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Well they are going to do slot races at the gallops now as well in NZ. so the general opinion must be they are the way to go with the ENormous success of the Everest in recent years . The New harness Eureka and Nullibor in Oz and Grins and TAB slot trot at Cambridge harness racing has been a success so far with Big prizes and International competition, and NEW people from companies involved in the slots taking an interest in the sport. just the boost it needs. Can't work out Why any of that is silly. Even the public have a great day out on those occasions. owner 'Boots' has already been spending Big in NZ and bought several horses and placed with many different trainers since his success with ''Betterzippit he bought from New Zealand 2 years ago and winning the Nullibor slot race. . this benefits NZ breeders greatly !!! BUT you are losing your numbers of race winning capable horses? . but it is a boost for the Breeding industry I guess. recent NZ Messenger winner Mach Shard just completed several months overseas . and Woodham (when the CEO of NZHR ) campaigned Cash N Flow for years overseas and even the Mangos horse SouthCoast Arden for a while as well. so the NZ CEO was supporting Aus harness as we do better programming in Australia than NZ rather than his own industry ? crazy stuff . So NZ needs more of these big races, like slots, to keep the ''stars racing AT Home. The young horses seem to get a 'reasonable' go of it with features through the year at least . like harness millions and that sort of thing. If you don't program some good FFA's and Slots to see the likes ''Sundee trot, and Akuta and Copy That and Cup horses like them Pace and win then your fields will get weak ? and the Aussies will turn Up and mug you at home. Waaaaaiit Up!!! Swayzee? Just Believe ? Better Eclipse ? Oh No , It's already happening....🙄 and LEAP TO Fame hasn't even arrived yet. Might be too late for Nz harness .

The Entain boss is chipping in and Currently racing 17 horses in the North to prop it up a bit. Com'on Brodster. don't die wondering mate. Buy a horse and get it racing in the North to support the industry. These small fields you grizzle about make it much much easier to win too. fantastic. Here are 4 of the BEST NZ Sportsmen OF ALL TIME. NORTH ISlanders and 3 of them are still Going !! support the World champions. They are near the Best on the planet, and you want to shut them down ? don't Do it ya mugs. who is ahead of them in NZ world sport ? John Walker ? Sir Edmund Hilary (if mountain climbing is a sport) 'Pumper ' Cassidy, Sir Richard Hadlee ? that's about all I can think of lol. they're my TOP 4 of all time kiwi Sportspeople. (in photo below) Mikey and Ranga might know more. Keep the North Island going and these Champions of NZ (and the world) in business . It's just a sport . People can still participate for fun (like Golf) doesn't have to run as a profit. Participants can pay their way? in the Slot races? . And they are . someone is showing some initiative at least. the trot slot was great. The Race by Grins was excellent. Bring it On !!!! The Aussies only got the chocolates in one of them with Just Believe. (sorry about the Nz and Auckland Cups) but you can't have all the luck 😅

well one out of 3 for Grimson. AARDIE's Express did win the Mares races holding out the kiwi's of Manhattan with Bob Butt by a neck. Aardie B Miki a Full sister to the winner with our best local trainer Pete Mcmullen won the Oaks Preview earlier . the Canadian owner Tenev has a couple of good ones . Pete Mcmullen also winning the Group 1 $350,000 race the Rising Sun with Whispa A Secret. Pete is a fantastic trainer and driver not far off Greg Sugars AAA class level at all. Grimson's horse Frankie Ferocious down the track in that one. Swayzee tried to use old New Zealander Hot And Treacherous as the cover on the outside to hold everyone out while he led from the pole . for Grimson in the FFA. Sadly for him when LEAP TO FAME , came calling , the shit hit the fan , and away he went in a fast 1.51 after sitting parked to stroll away to win by 3 lengths for an eeeeeeeeeasy win.🏆 the Nz Cup winner a solid 2nd. Swayzee sticking on well really. But got the Larry 'windburn' for his trouble. Poor old sacrificial lamb Hot and Treacherous ran last after that. the Mug NZ owners should just take him home before Grimson burns it out altogether. probably too late already.

Do you remember HANDS DOWN at Forbury Park . used to go there now and then and run last all the time. I bet Derek wasn't keen on the place lol. Think 'Hands Down' had his first race start there and all of New Zealand got the tip and sent him out red hot favourite , and he crashed to the track in the maiden mobile . was quite funny in a way as the commentator burst out with "Hands Down ! He's down alright". 😅😁. Derek and Peter got him going a bit after that and he was winning the NZ Cup just a year later. quite a transformation. The ''rogue of Forbury' became a NZ Cup winner lol.

Yep .you are on the money . Ranga ''short changed' this time 😁. Viewfield Duke winning the Waimate Cup sound 1993ish, is the quiz horse photo's earlier in this thread. well done Blackie.

crappy luck. what terrible luck for David and Stacey White with their horse scratching from the Big trot now with lameness. At least they got a win last week I spose with Bet N Win. he's out of the Great Square 😪 some good news is Nathan Purdon has left the horse of Allstars owners the Kennards, Gibbs and Woodhams in the shape of MAJOR HOT with them to run in the Derbies. Nathan must of had to return home to the Canterbury team, as dad Mark gone back to the North Island now?. Major Hot a strong major chance in race 3 Saturday night to clean up the locals in the SE Derby. is $3.80 favourite at this stage. and must be a force to beat, in the richer QLD Derby coming up in a week or 2, at this Brissy .carnival. alas one of our 'Weaker' drivers is on it 🙄. Why not Bob Butt ?? would of been way better. Bob will probably still be here as driving Manhattan in the Mares race 7 , against the flying New Zealand mare Aardies Express . that'll keep him awake lol 😅🤣😂. 9 30s12 MAJOR HOT NZ D J White, S A White Adam Sanderson $3.80

Spot on Mikey . you and Brodster doing well with that tough one. Stewart Campbell training this horse to win 7 races ,( all in one season ) getting the great Ricky May driving for him. might have Ranga stumped on naming Stu's horse ? victory could be mine at last 🏆 😎 with Ranga running at 100% to date naming them old stagers. bout time he was a 99 %er 😂

Article didn't mention that when Swayzee Won the 'Blacks A Fake' Queensland Championship last year defeating younger brother Leap To Fame that this happened > someone had hit Grant Dixons wheel on the home bend and the whole tube and tyre snagged his wheel completely so he had to sit over one side of the frame as Leap To Fame still tried to pull the now 'Sled' up the home straight into 2nd place. finished strongly even with that. Swayzee 'unlikely' to get that luxury again > Unless they use a stable-mate for a bit of extra carnage and road blocking efforts? lol .😂🤣.👍💰 study a few NZ Diamonds and Allstars masterclasses would help. Swayzee Chances of beating Larry (Leap To Fame) this year after Larry's Miracle Mile , Interdominion and Hunter Cup 🏆 victories seem to be Very very slim .

Think this one from the area. maybe done a fair few laps of Forbury. Set some track records on his day. C'mon Ranga , try and get this one. Driver , horse , Dunedin Trainer I think ? give ya a clue. driver has won a few NZ Cups . 🤣🇳🇿🏆😁 but not with this horse.

think it was for 50 years or so (the 6 o'clock pub closing licencing law) and came off in 1967 after a referendum. I Had to grow up in NZ (south Auckland) with a framed picture of my dad with Robert' Piggy' Muldoon on the wall , having a beer with him at the pub. Piggy Muldoon was the Minister for Finance at the time and was instrumental earlier in helping with the change. He came in as Prime Minister later on mid 70's and kept office for a decade or so as was quite popular . He Even raced a few harness horses I believe . not sure if he dabbled in gallopers or not.

thanks Chief . don't mind a cuppa ☕. you can drop in anytime for afternoon tea 🫖 if coming by. To get the winnings then . (wild guess with no idea 🤣😂) 1/ Avondale trials sounds like about 130 starters 2/ Pukekohe races 100 neat .

The Field and draw for The Great Square Saturday at Albion. A back row draw for BET N WIN , but main rival ,( last years winner ) 'LONDON TO A BRICK'' has drawn the impossible 7 alley . that'll go close to stopping him. Perhaps the recent Auckland Cup winning Gun combo of Greg Sugars and partner Jess Tubbs can take it out with SHE's RUBY ROO' ?. looks like LUCKY MUM has been sold off by the kiwi's, and is in there too. BET N WIN sure to give it to em' at some stage we hope. $86,000 prize for the winner well worth having a look at with a young trotter. Best of luck to em'. $150,000 3&4YO. No NR. PBD/AGE/SEX. TROTTERS. Mobile 1ST LEG QUADRELLA, FIRST 4, 1ST LEG DOUBLE Form Horse Trainer Other Eng. Driver Class Hcp 1 21122 KARAKAJACK TOOTH Jarrod Alchin Will Rixon NR60 FR1 2 s3141 LUCKY MUM NZ Al Barnes Brendan Barnes NR65 FR2 3 16179 HEAD EM UP NZ Tayla Gillespie Matt Elkins NR68 FR3 4 16152 SHES RUBY ROO Jess Tubbs Greg Sugars NR100 FR4 5 11343 KODA DA MODA Graham Dwyer Nathan Dawson NR75 FR5 6 1s242 ROCKINWITHATTITUDE David Miles David Miles NR120 FR6 7 s9111 LONDON TO A BRICK James Rattray James Rattray NR111 FR7 ------------------------------ Second Row ------------------------------ 8 111 MY ULTIMATE SUNNY Jarrod Alchin Cameron Hart NR64 SR1 9 312s9 THE LOCOMOTIVE Brad Hewitt Brad Hewitt NR97 SR2 10 627s6 PRINCE OF ROCK Daryl Crone Tina Ridis NR68 SR3 11 s1111 BET N WIN NZ D J White, S A White Bob Butt NR93 SR4 12 01818 HIDE AND SEEK Shannon Price Adam Sanderson NR67 SR5

wow !! I mean wooowww . how good was that.!!! Thank you ever so much Tabman . I'm having a great time watching all the TRACKSIDE video's now. Never knew they were there. 😳. I owe you a carton for the head's up. 👍😄 The Messenger wind-up video , (even had Greg Sugars on there ) the trackwork chats with Zac Butcher, John Dunn , Mark Purdon. this is totally so goooood !! and heaps more, i'm even watching the galloping ones. you kiwi's do a great product. (thanks to Greg O'Connor i'm sure) AND of course didn't David and Stacey White seem great people !! and winning with KENNY (stable name of Bet N Win) for a whole group of owners and having fun. brilliant !! I'll be cheering like mad for 'The Great Square G1' Win this week at Albion. good NSW trotter ''London To A Brick' won it last year so hope he let's the kiwi get there 1st this time round . 'Kenny' going so well it's a wonder David and Stacey don't have a whole swag of horses to train.

If you get the chance watch old mate Nigel ,aka unhinged, do his lovely tribute to Katie Cox on Facebook with video with her horse Spy Da Moment in his retirement race last Friday at Addington and chatting with driver Ricky May and trainer Michael Ward. Was excellent work by Nigel , even sitting in the mobile filming the score-up and dispatch . Ricky and Michael and Nigel with amazing kind words too. Well done the old horse too !!!

Here he is in action. !!! what a super performance by Locarno for Robin Butt. Beating three of the Alltime Champions of Australia, who won about 100 races each in their careers. (Would of been more but they had to take each other on a few times. ) Pure Steel, Paleface Adios and Koala King . (Koala King winning the Interdominion Grand Final not long after this Miracle Mile , with Locarno 2nd for NZ , Pure Steel 3rd ) Lord Module a bit of a squib in comparison. finished last here, and last in the Interdominion too.

alas Couldn't quite nail the Double after the great Bet N Win win , with Manhattan. She ran a nice 4th in the Mares open for Bob. Manhattan getting ready for the Big $100,000 group 1 mares 'Golden Girl'. in a couple of weeks. Manhattan's Driver Bob Butt would be pleased to see the winner is part-owned by none other than his grandparents though 😅. great NZ harness family of Robin and Jackie Butt. how cool 😀. winner being the NZ bred horse PANDAIA at 30-1. Rickie Alchin training her for them these days. (Robin's horse he trained and drove Locarno my first idol of the track and won a Miracle Mile back in the day) Camelot winning the NZ Cup for Robin as well. so will be nice if Manhattan or Pandaia can defeat the Grimson's mares again soon. (one was flying home tonight 1/2 head 2nd named Tay Tay, and he has yet to unleash Aardie's Express) they will be rattling along like Imperatriz when she arrives lol...😆

Yeeeessssss !! BET N WIN . the Bet of the Week 💰 wins in Queensland. and he does New Zealand proud 🇳🇿 and smacks em' hard !!! for NZ trainers David and Stacey, driver Bob Butt popped over , and in memory of Katie Cox with Bob wearing the armband , and the commentator paying respects to her a couple of times in the running. (RIP Katie) Katie liked the trotters too, and this great little NZ trotter looks like has the $100,000 Group 1 at his mercy next Saturday for NZ Trotting and best of luck to em' for that !! 🏆

Some great wins by the Great horse on this thread. He's Back at it again. LEAP TO FAME now taking over from the best ever I've seen (from Blacks A Fake and Lazarus.) A sizzling 1.50 mile winning easily from Can'tFindABetterMan and grimson's horse that fluked a win at Redcliffe 3rd . old kiwi warhorse Turn It Up 4th in the 'Wondai's Mate open' tonight at Albion Park. Have never seen a race where the Race pole marker (from barrier 1 ) was Immeadiately 3 wide after 200m before, then working to the death-seat, and running 27 second quarters. quite amazing what he did. Swayzee will be ZERO Chance of beating him in the Big Group 1 QLD championship in a couple of weeks time. Take a NZ Cup multi with him too 👍🏆💰. Leap To Fame will win that too if weaker old Swayzee can/did last time .

may have gone to the Dark side.? Think he's an All Blacks Fan ? and likes the kit. 😅

Yeah just having a bit of a look around for him. This weekend to the day he (David White) trained his first winner with his wife Stacey as Training Partner exactly 5 years ago at Rangiora with trotter ''Far From True'. Since then has had just the 50 starters in 5 years for the training partnership. 10 wins. This year BET N WIN the only starter for David and Stacey. 3 starts for 3 wins . A UDR of 1.0000 even the old Chief would have to happy with that, instead of sourpuss for a change. I think David is an Aussie? as his uncle been training out of Junee area for 50 years plus. so no surprise with the good UDR for David if that the case lol. 😎😋. went over to work with the COURT team to start off with about 10 years ago there in South Island. Hope he got to drive/work the 'Terror' for a bit of a thrill at some stage?. (triple Nz Cup winner)🏆🏆🏆

Just to refresh your old memories if you can't remember the little bloke beating the NZ Cup winner, here's Reg Clapp to describe some action for you . Go the QUeenslander !!!! 😁😎🇦🇺

Away we go at Albion this week with the Constellations getting the 'Star's of the track racing. 🏆🌟 Leap to Fame drawn the pole in the 'Wondai's Mate open sprint.' (wonder if you guys remember Wondai's Mate going to Auckland that time ?)' Larry (should be holding out the Grim consortium of 3 x Grimson/Grima flyers from that strong advantage. A Listed 3 and 4 yearold feature Trot race 5 at Albion Park, see Bet N Win from NZ , taking on the GOAT from USA 😂 . Head em Up from NZ Paul Nairns drawn the pole too . bit of International flavour . how cool. 🐎 Bob Butt down to drive Bet N Win which has won it's last 3 starts at Addington . for trainers D and S White. . don't know if they're any good or not at training but best of luck to em'. Last year Bob drove the NZ mare MANHATTAN in the 'Golden Girl G1, and nailed on the line by Nz owned Amore Vita. Manhattan is back for another go and is in race 6 in preparation. Often the bridesmaid. Maybe it's her turn to shine? and WIN the Big Mares prize this year. I Spose the ''Grimson machine will turn up with Aardies Express though for the mares Group 1 .

Aroda wins it by lengths. An easy Redcliffe Cup Victor. A good training feat by Grant as the NZ bred ARODA (4 starts at Addington way back 2022) was the Only horse in the field to Not of won a Metro (city) class race ever. Led all the way for his wife Trista to break that duck completely in a Group 2. well done Trista. TURN IT UP really did turn it up sadly, and made a couple of breaks during the running and just not trying hard anymore. Just a shadow of his glory days now. SIMPLY SAM a very false favourite loomed up to 2nd on the final bend , then just dogged it , running erratic and diving about and knocked a rival into a gallop even. eventually 4th. shows why he .only won once in Nz last year from 28 starts . not really that good. Classy Operator scratched for Grima so to start the old Herlihy horse from the pole draw for Swayzee s owner Boots. the emergency runner galloped out though and no chance back along the inside when well backed too. alas Nathan Purdon not winning Oaks or Derby. Major Hot running 2nd in Redcliffe Derby from bad draw on 2nd row. maybe the QLD Derby later on could have more luck.

If you're taking em' for a jog or workout in training Chief , that may be so . horse is quite relaxed and enjoying it's work hopefully. BUT in a race you pretty much just ''steering with the reins in that situation . (to avoid running into things lol)😄 you are racing in Tight quarters sometimes. The whip fiddling is like the deafeners . you apply them to SCARE the horse into putting in as hard as it can. At the gallops or the trots the 'noise' made by the riders and drivers as they turn for home is quite remarkable , and loud on occasion. you've probably heard D. Oliver screeching from there lol. I used to whack the dust sheet , the wheel disc's made a great crack, even the running rail at times, as well as across the reins and bum of horse . Even hit a rival driver at times lol 😂 You are trying to FRIGHTEN your horse in to Winning (or running on at least) every time I go to Albion we are down by the home turn (stables area) and you can hear the Tunes of the drivers making as much noise as they can. you're not spose to whistle but some do. ya hear em' . at Eagle Farm the same thing. Jockeys making a HUUUge noise as they turn for home if you position yourself down there to hear it. A lot of them just slapping the horses shoulder with the whip to Make NOISE. they're not trying to hurt the horses . they're tougher than that.

I know it's 30 years on but How haunted must Robert Dunn be with the Cup being a FFA these days. ? with all the horses off the front ? He must really think 'What could of been" with MM. he still won about $2 mill career anyway. For the 2 previous years to the photo above with Marky Boy winning that one, MM had run 2nd to CHOKIN and then BEE BEE CEE while starting off 10m Handicap in both those as well. so didn't Win one . How cruel is that.