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Posted
15 hours ago, hunterthepunter said:

where have some of these good trainers gone ??? Steve little , brain Saunders , Lawrence hanrahan , Paul newton ,Wayne ross , John lemon , David Gaffney ,Jeff crouth ,Alan scobie

Steve little used to run a pub in timaru . No idea where he is now.

brian Saunders . Have heard his name recently . Floating around Canterbury somewhere!

LH . No comment!

paul newton. Have seen a P Newton as owner recently. Is this the same guy?

wayne Ross. No idea 

john lemon is part of the Canterbury start crew I believe

gaffney last I heard was with Greg hope but that is a few years ago

crouth retired

scobie. Unfortunately no longer with us.

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32 minutes ago, Blossom lady said:

Steve little used to run a pub in timaru . No idea where he is now.

brian Saunders . Have heard his name recently . Floating around Canterbury somewhere!

LH . No comment!

paul newton. Have seen a P Newton as owner recently. Is this the same guy?

wayne Ross. No idea 

john lemon is part of the Canterbury start crew I believe

gaffney last I heard was with Greg hope but that is a few years ago

crouth retired

scobie. Unfortunately no longer with us.

I remember being sad when Mr scobie had a really good horse in the early 80s called Charles Luca won all 5 of it's starts and then got sold to the u.s.

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37 minutes ago, Blossom lady said:

paul newton. Have seen a P Newton as owner recently. Is this the same guy?.

yes there is a p d newton that races horses out of peter robertsons stable so that fits nicely

interestingly peter robertson would have made this list 15 or so years ago

Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, Flagship uberalles said:

I remember being sad when Mr scobie had a really good horse in the early 80s called Charles Luca won all 5 of it's starts and then got sold to the u.s.

then lord lenny came along and his half bro lookahead (by the sire of bloss)

drove bonnies chance before richard brosnan took over her training and was go to driver for gordon davidson of steady lady, gate pa and rollicking dean fame and he also drove giovanetto as a 2 and early 3yo

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1 hour ago, Rangatira said:

then lord lenny came along and his half bro lookahead (by the sire of bloss)

drove bonnies chance before richard brosnan took over her training and was go to driver for gordon davidson of steady lady, gate pa and rollicking dean fame and he also drove giovanetto as a 2 and early 3yo

Steady lady another fav of mine, she did very well in u.s

Posted
9 hours ago, Flagship uberalles said:

McRangas cousin mchohepa just before his turn at toss the caber competition at brodsters Cruz nightclub! ... Mr caber is reported to be recovering at home from severe groin strain.

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not a mickey gee under there

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Flagship uberalles said:

Scots whahae and lordic the only 2 I can think of his

i remember lordic

both gaffney and newton mostly used top shelf drivers

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