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New Zealand Thoroughbred Awards Decided 2019


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On 9/09/2019 at 3:23 PM, All The Aces said:

Went pretty much as expected. 

Except for Isola Racing Stables beating Boys Get Paid in their respective category.

How that happened God only knows.... should have been a stewards enquiry into that result, but good on them. 

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The categories in those awards have seemed to me, to be rather irrelevant - not that I wish to denigrate the winners,  that's not my intention - but, sprinter-miler, for example?  there's a world of difference between a 1000m specialist and a 1600m one.

And how does Melody Belle,  grand performer that she is,  get that award when she didn't win a Stewards,  or a Railway,  or a Telegraph ?  WFA,  for sure,  but I don't think there was even a category for that this year.

As for the Darci Brahma - Wahid b/s....that had to turn a lot of people off the whole process.

Anyway,  good on the winners regardless - special mention to Brittany Moore,  a very deserving winner of the Strapper award - and also Bill Thurlow, a helluva decent bloke,  and good to see credit outside the 'big shots' .

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Well Freda it is the Sprinter-Miler Award.

The last time I looked the Stewards is a G3 race so I fail to see any relevance in picking that race out.

Melody Belle won did win the G2 Foxbridge Plate over 1200m and did run a great 3rd in the G1 Railway. She also won four G1 races two at 1400m and two at 1600m.  (not to mention a fifth G1 at 2000m) 

There couldn't be any other outcome in the result, she was an emphatic winner. 

 

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