Thanks for the tip Katie
I have certainly watched it now and it was magnificent horsemanship by the clerk of the course
I might go along with the stewards and their actions on allowing the race
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...23#ECC30052311
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Thanks for the tip Katie
I have certainly watched it now and it was magnificent horsemanship by the clerk of the course
I might go along with the stewards and their actions on allowing the race
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...23#ECC30052311
14yo Baccarat notches up his 4th win for the season in Vic. 2 lots of back to back victories
Surprising? He won 7 last season as a 13yo
https://www.harness.org.au/media-roo...?news_id=61225
Either PP or the sender of the email to the WA Minister for Education, need to do a better job of redacting - it is easy to read their name
Ararat rarely has any luck in regards to weather.
I reckon they will be lucky to go ahead tonight
Halls Gap is a different beast but we are only 40mins away and we have had over 2 inches of rain in the last 30hrs
We have had newly formed rivers here!Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
But looking at the radar it could all be gone well before R1 at 5.30 :D
It came back and how unlucky Aaron Dunn, Kevin Von Duve and Taylor Ford who were only there for the abandoned R9
Tonight's Kilmore now at Melton is good
PP had a very bad day on Wednesday.
As most would be aware we were the victim of a hoax late Wednesday afternoon, .......
To Summit Bloodstock and the individuals concerned we again say mea culpa and sorry.
In this age of millionaire babies taking all the headlines how about a quinella in which the combined age of the horses involved is 24!
On Wednesday night, Don Boston, age 14, won his 47th race and our horse Mister Haywood, age 10, ran 2nd.
Both horses have overcome career threatening injuries and are racing in great shape proving once again, age is only a number.
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized...HC05072308.mp4
By the way, the quinella paid $25.30, and a few of the people involved had it for a nice return.
Don Boston is a grand old horse, but how good is his mum Full Pleasure? What For, her 12th live foals, recently became her 12th winner. Five of them have earned more than a quarter of a million, how good is she? Her richest earner Kept for Pleasure is also a gem.
PP needs to do his research a bit better - they weren't racing at Melton last night
sorry about the width but canvas reduction is not working on Paint 3d for me this morning
Why are so many of the Lee horses called Keayang ...... ?
Did the Lees own the Terang property Keayang?
I have been told that champion horse (10 Gp.1's) and sire Ready Cash has passed away at only 18 due to colic
Terrible thinking by me, I know, but I could not help but wonder whether Kima had to start producing stories to keep her job in this time of cutbacks
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...c-in-his-camp/
Kate Gath wearing the Cordina colours on Catch A Wave tonight - is that whose slot they are representing in the Eureka?
There's an unraced 13 yo trialing in WA at the moment. The owner was promised by the trainer that he'd get it to the races by the time it reaches the enforced age cut off. Time is running out but you've really got to hand it to owners and trainers who are so dedicated to the sport and the love of their geegees. I hope he makes it!!
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...23#PAA06092302 (So Sancho trial 1)
Does Kima Frenning sell helmets? I noticed the helmet David Moran was wearing at Melton tonight had her name on it
He might now identify as a kima fremming. I even know people who identify as horse trainers!Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Noel would have liked this card I found (it could have been as early as 1890's)
I also found this quote:
In the early 1920's Webster's Dictionary defined a sulky as "so called from the owner's desire to ride alone."
Just looking at the races for Saturday & an article says its racing for 38 million at both Randwick and Caulfield . Bloody hell �� .
Would love to know Harness racings prizemoney budget for the year in Sydney.
I do know that prizemoney and bonuses for Vic will be $47m for this coming yearQuote:
Originally Posted by trish
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...ey-reductions/
The trainer of one of tomorrow's Cox Plate runners
“He’d work, go to the pub and have a punt,” he says.
“That’s how I got it [the bug]. I used to go to the TAB with him on a Saturday or so, and occasionally, if I had to go get him out of a pub, there’d be an SP there with a place card, and he’d give me one, and I’d fill it out.
“Also, on a Saturday night, you’d watch the trots at the Showgrounds on The Penthouse Club, and I’d make sure on a Thursday I’d buy the Truth and try and pick the last five winners. I never picked the last five winners ever.
“The broadcasters, the trainers, the jockeys, the horses, they were cult figures in those days. It was ingrained in me as a young kid living in Footscray at the time that it [the Cox Plate] is such a great race and such a great sport to be involved in.”
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/raci...25-p5eex2.html
Yes, once harness racing had a profile
PP is reporting that the Victorian Bookmakers Association which guarantees a bookie will pay you out (gallops only/mostly, I think) has been swindled and that the supposed fund which supposedly held as much as $100million has been discovered to be empty after the death of its sole operator. If true, many bookmakers have lost their retirement savings
The Great Bookie Robbery II. No guns and gangs involved this time, just a lot of poor suckers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
According to the VBA it would seem to be no 'Great' Robbery but a figure under $2m. Worst comes to worst, I am sure the bookies collective can cover it
I think, when things settle down, the VBA will look like a ship of fools. It is pretty easy for them to deny some of PP's claims only to admit they are unsure and are still awaiting explanations. Many, many more millions will have disappeared than what the VBA is admitting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Yes, it is looking likely Trev - going on The Age article published this afternoon:
The bookmakers’ association fears its $1.8 million investment is gone days before the biggest events on the spring racing calendar, including the Melbourne Cup, while one private investor could also be out of pocket an estimated $11 million.
Bookmakers have also privately invested millions of dollars with the law firm, seeking high returns on first mortgagor loans. A bookmaking source said they believe they had lost their investments.
Tough Tilly, one of Victoria’s greatest ever racemares, has been retired and will be mated with the 2020 USA Horse of the Year Tall Dark Stranger. Bred and owned by Benstud Standardbreds, the Captaintreacherous mare won 17 races including six at Group level and a whopping $618,333 in stakes.
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/the...48RPHkxK0WqDcM
Just looking at results for Penrith last night....FALCON SEELSTER ?? Really ??
Falcon Seelster was 29 when he was put down in 2011.
The Falcon Strike aged 15 , died 12 years ago & he was by Falcon Seelster .
2 6:44pm SKY RACING ACTIVE PACE 2125M
$9,792 NR up to 53. PBD/L5$. PACERS. Mobile Final Result
1 SELSEY BILL NZ $ 5,184 Fr1 1 Laurence Dawson Jack Brown (C,cl) $ 5.00 GS L BL 1 SWAB
BAY GELDING 4 by FALCON SEELSTER USA out of DIANA BROMAC (NZ) (HOLMES HANOVER USA)
We put a mare in foal to him 17 years ago!!!!
Good story & the video is priceless. He was a super horse.
https://standardbredcanada.ca/news/9...uthanized.html
Wow. He was a 1982 colt. I didn't know you could keep using frozen semen forever and a day. I am sure, I read a year or two ago that there would be no more Somebeachsomewhere and I thought there must have been a limit on how long you could keep using frozen semen. Maybe there is now? I notice Falcon Seelster has not had any foals since 2020Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
Champion sire, Fake Left was still siring winners 18 years after he passed on:
https://www.racingqueensland.com.au/...rs-after-death
Thought the same Kev, re dead sire frozen semen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Falcon Seelster's influence ongoing
Falcon Seelster sired the very good sire McArdle
In turn McArdle sired the very good sire Tintin In America
Tintin In America sired the superstar filly Shartin NZ - as an aged mare was voted US Horse Of The Year, are rare feat for a mare and even more creditable when she came from Australasia
She took a time of 1.46.4 and won nearly 2 &1/2 million, including a million in one season
A month ago at Lexington Yearling sale her first foal, a filly by Capt Treacherous, sold for $140,000 to the bid of Tony Alagna (trainer of the Captain) who later said she had been purchased for Richard Poillucci, who was the original purchaser when Shartin was sold to the US. He had sold her to her current owners as a broodmare when she retired from racing.
So Falcon Seelster's influence is still being seen at the top levels, albeit from a distance these days.
Geelong is one of the tracks that can host mile races and just the same they bastardize the track by running 1140m races. WTF
Four races out of eight where 1140 metres, I suspect we have to get used to these types of races. Not a huge fan on what I have seen in WA.
One of the 1140 winners ,Johnny Redcoat is a 12 yo and has only ever been trained by one person and has had 247 starts! The trainer is JH Barker (the driver has the same surname, so I am assuming that they are related) so that is an amazing effort for both horse and trainer. Must be a story there.
Certainly not my first choice given we can never match dogs or gallops for speed. Havent watched many races but am told those at the back dont have much chance.
However, I dont think we (the whole industry) can constantly bemoan the fall of the industry and question whats being done and then turn around and be upset about 90 second racing. I am sure studies would suggest younger generation have a short attention span and I am sure the TAB are pushing screen time so whether we like it or not I think its a space we need to get into. We just have to go full noise on it rather than very sporadic so punters and trainer/drivers can figure out the way races are run and we can optomise these 90 second races.
My point was that Geelong can/did also run short 'world accepted mile races' so why do they need to run these races - for the sake of 30 secs?!
Daniel, the Barkers are pretty much as recognizable a name in Vic harness racing as Hall is in WA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jasper
Jim (89yo) who trains Johnny is the Grandfather of Jackie who drove it (her dad is Rod)
Jim has won our highest award 'The Gordon Rothacker' medal
You need to brush up on your East Coast knowledge LOL
One way is to click on drivers and trainers names in the fields or results
You will then see tabs for Current Stats, Career Stats and Biography
However for a legend like Jim they are misleading in that they only start from 2000
Haven't cited truthfulness but second result on google when searching 'average attention span' is this articleQuote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
https://www.wyzowl.com/human-attention-span/
It says the average attention span has shrunk 25% from 2000 to 2015. A mile race to 1140m race around that 25% less.
An extra 30 seconds of lead in time on Sky could be quite handy for punting dollar as well (if we were to use that extra 30 seconds as lead in time).