Gammalite

Feels like just last week mate . 😆😂 here's the fastest horse EVER in Australasia in Photo . think that it's more recent 🤔. Trainer Tim Butt . Driver Anthony Butt . what a great team. they're handy with a horse. The 4 huge Group 1 Victories of mark Purdons Allstars this Cup week show their ability , and that is quite recent too. But superceded by Jason Grimson.? on their home deck. Well I spose Australia Baggie Greens just did it to India in the cricket overnight. (Superceded them on their home deck) .. so things are possible if you try. old mate Vinny Knight would of loved it for sure. ( the great man Vinny only 2nd in the Nz Cup with his throw at the stumps though )

Then why did Swayzee lose form? Well I don't know why Tim couldn't get that horse going early this year in the Autumn . Is Possibly the reason it was so hard to Believe he could beat Mark Purdon on Nz tracks . Tim a 'Proven Trainer ' of stayers . Check out these Hunter Cup Winners 🏆🏆. The Australian Feature stayers race of the calender year. Tim Butt can sure produce a Winner . The HUNTER Cup Also won for New Zealand by Blossom Lady twice and several other Nz stars. Lazarus, Yulestar, Smolda, and Elsu . These 4 also winning the INTERDOMINION pacing Grand Final . Let's hope we DON't have to enter SWAYZEE (the moderate performer 😉😁) onto the list of Hunter Cup nor Interdominion winners list anytime soon, where great names like 'Gammalite' and 'Blacks A Fake' linger 🏆 🏆 Recent Hunter Cup winners >>>>>>>>> Trainer Driver 2014 3280m Christen Me (NZ) Cran Dalgety Dexter Dunn 1:59.2 2013 3280m Mah Sish (NZ) Tim Butt Anthony Butt 1:59.2 2012 3280m Choise Achiever (NZ) Tim Butt Anthony Butt 1:59.9 2011 3280m Stunnin Cullen (NZ) Tim Butt Anthony Butt 2:01.1 2010 3065m Bondy (NZ) David Butt David Butt 2:01.7 2009 3065m Mr Feelgood (USA) Tim Butt Anthony Butt 1:59.3 2008 3065m Blacks A Fake Natalie Rasmussen Natalie Rasmussen 1:58.9

Well speaking of 'Cup Day' (and an Aussie Win) Swayzee unknown by most ..... But it's WORLD CUP One Day Cricket Cup final Day too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Australia Win !!!!! what a great tournament. 🏏🏏 and beat a billion Indians for my b'day treat. The Black caps went great and only beaten 6 runs in a very high scoring match during the rounds , which was a cracker, and India just got a few too many runs for Nz as well in the Semi. But some great fielding by the Aussies restricted INDIA to 240 and the 130,000 Indian fans at the ground to silence for last hour, and great b'day treat for Gamma, and finally a century to TRAVIS HEAD and it's VICTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wahoooooo Nine on the TROT and Cup Day Win number 2 for the week !!!!!!!!!!!!!! wacko smacko 😁😆🍾🏆

In the Big Dominion Trot Mark didn't bother with those silly Nasal strips to pull the horses nostrils open with OSCAR B. Was a Bit unusual as Allstars normally use them . And he (Oscar Bonevena) won real easy !!! Smokin Bandar trainer (and Herlihy with BOLT for Brilliance) used the stupid things and were well beat in the placings. You can see them in the photo below. Just Shows you don't need em' . wish they were banned like at the gallops. Horses look silly with them on 😁 Poor old RESOLVE not looking is best in the 'Deadpool' outfit running 3rd either .😂

Well i've got mine in my water bottle chief 😂😎 Tim Butt is pretty good trainer . Had cup class horses for decades. What about the trainers of all the others ? Betterzippit trainer couldn't win Manawatu. suddenly beats some of the very best in Australia at Gloucester Park . Hope that's not like 'elephant' Juice in action... that was scary. hope Camel Juice isn't going do be the next big thing for the horse . might come as sugar cubes. 😂 One Hump or 2 ?🤣

They were desparate to win the race Chief . (Swayzee that is ) If you can get PED or aids in Aus , can't see why you can't in NZ ? Horse Swayzee went exceptional over 2 miles. As for Cya Art , *8 lengths clear of 3rd as they ripped home in 26 seconds. The winner is an exceptional colt of Mark Purdons and has won 11 of 13 starts to date. and Will Be Winning the Blue Riband NZ Derby next month too !! unless GRIMSON starts something in it , he found on the Canterbury backblocks ?? haha😂🤣💰 (a Betterzippit 1/2 brother or something ?) lol ....

Doesn't Win Any feature races whatsover. Not even in home state Tassie where they go slow. Doesn't even win any metro races. Yole is NO comparison to Grimson. Grimson is beating Allstars (now that he took care of Australia's true best in McCarthy and Emma Stewart in the last 2 Interdominions ,.(with battlers that Have not won since ) Grimson not being able to hold the form with them is a TELLING FACTOR. Betterzippit another great example this year winning the feature $1,000,000 race in the west , then What ??

Swayzee winning the Cup. so funny. Still struggle to believe he could beat AKUTA. Here's his last start at a Queensland provincial track Redcliffe, in April this year 2023. None of these horses usually good enough to even start at the city track Albion Park. Swayzee getting home in less than 30 seconds last 1/4 , beaten 35m, picking up 60 bucks . Doing well for Riley Butt and ex-pat Nzer 'Lyell Creek' trainer Tim Butt . Nz Cup same year ??? hahahahaha Place Name Prizemoney Hcp Driver Margin 1 OUR ACTION MAN $3,755 FT B W Barnes 2 CAPTAINS PICK $1,073 FT G W DIXON 9.60 3 NO DOUBT NZ $536 FT L T Cain 19.30 4 SO BOBS YOUR UNCLE NZ $358 FT L J WHITTAKER 24.70 5 JUST JOSHIN $238 FT M P NEILSON 24.90 6 THERESACHANCE $60 FT A P Richardson 30.10 7 MALINJANG $60 FT A R Garrard 30.30 8 MUMMYS BOY $60 FT N M Dawson 31.70 9 SWAYZEE $60 FT R P Butt 34.90 Track Rating: GOOD Gross Time: 2:30.4 Mile Rate: 1:58.6 First Quarter: 30.3 Second Quarter: 30.0 Third Quarter: 29.8 Fourth Quarter: 30.0

Doing a great job. young Nathan. He was pretty cool customer in Aus for a while . Had good filly Amore Vita going great guns around the place for her NZ owners. winning a string of 2 and 3 ear old features. (horse now with Emma Stewart and won 5 from 10 this year) think Mark is playing thoroughbred trainer ? thee days .....and Nathan doing a bit of the 'hard' yards now that HaydenCullen has moved on. Natalie had a medical procedure a couple of months back, and was hoping to be back driving this month there, but wasn't recovered enough to do so. Olivia Thornley got the chance to Win another Group 1 anyway , with Chase the Dream. she got lucky with timing arriving by a nose from stablemates , as might of drawn criticism if beaten as was a 'mile' back final bend. still a wins a win so well done Olivia . some never Win a Group One in their career. so congrats to Olivia for getting it home.

she (Skew Wiff) went real good really, she came from near last round the whole lot . not far off 3rd. was good field too. That winner was enormous MAGIC TIME and old kiwi hoop Mickey Dee (one of my favourites) take the win impressively. Jmac won the Thousand Guinea's for Waller too. great day for NZ galloping blokes still 🏆. Mickey Dee has won 3 races actually.. great stuff.

Riccarton is done for the day. what great Cup week weather all week for the Christchurch party. Are you kiwis going SKEW WIFF today in the next at Caulfield ?? keep the nz Imperatriz vibe going. 20-1 odds she is so might be worth a look .

Well that winner won well Chief. We had fleeting coverage on sky via sportsbet just now as after MAHRAJAAN crossed the line the coverage just shows connections in the stand. they looked nice happy everyday folk . so was nice to see. winner has had just 16 starts too (for 3 wins) so good training effort to win a NZ Cup with small history like that ? excellent winning ride too ....

So there we have it Oscar B in the trot + Millwood Nike + Self Assured + Chase a dream win 4 of the Group 1's with Akuta + Akuta + We Walk By Faith + Madrid 4 lots of second placings in Group 1's. Don't Stop Dreaming won the Group 3 Junior FFA as well (so is NZ Derby Favourite now) so picked up about $300,000 on each of the 2 days from that lot above- combined. TOTAL approx $600,000 earned from 6 fantastic Group 1's. *****funnily enough the winner of the 'Thousand Guinea's' in about an hour 's time at Caulfield and is full of fillies no one has ever heard of, and that have only won one or 2 races and some are maidens even lol.... . $900,000 awaits the winner for one gallop of about 1 minute 36 seconds or so in the mile race. Hardly seems fair ? when you think of the hours and miles and wins and work that went into the $600,000 that was earned by Allstars this week from all those AMazing Performances. so many awesome races

$130,000 Flying Fillies 3 year old FINAL Mark taking No Chances here . Putting the Aussie on the Rank outsider from the outside gate 😎. No way was Cam beating him from there ? but was a good 5th for the ALLStars anyway . MILLWOOD NIKE was Awwwesome. crushing her opponents to go 16 wins/16 starts. and had to sit 3 wide last lap doing it . 11/10 rating for her . she is the new Adore Me ?? (kudos to Zac Butcher too , as doing great job with 2nd horse. she's very good) Place Book Horse Barrier Hcap Stakes Fav Time Margin Driver Trainer 1 15 Millwood Nike 15 fr 67,200.00 Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 2 13 Mantra Blue 13 fr 20,160.00 6.10 Z E Butcher Zachary Butcher 3 14 Advance Party 14 fr 10,752.00 10.40 N P Williamson Nathan Williamson 4 2 Aardiebytheseaside 2 fr 5,376.00 11.10 T M Williams Steve & Amanda Telfer 5 9 Amore Infida 9 fr 4,032.00 1 11.40 C M Hart Mark & Nathan Purdon

$315,000 Dominion Handicap Trot . Well this is a 10/10 for the great team . ALLStars crushing the opponents with old Oscar. remember last year he started in a support race (and won) because he wasn't good enough to defeat Sundee's Son . so great work to improve him to these levels lately . Although only had to trot about 4.10 for the 2 miles and Sundee's Son was Somehow incredibly breaking the 4.00 minute barrier !!!! would beat Oscar by 100m ?? Participants for Race 9: RENWICK FARMS DOMINION (STAND TROT) (Gr1) Place Book Horse Barrier Hcap Stakes Fav Time Margin Driver Trainer 1 12 Oscar Bonavena 12 fr 165,000.00 Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 2 2 Smokin Bandar 2 fr 46,500.00 2.60 C R Ferguson Craig Ferguson 3 13 Resolve 13 fr 27,000.00 2.70 R J Butt Paul Nairn 4 5 Bolt For Brilliance 5 fr 15,750.00 5.80 A G Herlihy MNZM Tony Herlihy

Sires Stakes 2 year old Fillies Final $130,000 Well the Aussie driver has mucked it up again and knocked off the premier stable here . Hearty Congratulations Steve Dolan to beat Mark in this type of race. And the Aussie drove a great race to do it. The best driver in Aus ( maybe Australasia ? ) 😎 Mark won't be happy not taking the Win in this one. 😉 Place Book Horse Barrier Hcap Stakes Fav Time Margin Driver Trainer 1 1 Our Shangri Lana 1 fr 64,400.00 C M Hart Steve Dolan 2 10 Madrid 10 fr 19,320.00 0.50 S J Ottley Mark & Nathan Purdon 3 7 Treacherous Love 7 fr 10,304.00 1.20 R T May Brent Mangos 4 2 Coastal Babe 2 fr 5,152.00 2.40 M W White Steven Reid 5 5 Treacherous Baby 5 fr 3,864.00 3.20 Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon

Nz Cup and NZ FFA. Group 1's on Tuesday and Friday. The Aussie driver beats him this time in the Cup . so that wrecked it lol 😉. Self Assured wins the Nz FFA for the second year running giving ALLStars a Great quinella. So that's a HUGE Tick for ALLstars . Place Book Horse Barrier Hcap Stakes Fav Time Margin Driver Trainer 1 13 Swayzee 13 fr 412,500.00 C M Hart Jason Grimson 2 15 Akuta 15 fr 116,250.00 2.30 Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 3 5 Beach Ball 5 fr 67,500.00 5.10 R T May Kevin Chapman Place Book Horse Barrier Hcap Stakes Fav Time Margin Driver Trainer 1 9 Self Assured 9 fr 110,000.00 A G Herlihy MNZM Mark & Nathan Purdon 2 1 Akuta 1 fr 31,000.00 1.00 Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 3 3 Beach Ball 3 fr 18,000.00 1.40 R T May Kevin Chapman

Sires Stakes 2 year old Colts Final $150,000 Well a great result here . nearly the FIRST 4 . aussie driver helps him out too 😉. Participants for Race 9: WOODLANDS STUD SIRES STAKES FINAL (MOBILE PACE) (Gr1) Place Book Horse Barrier Hcap Stakes Fav Time Margin Driver Trainer 1 15 Chase A Dream 15 fr 73,600.00 O G Thornley (J) Mark & Nathan Purdon 2 2 We Walk By Faith 2 fr 22,080.00 0.10 Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 3 3 Major Hot 3 fr 11,776.00 0.20 C M Hart Mark & Nathan Purdon 4 12 Cold Chisel 12 fr 5,888.00 0.30 Z E Butcher Barry Purdon & Scott Phelan 5 7 Vessem 7 fr 4,416.00 1. B N Orange Mark & Nathan Purdon

Mark Purdon now co-training with son Nathan had a very good 2 days in Cup week in the 6 BIG group 1's AKUTA his best horse supposed to be the star of the Show , but came up with 2 Second Placings. Seems NOT quite at his peak for some reason after BIG Ashburton and Kaikoura Wins in the lead up to Cup week. AKUTA seemingly had his chance in the Cup with trailing SWAYZEE around the final bend and angled out turning in, but lost a length on him if anything. and the NZ FFA group 1 yesterday , he was 'dipsy doodling ' and 'hot-footing' a lap out near galloping , while in the lead . mind not on the job? wonder if he was doing some of those KRUG Stallion type of things ? and starting to think too much. Was 2 x Great Group 1 placings for AKUTA anyhow and Full Credit to his Victors . 'Swayzee' and 'Self Assured' tried hard and got the choc's will check out other allstars soon......

Copy That never ran on the Friday either the past 2 years after winning the Cup. They just go so hard at it now is very hard to back-up? . AKUTA had his chance today but think you're right about the edge there as you say. . Self Assured won this race today , also Won the FFA last year too (at about 7 or $8 ) price. but sort of set for todays race by not starting last Tuesday. Fresh and Fit !! what a great horse... better than Gammalite I reckon. Purdons Allstars Win with Tactics yet again . But did just miss out in the Cup again too (for the 3rd straight year).

G'day mate. I just wanted to know what is a Lay of the day ? or a 'Lay of All time'? . I kept reading that shit about Imperatriz all the time. Lay this lay that sounds like a bunch of old mother Hens 😄 What actually happens ? I have never seen a 'LAY' betting option . I take First 4 's and that sort of thing. Is it a Real Bet ? or are you actually just backing other runners when you LAY something? I've never seen a LOSE market ever? . just win and place.

Absolutely the truth of it Chief. You've done a 'Brodster' and are right on the Money with this comment. I disagree with Mr Galah that Mark would 'pass on' things that help to future generations. All the stables have their own houses and we don't go in the Bedrooms. Hayden Cullen is locked out of some of the houses altogeather now it seems 😉 The Galah has often mentioned his suspicions with Emma Stewart, Telfers horses deaths , etc ,etc and some 'Others' are always at Marky Boy's throat. Think other Cup winners like Geoff Small were into something too Changeover and that. guess everyone IS Doing Something This bloke GRIMSON always 'looks suspicious' bescause he hasn't made these horses himself. They are ALL well tried. Betterzippit picked up $500,000 winning in a Perth raid this year ? couldn't win a race at Manawatu lol. and the last 2 Interdominion winners too .. and SWAYZEE for Grimson, Holy Moly ....when trained by the Nz man Tim Butt who holds the Mile race record , held by MY FIELD MARSHALL, ran for him 8 times Midweek low class races this year (here in laidback old Brisbane) without even running a place. Not even fast enough to race Saturday Metro.? Grimson starts winning immeadiately mid year when he taes the horse? and now knocking off the best horse since Lazarus in AKUTA in a NZ CUP ?? I Think the world is suspicious now ........😂

There's no way the media can ask any trainer what their training schedule is. A lot of stuff that happens is secrets within the 4 stable walls. (made that Cullen changing to Telfers very awkward I imagine) can guess why it didn't work out ultimately lol. The media I see like the Box Seat this week are incredibly 'polite' . They were just full manners about all the topics they covered. They even get Mick Guiren to come over to Oz and present on our 4 nights of harness coverage we get each year free to Air. guess he'll do a bit of the Interdominion next month. Can't see how it would be possible to question driving tactics, talk about whip use , anything controversial is just Not on the open Media agenda. Ethics and all . those guys are great. Very Professional and courteous approach.... like Ryan Phelan does here. the Butterfly dude obviously hates harness racing and would destroy it given half a chance. so glad he's not in the mainstream. someone should sue him for defamation surely.

you did very well mate . you and Mikey in profit ....and I won $1. 🤣😂 Holy Ravioli $780.00 , Mikey $519 , Gamma $481.00

Total winners Chief ? .........ok from 24 picks each 2 per race. (12 wins max.. 24 places max) Aquaman 3 wins 3 places Chief Stipe 5 wins 6 places Mr Galah 5 wins 4 places Mr Brodie 2 wins 6 places Gamma 3 wins 9 places Tacula 4 wins 5 places Holy Rav 3 wins 5 places Now or Never 4 wins 7 places Rangatira 3 wins 5 places MikeyNZ 6 wins 5 places Blackie 2 wins 4 places