Gammalite

Today 200km from Sydney , one of the Greatest NZ horses ever, won the Goulburn Cup . A horse that has WON in the colours of the Three major barns of NZ and Aus.!!! What a feat that is alone ! still raced by Robert and John Dunn I think. He is a beauty. !! ALTA ORLANDO did the usual AllStars thing and won his 4 juvenile races impressively , driven by Nat while trained at AllStars in 2014. Tragically going amiss so badly , that he was virtually a 'Giveaway" and the Dunn's and staff did the 'miracle' of patching him up and he raced again 2 years later !! wow.!! ALTA ORLANDO had one start for one win in each of 2016 and 2017 . Too unsound to have any continuance of career. He came back winning 5 races straight !! through early 2018 , an amazing effort by All the Dunn team to achieve this, alas the form tapering off early 2019. SO , over to Luke McCarthy stable and a winter 2019 try at Brisbane , and a great 2nd (worth 42k too ! ) to the local Hero COLT THIRTY ONE in a Group 1. He has had about 30 starts for only 6 wins at McCarthy's , but about 6 x second's to illustrious stable-mate KING OF SWING in the past 6 months. Including 1.48.8 mile times , made up of 54.4 second half miles back to back to go that fast . SERIOUSLY , WHO goes That fast ??? So today the little Champ was packed off to backwater Goulburn to pick up 16k and get away from KOSwing for a change. WELL DONE to everyone involved. getting him back to the races ! just the 18 wins from the 85 starts but ONE of the GREATEST anyway !

Jamie Richards

Let's hope he kisses and makes up too, and says "Well done" and commends the 4 winning rides by DJ. Kiss first , talk Later......

Thanks for the race ! that was an easy win for VE. 'Shut the Gate " commentator said , End of story alright. Talk about 'Ruakaka maiden win ' as a 'bit of a yarn', 39 years ago , almost to the day, I travelled (with another young teen lad ) in the back of one of those big 9-horse Takanini horse transporters up to the 'Shifty Red " sandy harness racing track at RUAKAKA, and he won his VERY FIRST race that day , in a Air NZ Junior drivers race. god knows where I finished. DARK and DUSTY (only ever won 2 races lol) driven by the future Champion of the sport MARK PURDON . ....

Hahah yeah only 8pm here, maybe Waller could get Greyhounds. He is always keen for a big stable. They make noise when 'Strangers' are around, so can do away with the dobermans eating his staff accidently. AND he could do like a BIGTIME COLE racing monopoly at the dogs in Aus ?

Hey Chief Here is a Stat for you . This Line-up of thoroughbreds has had combined 187 Race starts for 63 Wins. Standardbred GAMMALITE had 179 Race Starts for 94 WIns (16 Group 1's) Am I therefore better than all them combined??? hahahaha

Kolding won the Golden Eagle so that must be at least 5 million, Nature Strip and VE about 4 group 1's each. Crikey it must be huge amount of dollars earnings

That's what 10 million plus on legs looks like in a trial workout. I can see why WALLER didn't bother going to Gold Coast to see his 2 year old win the $1.1 million today then. When you have this lot in the barn at home , that was just chicken-feed.

Sired by champion Peter. That would give you some Tactical Ability.! She's got 4 today now !!! Is champion Chris Johnson related ?? 2452 WINS , well that's just crazy good. Reckon I would barely of WATCHED that many races , let alone seeing someone win that many at our age. A true NZ Champion of ALL time !

Fantastic ride in that Classic by your girl Lisa , as Chief mentioned above too. Think she rode that well actually, that she had Brando covered , even if another 100m. Thats great Te Akau and Danielle have such good opposition. !!!! Ruins it if someone wins absolutely everything.

Easy to see Why you are so impressed with Te Akau , Chief , with those results today. Didn't quite win the G1 Levin Classic but nearly did and Danielle Johnson hadn't heard of before (don't watch NZ racing until today) ,but wow she rode well and a few winners. a real match for Jamie Kah i reckon. Have seen the great Melody Belle a few times and Sharkie too in Oz . What a great team /results they have !!!!!!

Hahah Yeah problem is He has No skill at all galloping in hopples. Made a right mess of it. Poor Craig Thornley and Jim Curtin (trailing him in the race) did an amazing job to stay in their sulkies when Spitfire 'Danced to a standstill' at Ashburton when they were following along the inside in the running. Take hopples off and give him a REAL good hitout in a fast gallop, would help. (Vinny Knight did that often)

From what Brodie and Karrots are saying about All the galloping Spitfire does at races and trials , he is only ON THE UP for a start at Riccarton or Trentham. lol

Fight that urge Chief !! self isolate if necessary ! Quarantine essential for those thoughts.

No it doesn't. The Waller incident he got off in 2013 (even with 2 positive swabs! ) 'External' people at the Feed mixing place WRONGLY mixed Wallers feed order with someone elses. So Feed supplier got the blame. How convenient. Makes you wonder who the Contaminated order was really for ??? were they after a positive ?? hahaha.....

Definitely !! Warner the bad egg, + 2 other Eggheads, was weeded out for deliberate cheating ( but back unfortunately) rest of organisation carried on ............ In Waller's case , an organisation that big is going to be Bad Egged for sure. The more numbers , the more chance? of staff that is. Like on BOAY lol..... 10 posters might be good, 100 posters there will be some Rotten Eggs ........lol.

I've got to say that like the Australian Cricket Team (with convicted , penalised cheats, some now back BTW) these large groups/organisations are unfortunately going to have Bad Eggs amongst them , who do something wrong. You have to Weed them out. ..... A good thing if like Te Akau in the news , that something is exposed.!!! IMO shows they are trying to do Weeding. The good "DOCTOR" at Essendon a fine example as well. But collapse the whole organisation ??? nah. You have to 'weed out" the bad eggs , pay a fine or penalty, and keep on leading your field. e.g Waller Empire not gunna collapse because 'Moron" staff member gave a horse Ice. (2016 event)

The disqualified lists are Long and Extensive too. So you will be OUT if Charges serious enough. Yeah that WEIR thing was truly awful for the racing Industry. BOWMAN seemed protected on the track, near killed a jockey (did kill the horse) at Rosehill in winter. Got 6 weeks. I'd i've given him 2 years , ...... little bit protected perhaps. Everyone looking for an Edge, Waller got off, after investigations, so many horses ! , so much can go 'Wrong" seems impossible he could keep 'Tabs' on it all.

Well that's an easy answer, you have Te Akau , AllStars, Waller Inc, Weir, Godolphin Huge racing groups, outstanding results, Horses everywhere, Lots of staff , entertainment for everyone. !! BUT WAIT , they can fail , IF the Charge is serious enough . Goodbye Mr WEIR. PLENTY of small things go on and are dealt with in these organisations .SURELY no-one wants them to fail ?? Just investigate and sort it out like they did with Wallers, Purdons , etc (small players can appeal decisions too)

Yes a feed company took the rap for the 4 x 2013 WALLER positives. The 'Ice" guy ? I don't know , that's pretty funny heheh 'horse on Ice ' lol...... Morphine is an S8 Restricted Drug, must be kept on a register under lock and key. very hard (impossible) to get without a Doctor involvement.

Yes , this time of year last year ALLIGATOR BLOOD had a positive in the Magic millions Guineas . (that race is on tomorrow BTW , go Isotope for the QLDers !! to beat invading forces) Alligator Blood 'Got-at' apparently ?? How you would wonder. But seems to of lost dash now on different 'feed'.

What level of substance >>>> leading to what results to advantage ? So true Chief Contaminated feed, ? very easy to see that happening with all the scientists involved (esp BIG stables) Accidental contamination from staff (that take stuff themselves) ? very possible too. as some posters said. WALLER also had a positive in a horse for Methamphetememe Ice in 2016 . stoned Staff member dropped some of his personal use stuff in the feed. ? wow !!! good staff are EVERYTHING to a good stable... lol.

In 2013 Leading SydneyTrainer CHRIS WALLER had 4 (four) horses disqualified (2 were winners) from a 'contaminated' batch of feed. The 4 horses tested positive to IBUPROFEN , a non steroidal anti-inflammatory. Chris and a Dr Biffin and a feed company were developing a 'feed mix' to stop horses ' tieing up' apparently. Very lucky to escape sanction/ Disqualification IMO, as this is surely 'Trial and Error' feeding and the Error occurred. Other trainers wouldn't / mighten'd of been so 'Lucky?' that didn't have WINX in the barn.

The Cambridge Pick the card Challenge Hit New Heights today !!! Last week Milo, Karrots and Roman with 18 points each in an incredible effort, but today ........ even better !!! Milo and Roman 20 points (out of 30 possible) and magic tipper Karrots 22 Points !!!! well done you three. TEAZ expert 8 straight for 24 points. WTF . lol. Gammalite 17, Harewood 14, Davis 14, and Richie 12 all left in the Dust by a flying Karrots .

Well the last Race just went and ROMAN with the 6 Points is the Winner . and as Julius Caesar , a famous roman would of said "I Came, I saw, I conquered" Roman an impressive 20 points picking the card too, BUT Smoked by Karrots with 22 Points. !! Will tally on home page. Milo got 20 as well ! you guys are great tipsters...!!! On this page . ROMAN 6 pts is the BOAY champ for the day (Best Of All You-mob) or (Bit Of A Yarn) lol. FORBURY-RETARDDRIVER 4 points (this could of been 6 points and victory Forbs . if Champion driver Mark Purdon drove Rough and Ready, But when we asked him to do that for you , he went nuts, and the Shit hit the Fan. lol......... GAMMALITE 4 points and enjoying a nice beer compliments of the Croc. thank-you Hezacrocwatcher. MIKEYNZ 3 points with a great Anzac victory ! in true trans tasman rivalry spirit. All the best from Gammalite KARROTS and BRODIE 2 points each , Lindenny not strong yet Brodster but The Last Gamble nearly paid off ?