Chief Stipe Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 My first hands on experience racing was harness. Apparently this forum has dived into oblivion! Won't say who said that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) haha my first painful foot experience was harness... Royal York stepping on my foot and then getting stubborn and not moving it .. Joe said .. he can be like that Still Yorky shared his feed and molasses with me.. my childhood addiction Edited April 8, 2019 by Chestnut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globederby12 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 36 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said: My first hands on experience racing was harness. Apparently this forum has dived into oblivion! Won't say who said that. Stipe, if the music is still in you, then we have some spare places in our syndicates and plenty of promising and talented youngsters coming through to give you some excitement for only a modest outlay, over the nxt few years. The Williamson's are brilliant. TB,s are dead , come on over to the dark side and become a gypsy. Much more fun. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterthepunter Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I have a share in a nice horse for sale two starts for two 4ths by bettors delight is a 3yo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterthepunter Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I remember a rich owner coming to see his two horses work I was driving one of them in Perth a fox ran across track in front of me and my horse tried to jump it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globederby12 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 46 minutes ago, hunterthepunter said: I have a share in a nice horse for sale two starts for two 4ths by bettors delight is a 3yo As long as it's by a Christian Cullen mare .Hunter.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterthepunter Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 1 minute ago, globederby12 said: As long as it's by a Christian Cullen mare .Hunter.. is out of a Cullen mare globe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 9 hours ago, Chestnut said: haha my first painful foot experience was harness... Royal York stepping on my foot and then getting stubborn and not moving it .. Joe said .. he can be like that Still Yorky shared his feed and molasses with me.. my childhood addiction I had the same treatment from a fantastic horse called McShane. He was an Open Class Trotter of some talent. I used to work him early in the morning. He wasn't a particularly great morning person and was always a bit grumpy. Always would give a couple of kicks to the sulky just placed to frighten you not to hit you. This particular morning there was a minus 7 degree frost on a crystal clear Nelson day. By the time we had done our 40 mins work the hands and feet were frozen and an icicle was developing on the end of the nose. The horse was nice and warm. We had heated water in the inside horse wash but still it took an age for the hands to get feeling back. The feet were always some time behind. Anyway McShane always liked a roll in the sawdust roll which he needed to step down into. He'd roll then you would ask him if he had finished. Invariably he would shake his head and have another roll. About the fourth time he would nod and you would put the lead on him. So when stepping up out of the roll he very accurately put one of his front hooves on my frozen foot!!!! I'm sure he had a grin on his face! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globederby12 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Funny you should mention him Chief. He was by Johnny Gee, ( by Johnny Globe) whom I followed numerous times at Hutt Park along with his stablemate Tony Bear. He reached open class racing againsted Basil Dean and co, and was exported as a 9yr old to USA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted April 9, 2019 Author Share Posted April 9, 2019 20 minutes ago, globederby12 said: Funny you should mention him Chief. He was by Johnny Gee, ( by Johnny Globe) whom I followed numerous times at Hutt Park along with his stablemate Tony Bear. He reached open class racing againsted Basil Dean and co, and was exported as a 9yr old to USA. Won an Interdominion trotters heat (driven by Tony Milina?) and I think the Canterbury Park Trotting Cup. A real character of a horse to train and drive. Boy do I have some stories! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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