Michael Guerin

[Forbury]

Calling someone a "star" means they are exceptional, inspiring, and excel in a particular area, shining brightly with talent, success, or a positive, attention-grabbing quality, like a lead actor, top athlete, or brilliant student, symbolizing hope, guidance, and achieving big dreams. It's a metaphorical compliment for someone outstanding, full of potential, or doing something wonderful. Young driving star Crystal Hackett has the perfect opportunity to kick off 2026 as she ended last season at Cambridge today.this is certainly something she is not! It's absolutely laughable to say such lies.as soon as someone else drives Claude it wins😆😂I have to admit she's is a star at slaughtering a horse we all witnessed that in her last 10+ drives.just on New year's night social distancing royal petit belle niege last 2 starts and she's one race from her last thirty plus drives some star she drives as good as her mother absolutely shit

[Chief Stipe]

On 5/01/2026 at 3:07 AM, Forbury said:

Calling someone a "star" means they are exceptional, inspiring, and excel in a particular area, shining brightly with talent, success, or a positive, attention-grabbing quality, like a lead actor, top athlete, or brilliant student, symbolizing hope, guidance, and achieving big dreams. It's a metaphorical compliment for someone outstanding, full of potential, or doing something wonderful. Young driving star Crystal Hackett has the perfect opportunity to kick off 2026 as she ended last season at Cambridge today.this is certainly something she is not! It's absolutely laughable to say such lies.as soon as someone else drives Claude it wins😆😂I have to admit she's is a star at slaughtering a horse we all witnessed that in her last 10+ drives.just on New year's night social distancing royal petit belle niege last 2 starts and she's one race from her last thirty plus drives some star she drives as good as her mother absolutely shit

Shame you didn't use AI to write the whole post.

[mikeynz]

On 5/01/2026 at 5:27 AM, Chief Stipe said:

Shame you didn't use AI to write the whole post.

Maybe he did, it's got commas, speech marks, full stops and capital letters.

[Gammalite]

6 hours ago, Forbury said:

Calling someone a "star" means they are exceptional, inspiring, and excel in a particular area, shining brightly with talent, success, or a positive, attention-grabbing quality, like a lead actor, top athlete, or brilliant student, symbolizing hope, guidance, and achieving big dreams. It's a metaphorical compliment for someone outstanding, full of potential, or doing something wonderful. Young driving star Crystal Hackett has the perfect opportunity to kick off 2026 as she ended last season at Cambridge today.this is certainly something she is not! It's absolutely laughable to say such lies.as soon as someone else drives Claude it wins😆😂I have to admit she's is a star at slaughtering a horse we all witnessed that in her last 10+ drives.just on New year's night social distancing royal petit belle niege last 2 starts and she's one race from her last thirty plus drives some star she drives as good as her mother absolutely shit

well it is not the greatest description to call a junior driver a star.

But Crystal is still young and gets drives on her parents nice trotters , and also for one of the best trainers the World has ever seen in Barry Purdon . (and training partner Scott) so you do expect positive results in that case.

For the record she has got slightly more beaten past 3 years , so she's not quite a 'shooting star' like Carter Dalgety in the Junior ranks , but not exactly a 'Fading Star' like dad Bernie yet either ? 😂😋.  

Crystal's Seasonal driving stats show:- 

2023    200 drives for 33 wins  ( or about one win every 6 drives) 

2024    302 drives for 43 wins  (or about one win every 7 drives) 

2025    433 drives for 56 wins   (or about one win every 8 drives) 

2026   5 drives for 1 win        (or about one win every 5 drives)   best stats yet Forbury ?  get on board mate 🤣😎🏆

[the galah]

as to the udr's

If you look at the udr's of the junior drivers,you would think the north island drivers are better than the south.

But they obviously aren't.

The small fields totally skews the udr's in the north island drivers favour .

Comparing udr's for any north island trianer,driver to someone from canterbury is like comparing apples to pears. They are very different.

as to forbury's comments about crystal hackett.

Well i think she isn't driving as good tactically as she could from a punters perspective,but from a trainers perspective its perfecctly fine because in the small fields they have up there shes still earning money most weesk and its no big deal to run a place ,when a smarter drive could have won,because theres always another race with a small field next week .