How to Improve your horse 40m in a Week.

[Gammalite]

Well you could give it to Grimson ( like when he got Swayzee off the Tim Butt stable ) and any number of other horses Jason Grimson got to do form reversals.

Or now we have the Queensland version. give it to A trainer you haven't heard of yet in Mitchell Dawson. (brother of leading driver Nathan Dawson)  give your horse to him. 

Mitchell is getting a few old has-beens to 'Go Forth and Multiple' as the old saying goes,  and is racking up some extraordinary performances lately.

 

NZ bred gelding BOLD MEDLEY JUJON takes the cake lately as the Dawson Star Improver.  Racing on our Slow Thursdays in QLD , when the 1.56 to 2.00 mile horses strutt their stuff . Bold Medley Jujon , a recent arrival at the Mitchell Dawson stable ZoooooMMMMed away in a 1.50 mile by 15 lengths from the field for a gob-smacking win .   

Quite something !. as The horse had been raced for 3 years at the Leading stable of Grant Dixon , with very average results. Grant had started the horse 24 times this year for 2 Wins , both in 1.58 mile rate at Redcliffe. The horse couldn't get warm at Albion Park.

Come the 23rd October though , and one week after leaving Dixons, picked up by Mitch Dawson, he's thundering away from the field in blazing fashion , 26 seconds out of the gate, then 26.3 seconds down the back straight to give the field the slip , and cruise in by half the length of the straight, still powering along alone. 

Slow Thursdays are Not what they used to be  🤣. wonder if Grant feels like a 'poor' trainer now after seeing that lol 😎.

Grant could get back behind Larry (LeapToFame)  and feel better anyway. Although he would be 'flat out' to go that fast as what BOLD Medley JUjon can now go lol.

[the galah]

47 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

Well you could give it to Grimson ( like when he got Swayzee off the Tim Butt stable ) and any number of other horses Jason Grimson got to do form reversals.

Or now we have the Queensland version. give it to A trainer you haven't heard of yet in Mitchell Dawson. (brother of leading driver Nathan Dawson)  give your horse to him. 

Mitchell is getting a few old has-beens to 'Go Forth and Multiple' as the old saying goes,  and is racking up some extraordinary performances lately.

 

NZ bred gelding BOLD MEDLEY JUJON takes the cake lately as the Dawson Star Improver.  Racing on our Slow Thursdays in QLD , when the 1.56 to 2.00 mile horses strutt their stuff . Bold Medley Jujon , a recent arrival at the Mitchell Dawson stable ZoooooMMMMed away in a 1.50 mile by 15 lengths from the field for a gob-smacking win .   

Quite something !. as The horse had been raced for 3 years at the Leading stable of Grant Dixon , with very average results. Grant had started the horse 24 times this year for 2 Wins , both in 1.58 mile rate at Redcliffe. The horse couldn't get warm at Albion Park.

Come the 23rd October though , and one week after leaving Dixons, picked up by Mitch Dawson, he's thundering away from the field in blazing fashion , 26 seconds out of the gate, then 26.3 seconds down the back straight to give the field the slip , and cruise in by half the length of the straight, still powering along alone. 

Slow Thursdays are Not what they used to be  🤣. wonder if Grant feels like a 'poor' trainer now after seeing that lol 😎.

Grant could get back behind Larry (LeapToFame)  and feel better anyway. Although he would be 'flat out' to go that fast as what BOLD Medley JUjon can now go lol.

the flip side to that is what i've always suggested.

g dixon is a honest trainer who's horses run on their natural abilities.I'm sure he uses a good vet and the advantages that go with that,like all the big stables with wealthy owners,but thats different from using something that would give you an unfair advantage.Thats why i think leap to fame and his connections are so great and deserve what they win. Thats my opinion gamma.You've always been a dixon fan and followed his horses closely,so i assume that is part of what you respect and admire about him.

[Gammalite]

17 minutes ago, the galah said:

the flip side to that is what i've always suggested.

g dixon is a honest trainer who's horses run on their natural abilities.I'm sure he uses a good vet and the advantages that go with that,like all the big stables with wealthy owners,but thats different from using something that would give you an unfair advantage.Thats why i think leap to fame and his connections are so great and deserve what they win. Thats my opinion gamma.You've always been a dixon fan and followed his horses closely,so i assume that is part of what you respect and admire about him.

yes . a good point of note is he uses mainly Local bred product , and competes (with his junior driving them mainly) at Redcliffe twice every week , just getting the same results every other trainer is getting there ( about 4 wins per horse each year) and has just a few fast class Metro horses. He is very honest. even with 3 millionaires as his owners.

in contrast (Leading trainer Pete McMullen gets heaps of Imports for his 3 millionaire owners worth Big bucks) 

one of Dixon's owners Greg Mitchell , does buy a few from NZ for him .some lovely old NZ horses. especially trotters over the years. Currently racing 'Zealous Spur' to fair results but had the 62 win 'Our Overanova' who trotted to record number of wins here over the best part of a decade. When trotters were not very Big at all here. sometimes race 10 on the card was the trot,  after everyone had gone home , and he would start off 50m near midnight lol. 

What a great old NZ horse he was. Greg had picked him up after eight 3 yearold starts in NZ. where  someone there did a great job getting him going as a youngster.  OVERANOVA a fine credit to the NZ trotters list of greats.

  

[Gammalite]

meanwhile Tu Tangata keeps taking the punters dollars in NZ. Race 4 running now as favourite ??? what 

How did they send that out favourite yet again in New Zealand.?  must of taken so many punters for a bath the last year it's a wonder he hasn't been run out of the country. sell it off to some poor Ozzie bugger. 

so old RACHMANINOV at 10 years old,  trots to a  2nd place yesterday , then backs up and wins Wins today .

Good on the old Boy !! well driven by young Robbie Close too. 

[Nowornever]

On 3/11/2025 at 1:55 PM, Gammalite said:

Tu Tangata keeps taking the punters dollars in NZ. Race 4 running now as favourite ??? what

Would have won several races earlier in his career if the driver put him in the race a bit sooner but you are right it is a great horse to back against as it is always takes a fair chunk of punters money inflating other dividends when it loses.