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That is certainly not Phar Lap as a yearling, not sure Tommy was his handler as a yearling! Yes at Trentham, but prior to his trip to America in 1931

Yes it is owned by the club. Yes three other resident trainers are based here. Plus an overflow from another stable currently have about 5 or 6 here. The stable blocks are quite good, basic stables but safe and horses seem happy. Each stable block have their own yards along side, and I have also make a few small paddocks for mine during the day. Also there are the stables for visiting horses for when racing, must be about 60 or more boxes there I would say. Only thing I dont like is having to transport to the track each morning, I guess I was spoilt at Opaki in having stables on course.

Yep, just around the corner from the course in the club stables.

When noms are left open you can ask them at the bureau who the extra nominations are and they have to tell you. Once they close at 9am after being left open you can see any additional nominations then. It would be a good idea to just add them as they come in, I have always wondered why they don't. I'll ask them next time have to ring them. I've never noticed any appear in fields that were not in the nominations, the only time I would imagine this could happen is if a race was deleted late, then you have the right to transfer to another race you were not previously entered in.

That's bang on.

Just out of interest, could they run on both the poly and turf on the same day/meeting? I remember at Golden Gate Fields trying to watch a race only to realize I was looking at the wrong track, the previous race was on the grass and this race was on the dirt/poly(can't remember what it was).

Run 4th in an open 3yo race two starts ago.

Just dumb imo, people are going to play the online casinos, why not clip the ticket and the money stay in NZ. I occasionly play a bit of online poker, I would much rather it was through a NZ owned site and money going back here.

Is that courses run under rules or also include p2p courses?

Make a real big few days of it. Leading rider prize for both flat and jumpers, trainers prize, punters comp over the 3 days with daily winners and a grand prize at the end. Don't ask me who's funding it, I'm just thinking ideas 🤔

Keep it at Riccarton in the shortened format otherwise there won't be a winter carnival as we know it. The winter cup wouldn't get too many people excited and want to travel to it and bring along a team of other horses as well. It'll just die a slow death the carnival.

I wonder if the south island jump carnival would be better run over a shorten time frame. Like Wednesday the lead up day and then the nationals on the Saturday, with maybe a synthetic day on Thursday or Friday. Might bring back more of a carnival feel about it, when I first started bringing horses down about 15 years ago everyone stayed down(or up from deep south) for the whole time and it was great fun, that seems to have changed in recent times. I wonder if it's only 4 or 5 days you might get people back and staying down the whole time, fly down Wednesday and home Sunday. Also for those with horses it'll shorten up the time away from stables so more are also likely to stay down instead of heading back in between Saturdays.

What a great filly she is proving to be, good on CW he appears to invest a lot of money in the industry so deserves a good one.

Why? That's the point of futures, take big odds but take the risk of the horse not even making it to that race.

I was pretty pissed off they didn't split the Maiden chase, was 16 noms so could have run two 8 horse races. Nothing in the CD now for jumpers until the 25th of August or a week earlier at Rotorua. I would have gone south with my one but no low grade chase for whatever reason, and I do love a trip to the Chch winter carnival but nothing to go unfortunately.