The Huey Awards for Excellence in Thoroughbred Racing.

[Chief Stipe]

Fill ya boots @Huey !

 

[Murray Fish]

Ken & Bev Kelso

[Murray Fish]

Robbie Patterson

[Murray Fish]

The Brown Nose Pollyanna Award: @TAB For Ever

[Chief Stipe]

3 hours ago, Murray Fish said:

Ken & Bev Kelso

I'm not sure they'd count using @Huey criteria.  They've won awards before and wasn't it last year that their employee Megan Winters won the ENTAIN Stablehand of the Year award?

[Gammalite]

I'm Nominating 'Free Holmes' .

in the Huey category of 'Greatest NZ horseman  Ever'  . this bloke could head off Sir Mark Todd even🤔. 

*Won the NZ Cup as a jockey riding Manton.

* Won the Great Northern Hurdles and the Great Northern Steeple riding 'Liberator' .

* Won the biggest harness race going,  NZ Trotting Cup 1919 +  2 Auckland Trotting Cups training and driving

* Won driving in the Very First INTERDOMINION ever run , the Inaugural race between Nz and Oz in 1936.

  (well technically he placed 2nd in the race . His own NZ horse got scratched from the Grand Final. So FREE got the call up to drive EVICUS , a Tasmanian mare. She ran 2nd in all her heats.  and also 2nd in the Grand Final to another fine Tasmanian in Logan Derby . But she was declared the WINNER of the Series on Points 20 -17 ahead of Logan Derby ( as she had started off a handicap) so took home the Gold trophy and spoils. as did Free  )   Logan Derby declared the winner of the race itself many years later . going undefeated for his 4 races during the series.  

* Raced and bred many fine thoroughbreds and Standardbred across his years.

*  FREE Holmes himself a fine sire! 😁 Sired Maurice Holmes ( The Maestro ) who across 50 years became the greatest NZ harness driver ever. A lasting Legacy compliments from Free 😋. (descendant young Robbie Holmes still competes in the South Island these very days) 

* known as 'Old Free' by the gallops folk, and 'The Old Man of Trotting' by the Trots blokes . No One will EVER achieve What that bloke did in thoroughbreds and harness. 

Don't think he got an OBE for services to racing like his own son Maurice 'the Maestro' did .

So Maybe a 'HUEY award'  could be his ?  . Free Holmes (1871-1967)  NZ legend. 

 

 

 

[Huey]

Disappointing to see you both mocking the hardworking people in the industry!

[Chief Stipe]

1 hour ago, Huey said:

Disappointing to see you both mocking the hardworking people in the industry!

Not at all @Huey but you've inferred that some are more deserving than others just because of who employs them.

[Murray Fish]

2 hours ago, Gammalite said:

Sired Maurice Holmes ( The Maestro )

Back in the early 70's had a bit to do with MH son Paul, he really didn't have much of a interest with racing! later got a PhD, struggle with poor eyesight if I recall correctly? 

[TAB For Ever]

10 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

I'm not sure they'd count using @Huey criteria.  They've won awards before and wasn't it last year that their employee Megan Winters won the ENTAIN Stablehand of the Year award?

Whitebait has no idea  !

 

8 hours ago, Gammalite said:

I'm Nominating 'Free Holmes' .

in the Huey category of 'Greatest NZ horseman  Ever'  . this bloke could head off Sir Mark Todd even🤔. 

*Won the NZ Cup as a jockey riding Manton.

* Won the Great Northern Hurdles and the Great Northern Steeple riding 'Liberator' .

* Won the biggest harness race going,  NZ Trotting Cup 1919 +  2 Auckland Trotting Cups training and driving

* Won driving in the Very First INTERDOMINION ever run , the Inaugural race between Nz and Oz in 1936.

  (well technically he placed 2nd in the race . His own NZ horse got scratched from the Grand Final. So FREE got the call up to drive EVICUS , a Tasmanian mare. She ran 2nd in all her heats.  and also 2nd in the Grand Final to another fine Tasmanian in Logan Derby . But she was declared the WINNER of the Series on Points 20 -17 ahead of Logan Derby ( as she had started off a handicap) so took home the Gold trophy and spoils. as did Free  )   Logan Derby declared the winner of the race itself many years later . going undefeated for his 4 races during the series.  

* Raced and bred many fine thoroughbreds and Standardbred across his years.

*  FREE Holmes himself a fine sire! 😁 Sired Maurice Holmes ( The Maestro ) who across 50 years became the greatest NZ harness driver ever. A lasting Legacy compliments from Free 😋. (descendant young Robbie Holmes still competes in the South Island these very days) 

* known as 'Old Free' by the gallops folk, and 'The Old Man of Trotting' by the Trots blokes . No One will EVER achieve What that bloke did in thoroughbreds and harness. 

Don't think he got an OBE for services to racing like his own son Maurice 'the Maestro' did .

So Maybe a 'HUEY award'  could be his ?  . Free Holmes (1871-1967)  NZ legend. 

 

 

 

Indeed  Gamma , not likely to be matched ...the Parsons , Nolans and maybe Mark Purdon have achieved and /or tried to achieve big success in both Codes but unlikely any will start to ride jumpers !

Graeme Rogerson has a CV which covers a lot of things in Harness/Gallops including riding ...over a log period.

Michael House is another , currently still a contender for leading Harness Trainer and many will forget that only a few years ago he won the "Emerging  Trainers ' award at the Annual Gallops Awards.

Well known harness trainer/driver Robbie Holmes a descendant of Maurice and Freeman Holmes dabbles in gallops too......certainly still rides work as he appears in this weeks "Unhinged' Beach report video on FB. Check it out !