Auckland Races on Boxing Day

[mikeynz]

1 hour ago, Shad said:

Buller high school right next to race course, remember gazing out the woodwork room right next to 1200m cute for the gallops, the pain of not being allowed a day off school to go, good racing there on both codes, horse called Julloch held track record may have died in a float fire, peligro held 1200m track record 1.12 I think from memory, trained by Kennedy's ikamatu, they had some good horses in their day.Derby street very familiar to me, you'd remember a few good gallopers trained there, taxtale, Gaelic bid, buller bay a chestnut plagued by unsoundness, 

Are their any horses trained on the coast these days ?

[mikeynz]

21mm of rain yesterday in Westport according to met service....always pisses me off in current conditions it's only by the hour I think, be nice if it was from midnight, TAB says good track....but for how long?

[Murray Fish]

Heavy rain now predicted to arrive at 5pm..

[hesi]

Let's hope the forecast is out by about 90 minutes lol

[Shad]

13 hours ago, mikeynz said:

21mm of rain yesterday in Westport according to met service....always pisses me off in current conditions it's only by the hour I think, be nice if it was from midnight, TAB says good track....but for how long?

A light shower before race 1 and a heavy one at race 11, good day otherwise, considering forecasted rain on the day all week, the club president was seen in the paper praying to the weather gods day before, maybe it worked, hence my omen bet evangelist, stand record terrible, stepped like a champ, but oh no false start, knew the second attempt wouldn't be as good, blew to  bits bigtime, 

[Shad]

20 hours ago, mikeynz said:

Are their any horses trained on the coast these days ?

Dont think so, Hamptons the last ones to have a couple, not sure if the have at present.

[Special Agent]

On 12/25/2025 at 10:07 AM, Murray Fish said:

what a interesting fella he was!
 

Yes he was.  A generous man too.  The hospitals would notice him gone.