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9 minutes ago, Double R said:

our TAB have him listed for four rides at Warrnambool on Tuesday. I shake my head in disbelief!!!

I just had to double check that for myself (as I was going to make a phone call to the TAB), but I think you may possibly have mistaken one Dean for the other Dean. 

What a great video clip this is. 

Credit to Jonny Turner, this is a feel-good watch, and what racing is all about.

Love the enthusiasm and a bit of fire in the belly when the horse is running for home.

It's great to see, I just wanted to share it, incase people had missed it. Maybe Trackside executive producers/directors could do a bit more of this kind of thing, instead of immediately crossing to the next at the Boomerang Creek greyhounds. 

https://fb.watch/kdxMf6zChn/?mibextid=Nif5oz

It's the very worst part of horse racing, these tragic circumstances. Words can't convey just how sad such events can be. 

Thoughts and condolences to the family and friends left behind. My heart goes out to his wee kids too. 

The give-a-little page is such a good gesture, and will no doubt offer some needed support to the family going forward. 

As sad as what the racing game can be at times, it can also demonstrate just how strong the racing community can be during tough times.

And credit to Racing Victoria too, for accommodating some flexibility in dates of race meetings and venues. 

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1 hour ago, Purple Parsnip said:

3rd in Westport Cup (off 90m) as a 7yo and a matter of days later 2nd in the Auckland Cup

I've said forever, Coast form stacks up anywhere in the world! In either code. 

16 minutes ago, Happy Sunrise said:

What happened?

Purdon was saying on the weekend that Akuta will be visiting the vet clinic at Matamata and be given the precautionary once over for maintenance purposes. 

One could be forgiven for thinking that Akuta is missing the Messenger, in response to the enforced holiday given to the driver/owner, re: the whip rule, from the Taylor Mile race. 

M Guerin wrote this for HRNZ: 

Taylor Mile winner Akuta is going to be allowed to miss the Group 1 Messenger at Alexandra Park this Friday even though there is nothing wrong with the star four-year-old.

Akuta grabbed his brave stablemate Self Assured and impressive Victorian pacer Better Eclipse in the last stride of the $90,000 Mile at Alexandra Park last Friday after an early burn saw hot favourite Copy That left vulnerable in front.

He was the third different winner in the three open class pacing features in the north in 15 days, confirming the evenness of the crop and post-race Akuta was the $3 equal favourite for the Messenger this Friday.

But his co-trainer Mark Purdon says he is all but certain to bypass the 2700m mobile.

“He has raced three weeks in a row and I don’t want to make it four, especially in what could be a hard 2700m,” says Purdon.

“He is still only four and in his first real season of open class racing so if he misses this week I can get him ready for Dad’s race (The Roy Purdon Memorial, May 19) and the Auckland Cup a week later.”

Purdon says the short break will enable Akuta to have his hocks undergo their routine maintenance treatment, which because of the withholding times for medication he can’t have the same week he races.

“He has always had a few hock issues but he was the best he has been this last week,” Purdon explains.

“But Friday was a hard run and his run the week before in The Race by Grins was also hard so I don’t want to keep asking him to do that every week.

“I still think he is getting better and with a good spell after the Auckland Cup I think he could come back a better horse later in the year.

Purdon will be back to drive Akuta on May 19 but is suspended until then after being outed for seven driving days for his whip action in the Taylor Mile.

58 minutes ago, Hesi said:

I suppose it tells you a lot about the current people running the ATC, and why they have seen the collapse of harness in the North

Hit the nail on the head. 

A very sad and sorry state of affairs. 

A further example of the arrogance of the ATC president, Jamie MacKinnon. 

Tyler Dewe: 

"We might get horses that aren't much good. 

But as soon as we get a win with them, we try and um you know, flick them on or, or, you know..." 

Have a think about that for a few minutes. 

"Horses that aren't much good." 

I'll repeat that: 

"Horses that aren't much good." 

He is telling the truth there.

Judging by some of their form, if one could call it "form", perhaps it's better to say their previous racing record. Which is often full of duck's eggs!

But Tyler Dewe can turn these horses, that "aren't much good", right around, into winning performances. Often with ease. 

Well done to him, good on him. 

He's a world class, fine horseman, at such a young age, to be able to get these "aren't much good" horses, to win, and win well, often first up for him, is really something.

Isn't it a pity, that he can turn these "aren't much good horses" into pretty handy types (based on their performances for him), yet he wants to flick them on, or, or you know, straight afterwards. 

A trainer, with many talents. 

I'll just leave this here. 

https://fb.watch/k2GyCYkzrl/?mibextid=Nif5oz 

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It's very straight forward, and a good idea producing that video. 

The penalties being dished out for such breaches, just don't seem to be working. 

Perhaps it's time to start disqualifying horses from place bearing positions, if it is found the driver breached the whip rule? 

Would that send the message home more quickly? Would that get a quicker result, in making more drivers, more compliant? 

Imagine if Arden Rooney was given the capital D after Kerryn Manning broke the whip rule, winning the NZ Cup a few years back. She got fined, but kept the race. And who paid the fine? Her? Or the horse's owners? 

Break rules = cheating? 

I don't know. 

But what I do know is, something has to be done to try and front foot this whip issue, before the anti-racing brigade start jumping up and down about it. So good on the powers that be for producing the video. It's a small but positive step in the right direction, for the good of the sport. 

5 hours ago, karrotsishere said:

True & answer is yes. Perhaps need to amend the rule even further then somehow. 

The proposed(?), or incoming rule, is clearly taking aim at him, isn't it? And if it wasn't for him, there would be no need to introduce such a rule. 

So maybe a better, more watertight rule, would be to limit the number of horses any one trainer could have registered in their name at any one time, and also have tighter controls over the standard of conditions for horses at a trainer's stable.

Eg. Requirement to have boxes, roofed stables, with no more than x number of horses per hectare, adequate food, grass, and horses must not been seen eatting horse excrement. 

Or even better, just take his licence from him altogether, and go after his arse from an animal welfare perspective. 

10 hours ago, karrotsishere said:

The latest update r B Yole & Tassie racing. Is a new rule has been made, this is to promote intergrity & fairness & participation.

No trainer is allowed to have more than 50% of runners. 

So if there are 11 starters the max any 1 trainer can have or have in their care is 5. 

Not sure when this rule comes into play. 

Interesting. But doubt it will work. 

I wonder if B Yole has a wife/husband, kids, that may possibly take out their own trainer's license? 

Can see it happening a mile off, he'll have half the field, and some family connection of his, will have the other half.

23 minutes ago, Happy Sunrise said:

I wonder how the other trainers down South feel about it all. 

I've got a rough idea. 

And it's not just the other trainers, but owners too. 

1 hour ago, Happy Sunrise said:

Here it is.

https://harnesslink.com/new-zealand/cambridge-raceway-forums-provide-blueprint-for-ni-industry-change/

Looks good. 

D Branch is a massive asset to the sport. 

Honestly, why isn't he running HRNZ? 

Only a matter of time? 

9 hours ago, Happy Sunrise said:

Noms for Addington.

Thunderbirds are go.

My wallet is ready. I am hoping for an opening $1.70ff quote.

Cheers Happy, yeah anything over $1.25 is money for jam really. 

8 hours ago, karrotsishere said:

Here is another - Thunderbirds are Go.

With Ladybird.

Race 2, Winton - Non win race - 065980 The Ladybird

17 starts 1 placing.

Changed stable to T Dewe, had 1 start for T Dewe last start. Suprising didnt win 1st up for him, but note race review - states it broke when traveling.

Race review  (3pegs, brk whn travelling trn)

Ticks all the boxes, and I will be unleashing on this thing.

Rabobank are currently offering 6% on a term deposit, so anything over $1.10 represents real "value" here in my opinion. 

17 starts, 0 wins, 1 second, 0 thirds. 

Prior to last to last start, it was never favoured in any betting markets; 8/8, 13/13, 9/9 etc, etc. 

But nevermind all that.

Has one of the most talented horsemen, and one of the highest UDR trainers in any code, in any hemisphere, of all time, so fill ya boots and get amongst it I say. Bet with extreme confidence. It's almost a "maximum bet" job. 

Well spotted indeed Karrots. Cheers. 

I love all the pre-race discussion, including "no comments" (Z Butcher), regarding tactics, and possible scenarios on how the race may unfold soon after the release point from the mobile arm. 

History tells us, whatever M Guerin thinks will happen after the start, the dead set opposite will eventuate! 

11 hours ago, karrotsishere said:

Id be public announcing tactics if I was Z Butcher saying I'm leading at all costs

Z Butcher is zipping it, and not giving anything away regarding tactics! 

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I haven't seen the turnover for Addington, but one would think it was through the floorboards.

It was one of few Addington meetings that I didn't attend. What was the "crowd" like there yesterday? Let me guess. One couldn't get a seat, and had to queue for hours to get a drink and take a slash? 

A move back to an evening timeslot would give the opportunity for more to attend, as currently, people try and cram everything into the Saturday day time, sandwiched between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. No doubt it would get the on and off-course turnover up, than sticking to the status quo of a daytime time slot, and stuck on Trackside 2. 

But harness racing administers, and a lot of its followers, just go "meh" and carry on their way. One day they will wake up. Or maybe they won't.

But until they do, it's death by a thousand cuts.