Are the Interdoms still on?

[Chief Stipe]

Are they racing?

[Brodie]

Might as well not be!

Absolute yawn!

[Chief Stipe]

Where's @Gammalite?  That's right he can't travel.

[Gammalite]

4 hours ago, Brodie said:

Might as well not be!

Absolute yawn!

It's a pretty poor lot without Allstars there really. Team 'McCarthy' is cleaning up the heats.

Yeah so not much to report from Interdominion lol.

Just been chatting about past winners instead , as there was Great horses racing in the Interdominion in the past.

Last one I saw live was Blacks A Fake for QLD winning his first of four Interdominion Finals (inTas). so that was a treat.

and did see YULESTAR win for Nz in Brisbane. very good win for the Auckland horse.

[Rangatira]

1 hour ago, Gammalite said:

Just been chatting about past winners instead , as there was Great horses racing in the Interdominion in the past.

Franco Ice a head and a nose from making that list.

[Gammalite]

44 minutes ago, Rangatira said:

Franco Ice a head and a nose from making that list.

Mango leaving his run a bit late , but you know what they say Ranga ?. A nose is as good as 20 lengths , as long as it's your nose in front at the post.  

Roy Purdon picking up a lovely quinella here beating Franco Ice at Auckland. A sign of things to come from the young driver Mark ? 

Gammalite no such problem 'breezing' past the pretender Popular Alm at the previous Auckland Interdominion lol............

[Gammalite]

Yes the Interdominion is still on and the draws are out.!!!! fantastic.

Here's the Trot Final , and I'm keen for the Oz trotter , with a kiwi name and great kiwi Trainer of years gone by, to take the prize with MAORI LAW

Hard to believe that over 40 years have gone by since Richard Brosnan stormed to victory at Addington with his great trotter NO RESPONSE. Best of luck to Richard (and son Emmett co-trainer) in the Big One !

 

1	38723	JUST BELIEVE	Michael Hughes		Chris Alford		NR90	FR1
2	30164	MAJESTIC MAN NZ	Phil Williamson		Anthony Butt		NR118	FR2
3	67045	ALDEBARAN CRESCENT (Em 1)	David Aiken	Menangl 11/12/2021	Josh Aiken		NR99	FR-
4	21638	TOUGH MONARCH	Rickie Alchin				NR117	FR3
5	1s483	CALIGULA NZ	Blake Fitzpatrick		Blake Fitzpatrick		NR107	FR4
6	61521	MAORI LAW	E Brosnan, R J Brosnan		Greg Sugars		NR120	FR5
7	15332	PINK GALAHS	Matthew Craven		Matthew Craven		NR120	FR6
8	2s847	HUMBLE LADD NZ	Belinda McCarthy		Luke McCarthy	ODM	NR97	FR7
------------------------------ Second Row ------------------------------
9	s3304	ILLAWONG STARDUST	Tony Peacock		Luke McCarthy		NR84	SR1
10	76415	LOTAMUSCLE NZ	Matthew Craven		Sofia Arvidsson (C)		NR68	SR2
11	24202	KYVALLEY CHIEF NZ	Brent Lilley		Chris Alford		NR96	SR3
12	73251	THE PENNY DROPS	Ray Harvey		Grant Campbell		NR108	SR4
13	22660	ONE MAJIC KENNY NZ (Em 2)	Blake Fitzpatrick	Menangl 11/12/2021	Blake Fitzpatrick		NR77	SR-
14	38116	TIMOTHY RED	J A Rando, M J Rando		Cameron Hart (C)		NR68	SR5

[Gammalite]

And an hour after that trot,  the 2021 Interdominion Pacing Final is on next Saturday night.

Here's the field with Luke McCarthy (and wife Belinda) having a strong hand with 4 runners. Including the John and Robert Dunn owned ALTA ORLANDO. Best of luck them in the final.

The Queenslanders went well 2006 . Blacks A Fake taking the win (his first of 4 GF wins for Natalie Rassmussen) . 3rd Placing in the final, was a young Luke McCarthy with his sister's horse SLIPNSLIDE. In the very first batch of horses in his first years of training. Now 15 years later , he does look set to Finally take the Interdominion Crown.

Just shows how hard they are to win? But he still has to get to the post first. EXPENSIVE EGO and KING OF SWING went through the heats undefeated so sure seems like One of those 2 horses should Win. 

here's the barrier draw.

1	51111	EXPENSIVE EGO	Belinda McCarthy		David Moran		NR120	FR1
2	52573	MACH DAN (Em 1)	Kevin Pizzuto	Menangl 11/12/2021	Greg Sugars		NR119	FR-
3	48137	MALCOLMS RHYTHM	David Aiken		Josh Aiken		NR118	FR2
4	20423	TRIPLE EIGHT NZ	Jess Tubbs		Greg Sugars		NR120	FR3
5	24213	SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS NZ	Belinda McCarthy		John McCarthy		NR114	FR4
6	63245	MAJESTIC CRUISER	Jason Grimson		Cameron Hart (C)		NR120	FR5
7	33329	BONCEL BENJAMIN	Jason Grimson		Joshua Gallagher (C)		NR114	FR6
8	51934	THE BLACK PRINCE NZ (Em 2)	Roy Roots Jnr	Menangl 11/12/2021			NR119	FR-
------------------------------ Second Row ------------------------------
9	22225	ALTA ORLANDO NZ	Belinda McCarthy		Jack Callaghan (C)		NR120	SR1
10	17432	MAX DELIGHT	David Aiken		Chris Alford		NR120	SR2
11	13111	KING OF SWING NZ	Belinda McCarthy		Luke McCarthy		NR120	SR3
12	s3352	BALRAJ NZ	Jack Trainor		Jack Trainor		NR114	SR4
13	53852	OUR UNCLE SAM	Chris Frisby		Anthony Frisby		NR119	SR5
14	74651	BUNDORAN NZ	Amanda Turnbull		Amanda Turnbull		NR115	SR6

[Ludwig]

On 12/3/2021 at 4:17 PM, Brodie said:

Might as well not be!

Absolute yawn!

The days of all the big guns in New Zealand lining up to have a go are long gone.

[Gammalite]

10 hours ago, Ludwig said:

The days of all the big guns in New Zealand lining up to have a go are long gone.

Just for this year I would suggest. The BIG Guns of NZ harness are Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen (who is gone from training ranks for the moment ) but hopefully be back. Took advantage of the situation winning the Jewels and the NZ FFA with SouthCoastArden in the meanwhile.

Mark and Nat have won 3 of the past 4 Interdominion Pacing Grand Finals (3rd and 4th in the other one to Tiger Tara ) with Laz, Smolda and UltimateSniper over past 5 years so are Far from Long gone.

Team McCarthy having his Interdominion year to 'shine' 2021,  but don't give up, Allstars will be back soon doing NZ proud 

 

[Doomed]

Why is there no NZ interest this year? Is it the covid problem? What are the finals worth?

[Rangatira]

27 minutes ago, Doomed said:

Why is there no NZ interest this year? Is it the covid problem? What are the finals worth?

Trotters $150K (heats $20K)

Pacers $500K (heats 30K)

[Gammalite]

1 hour ago, Doomed said:

Why is there no NZ interest this year? Is it the covid problem? What are the finals worth?

The huge problem NZ has is the inability to have the right races to 'Prepare ' your horse with solid racing before feature races come along. Some are sent to Australia to prepare and race long in advance these days.

I believe three NZ owned (and bred)  horses sent over that have made the Grand Final. are TRIPLE EIGHT (2nd in Vic Cup recently) , ALTA ORLANDO (been in Oz a fair while now , but is raced by Nz leading trainers Robert and John Dunn) , and SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS.  

Do we count them as a New-Zealand win then if they take the title ????  I think we should ....

[Rangatira]

9 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

I believe three NZ owned (and bred)  horses sent over that have made the Grand Final. are TRIPLE EIGHT (2nd in Vic Cup recently) , ALTA ORLANDO (been in Oz a fair while now , but is raced by Nz leading trainers Robert and John Dunn) , and SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS.  

Do we count them as a New-Zealand win then if they take the title ????  I think we should ....

Bloody oath !!!!

[Gammalite]

On 12/7/2021 at 12:23 PM, Gammalite said:

Yes the Interdominion is still on and the draws are out.!!!! fantastic.

Here's the Trot Final , and I'm keen for the Oz trotter , with a kiwi name and great kiwi Trainer of years gone by, to take the prize with MAORI LAW

Hard to believe that over 40 years have gone by since Richard Brosnan stormed to victory at Addington with his great trotter NO RESPONSE. Best of luck to Richard (and son Emmett co-trainer) in the Big One !

Yeah Baby ! .......Gammalite knows his Interdominions having won 2 of them. join the list Maori Law.

And now the Great kiwi horseman Richard Brosnan has 2 of them as well to become an Interdominion legend .

Smashing run MAORI LAW !!! great drive Greg Sugars !! and great Training Richard and Emmett !! 

[Gammalite]

On 12/7/2021 at 1:00 PM, Gammalite said:

Luke McCarthy with his sister's horse SLIPNSLIDE. In the very first batch of horses in his first years of training. Now 15 years later , he does look set to Finally take the Interdominion Crown.

Just shows how hard they are to win? But he still has to get to the post first. EXPENSIVE EGO and KING OF SWING went through the heats undefeated

Well Luke you 'should' of drove the horse that drew One which would of been the smart thing. and put Moran on the 2nd row drawn horse. 

Also training them in YOUR own name would help and probably be good 'Karma' as well. 

And yes does Show how hard they (Interdominion's) are to WIn . McCarthy's had a ' 4 Horse Play' , then they Gets one to the post first even,   and then........... STILL DON'T get the Win.  lol. It's tough at the top. 

And finally Congrat's to the DUNN's with their fine 3rd Placing with the old Marvel I adore ALTA ORLANDO (a true trier of the highest order like Gammalite was)