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You’d have made a great driver galah, unfortunately the race doesn’t stop and go like a video, that’d be great, be like chess with a timer. Split second decisions with a 1/2 tonne animal travelling 50km. Sometimes you’re right and most times you’re wrong. There are always plenty of hard luck stories behind you if you win one. These guys just aren’t out there often enough to improve but at least they are out there, dos’nt stop me watching, sometimes the most exciting race of the night.

I very much doubt you can change conditions after fields are published, they can after nominations to get the maximum field but surely not after a field is published. They should have not changed anything and just allowed the new rule to work (ie concession driver on so they can still start) if they knew about it, obviously not. That rule should be void for a maiden winner being able to start again against maidens, seems wrong. Own goal there.

TAB, if you keep looking backwards you’ll get a sore neck. Canterbury not exactly flying either, need to remodel the whole god damn thing to survive. Addington will get pushed out in years to come, just the way things go. So what if the 70 yr olds don’t want to travel, they aren’t the future. Lack of numbers every metric so need a reset.

Been hearing that for a little time now, only need 10 more horses, 20 more horses, now only need 40 more horses. On a declining foal population… yeah right. ATC should be looking further down the road and getting into bed with Cambridge, centralising there, and make whatever they have better, just not enough to go round to support the two there. This sunset industry we are in just needs to cut its cloth to the conditions it’s facing then it may stand a chance of a little bit longer. Golden days are gone, strong leadership needed.

Don’t you just love an early crow Broadster? A wiley old driver once told me you have to be in front at the winning post, not before. ps you got that right there Gamma, that boy Herbertson can drive a bit.

Loud mouth , boasting Australians get me everytime, going to win this, going to win that. Take a boxed F4: Carter x Wilson x Sam x Harrison, won’t be far away. Go the Kiwis!

Looked like thousands turned away at Alex Park. Meanwhile, NZ Metro was going off with The Warriors playing next door straight after. Maybe thats the way ahead, combining events and feeding off one another. Food for thought

Mark Jones World Driving Champion as well.

That was awesome to watch , what a beast of a horse. Poor old Don Hugo trying his heart out and be spat out like that. I had the stopwatch on at home and only looked at it once I clicked across the line and thought I had messed up the marks looking at the time. Merlin flat(most of them were)along way from home but I thought went really well considering he needs a good trip usually, a pass mark from me, but Larry, WOW. Any breeder looking at that may have a replacement for Bettor's Delight's DNA. Have one for me Gamma.

Think the horses are getting more refined like a thoroughbred young Brods, light carts, drivers more inclined to let horses run rather than sit up, and as you say, tracks are so much better

Who wins the Drivers Challenge over the weekend? Cashed up and ready to unload. My money’s on the NZer, best driver in the world. What you reckon?

Saw you’d already commented on this galah, good run down of what happened 👍

Swayzee the champ would have slept well last night, great drive to beat him at his own game. Great race to watch.

"admitted the charge", case closed.

I reckon bottom right is Lennytheshark 😉.