Gammalite

Now that you put up that victory Walt , I'm sure you saw Lord Module several times. I think my problem is being in Auckland didn't ever see him win. so i guess i shouldn't be bagging him on you. Delightful lady 'Playing' with him in a couple of Auckland Cups . But credit where credit is due ... Your mate second here and the next 4 horses behind him near some of the best to ever race out of Nz . including a couple of Miracle Mile winners there in Quinny and Locarno. The Grandstand nearly EXPLODED this night mate. I still have hearing issues from the noise I think 😂🤣 .... was louder than a Collingwood goal to win an AFL final ...

2nd night is underway . Finally someone beats Swayzee . in 10 starts with Grimson. Won't be the last time either. A local leads all the way and beats him easy .. excellent stuff. another first round winner in Future Assured a well beaten battling 4th. LEAP TO FAME has the Interdom at his mercy ?? surely.... lol.... 1st 2 SPEAK THE TRUTH ADAM SANDERSON FT - - 4.70 1.70 2nd 1 PETES SAID SO ROBERT MORRIS FT - 1.30 3rd 8 SWAYZEE CAMERON HART BL - 1.40 4th 11 FUTURE ASSURED TRENT DAWSON BL

Here they go !! the Derby field is out . You blokes have put the Queenslander out too. (Out Wide 😁😂) But we are ready for action .. and what a race card !! beats the Interdominion line-up in Brisbane this week anyway, with just old Swayzee pottering around and a few other battlers 😂 Com'on QUeenslander !! show em how to trot in Nz (we've only had trotters in Queensland for 22 years so pretty good to have a Breeders Crown Winner already . 'KING OF THE NORTH' NEW ZEALAND TROTTING DERBY (MOBILE TROT) (Gr1) $110,000, 3YO, 2600m Race History For 3-year-old trotters. RacebookGearFront Line Limit Participants for Race 7: 'KING OF THE NORTH' NEW ZEALAND TROTTING DERBY (MOBILE TROT) Book Form Name Age Sex Rating Draw Hcp Driver Trainer 1 200191 Sunnys Sister 3 f R57 1 Ft John Dunn Robert & Jenna Dunn 2 132327 Aroha Kenny 3 f R51 2 Ft Matthew Williamson Phil Williamson 3 108104 Whats Wanted 3 g R55 3 Ft Sheree Tomlinson Ken Ford & Amanda Tomlinson 4 X13140 Walkinonsunshine 3 f R63 4 Ft Tony Herlihy Tom Bagrie 5 051445 Melsadele 3 f R55 5 Ft Todd Mitchell Michelle Wallis & Bernie Hackett 6 17X121 Flying Without Wings 3 g R59 6 Ft Nathan Williamson Nathan Williamson 7 X23007 Confessional 3 g R60 7 Ft Paul Nairn Paul Nairn 8 114111 Not As Promised 3 g R85 8 Ft Nathan Dawson Graham Dwyer 9 342212 Julie Jaccka 3 f R56 9 Ft Brent Barclay Brett Gray ------------------ Second Line ------------------ 10 X11384 High Energy 3 f R72 10 Ft Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 11 X26471 A Hill Two Menny (E2) 3 g R51 11 Ft Ken Barron 12 DX1195 Gold Bullion 3 g R63 12 Ft Bob Butt Bob Butt 13 314123 Shez Bella 3 f R56 13 Ft Dylan Ferguson Graeme Rogerson & Dylan Ferguson 14 X30012 Bet N Win (E1) 3 g R52 14 Ft David White Bob Butt 15 116 Create Time 3 g R55 U1 Ft Ken Barron 16 305148 The Ivy League 3 f R52 U2 Ft Paul Nairn

Here's your boy Walt .... Single Lord and George Hill in 1979. won 6 races that season. which i believe is pretty good for Nz style of racing.....and then 2 more race wins as a five year old the following season, before being exported to USA. I'm still fascinated that you put Lord Module (career 28 wins from 93 starts as the best horse you have seen) I wouldn't put him in my top 50 . I would even put Enterprise ( by Lordship as well as Lord Module and Single Lord ) well ahead of the naughty Module horse . Enterprise nearly sneaking into my top 50. I've seen some pretty good horses though . (Gammalite not even top 10 , but probably top 20)

He did and went nicely . TURN IT UP a true gutsy trier. here's His race Heat for Tuesday night over 2100m. From the Pole !! he'll go close . Grimson lurking out very wide with a runner there might be fueled up and give it to em lol... 1 31253 TURN IT UP Shane Graham Shane Graham FR1 2 6s129 UPTOWN BEACHGIRL Donny Smith SCRATCHED SCR 3 59026 TIMS A TROOPER Grant Dixon Grant Dixon FR2 4 46s22 MANILA PLAYBOY Shane Fraser Angus Garrard (C) FR3 5 64703 KANENA PROVLIMA KerryAnn Morris Robert Morris FR4 6 s6905 I CAST NO SHADOW NZ Darrel Graham Adam Sanderson FR5 7 77272 NERANO NZ Jason Grimson Cameron Hart FR6 ------------------------------ Second Row ------------------------------ 8 61338 BLACKSADANCE Chantal Turpin Pete McMullen SR1 9 s0454 TARGARYEN NZ Jack Butler Chris Geary SR2 10 s2313 CAPTAIN SHUFFLES Ben Crosby Nathan Dawson SR3 11 10111 BETTER ECLIPSE Jess Tubbs Greg Sugars SR4 12 15259 HELLUVA NZ John Justice John Justice SR5

I think you're right Mikey. The Interdominion is really meant to be Nz v Australia trained runners in competition . which traditionally saw some of the greatest clashes of Superstars ever seen. so the 'Nz Trotting Cup' and 'The Race by Grins' the past Couple of years , have been the true Interdominions of recent times. Swayzee taking the choc's over Akuta this year for an Australia win in the Cup . and Copy That seeing off All the Aus raiders (and Akuta) in last season's Nz Cup and the Cambridge The Race this year. including Aussies Majestic Cruiser, Better Eclipse and RockNRoll Doo so it looks like the Interdominion score is 2 - 1 to New-Zealand past 3 proper clashes.

The start of summer yesterday Dec 1st saw the Mile heats go off at Albion Park for round 1 Interdominion 2023 . right in the middle of first Summer storm as was so darn hot 🌧️, so that put a dampener on them . The Interdominion trotters section was absolutely Dominated by the Victorians . the state of Victoria running 80-90% of Australia's trotting races that are run in Australia each year. sometimes the whole Race-Card is for squaregaiters races only, down there. Winners were defending Champion Just Believe (for Sugers/Tubbs) , Ollivici for Chris Lang , and Plymouth Chubb driven well by oz best driver in Cam Hart (recent Nz Cup winning driver) who ran down the NZ owned and long odds on favourite Queen Elida . the queen has been dethroned ? 😋. All Vic's . The Pacers Heats saw the 4 Favourites win easily . Swayzee for Grimson , Leap to Fame and Fame Assured for Queensland (both owned by Seymours) and the very impressive Better Eclipse for Sugars and Victoria. looped the field to sit parked and then pulled away from them sweetly late on. You guys saw him in the RACE by Grins earlier in year and Messenger when 4th and 3rd. He's pretty good that bloke. so are the Best 4 horses competing this year easily. Old New Zealand horses running were placegetters Tommy Lincoln (who 3 years ago to the day was defeating Copy That and South Coast Arden in a group race at Auckland) Betterzippit, Deus Ex, Spirit Of St Louis > only 6th was a bit of a flop for his many Nz and Aus owners, as was also the other 'McCarthy trained' one in old kiwi horse CantFindA BetterMan also only 6th .

Hey Brodster , you might be able to break out in a smile shortly . Inca is over, the labour government is over, covid is over (well not in Alice Springs anyway 😂 covid finally reached there and 1/3 of the population with it there in November in that industrial heartland Mecca of Aus) 😁. But anyway the grabbing of the NZ Cup by the Australian raider might of asked more questions of the Inca guys. Maybe the jobless INCA guys followed that one out of the country to Brisbane tonight .? I hope so . As last time Grimson was here in Brisbane and winning the Group 1 in Winter , the accusations (and the Fists) were flying !! 😆 Maybe INCA can sort the bastards out a bit better lol....

Some group races are on at Addington Walt, so that spells M.A.R.K.Y boy who loves the Group get-togeathers . let's roll with 'LOOK To Da STARS' in the 2 year old trotting Championship, Into 'HIGH ENERGY' in the Fillies trotting Oaks .... and they have the inaugural 'Ian Dobson Memorial' race 🏆 !!! he part owned 'Don't Stop Dreaming' ... so if that horse doesn't win Race 7 i'll eat my hat. so the Mark Purdon Treble = 50-1 so a tenner on that for $500 💰 could be nice. and 5-1 for the 3 Places so $50 collect if they all run a drum and miss the win , Possibly because our mate Blackie had a few quid on one or something similar 😎😉

Terrible splits in the hoof . The Farrier did a great job with mushroom shoes and the like holding his hooves togeather virtually. Yes agreed that must of been seriously uncomfortable for the horse. The splits right up through the coronet so were never mending properly. and being a fast horse too .. Lord Module probably put extra stress on them every run more than the slow ones. Plenty of horses have tendon and splint issues that you have to work hard at to keep on top of but hooves like LM's just a nightmare to deal with. Kiwi ingenuity helped a lot with the shoeing.

com'on Walt . Cecil (my fellow Tasmanian ) got a bit lucky there ? 😆😂 you are more likely to see the '1' rather than that '2' next to the great chestnut superhorse. maybe i just wanted you to have a nice evening out 1981 november evening and let him on past. What if he didn't run ? liked to Not Score Up at times . A lot of travel to dwell at the start old mate 😎 Better manners you get from the beasty Gammalite 😎. At least he gets going and gets in the mix ? even to this very day 😂😁

absolutely ..Surely the only way you are tarnished is if found guilty and convicted. the horsepeoples reputation as a good horseperson might not be damaged anyway. Mark Pitt is constantly winning Big races driving for Emma Stewart these days , and had a moment of madness at Cobram with another fine horseman , Nathan Jack . who is back doing well too. i think even though they were guilty and did time (did the crime >> paid with some time DQ ) now back winning races (as is Shane Graham in Queensland ) and all the tarnish ??? well just a thing of the past .. more of a blemish... only just ? 😆 so the kiwis are effected mentally for life ? Surely Not ??? they weren't named officially , and were found Not guilty , and continued training/driving right through the 5 years ?? No Problem then for anyone . wouldn't even register a blip on the blemish meter lol...😂

I think the mark would of been Very Black indeed if they convicted a swag of the professional Nz harness racing folk. Probably better they didn't . now it can fade away quietly. Funnily enough , even though many race fixers are convicted in Australia , no -one takes much notice as the reputation for 'red hots' is already there lol 😆 .. the persons do their time and then get re-licensed and then get on with it. positive swabs are more of a problem as the offenders are like drug Addicts and keep re-offending lol.... no INCA needed but maybe we need......... Oz Harness Re-Hab ???😂

Video surveillance and stable raids etc aren't that great for proving anything. Although it worked for case against Darren Weir i spose. As far as race -fixing goes ... what's it all about?? . it's about money. There's a money trail through betting agencies. Often in harness racing a low class event to avoid any runners accidently beating the sting /fix . 2 or more runners are involved . Most of the evidence is in the actual 'race video' . If Stewards don't make a case for 'running and handling' or 'not driving the best of horses ability' then usually the race just passes by and no-one notices. I would say about 1 in a 100 races i watch have 'something' going on, a little aiding and abetting lol 😂 . Jockeys are more clever these days and get family members to put the bets on , and often they will know who's doing what. esp Sydney racing. the 'Extra' betting shows up more at the trots as smaller pools lol. The Bets are the REAL evidence. match Fixing is done so the players benefit financially. One of the best Traner/Drivers in Queensland did 2 years out recently when a disgraced disqualified ex Trainer wanted to put 3G on one of his runners. All Shane did (while driving the fav in a race) was have to give the lead to an opponent , which he did .. and that horse won . INCA should of had the evidence immeadiately , if their was a case to answer . Betting and race video. It's No good interviewing anyone. People Lie through their teeth when dis-honesty is involved.

weren't the un-named suppressed persons charged with something Chief ? arrested and that ? A police matter is 'match fixing' these days. a very serious charge. If found guilty there's risk of long penalties like Pitt, Jack and Shane Graham did in recent years. disqualification and even fraud charges could be laid I imagine . the deterrent is obvious .... If you're being looked at by an investigating body , you best not break the rules. Stewards do stable raids and all sorts of things every week . Swabs are taken all the time . e.g RBT 's are a deterrent. they help deter people from drink driving.. yes ? the risk of getting caught is high so people are 'deterred from breaking the rules/limits. Swabbing horses , RBT's, Inca. even Security blokes sitting around the edge of a big footy game. ALL are DETERRENTS for those that might do something 'Stupid/illegal/ if they weren't there. none of them really want to catch anyone out . Isn't that obvious ?? what a deterrent is ?? the blokes in Australia were convicted by phone records and betting records. just the usual . If INCA had none of those sort of things their case (s) were hopeless. as they are solid irrefutable Evidence .

Probably a good thing that nothing was proven . The Centaur just mentioned he thought the 'No consequence' thing might turn people away from harness racing. I think the opposite almost as the trots are already referred to as the 'Red Hots' for many years and if suddenly a whole heap of the Major players were exposed and penalised for systematic Cheating then the Product would be Definitely 'On the Nose' of all and sundry and proven to be a dis-honest sport right at the top level. and shunned by All people there-after. Galloping blokes I know 'Shun it' badly already , and you only have to look at what even enthusiasts say (like the Galah talking about Emma Stewart or Telfer for example) to see the Game already has a Poor reputation for 'dubious' going-on's. Heaps of Disqualifications would cement the Poor reputation. INCA by dropping the charges has saved the face (But was also an amazing deterrent to the current players to play fair )

He's trotted to victory over the Oz superstar 'Scotch Notch' too Chief . you done some good training to pull that amazing feat off. 👍😆🍾 That very same hour in time....... old Wolfie was giving it to the Aussies as well . (in the 2nd photo) trying to knock off the legend.... Luckily it was just the 'Warm-up' night 2 weeks before the Grand Finals 🏆 🏆😎

Yes Melvander was 2nd in the above photo at the Addington Interdominion. Think Richard won a Rowe Cup with NO Response as well . Who can ever forget that barn-storming finish in his Addington Interdominion Win over the 2 Aussies . Tell ya what . I haven't been to the trots in 3 years , but will go along Friday night for night one of the Interdominion and try and get photo of Maori law and Leap To Fame exclusive for BOAY on my little camera to post... with Richard and Grant. and of course hope they both qualify for the Final in December. shame no Nz trained ones turning up . they won here 2001 with Yulestar (pacing) and Take A Moment (trotting final)

hahaha.... who to Chief ? the names were suppressed ? do you think we should donate the legal fees for someone we don't know ? hahaha how tarnished are they ? did they lose their livelihood like McGrath ? think he was caught accidently during the investigation wasn't he ?

Yeah... sure as hell.. wouldn't of gone down well if they took down some of the best players in NZ harness racing history either . That would of STAINed the Harness Game in NZ forever and perhaps even been the Death knell for it. THANK the Lord they failed . 👍 Australia investigations were a bit more thorough and several players, have been outed for considerable periods for race fixing. The gathering and presentation of evidence (phone records mainly) was so much better done than by INCA. plenty of match fixing culprits did some time. That Is quite good that NO TEAM Driving nor Match Fixing (as it is called now by Police) as ever happened there in NZ ? funny enough it's all i read here 4 years ago was accusations of that occuring lol 🤣😆 so all sweet and innocent afterall ? how good is that ? fantastic ... a great result ultimately

Yes I do remember that fantastic mare . here she is winning the Interdominion in Gammalite like style. Peter Jones gone to sleep it was so easy . 'Tussle' the mum of Scuffle who is mum of Spell who is mum of Spells of Love. Not enough to get me on board Walt . but best of Luck if you're on that one at Nelson. The Trot Interdominion starts this week and there's better one's there for you. Perhaps QUEEN ELIDA will win for All her New Zealand owners including the Barron family . will be great ? 🏆 Your 'Bonnie's Chance'/ 'No Response' man is still alive Walt. He won the Interdominion again 2 years ago with MAORI LAW , and he is bringing him to Brisbane Friday night. Perhaps a better bet than Spells of Love ?? . Richard Brosnan a great trainer of Trotters over the years. Send Spells of Love to him I reckon 😉😂 heres Tussle winning the Interdominion at Addington.

Should they be replaced because they failed to get a conviction ?? is that what you mean? You need investigations mate. believe me. I've seen that many dubious activities in both countries that i could write a book. but you need evidence. In Australia they gave em a hell of a fright arresting leading horsepeople, just as INCA did in Nz . some got off... some didn't . Amanda Turnbull let off without evidence but Pitt and Jack guilty and convicted. Queensland had leading driver Shane Graham do 2 years. thankfully they let the junior driver associate driver off . Mark Pitt and N Jack win huge races in Victoria these days too. BTW Shane might win the Interdominion with TURN IT UP (owned by Marky Boy but leased to Nat's sister Vicki all going well) . Think Vicki was let off the race fixing too, but can't remember. Hey INCA Did a great job !!!! you guys don't recognise it but it STOPPED the ROT. no one game enough to try any of that shit on these days ?? good on em I say 😉😊 game has never been cleaner !!!🏆🍾

I use Sportsbet nearly everyday Walt. They tend to put a comment about 4 of the runners on the right hand side , and i often have a chuckle about them. You can sometimes read between the lines who they 'Really' fancy or more importantly , Who they want you to risk your money on. I ALWAYS do my own form/ judgement . (usually involves ALLstars lol 😆) As for 'Spells of Love' ... many BOAY experts (way better than most form experts everywhere 😆🍻) could give you a fairly accurate Comment on it's prospects. mine would be >>>>>😉 SPELLS OF LOVE : unplaced last 10. in top stable but still loves to gallop for no apparent reason. so if the Dunn's can't get it trotting then you are looking at kissing your dollars goodbye. Best to skip over and look for a better gaited horse . (the pacers in the following race perhaps )

Been a bit unlucky with her parties has the young Jamie. Copped 3 months Suspension (along with Ben Melham, Celine Gaudray and Ethan Brown ) when they had a 'get-togeather' party during those stupid Victorian Covid Lock-downs in 2021. She missed the Spring racing carnival and potentially $100,000 + in earnings. some moron dobbed them in then too , it would seem.

This is where the line is crossed. If someone wants to lodge a complaint or press a charge by breaking the 'privacy' barrier and revealing ones activities to the 'authorities'. whether it be a police matter (like in your wife beat example) , or simpler things like infringements at the workplace, reactions to something your neighbours do (like noise /dogs , etc) if someone lodges a COMPLAINT with the authorities then action might be needed. People do ALL Sorts of funny things/games/ acts at parties and get-togethers. and a lot of people might find some of the activities offensive .. but you don't worry about it after ... unless some poor lonely schmuck living under a rock , thinks the activities are not just 'Private entertainment' , and decides to get someone crucified and lodges a complaint and crosses that front door LINE. ( they're dead set degenerates)