Mark's drive at all, won it easily. But Chris Lewis on 'Have Faith In Me" was only in it, and only attempting to block / obstruct/ get in the way of as many opponents as possible, which worked out well. holding up LennyShark, chicagoBull etc. He ran last as the sacrifice of course, driving like that, and nothing said.

Heck Ronaldo , back to Juventus for you. The disqualified list of persons here in Oz is about 100 foot long, hahahaha. Those stewards don't muck around here. Here in Qld our leading driver (Shane Graham) is still out DQ after 2 years, for running and handling. Grant Dixon took over then, as leader then his wife Trista got a year for team driving in a race as well. She has Just resumed driving again in Dec. swabbing and pre-race blood tests are STILL being conducted every meeting. Surely the same in NZ ????? If your unfounded accusations of doping are true, they would be caught/ detected for sure. What are you using ??

Tim Butt trained runners are still has some going around . My Field Marshall went around in Ballarat Cup the other day. Only a shadow of former self with 3 starts without winning this summer, since had Heart Attack of some kind and pulled up in Miracle Mile 2019 a year ago. 2 years ago My Field Marshall won the 2018 Miracle Mile in 1.46.9 so is still the FASTEST horse ever in Southern Hemisphere.

Apologies Blossom mate, as it appears I went off topic as your original post is about Mark's , not Nat's driving at start of thread. Well Yes, what a surprise for you that is I guess. 2 of them he is not listed as Training. Don't panic this run of 'Outs' won't last too long lol. We need your enjoyment of Champions not to waver. LongOwner fancies Mark can't drive a race without this criteria. Don't like his driving ability ?? 'No Mates out there', No mates on here either it seems lol, Mark is doing it tough it seems. IMO he drives 'quite' well . Plenty of worse drivers I can think of to pick on. hahahhhha With the Great Southern Star Trot ( our biggest trotting race) coming up this week , a great case at hand.!! (against your criteria LongOwner). Last year Mark catch drove an Aussie 'Dance Craze' to victory with another brilliant drive (20-1 odds) to win our biggest trot, and beat Temporale. Shame Mark has 'OscarB' there, as he could do it again this week with Dance Craze?! Dance Craze beat Tornado Valley just the other Day at Ballarat too, so he is in form ok. No actually, doesn't Temporale deserve it? after great win last week in Dullard Cup, and the brilliant second in the GSStar a year ago for TonyH.

What did you write 'once again' apart from the very unimportant " I am clueless and about my comprehension of English??? " Why not stick to the topic and answer my question about your 'woeful drive in Ballarat Cup' comment? . How many races Have YOU driven? I have driven hundreds of races, and can confidently say Mark and Nat would beat me 99 out of a 100 races. In the other one I would knock them down in a desperate bid to get a victory. hahahaha have fun trying ?? They are Superstars. To answer yours, Nat was married to Grant Dixon and YES they did indeed clean-up most of the Sires stakes age group races for many years (Grant still is) in Queensland, from being fine horsepeople, and from having the backing of multi-millionaire breeder / owner Kevin and Kaye Seymour , (so not un-like ALLSTARS in that regard with millionaires to bankroll the success). Blacks A Fake not Nat's only winner mate, The success for Grant has continued with Colt Thirty One and Governor Jujon in recent times. (not to mention 340 wins last season)

Thank you for this important information, maybe there is a kiwi dialect I don't understand????? Nothing wrong with being an ex horseman. Had a lot of fun and went a LOT of places in younger days. Yes I am clueless as to your attitude, sorry about that, your attitude towards Champions of this great sport needs some work. Before Natalie joined ALLSTARS she was here in Queensland, and won Miracles Mile and 4 (yes that is four) Interdominions with BLACKS A FAKE , as well as Vic Cup I think, with performances that DEFY LOGIC as you say. so nothing new. Always a Champion. What would the amazing Blossom done differently that wasn"t a woeful drive in the Ballarat Cup ????? Looped the field ?, outstay Greg Hopes horse? power away to victory ??

You guys are harsh on your Champions.?? If she pulled out 3 wide a lap out to lead up the train do you think would still run a place ?? Probably not I would say. As it was, she would of won in another 10 to 20 m more (watch replay) and Nat has won 20 of 42 drives this season over there. That must be best strike rate ever , nearly all in feature races and an Interdominion Final win too for some icing. A lot of you guys want them (Allstars) to get beat so often in your posts, and when they do you grizzle about it ??? Com'on mate fair dinkum, fair shake of the sav. It was a deserved win by one of your own kiwis who worked hard to lead in the Ballarat Cup, and Deserved it ???

Bloody Stablemates getting in the way, rotten things!!!. I am sure Mark would of won many more of your big races e.g the NZ CUP with Spankem, if other stable runners didn't get in the way. Lucky in the Interdominion trot final Akld no stablemates in the bloody way to stop Mark winning. Goooo Winterfell !!! As for the Pacing final, their were Purdons everywhere !! having backed Mark on Cruz Bromac I am bitterly disappointed all those stablemates/ brothers/ mates keep getting in the way ??? Am sure Mark would win more races otherwise than he already does without all this interference . AND YOU Say he is getting a helping hand ??? quite the opposite really Blossom . lol

Hahaha Well his record in Oz isn't too bad in recent times. Winning 2 of the last 3 Interdominions run over here.(Perth) 2 of the last 4 Miracle miles in 1.47 and change. Those are our 2 biggest races. although Nat might have driven one of those. p.s If you are good enough to have stablemates / friends/ mates / drags into a race, pretty smart to use them . ???? How well is Anthony Butt going now. ?? What a grand kiwi driver he has been and now trainer as well winning both the Vic Derby (drove winner, training 1st and 3rd) and the Vic Oaks drive on Dr Susan. we are privileged to have such talent in Aus these days. Happy Australia day !!

Have checked on Mark and he is quite happy and no disaster impending . Stylish Memphis went beautifully from the draw. Beat the Oaks winner last week when draws were better. Plus it was Nathan training. Smooth Deal failed last week no surprise. Ranked about '40th' in stable and hasn't won for nearly a year. just not that good really. The Fixer, race distance a bit short of his best. He went well. First 4 home all kiwi bred top class horses racing well. Cash and Flow went 1.49 last week .!!?!?!? and still didn't win this. Well done Barry Purdon with his horse instead. Oscar Bonevena still learning and that was a tricky race. MMetro was under pressure as well. Winterfell beat him recently anyway. Self Assured has 2 x 2nds after winning Auckland Cup that were both grand runs. Home in 54 seconds last night behind a very under-rated and potentially best Aussie horse in 'Lochinvar Art' 6 lengths clear of 3rd horse !!amazing !! Whitesocks indeed had his lucky moment in the sun last week Ballarat Cup, as did you see Chase Auckland's late finishes at Ballarat and Cambridge?. Brilliant !!! So NO Disaster anywhere . maybe not bringing Amazing Deam over to win VIC Oaks was surprising. Cleaned up those first 2 at Akld.

They would like all the McCarthy's and Craig Cross's to go to the States instead of them, as they are burning them every race now. Former Kiwis WRANGLER and CASH AND FLOW were 1st and 2nd in 1.48.8 last Sat night. Amazing !! Triton's 4 runners struggling at the back.

Their Metro race wins have been scarce for a while. Sure , they win Tuesday claimers like today with an 11 yearold. But take last Saturday night with 18 runners at the Metro meeting and came up with 1 x 2nd and 1 x 3rd. They are running away as when Shane Triton says this that Chief Stipe quoted:-- What he is REALLY SAYING is " I am struggling to get a City Winner these days"

Gidday Flagship and kiwi harness supporters. Well done for the great night at Ballarat last Saturday by the fine kiwi pacers. Were you asking what I meant by Stylish win I think Flagship. Stylish Memphis won her heat very well but bad draw of 13 in Oaks final this week. maybe Mark can handle it ok. sure to go close you would think. Trifecta in Ballarat Cup for the kiwis. AJWhitesocks he sure deserved that and Purdons runners charged late. Mark missed out on a Derby runner as AnthonyButt outdrove him in the derby Heat with Line Up and Smooth Deal didn't qualify. Mark has the drive on Virgil (a kiwi trained here in Qld by Grant Dixon now) as Grant has qualified 2 for the final. Maybe Massive Metro can win from the pole draw in the trot this week and give Mark another miss ?? Metro deserves it ??

A very Stylish Victoria Oaks Heat win it was too Chief.... tricky draw in final this week, but Jones and Hill are lucky to have Mark involved who kindly planted one of those ugly WHITE patch breathing things on her nose , that she didn't have at Auckland Dec31 when Amazing Dream went sailing past after a 3-wide last lap. . wonder if he will give a Breathing Patch to son Nathan for Dr Susan in the Final ????? ?

In today's World BOTH these 'smacking' and 'whipping' methods are perceived as wrong by the greater public, no matter what the reason they are being applied. Fred is correct.Times have changed (realization this is poor form). nothing to do with protesters. The current rules state you can strike a horse 'x' amount of times in a race still, which does mean you are correct in saying there is a difference as striking children, pretty much has zero tolerance these days. WHY shouldn't it be the same for horses?

Take the last 2 Melbourne Cups Thomass. Your kiwi mate M Walker fined in both (10k in 2019) for a great ride(s) on Prince of Arran. Michael stating "It's the Melbourne Cup, I was throwing everything to try and win the race" In the 2018 6 jocks ( including the first 3) were fined for breaking the WHIP rules in this prestigious of Group 1's. With millions up for grabs on the big stage do Jock's Just Do As They Please? Do we criticise/ or even fine the Jock's that don't break the whip rules for Not trying hard enough ?? Oh the Irony hurts. hahahaha With a huge amount of people watching , local and international in our flagship race. Quite funny really , Imagine when they DO change the placings in that race, due to whip rule breaches. Racing will NOT easily recover well from the Fallout. FRED above is right IMO, just have to ban them whips altogeather. Problem solved (for the Cup and ALL races)

You have an unusual view of what a victim is Chief. People that lose homes, more than a million animals, people who have a cardiac arrest while fighting fires, people who crash into a fallen tree and burn and die in their cars trying to flee. They are all Victims unfortunately. More Sad reporting than Bad reporting unfortunately.

Why wouldn't it be 'my business' to care what is wrong with Ricky or Michael ? we (the public ) have supported them for years and years and they have had a MAJOR medical incident . We are concerned. The least we can get from family is what happened and a diagnosis/ prognosis. We are not totally ignorant . (like Schumachers family) Agree you do need 'Accurate' reporting, but without it , as you suggest we should be, everyone is guessing. You cannot say 'Mind Your Own Business' and then not expect to get Wrong Social Media Guesses/ stories. You can't have both ways.

The more detail the better Chief, people want to know what happened and how he is doing. Even anonymous people like the volcano victims and Bush fire victims over here in OZ currently, that are injured, deserve some public recognition. And we should hear of their improvement to lift spirits. And what happened to put them in that circumstance. Michael Schumacher (7 time F1 champion) has been hidden away by his family since 2013 from his adoring millions and no one knows if he can talk , walk or crap even as the family won't release a statement , photo or anything. Just threaten to sue if anyone does. What an awful end to a star of history. Ricky May is a star of our harness sport adored by hundreds/ thousands. We and he deserve to know what happened , what is happening next , and future prospects. Not just being told ' he is in critical condition ' . Best wishes/ thoughts in your recovery Ricky.

Bring em over boys. The Aussie trotters are at an all-time low at the moment and big prize races abound. Get Away from Allstars stable and Win a Group 1 instead of just thinking about it.? (Dickie's did with Speeding Spur picking up 400k on 4 visits to Oz , very smart thinking) Tonight at Bendigo TORNADO VALLEY won again, this time a 50k Group1 mile 1.56, EVERYBODY KNOWS was 2nd!!! It hadn't got anything in NZ since 2017. ?????? Last years Great Southern Star winner Dance Craze only 4th (best Aus trotter) Sky Petite down the track not much good but picked up 25k for 3rd Great Southern Star last summer. Some of your trotters like Massive Metro would clean up here !!!! way better than Everybody Knows and Sky Petite you would think.

Well just checking results and Allstars taking out all four feature races at Auckland. Auckland Cup a bit like NZ Cup with a horse that is not in AllStars stable, sneaking into third amongst their cohort. No Aussies like Gammalite, I'm ThemightyQuinn or Flashing Red are likely to take an Auckland Cup this Aussie side of Tasman for quite some time by the look of it. [ Not likely to even attempt it anymore either, as Impossible with AllStar dominance] 'Thank the lord' the stake money in Brisbane is piss-weak and Mark only popped over with SELF ASSURED (won all 4 starts)and PRINCESS TIFFANY in the wintertime and of course won the QLD Derby and QLD Oaks very easily. We had the Queensland Cup G2 the other day and Colt Thirty One back home could win that without Allstars around. phew !!!

Interestingly this all happened many years ago in Brisbane. Many horses were checked by stripes after each race and fines and suspension common for horses with welts on the rump. The races were full of big strong men then who were big whip drivers. Virtually forced out and replaced with skinny kids as the landscape changed dramatically.

Won't work to gain anything. Racing doesn't need Video Game views of the action. There is only one winning view per race, so all the other runner 360 degree Losing views that punters are riding along with, are sure to gain more criticism than what there is now watching a race and more punters will be Lost.