Gammalite

Race 5 Addington see the Michael Purdon owned and trained trotter strut his stuff , and win like Purdon horses do, and Chief picks up $65 for that and The Galah (with both placegetters matched that with $66) to try and real in the flying Blackie in the lead. Would of too !! except Blackie has stuck with the COXman and picked up $46 running 2nd. to Keep the Lead . Forbury has another Orange win there as well. Hunter a Williams 3rd again LEADER BOARD after 5 races Blackie $237.00 , Chief $203.00 , The Galah $201.00 , Forbury Orange $104 , Gamma $76.00 , TrotsFan $75.00 , Brodster $63.00 , Hunter $36.00 , Ranga $29.00 1 4 Mystic Max 4 fr 11,000.00 1/1 3-22.2 B N Orange Michael Purdon 2 9 Harold Smith 4 10m 3,100.00 8/8 3-21.4 0.40 J W Cox Tom Bagrie 3 7 Peregrine 2 10m 1,900.00 2/2 3-21.5 0.90 T M Williams

Race 4 result and Carter is backed for a stack 💰 by Brodie and duly obliges. might be crooning like Frank now ?? And along with Chief, Blackie and the Galah who pick up 3rd place as well for submitting 2 selections , they all move up the Leader board picking up $53 more each. TrotsFan and Hunter in 3rd place with Williams, in that one. LEADER BOARD after 4 races Blackie $191.00 , Chief $138.00 , Galah $135.00 , Gamma $76.00 , TrotsFan $75.00 , Brodster $63.00 , Forb's $39.00 , Ranga $29.00 , Hunter $16.00 1 6 Franco Sinatra 6 fr 8,250.00 1/1 2-24.4 C J Dalgety (J) Cran & Chrissie Dalgety 2 13 Ideal Chevron U1 fr 2,325.00 12/12 2-24.7 1.80 K A Butt Phil Anderson 3 5 Medina Magic 5 fr 1,425.00 2/2 2-24.9 2.80 T M Williams

race 3 Result Addington and jonny Cox can't do the job unfortunately and get the 'BLING' in that one for Blackie, Galah and Gamma who are all on the Runner-up . so they pick up another 'red-back' each for 2nd. Brodster sneaking in there for 3rd with CarterDalgety as well so picks up $26 to get on the board. LEADER BOARD after 3 races Blackie $138.00 , Chief $85.00 , Galah $82.00 , Gammalite $76.00 , TrotsFan $59.00 , Forb's $39.00 , Ranga $29.00 , Brodster $26.00 1 13 Amarla 13 fr 14,850.00 7/7 3-14.4 R D Close Mark & Kendra Gill 2 12 Betterwithbling 12 fr 4,185.00 3/2 3-14.4 0.20 J W Cox Jesse Wederell 3 3 Nyla 3 fr 2,565.00 4/4 3-14.6 1.30 C J Dalgety (J)

Race 2 Result . what a great little trotter Balla is turning into !! Great Tipping by the Experts !! Blackie (with quinella) , Chief (with 3rd as well) and Gamma on the winner . Trotsfan nails both the placegetters . The Galah in 2nd as well. $130 the trifecta if tips boxed 💰 lol. Blackie storms to the lead with that quinella pick picking up another $86.00. LEADER BOARD after 2 races Blackie $118.00 , Chief $85.00 , Galah $62.00 , TrotsFan $59.00 , Gamma $56.00 , Forb's $39.00 , Ranga $29.00 1 13 Bella Button 13 fr 14,850.00 1/1 3-21.6 G N Thornley (J) Mark Jones 2 16 Randel Huston P U1 fr 4,185.00 3/4 3-22.0 2.30 K A Butt Brent & Tim White 3 1 Barrytown 1 fr 2,565.00 2/3

Race 1 Result 1 6 Life Of Art 6 fr 9,900.00 1/1 2-23.6 B N Orange Amber Hoffman 2 5 Coachella 5 fr 2,790.00 3/3 2-23.6 0.20 G D Smith Ken Barron 3 1 Arden's Delight 1 fr 1,710.00 6/4 2-23.6 0.40 S J Ottley Grant Payne Favourite takes it out . so Forb's with the Orange man driving for him strikes first. Blackie and The Galah are in for 3rd place on the pole marker. Forbury $39.00 The Galah $32.00 Blackie $32.00 the rest $0.00

As i suspected the Addington Harness completely dumped off our screens here in Oz. so no betting on it. No wonder the Sport is in crisis. A metro meeting discarded like waste-paper. 😪 Trotsfan, Chief , The Galah , Blackie and Gammalite with 2 picks per race. as per original entry. To get some more runners involved , lets see if some drivers can get the Win today for some BOAY fans. BRODIE can have the Carter Dalgety and Wilson House drives (as he supports the youngsters keenly)>>> R1/ 13 R2/ 6 R3/ 3+4 R4/ 6 R5/ 2 R6/ 2 R7/ 4 R8/ 1 R9/ 9 R10/ 12 R11/ 11 RANGATIRA can have old mate John Dunn drives >>> R1/ 11 R2/ 1 R3/ 14 R4/ 10 R5/ 5 R6/ 5 R7/ 9 R8/ 8 R9/ 8 R10/ 1 R11/ 12 FORBURY can have the Blair Orange drives>>> (will they pay enough Forb's?) R1/ 6 R2/ 5 R3/ 11 R4/ 1 R5/ 4 R6/ 3 R7/ 3 R8/ 9 R9/ 13 R10/ 6 R11/ 8 DAVIS can have his O'Reilly family drives that he likes >>> R1/ 12 R2/ 7 R3/ 8 R4/ 2 R5/ 3 R6/ 4 R7/ 1+14 R8/ 3 R9/ 18 R10/ 7+11 R11/ 2 HUNTER paleface can have the Tim Williams dirves >>> R1/ 7 R2/ 11 R3/ 9 R4/ 5 R5/ 7 R6/ 4 R7/ 10 R8/ 11 R9/ 3 R10/ 13 R11/ 4 some players all with Don't Stop Dreaming in race 6 , (who looks a special ) Let's see who does best !!!! good luck . and good luck to all the terrific Nz horses at Royal Randwick on shortly ....

ENTER HERE : 2 Addington picks per race .before 1.30 NZ TIME , i think it is. Sydney Cup day and i've caught up to those buggers now , instead of being an hour behind ,(and only 2 hours behind the kiwis) with daylight saving ending last weekend . about 4 hours to the first at Addington , so get the form done (looking at you Chief, so have a crack Chief, brodster, ranga ,davis , trotsfan , or other trots-fans, at 2 picks per race. otherwise you are gunna end up with one horse per race and The Galah, Blackie and Gamma will be mopping the floor with double the runners (and likely)winners 😎. The Easter BOAY cup winner today 🏆will have the highest total from $10EW 💰 invested on their picks . instead of the usual finishing position points table . good luck and happy Easter !!

No mate I didn't say that. never mentioned security cameras, senior staff members, individual horses . you did. I just gave a general view of from what I have seen in stables over 2 decades. I say never saw errors with identity of horses for feeding or especially Treatments. and we had cheap horses lol...😄😆😉 nor have I mentioned any 'Good Idea' about drugging anything. >>> you did . so Is that what YOU think happened?

yeah , you see all these excuses. always a 'mistake' lol. human error . yeah surely not. but after years of working in stables it's almost impossible unless you're drunk or asleep to give the horses the wrong feed bucket, let alone >> administer a swabable medication to the wrong horse. You ususally have staff that are familiar with All the Horses surely? if you're feeding them , shoeing them, administering treatment or even brushing them lol.... you know what horse you are dealing with ......what are they putting the horse in the wrong stall/box or something ?

haha 😄 my dad had a picture of piggy Muldoon on the wall 😆 , so seen too much of that man a lot of years lol. Must of been PM for quite some time?. Still love Nz harness racing after leaving on the steel bird with Lightning Blue. His colours won at Cambridge last night too (on Oceanic Art) , bringing back memories of Blues first career start for Mike Berger all those years ago. Had one of the best drivers going too. Owen Purdon. What a class act family they have always been.

Well 'Luck's a Fortune' as they say. Probably Lucky to avoid the crash (and Not have the race abandoned as they would do instantly these days, even if one or 2 horses were down on the track) But a Derby Winner is a Derby winner. very hard to do. and fantastic accomplishment. Even Krug lol......

That was just like watching a horror movie with jump scares and Hold Your Breath moments. Did you see the poor late great Charlie Hunter at the bottom of the pile-up? , then crawling out on hands and knees while everyone was wrestling with the tangled horses? 9 of the 14 runners being brought down or losing the driver. Charlie eventually walked to ambulance so that was good sign he could get up . Incredibly None of the 9 Derby colts were seriously injured , even though it took 10 minutes to untangle ROYDON GLEN. Fun fact: Roydon Glen came back as a 4 yearold later in year, after this Derby crash and Won all 12 Starts as a 4 yearold !! and so was NZ harness horse of the Year. (so no lingering damage from this horrendous Derby incident thankfully)

What a great race that was tonight. The Grin Race will be hard to top that. next week 😄 Nat had great cart-up behind Copy That with the 'other' Cup winner Self Assured , but won easy in the end. But drove the horse exceptionally well early if you noticed to get ahead of BD Joe and Smiffy's Terror. A Total Class act. The Preferential draw once again Proving it's value for excitement . the lead 2 were bunnies for their stablemates , but that is what can happen with multiple stable runners. Barry Purdon doing it well lately as Allstars, Dunn's and Telfers have done in the past on a lot of occasions. NZ stables are the Masters at it . excellent driving often.

could never bet on that guy . He's always way to conscious of what the stable-mates are doing. Even last week when Barry's stable ran the Trifecta in the Cardigan Bay stakes 2 yearold Group2 feature, Phelan was on the other unplaced runner.(as usual) Has really destroyed a lot of their chances over the years. Nearly another quinella in race 10 as well with Miki Montana and Artisan . Miki and Merlin both owned in Queensland too , so good to see Barry looking after the Bright side. 😉🍾

No high court rulings needed when the best in the country are racing. with the 4 best horses in the land finish (in order) in the First 4 ,just pick up the $500 and have a Happy Easter !!!! good tipping mate 💰😊

you're gunna have to be outta control to beat this lot 😄. must be best field you've ever been in . and could win it too if you drive well , while the big boys have a quiet one getting ready for the Grin Race lol.... 1 33875X Simply Sam 4 g R70 1 Ft Andre Poutama Ray Green 2 371101 Chimichurri 4 h R72 2 Ft Alicia Harrison(J) Steve & Amanda Telfer & Hayden Cullen 3 170X18 Nicholas Cage 4 g R73 3 Ft Matthew White Andrew & Lyn Neal 4 0X6623 Smiffy's Terror 5 g R80 4 Ft John Dunn Robert & Jenna Dunn 5 263534 Old Town Road 5 g R85 5 Ft Zachary Butcher John Dickie 6 105342 Kango 6 g R95 6 Ft David Butcher Arna Donnelly 7 151872 B D Joe 5 g R106 7 Ft Tim Williams Steve & Amanda Telfer & Hayden Cullen 8 5122X6 Self Assured 7 g R119 8 Ft Natalie Rasmussen Mark & Nathan Purdon ------------------ Second Line ------------------ 9 018687 Alta Wiseguy 5 g R92 9 Ft James Stormont Steve & Amanda Telfer & Hayden Cullen 10 421X25 Akuta 4 g R95 10 Ft Mark Purdon Mark & Nathan Purdon 11 121P31 Copy That 6 h R120 11 Ft Blair Orange Ray Green

Well the Aussie- SHE is down to drive one, so SHE must still be in town ok . allbeit very quiet these days. 'Don't Stop Dreaming' looks a certainty with the Oz-z taking the helm. 🏆 so will put that in picks along with 'Bella Button' with the She-girl 'Gemma' onboard. Not sure why SamO doesn't drive that one out of the Mark Jones stable? , but harness life is a mystery in NZ at times ?😁 winning picks for Gamma then >>>> (don't stop dreaming) Race 1/ 8 - 10 Race 2/ 13 - 14 Race 3/ 6 - 12 Race 4/ 9 - 12 Race 5/ 8 - 10 Race 6/ 3 - 4 Race 7/ 11 - 12 Race 8/ 3 - 11 Race 9/ 7 - 18 Race 10/ 1 - 6 Race 11/ 4 - 10

Mark still sun-baking up in Auckland after winning the Northern Oaks last week with M.Nike. Barry cleaned him up in the Derby and Cardigan Bay 2 year olds though so is working out what went wrong I guess. Allstars with 4 runners in the 3 year old colts sires stakes on Saturday . And with junior Devon Von Til driving one. does he work for the All stars now ? why doesn't Nathan drive ? used to in Aus for a while . saw him win a few in QLD.

What is wrong with people ? these are fricken races where these young drivers are doing the best they can . Alicia wasn't trying to 'Not Win the Race' or anything. she only drives occasionally and is Always trying to Win if possible. The culprit here is the horse . Horses are very hard to drive on occasion. just Ask all the guys who have driven the Derby winner KRUG at different times. horses do all sorts of funny things from time to time. Case dismissed. Let Harrison drive and you get better with practise. John McMullen told me you need 4 drives every meeting to get (and keep) a decent grasp on driving and opponents . not just one here or there . that does nothing for developement as a driver.

Well it all comes down to what the Penalty was ? was it different to other similar cases ? were they guilty? or not? I found my friend here in QLD Darrel Graham (trainer father of sky channels Brittney) had an elongated battle with Cobalt Disqualification 2015 for 15 months. still 9 months longer than 'Moods' and the galloping blokes got for cobalt. On appeal from the reduced to 1 year after a long process. and battle with QLD integrity unit. so off to the court and QLD civil and administrative Tribunal and 5 years later and an incredible $500,000 costs , he got Not Guilty in 2021 !! crazy stuff. Is funny how time and money (and probably long frustration in the legal system) they just threw it out !!!!!!😄. sick of the sight of it I spose?? a bit of a broken man after , but you wonder when is a positive not a positive then.

Enter here for a chance at BOAY glory at Addington .💰 Even though they have done away with the Easter Cup sadly, the BOAY Easter Cup is up for grabs !!! The fields are out already on HRNZ site so pick some out !! Galloping folk more than welcome. See if you can knock off these harness stalwarts 😆. 11 x Addington races to Select. Just pick 2 Runners ( use numbers) per race . A mock $10 EW placed on each one . And we can find a winner at the end of the day !! post anytime and entries close before race 1 Saturday !!! . Any scratchings go onto horse number 1 (or No 2 if you selected No 1 already Entries should look something like this >>>>>>>>> just use numbers instead of names please. I'll post a result after each race to keep up-to-date leaderboard. Race 1 1 - 2 Race 2 3 - 4 Race 3 5 - 6 etc, etc,

G'day boys. How about some tipping Saturday then. I usually just bet Saturday afternoon gallops these days .and put picks in other sites for gallops comps. But am delighted the Addington trots are on to coincide this Easter Saturday. Let's have something so cafe and RP aren't having all the fun ? No doubt we probably won't have betting on Addington in Australia, as there are too many Aus meetings already , but not to be detered I'll still post a Easter Saturday Comp for the trotting fans. !!! 🏆

Don't forget Chief a Lot of sentences include a 'Deterrent Factor' .you must deter others from copying and doing the same thing. Every sport is Full of Copycats. Trying to get that edge on opponents 😉. Sometimes the Law Courts adjust sentences on appeal, as does the footy tribunal for Head-highs , etc. so nothing new. It comes down to the person presenting the case. I feel Dunn's were lucky to get their fines reduced from $14k and avoid a DQ even, in 2017 for Caffeine , but they must of presented a 'good' case and had a reduction. As The Galah said WIGG was caught in the act , deliberately breaking the rules , so Penalty should stand (as per McGrath and others ) you need to deter others from committing these offences.

AND Not just Betterzippit mate. Grimson has won the last 2 Interdominion pacing Grand Finals (with Victoria cast -offs BoncelB and CastNoShadow) to sit amongst the Very Best there is as an Interdominion winning Trainer . and not even 30 years old yet. and not far off Winning in Nz either with another 're-cycled ' Victorian Majestic Cruiser . running 2nd Nz Cup and in last years Grins The Race. Took the very best in Nz to hold him out in Copy That and Self Assured. JG Has to be near the best 'Improver of Horses ' that Oz and Nz has ever seen ??

Here's a great Easter memory Newmarket , kindly posted by Ranga last year when we were perplexed as to Whatever happened to the time-honoured Easter Cup 2 mile prestigious race. Just not carded anymore sadly....😪 Photos from 1981 and 1983