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Remember you & me Josia, rooting for her. We said she ready to go full pro 2 ish years ago! Hallelujah time. Better late than never. 2 from 2 now is it. Ha. Go Ms Wigg.

Agree with Globie here. If you slow motion it, & freeze frame it, it looks like he doesnt connect with horse. In hindsight he shouldn't of done it via close fist, open hand & wouldn't of looked so bad. The horse was right up on his nickle. Annoyed he turned & closed fist, warned the horse, get out of my space. That is what he did. Next time tho, do it open hand - out of my space buddy.

Just took a peak. Looks like all his horses had a virus. Based on stripes report.

Wow this horse looks the goods. Go Okoha Connor. There is a horse in North. Yet to be unleashed. Massive 400 metre high speed. Up there I hear based on speed alone with Merlin & Don't Dream Stop Dreaming. However prob be sold off to Aussie. Spirit by the way never contested any young age group races. But has ended up being the open class age group goods.

Hi cutieness Josia, You don't by any chance have shares in a horse that recently won? Answering your question, tots agree with you. However here Im interested as based on on-course attendance of 4,500 peeps, & likely approx prob guessimate at least 1/2 of these would never visit a race course again. Eg your once a year visitor. Therefore not have a online TAB account. Feel the raceway didn't, make the most of this. Didn't engage with those encouraging them to bet. How could they when many were wrapped in waiting in booze line. That's my point. Otherwise, with this exception, yes get it and agree. Its not relevant. Cambridge was my hope for Harness racing NZ. Them & Addington. Give up tho. Reality is, its a hard sell. Product - Betting on harness horses (hard sell). Thrown in barriers the best in the business (North) eg Cambridge Raceway, do this sort of thing. Joke material. Overall its a gone burger. Sorry fans. 10 years I give it. NZ Harness racing. Enjoy whats left.

Nite all.

Globie. No need to reply. BUT remember u said something & I was the 1st to say actually I heard the same, nothing to do with horses. Thought u were maybe on the money, but then we were all told not true. Anyway Im starting to believe it.

Gawd thanks for the share Rusty. Um um umm, I get cast offs. Umm umm yea. Umm umm.

Good luck Nod, sorry Im relucant to include Nods horse here in Deep South Watch, but wanted to throw a shout out.

Btw Forbs where are you. Saw you were online yesterday. But no posts.

Ps sorry, but where is the on-course Cambridge turnover for The Race day? Anyone know?

No word on North Harness getting there own admin yet.

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Hi @Maximus Have you figured out yet why @pete liked having me on here? Or still no?

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Bella B had tie up issues. M Jones has taken measures to fix that. And also had junior concessions on so less points. 1 horse doing well after a stable change for me is different than multiple or all others. Deep South Watch continues - lets watch out for stables changes here we go. Sunday Judith Gwenda trial form is 5 of 5 & 3 of 9. Into Dewe stable. TAB form selector has Beautiful Noise (Dewe) as their selection even drawn 15 in a 16 horse field. From 653048. New to stable. So HRNZ form have him/her on top. They must love the draw & the form lol.

I would too young Blackie. She is the best. Was watching a replay of her driving a horse called 2 I C. And 2 I C got pumped out 4 wide. What would most drivers do, push forward. What did N Ras do she instantly went back to rear & instantly looked for short cuts. Smart. That's what I would do too! Unfortunetly no gaps came. Lightening you are on the money. Check the pic out. Orange could of/should of relented EARLY to re-take lead. No one coming in running line. Coast is clear. But every chance at that early stage horse 1 would of run up & held Cage from trail.

Results time - checked into see how it all went last nite the big guns & interesting reading over the Lincoln Farms site below are pre-race comments by Green. Then after race comments. Pre race Race 7: Copy That 8.24pm “It’s hard to know what will happen early - we’re not guaranteed to lead with Nicholas Cage and Chimichurri immediately outside us, one of them will probably launch, but I don’t think it matters. Blair will do the right thing. He doesn’t have to lead. There’s no such thing as a certainty but on paper it does look really good for him. You couldn’t make a case for anything beating him.” After race comments below https://www.lincolnfarms.co.nz/stories/copy-that-mauled-in-front-but-goes-down-fighting-like-a-nicholas-caged-lion/ Orange said in deciding when to relent he waited until he was sure the field had been broken up enough to ensure he could complete the retaking manoeuvre. Green said it could be debated that Orange should have let Nicholas Cage go sooner but he was not about to question the drive. My thoughts are perhaps he should of spoken to Orange & said exactly what he said to the Lincoln Farms journo that was made public prior the race. Sometimes the Southern drivers may not be aware of all North horses form. Feel it cost both Cage & Copy That both top 3 spots had Orange, relented sooner then retaken lead. Thoughts Happy on the below as per your thread. Does RIB need to get harder & disqualify a horse that wins if driver breaks the rules? I find it a bit of a joke, & some drivers are just taking the piss. Purposely breaking the rules when they chose to. Penalties are too light. Will keep happening until penalties are tougher. Purdon suspended But in an unfortunate sequel, Akuta’s driver M Purdon was found to have used his whip with more than a wrist flicking motion in the run home of the Taylor Mile and was fined $300 and suspended for seven driving days up to and including May 14. That means he will not be able to drive Akuta in next week’s Messenger. PS putting that aside for a moment. A 4yo won. Good!

Enjoyed last Fridays The Race meeting & entertainment I guess.

Was he playing the invisible man game on Fri nite? By all accounts Iv heard yes. Heard racing manager Catherine was there. Addington manager Darrin was there, HRNZ chairman was there. Others were there, but no sign of HRNZ CEO. I do stand to be corrected. Don't have spies everywhere haha.

Agree great idea re the video. Trying not to be the negativity queen, but come on this video is basic & 1 min 30 secs. Very basically produced, which is fine. My point is that, it would of taken low resources prob 1/2 a day max to cut, put together by 1 person. Great they did it. Better late than never. How many employees do RIB have 100+ isn't it. Why just now produce a simple easy to do video. Should of been done ages ago. Basic stuff. I mean what do the majority of RIB staff do all day? RIB report that goes online, would be 1 touch type typist who would type it up reports as they he/she gets them, someone with a key stroke of approx 45- 50 words per minute. Would take that person 1 day to flick thru a days reports pending how many reports were done. Actually they would prob have 2-3 people doing it pending the workload. I dunno. I don't know enough about what goes on. I'm just wondering what the 100 odd people are doing all day.

Total turnover 1.2 million NZD. No word yet with on-course turnover. Bear in mind only 8 races. Still 4,500 strong crowd. With a big $1 million race. Seems low to me. But Im not a guru with turnover whats the norm these days. Still anticipate a low on-course turnover, for numbers on-course.

DR is right. Think of Lakers games, Breakers etc. They all have entertainment. The last Breakers game I went to a couple years ago, they had cheerleaders, this game of shoot the hoop win money from a far range, also your on candid camera kiss, hug whatever, Japanese bongo performers, this big dancing bird & so on. Super bowl has a major 1/2 time show. Celebrities perform. Advertisers pay BIG money to get an ad on 1/2 time show.

The incoming WhatsApp messaging mail is that yes a survey has been sent out. And that in the ladies loo, many ladies were seen going into the loo together. 2 at a time. Funny that. Wonder what they were getting up to in there. Young people these days. Sorry team I just find it ironic.

Haha yea Im really a 90 year old she-him. Tricked you all. Latest update. Word is that people in Club House Hospo area had a good time. Good news is word is Camb plan to send out a survey this week to all who attended. So everyone will get a chance to have their say & Camb will take in all feedback & make any needed changes next year. This includes those in General Admin area (who are majority of attendees). This is what Iv always liked about Camb Club. Willing to listen to the people. Very happy to hear this news. Anyway thats me over & out on this subject. PS Globe was meant to say, was a tad disappointed with drive on Majestic Man. Felt it was tough on him. Didn’t like watching him have to cover all that extra ground on race replay. Poor boy. In my mind was saying please go back to rear. Never mind.