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About to start the big Race Day. FINAL FIELD (some races indicated the player with a scratching or outsider will get an additional or replacement second row runner. So EVERY Runner gets a Supporter !!!! Michael Number 1 every race (sub 13 in R6) TrotsFan Number 2 every race ( + 12 in R7 and 14 in R9 ) Rangatira Number 3 every race ( + 12 in R4 and 12 in R5 ) HunterThePunter Number 4 every race ( + 14 in R4 and 14 in R6 ) Fly Baby Number 5 every race ( + 12 in R2 and 15 in R4 ) Davis Number 6 every race ( + 16 in R1 and 16 in R9 ) Brodie Number 7 every race ( + 13 in R1 and 12 in R3 ) MikeyNZ Number 8 every race ( + 12 in R6 and 12 in R9 ) Blackie Number 9 every race ( + 15 in R1 and 13 in R2 ) The Galah Number 10 every race ( sub 12 in R1 ) Gammalite Number 11 every race ( sub 13 in R9 ) ok then, let's see who todays lucky BOAY barrier player is. All the best for a great Days Racing !!

Yes it is a lot of money for a 'country' Cup. maybe they have an Underwriter of some kind?

No worries mate. Bolt for Brilliance a very nice 2nd from the '2' alley at Geelong just now at the Interdominion. Be lovely if he draws that in the Grand Final. 🏆 Meanwhile tomorrow , you'll have the amazing Millwood Nike storming to victory from barrier 2. and best of luck with the rest !!

Round 3 Geelong tonight, and The BOLT of Brilliance went very nicely for young Josh Dickie and the Nz fans. Finished alongside the Winner JUST BELIEVE (who won all 3 of his heats) so into the Grand Final they go next week as the 2 Best Chances . seem miles better than the rest. Queen Elida maybe third best. Jess Tubbs and Greg Sugars have another trotter in tonight's Heats as well. Owned in New Zealand I think. And drawn 1. ONE OVER ALL . should go very close with Jess and Greg in hot form. and a delicious 9-1 as well lol...

Barriers 1, 4 , 8 and 9 are Gone . STILL AVAILABLE , are 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 . anyone have any of them as lucky number? Rangatira old mate, are you about for a big Sundays racing ? Mr Brodie?

You've just missed getting Akuta in the Derby too 😁 (drawn 😎 8 lol) but snagged CYRUS instead , who nearly got you the win last comp at barrier 9. Will jonny Cox pull out a Big Drive for you ? hehehe. Hey SELF ASSURED looks a monty in the last. so you at least get 8 points 😉.

Example s of horses you would get. If you select Horse No 1 . you get Muscle Mountain, True Fantasy (and 8 others) if you select Horse No 2 . you get Millwood Nike, Con Grazia Love (and 8 others) Horse No 3. you would get Oscar Bonavena (last years FFA winner) and 9 others Horse No 4. you get Republican Party , Ardiebythe Seaside (and 8 others) Horse No 5. you get Franco Indie and 9 others Horse No 6 . you get Hidden Talent, Majestic Man, BD Joe and 7 others Horse No 7. you get High Energy, Krug, Wheels of Fortune and 7 others Horse No 8 you get Southern Diamond , Akuta and 8 others. and Horse No 9 you get Self Assured and 9 others. I will use the second row horses as SUBTITUTES which will be allocated before each race for scratchings and to cover 'rank outsiders' . Points will be 8 for !st, 6 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd, and 2 points for 4th through the card. Please post your lucky number here. (best of luck with it) first in best dressed , if number taken already, you will have to take a different one.

The last 2 meetings at Addington have seen only 2 Winners that were drawn at barriers 1 through to 4. 17 winners drew 5 and wider showing what a fair track Addington is at giving every runner some hope. For Fun on Derby Day , lets support Every runner on Derby Day at BOAY by having a TOP 9 SHOOT-out. THE CHALLENGE = Pick a barrier draw number (or lucky number between 1 and 9) , then you get every Runner carrying that Saddlecloth number for the whole 10 races !! Please reply Here What Horse number you would go with for the Derby Day. between Numbers 1 to 9... 9 BOAY players needed .. Blackie, Mr Galah , Brodster, anyone welcome...

On the Grass Specialists ?

I believe Mr McGrath has solved the main issue worrying horsemen and harness racing integrity by withdrawing his application . so issue solved. The Invercargill trotting club (like and club going , even Interdominion council do it to suit ) Should be Allowed to program whatever race conditions they like. It's their race. If they have enough money available this year or any year to make it a Group 1 at $100,000 , then Group 1 horses should be encouraged to start. No Issue. Issue Not Solved = demolishing the Noel Taylor Museum for a car park at Alexandra Park ?? and just having all that remarkable memrorablia, packed in boxes? like has happened at Addington and Ellerslie too apparently.

Probably celebrating after the World Cup Football and huge First Cricket Test results (day 1) ?? 😂 He's a good man that John Jnr (father of champs Pete, Narissa, Danielle and Taleah) a real top bloke I ever raced against. Here's the excuse I'll paste here>>>>>> Trainer John McMullen advised Stewards he had incurred a float breakdown en route to the track and would be scratching all horses trained by him engaged to race in tonight’s meeting.

The Real issues ?? they would be Currently 1/ the World Cup of Football = tick, 2/ Test cricket First Test = tick , 3/ The famous time-honoured Interdominion of Harness racing between Australia and New Zealand = cross sadly. No bloody kiwis turned up except the cool Iceman Tony and his great trotter Bolt for Brilliance. Hope he wins It ok.

Round 2 Tonight at Shepparton nearly set to go...... One Trainer you mightn't of heard of , has a Very Strong Hand in both the trotters and Pacers Interdominion series. Trainer JESS TUBBS has the brilliantly performed first round winners BETTER ECLIPSE in the pacers R7 and JUST BELIEVE in the trotters R8 . Her partner a very good driver Greg Sugars drives and from the Beautiful draws over the short trip heats tonight look sure to Win . BOLT FOR BRILLIANCE has easy heat. we even threw in 'Old Bob' again for him to beat in his heat tonight who is 82 years old and horse is 100-1 and not won this year. Not really a threat ?? lol.....😆

Well he didn't really 'GET KRAKEN' with this horse (the 3rd fav) in the last race yesterday running a poor last lol. Did get a 4th placing with his his other drive (the 3rd fav in a 6 horse field in Race 3 ) on CARRERA RAPIDO so I guess that is pretty good for him ?

Addington today again ! well it's good to see (maybe) the 'Telfer Barn' once again showing their ability with a Trifecta in race 4 !. did very well, and like BD Joe and co, show the gap to Allstars is greatly reduced , with some fine training efforts this season. Natalie only 4th with the Allstars runner after nice trip in that race. Any tips today from you guys ? Time to 'ARDEN' Up 😆 and looks a great chance of a 60-1 double with STELLAR ARDEN in the junior's race R6 >> with SarahO steering should be a great chance ??. and MELODY ARDEN in Race 8 with Hurrell driving , who seems to be pretty good. 5-1 double for the place cover too.

The BOLT has 'Bolt'ed In and looks set to clean-sweep the series with No Muscle Mountain around to knock him off. A great start for NZ at the Interdominion !! A G Whitesocks (3rd )in his heat , and Alta Orlando (4th) for their Nz owners . The all Powerful Emma Stewart Stable Won 2 of the pacers heats and were 2nd in the other. They are going to be strong on their home tracks. Young Jason Grimson went well . After winning the GrandFinal last year at Menangle , he knows how to get horses through the gruelling 2 weeks of 4 starts. MAJESTIC CRUISER (3rd tonight) and former Nzer I CAST NO SHADOW (4th) are going to be strong contenders with Cam Hart driving. Hope you are all thrilled for Tony Herlihy and see the familiar Black and white 'AGH' and Nz colours with BFB , trot to Victory in a couple of weeks.😊🏆

Best of luck to Tony and Suzanne and other owners, with their great little trotter BOLT FOR BRILLIANCE tonight at Ballarat. The only Nz trained runner having a crack this year in the time-honoured Best Race there Is. Interdominion Grand Finals. Times are tough , covid rife, travel costs high , so Not the turn-out you would like for the great series over the next 2 weeks. A few NZ owned runners having a crack. Maybe John and Robert Dunn can take Victory in the Pacers section with the lovely old warrior horse ALTA ORLANDO that they have had great success with at the Luke McCarthy barn for 2 or 3 seasons now. Wouldn't that be something ? Com'on Bolt and Orlando !!!! 🏆

Think he has less than a year DQ to go now. I'm sure Weir will be back having a go. Moody recovered well , and Danny O'Brien went on to win Melbourne Cup coming back from their DQ's. The problem for Nigel McGrath is he got a very long sentence. (to try and stamp out the old milkshaking thing for good I suspect) The usual sentence in Australia is/was 3 years for exceeded Bi-carb levels . Nigel would be back in licensed next Winter or so if trained in Oz.

Hey HunterPunter and your shadow Lowner, why don't you answer this question above then ? instead of just both being rude and disrespectful by down-voting my question to Chief Stipe ? . It is a relevant question about the involvement in horse-breaking by disqualified persons as was the topic in this thread. Your silly downvotes do Not indicate whether you would approve a disgraced trainer having involvement in horse breaking or not. Just a bit of disrespect to site posters more important??

Not really . I was first on here to say how cool it was to see Sam Ottley in the Allstar colours and winning recently. Labelled Blair Orange home for all money on A BETTER YOU the other day. along with the john Dunn winner for a 20-1 double. what more do you want ? The amount of 'BAGGING' that goes on , on this site about everyfuckenthing and you and Lowner want to criticise me who has given nothing but SUpport to nz harness racing and drivers ??? lol ? I Backed BEACH BALL (driven by Williams) amongst the 6 out of 6 on Show day that i backed so have NOTHING against Tim .(Natalie was 2nd in that race and I let her go) In fact in this lead article , I say he did the right thing and 'Blamed the horse'. Fernleigh Cash for the difficult 'charge' he faced. I thought he drove it pretty well . What did you think ???? Think they 'Blamed the horse' for Alta Wiseguy failure as well in the Nz FFA. *Golden rule 1 standard as per usual. nothing to worry about. failed team effort . all good . I backed Self Assured to beat the Aussies lol....... was laughing my tits off watching DARLING ME's race team tactics (Tim won that too bless him !)

I'm the least likely on here to dig at drivers matey . my posts are nearly Always in Admiration of them. The NZ FFA was Full of great drives from a few drivers , I RECOMMENDED it for you guys to go back and have a Look. Tim Williams was driving to instruction and they came 'UnStuck' with BD Joe by attempting a failed 'team effort' . Plain as Day ..whats your opinion on it Mr Imperfect LOWner ? take it you must be connected to the Telfer barn to get your knickers in a knot. Who are YOU to judge my performance ? I read races quite well having been in a few hundred of them , and was asked to be a stipe at one stage. But hated the stable raids part of the job. Stipes are there to read every race whether You like it or Not. People doing their jobs. Not spose to be popular. they operate for SAFETY and FAIRNESS to all competitors. GOLDEN RULE 1. Always blame the horse , not yourself or any other driver when in the stipes room after an 'incident' of any kind . chew on that one .

Do , or should I say WOULD, you approve of Darren Weir (currently doing 4 years DQ for Jigger-gate) a Very prominant Ozzie thoroughbred trainer over-seeing yearling breaking while on 4 years holiday? I think most would Not approve of such a thing happening.

That was a long day Chief !!! November 11th. ......and Tim had just driven to Team instructions in Race 12 the NZ FFA the race before this drive on Fernleigh Cash in race 13..... and it all went pear-shaped. IMO he gave his horse less chance of winning that race by 'trying' to look after a stable-mate, than he did with Fernleigh Cash in the last race..... Alta Wiseguy eventually running a long last , after being driven out of gate 'Hard' by Tim, to set up for BD Joe (his more accomplished stable-mate). Natalie drove very well early on in race Spankem and shoved BD Joe back in (who was trying to get out early from behind Tim on the leader ) , who would of DEFINITELY let BD Joe lead that Nz FFA . BD JOE carted back and hard held at finish lol.... was a race of Great Tactics. and thrilling finish !! just like the following race 13 too !!!!!!! And the Grand-MASTER Won both of them !! Mark Purdon!! , coming from a mile back in both races with sensational drives on Self Assured and Cyrus !! Boysgetpaid happy too lol 😆💰 If you want to see to great races of driving , watch those 2 races again !!! races 12 and 13 Nov 11th. magical !! (bad luck to the Aussie too pipped very late, commentator called dead-heat he was that close )

Great question Chief !! !!!! can you move to another code if Disqualified? don't know for sure. probably not. the licencing folk would frown at the application ? maybe Darren Weir could of played with trotting horses past 4 years after being jiggered out 2019?. he was listed as training over 700 thoroughbred horses at the time. back next year too. Still definitely 'Part of the process' of preparing standardbred horses for racing is the initial breaking in, and the possibility of interacting with older horses is 'through the ceiling' high, if you dabble in the area where horses are on premises still . Impossible to police his actions (without the stipes in trees thing you guys are always on about) Disqualified = No horse Involvement .

Martin Van Beynen has done a great job in the article.!! Points out>> McGraths penalty , his history is listed, and his almost remorse at getting 'special' treatment if allowed back early . Good on him (Nigel) for withdrawing the application to break in horses. Shows he actually does have some thought for his peers (fellow Trainers) who were against him returning early before DQ penalty served. Points out >>The 'silence' of the named Board members is mentioned. so shows they were making an 'error'. and hopefully will learn from this to avoid future recurrances. The situation now resolved thankfully 😊, and the positive image of harness racing restored , as it is shown to be still 'removing the Cheats' for a DQ period, that break the rules. and keeps it fair for all competitors.