Serious injury leaves Plymouth Chubb's racing career in doubt
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...reer-in-doubt/
I am guessing he was doing light work as a taper before spelling?
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Serious injury leaves Plymouth Chubb's racing career in doubt
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...reer-in-doubt/
I am guessing he was doing light work as a taper before spelling?
That is bad news. A 60% chance of making it back and a 4 to 6 month spell are highly optimistic opinions from my experience. At least it is only a fracture and that would be what the vet's are counting on. But 4 screws suggest it is a pretty long fracture.
I had a very honest trotter back in 2003/04 season which won a couple of horse of the year awards from a single preparation. Second up in the new season off 20 metres he was up running third by the fist turn when his near side hind pastern split in half. The bone resembles a Peter's Two in One ice cream (for those old enough to remember them) and separated right down the middle.
The choice was try and save him as a paddock horse or say goodbye. Some excellent veterinary work and a lot of money saved him. He had three screws inserted, the middle one from the opposing side of the bone. Four weeks boxed at the vet's in a fibreglass cast (which I have kept as a souvenir) followed by four weeks boxed at home with a constrictive bandage at home was needed. It was a successful procedure and the morning I let him run in the paddock my wife couldn't look.
About a year after the injury I had too load a mare to take to the vet's. The trotter followed her into the yard so I rang the vet and booked him in for x-rays. I did not tell him of the previous "salvage" prognosis, he was an extremely experienced and honest equine specialist.
He rang me the following day to say the pastern had healed extremely well but he was concerned he may have incurred an undiagnosed fracture to the fetlock. He told me he expected the horse may get back to trialling stage of a preparation but would be likely to go amiss when racing pressure was applied.
I was thrilled with his summary, far better than the original prognosis and he said the horse would be fine to ride. He has been with my neice used as a hack irregularly over the past 16 years, loving his life. He is 23 now and pretty arthritic in the injured leg and his eyesight isn't what was but we are all happy.
As smart as he was he was no Plymouth Chubb. Given that horse's ability and stakes banked I can understand his owners throwing the kitchen sink into their efforts to get him back on the track and I wholeheartedly wish them well.
However, as I have learned, time, time and then more time is the best chance with this type of injury. He is only three and would still be growing and maturing. I don't expect to see him at the races at least until midway through his 4 year old season. If at all. Fingers crossed I am wrong.
A bad story that became a good one - a great and relevant read, thanks Trev.
You can't help but think that simply forgetting about a 3yo season would be a wise move
Without knowing any facts, other than 4 screws used to hold the bone together, I'd suggest at least a year off. It doesn't matter how fast they can race on the track, all horses take the same time to heal.
Another tear away win in the R1 trot at Charlton today (like Glenn Conroy's drive at Maryborough last week)
The Beauty of the Stand Start
You don't get this in mobiles - the suspense as to whether they will catch the leader
Excellent 'pacing' by concession driver Luke Dunne
http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...22#CHC17012207
Peakz Luck won the Gp3 $25k Central Victorian Trotting Championship at Maryborough today
Her MR of 2.03.3 for the 2690m SS was not too far off the Tk Rec of 2.02.5 (which has stood for 10yrs now)
Since coming from NZ she has now won 5 and been third in her other 3 runs
http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...22#MHC24012206
Admittedly I don't follow the trotters that closely but I noticed for tonight that import Interview's sire was one that I had not heard of - Traders
He is a well performed Gp winning son or Ready Cash out of a daughter of Giant Cat.
Interview and a German filly Mylie Scott are his only Classic Families progeny credits although he would only have had a couple of crops to race
Mylie Scott suggests there is not a great deal of money in German trots as she won a Gp1 Breeders Crown but only has €11k to her name
https://classicfamilies.azurewebsite...rseID=10181266
With all the talent in our trotting ranks, I cannot see how it will be possible for 10yo's Tornado Valley and Tough Monarch to stay ahead of the game
If Jason Lee doesn't get an extensive stretch on the sidelines for turning the Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prix into the Australian Demolition Derby a For Sale sign should be erected fronting the Western Freeway. The track will be redundant because nobody will come back! Disgraceful and dangerous drive, had it been a field of pacers four or five horses would have fallen.
He is in more trouble than an
Torado Valley has been retired
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...alleys-career/
Great pic (maybe more so of Kate than Torado)
That was incredible improvement by Credit Master to run 1.53.1 while sitting in the death
http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...22#PCM05032204
How does he beat Tough Monarch (6th) on his two previous runs?
You would not be expecting a trotter from
Captaintreacherous x Smyrna Duruisseau
but Be My Star has now won 2/2 (this month)
She is a half sis to Follow The Stars
(apologies if I have posted this somewhere already - it sounds really familiar to me)
http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...22#BNC09032212
PP rightly asks this morning, how could the VSTA award Kalarney Heidi trotter of the year when she was unplaced in her two Gp starts while on the other hand all Maori Law's races were Gp status with him winning two Gp1's and three Gp3's
It is a very valid question to ask and I am sure a spokesperson for the VSTA will provide an answer.
Just to show how much I have dropped the ball I plead guilty of never having heard of the winner. However, less than $40,000 for the season would suggest I haven't missed the second coming of Maoris Idol or Scotch Notch. Maybe the VSTA doesn't recognise interstate performances for the award.
30 seconds on google presents this
https://www.victrotters.com/vsta-awards-bonus
Owners have to be members of VSTA.
That is what PP thought it would be but then he found a members list which had the Crews on itQuote:
Originally Posted by aussiebreno
Favourite for the Gp1 2yo fillies tonight Valerie Lane has interesting breeding
Her 2nd dam Chancery Lane was a nice trotting mare who won 11 of 28 but was pacing bred
Her dam Valsue was also by pacing sire Elsu but they already knew her older full brother was nice trotter Prescient BUT they also knew that her outstanding (juvenile) oldest half brother Lord Of The Gym was by Muscles Yankee so they must have thought a lot of Prescient (who only raced for 20mths) to go to Elsu again. PS. Valsue's half bro Lord Chancellor is still going around in SA
When you go back to her 3rd dam, pacer Streets Of London you see that she had 3 trotting bred siblings and an older full bro that trotted come before her and 3 more trotting bred siblings come after her
So although the first and 2nd dam were sired by almost exclusively pacing sires you can see that 4th dam Carla Hanover set this up to be a trotting arm of the family
ClassicFamilies is fantastic eg It even has the info that Carla Hanover's sire Danny Hanover won 9 races at Harold Park (including a 59 Derby heat)
How is it that HRA's online records are so poor for Australia (I have been told you probably cannot rely on their records pre 2000) when ClassicFamilies covers the whole world (only Classic winners, but still)
PP is suggesting that one of the reasons Australian punting on NZ harness racing has declined is
On average about 2-3 of the races on each card are trotting events, which don't appeal to Australian punters.
I have no evidence of this, I don't know whether PP has, but if it is so why are we pushing the trotting gait?
Last night 6 of the 12 races at Bendigo were trots
Locksley Lover has some very serious talent
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXM04062209
In the main trot, I can see why James Herbertson got a QDT on Nephew Of Sonoko - what was he thinking!
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXM04062208
Have we seen the best of Majestuoso :confused:
$30k for a Gp2 is pathetic.
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#BNM30072210
The only problem is calling a 70 to 85 rc a Gp2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Correct. This is NOT what group races are meant to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by aussiebreno
We only have 6 starters in the Gp1 for 3yo C&G and 7 for Gp1 3yo Fillies
This is because that is all we had in the heats
Why so few?
Did you have to have gone through the Premier sale to enter?
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXM13082210
3yo fillies and colts each have 2 heats of the Need For Speed at Melton tonight
Plymouth Chubb is returning for the first time this year
I cannot believe that Cravache Dor is now favourite
The Mannings know what they are doing
PB went 1.56.6 as a 2yo
CD has never broken 2mins
If you want to bet against PB, you could try Arcee Phoenix who is still $6.50 compared to CD odds on (Arcee beat Cravache at their last start)
It is only a heat but coasting is not the Mannings style
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXC23082215
Will the real Plymouth Chubb return - we will have to wait and see
BUT what a night it was for sire Village Mystic (a son of Love You)
This French sire served only 6 mares to produce 4 foals in 2018 - 2 of whom have raced
They won both heats of the Need For Speed Princess tonight
I don't know that it will translate into better patronage for VM as I note in his only other season - he served 6 last year for only 1 foal
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...s/?mc=MX230822
More on the above breeding
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...speed-winners/
We saw the pacers Oaks and Derby over the longer trip last Saturday, why is it that the trotters Oaks tomorrow is over the shorter middle trip, in the past I thought it was the trotters that reveled over the longer trips
Maryborough's big day on Sunday
The Derby looks a bit of a match race (after Plymouth threw away his place) with Cravache holding favouritism over Harry thanks to the superior draw
While in the Redwood, recent combatants Susan and the Locomotive share favouritism narrowly over Rockin who was their conqueror last time
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...s/?mc=MH301022
Susan is in to $2.60 while The Locomotive is out to $4 and now behind Rockinwithattitude $3.80
If trotting is our future - it has to do better than today's Redwood
The stand start was a Joke
Given that, everybody knew that 1st and 2nd had the best manners (if they didn't - the TrotsVision team told you)
Susan Is Her Name was a stupendous run after losing so much ground just after the start (ridiculous odds mind you for a 2yo trotter to be odds on in a Gp1 Stand)
Greg Sugars apologized after the win and if you look at the replay of the home straight, I think he may have been shaking his head when he sees Rockinwithattitude is not going to get back into a trot after Cognati checked her.
It could have been disbelief that he was going to win but I don't think so
Was Rockinwithattitude going to beat Cognati? She was definitely going to challenge
Hers was another super run after not doing everything right
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MHC30102209
One Over All set a new Tk Rec in the Geelong Trotters Cup last start and broke the Tk Rec in todays Yarra Valley Cup - the problem was that Hopeful Beauty went faster
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#YGC03112207
It did not help that he gave up his 10m start on her due to a scratchy beginning (he had already been the cause of a false start)
There are some serious juvenile trotting races at Bendigo tonight
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...s/?mc=BN091222
I noticed Dublin Chubb is now with Ricky Alchin and is 2/2 at Menangle going around 1.56.5.
The bigger track must suit him as he only ever went 1.59.8 for Peter Manning but that was on 31/12/2019 and under the new season dates, he would have only been considered a 2yo then
A big day for the trotting gait enthusiasts with 10 Vicbred heats at Maryborough tomorrow
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...s/?mc=MH191222
Former NZer 3yo Rakero Blaze won at Maryborough today in his 4th start for the Gath stable
You do not find many Bettors Delight trotters - only half a dozen make the ClassicFamilies progeny list with a couple sneaking past $100k
I looked at the descendants of 3rd dam Van Glory and you don't find any trotters there either but you do find a bevy of talent
Dam Delizioso is a full sis to Under Cover Lover and she is also the 2nd dam of Amore Vita
https://classicfamilies.azurewebsite...rseID=10020653
The Gath's had already had the superbly bred Exalted win the 2yo trot at her second start.
Her dam Lunar Landing is a very serious producer and a star of her arm of the Maori Miss dynasty
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...s/?mc=MH281222
Exalted (above) is an emergency for the 2yo Silver Trot today and with scratchings has a start if he can back up. He has only been racing 1 week and it would be his 3rd start. Being Maryborough, there is no replay up of his 34m win yesterday and being Maryborough 2 days in a row I don't expect it will go up until tomorrow when the Creative Technology truck gets back to headquarters
Well Exalted showed in his first start that he can do things wrong and yet started odds on at his next two - one he wins one he mucks up - had to be a 50/50 I guess