slam dunk

Hey its..."proactive" BS and spin.

Now when the track does eventually open people will be reluctant going along if the day at risk of being cut short. Guerin should be canvassing opinion not just his own disguised apologist bias. Now last winter we had the worst ever affect on tracks. Far worse than Ellerslie experienced. Avondale last year ended up with an issue on one part of the track and straight away they were red carded with no cooperation from Head Office.

Not sure if you are aware of the flashy tunnel constructed at the other end. I can never understand the blase attitude about crossings. Many horses hurdle it and looking at incidents there seems a lot of serious falls after the finish line. The crossing just a short cut to the golf complex. Surely at least some sort of plank system could be used.

I played the Ellerslie Golf Course the other day. Couldn't find many holes there. Maybe should have played the track.

Apparently she is 35. [Edited by moderator] I dare say when she is 50 she might realize the crap closer to home.

On the sub subject of racecafe postings whatever has happened to the bunch of posters there viz. the mayoral candidate as well as his postings (abuses)?

PJ, On doing a bit of googling I note Sir Blink was bred just above the beach i.e. Urenui. by an I.R. Cole. Now I did quite a lot of hunting in those days and one of the key people in the Hunt Club there was Ivan Cole. So I guess the main organiser of the beach races would have been him. I thought I knew a bit about Taranaki racing but the Sir Blink connection never registered. Also in those days there were a lot of boutique studs so I presume Blue Coral would have stood at one of them. How about you being a Taranaki man? Were you aware of the Sir Blink story?

And coming up in a few hours the Julian Assange appeal go ahead verdict. If it goes against Assange the Sh** will really hit the fan.

Going back to fifties Sir Blink (Blue Coral-Inky) won 1958 Caulfield Cup. Blue Coral seemed to have close connections to Taranaki and Inky was a Rangitikei Cup winner. And here is an interesting story for those with time avail. https://www.racing.com/news/2017-10-18/the-cup-the-plunge-the-galloping-godbys

Soon as I saw the photo something told me I was there that day. Can't remember the year and don't know what it was that told me I was here. The question I have where did you source the photo from? The Golovine horse is on the tip of my tongue.

Waitoetoe beach? Near Urenui. Looks like Snapper Kamo the clerk. WAs the sire Summertime?

I find a clear relationship with barrier draw and position in running. THose that say barrier draws not relevant to punting yet position in running is very important are illogical as one leads to the other. Example Race1 tomorrow Holy Orange likely to lead yet in last 3 starts has been positioned near the back.

The 1924 Auckland Cup the top weight carried 9st 7lb. There were 4 horses on the bottom weight of 6st 7lb. Thats about 20kg difference. Some of the other races the range was even greater.

I am happy to run any query on New Zealand races from a pool of 84,000 races i.e. 30 years but it would need an "intelligent" list of parameters plus filters e.g. we are not interested in jumping races. Something like what is the average tote price for winners from each draw along with their success rate. Track conditions and distance need to be separated. Even then the anomalies are huge so it needs a clear statement as to what the question is and answer required.

I'm tipping this could have the same effect as the selection of Ardern for Labour leadership. However she will have to take a harder line on Israel and bend quite a bit on other staunch Conservative policies. Suddenly Keir Starmer could find himself on the back foot.

Man I cannot believe the likes of Mardigras etc and how naive (thats being kind) they are. If saying saying draws don't mean much longterm they forget that track conditions and even the track make the figures even out over time. So if inside draws are favourable on dry tracks and outside draws on wet tracks the overall results for barrier draws cancel out leading to the false conclusion draws don't matter. I would suggest running a query over say 1200m races run in less than 1:11.00 and see how the draws trended.

I was finding it useful going back and seeing the horses selected including remembering my own. Also seeing how people played the challenge. Surprised it has been deleted.

St Reims couple of track records Ellerslie 2100 and Hastings 2000

I note you are not a fan of Access. I use Paradox which came out before Access like about 1990. OK I'm just one individual with no networking required but Paradox like Access is just a desktop app which can be linked to the main server. I use Paradox-Filezilla-mysql-php-javascript plus a few other aids. The point is if staff are proficient in Access let them use it for internal workflow whilst updating or extracting from the web server when required.

A container was supposedly in Auckland. Everytime I approached ARC for some info on it was given the brush off. However the Auckland club did extract some photo paintings and hung them up in the members. I fear that someone decided the rest wasn't tangibly valuable like old racebooks and was dumped.

Brings to mind the achievements of Clyde Conway and the beach training.

I'm serious the most enjoyable rendition ever not just this song but several others.

Any odds on when the Ellerslie track opens up the commentator will be Tom Wood.

Well Fox came right. With only about 13 holes to play the TAB had Fox at 150:1

Ryan Fox shocker. He had the Irish Open in the bag but fluffed the last two holes. Now I am only a once a year golfer but I would be disappointed if I couldn't get a 100 yard chip at least 10 feet from the hole. Fox barely got it on the green. That must have cost him $400k being difference 2nd to 3rd.