Lightning Blue

Thank you PJ for your amazing work here , right through the year . Happy New Year ! and best of luck to Qualify today . Also old mate , your No.1 ticket holder Hesi , who has gone very close to qualifying a few times , but getting run over late on just like a Blackcap against the Bangers . Today could be your day Hesi !!🏇🏆 Blackcaps to win T20, and Lucky 7's comp Q . A lot of similar entries today are going to make it hard. you might need a couple of Trifecta's? best of Luck 1. Hastings R1 / 2-3-5 2. Hastings R2 / 1-2-3 3. Hastings R7 / 1-3-6 4. Hastings R8 / 1-3-10 5. Gosford R4 / 1-3-4 6. Gosford R6 / 1-2-3 7. Gosford R7 / 5-9-13 BB

Where's opponent Jammo gone ? hasn't he got nine lives ? used up 2 of them already. Bit stiff not to be in front of the field really. My 80-1 shot would of won race 6 at Doomben but got sat on it's bum at the 150 when coming through . got off the deck to run 5th . Show Me Mercy in race 7 Doomben, well that showed no mercy at all so have checked out with Jammo . Swab +ve to Caffiene double expresso after that effort lol..

Wishing you all the best for a fine foal from your mare in photo PJ. also wishing some of our picks a 'winning end' to the year as well !!😁 R1/ 3-8-9 R2/ 1-2-7 R3/ 1-2-4 R4/ 6-8-11 R5/ 3-4-7 BB R6/ 1-4-5 R7/ 4-12-17 nice and stormy ⚡ around Doomben already at 8am today, after 2 days of 36 degrees. so might be the odd downpour today.

it was INEVITABLE that would happen . 😉

PJ's onto it mate. we drive em' hard over here and PJ knows the man from Snowy River and how a good whip crackin ' gets em rolling and I had to get crackin ' to catch up to you Geoff lol.🏇😉

Max and Maizey whipping out to the lead. Looks like a battle of the M and M's again today . (with the Magnificent Maria getting the Golden ticket to GF yesterday) com'on Max . time for some Hobart Heroics mate.

standard 'boardies' mate... for the god of Thunder and Lightning

Thanks PJ. Hobart today heading for a massive 17 degrees . Is it Winter there maybe lol ? while us in Brissy heading for warm 36 degrees today. have the swimmers on already just after 8 am . NZ cousins probably just rain as usual ? (with NP not racing ) R1 / 6-9-14 R2 / 1-8-13 R3 / 1-2-5 R4 / 3-4-12 BB R5 / 1-2-4 R6 / 1-2-3 R7 / 2-6-10

George and John Noble .. then winning the Nz Cup and Interdominion with Stanley Rio. and training any number of races out of Roydon Lodge for Sir John and Roy McKenzie. Think I will take 'NOBLE Exception' who is in Race 4 at Hobart in PJ's comp, in their honour .

gets bloody cold there sometimes so not far off being like Mongolia lol . Wind sweeps straight off Antartica. Being from there originally , have plenty of relatives there being born Hobart, luckily the family saw the light and shifted to NZ when I was a youngster. here's my Grand-father winning at Elwick (scene of todays LUCKY 7 ) near a century ago. they could ride the pacers then in a lot of races instead of using a sulky. my dad won his first race there in the war years aged just 13 in saddle (while still light )

wow ...you're on again PJ . is like a grand nz tour lol. Phar Lap sounds like a good Aussie horse 😉 goes like Lightning lol... (Phar Lap is Thai for Lightning I think) anyway did tips here in about one minute ,with zero form study for these battlers lol . top 3 at Phar lap in racebook and top 3 Jockeys at Gosford. easy peesie.😁 Race 1 / 1-2-3 Race 2 / 1-2-3 Race 3 / 1-4-9 Race 4 / 9-10-14 Race 5 / 1-4-6 Race 6 / 1-2-5 Race 7 / 4-6-11 BB

Thanks PJ . hope no more scratchings to ruin your day lol. R1 / 1-2-7 R2 / 1-5-8 BB R3 / 1-3-7 R4 / 2-3-9 R5 / 4-5-12 R6 / 3-7-13 R7 / 3-5-9

I see what you did there PJ . after Robert put you to the sword and took victory over you Saturday , you tried to gain some revenge !! thanks a lot for that 😁😂😉.. that was haaaard work. I had to go full bore , flat out the whole way in true QLD ''VO ROGUE'' style to do it though. Robert Is like having GUNSYND tracking you the whole way 😂. that was tough. Congratulations Robert on your Horse Winning Today too. Was great to see. 🏇

some cricket , some yachting , some storms , and some PJ comp racing...... Boxing Day always one of the great action days of the year 🏆😄 1. Pukekohe R5 / 4-6-9 2. Pukekohe R6 / 3-9-11 5. Pukekohe R8 / 1-3-4 BB 4. Pukekohe R9 / 1-2-8 5. Caulfield R6 / 1-3-4 6. Caulfield R7 / 4-6-7 7. Caulfield R8 / 4-7-8

I'll go a nomination for Double R Robert and Heather also, who both ran up a perfect '10' winners from 10 races in one week, in PJ 's mid year comp. Even with 2 picks per race that is still pretty hard to do. Top tipping award to them 🏆👍

Wahoo . thanks for that PJ. An honour to join good trotting mate Robert in the illustrious Lucky 7 Final 👍🏆. I see he has given you the swish today as well in the head to Heads. he's a canny man. thanks for your amazing efforts this year ! and have a great Christmas. (I'm just rolling some Apricot balls in the Coconut now ) and getting final touches going. All the best to All !!!!

Lightning Blue 380.20 vs Max 284.10 So is this clash... as we put a bit of Ice in the drink and sip up gently towards victory... and about to 'sink' poor Max (the Titanic) who traditionally doesn't like ice that much 😉

R1/ T5/ 3 - 6 - 7 R2/ T6/ 1 - 2 - 5 R3/ T7/ 2 - 3 - 4 R4/ T8/ 1 - 5 - 7 R5/ EF6/ 1 - 2 - 4 R6/ EF7/ 1 -3 - 4 R7/ EF8/ 6 - 7 - 10 BB Thanks PJ ...and happy Christmas to you and all Raceplace folk.

Pete will like this one with the famous Brighton Pier as the backdrop video lol. (being a EPL Brighton and Hove Albion football club supporter) The early 70's they were still struggling for any ideas to make music video's. What the Brighton Pier has to do with Tony Christie killing the man who killed his wife is a Mystery ??(in a surprisingly Up-beat song for murder and death row execution lol ) the tight pants fashion for those days too 😂😁

Yes a few actresses in that one. Catherine Zeta-Jones leading them up there. Just switched on the tele just now to watch SBS world movies and there she is with Sean Connery in 'Entrapment' lol. Big fan of racing, movies and music videos.. Love the clever music videos. In the 60's they started when the Beatles and the Monkees started leaving the 'Studio' to film video's for their Movies and TV shows. Here's one where the artist went 'On Location' . A very rare thing in 1970 . And very good for it's time.. To film his great song in Jamaica . Bobby Bloom shot and killed not long after rather sadly ..

Here's a great voice from kiwiland . Love his stuff and could play it all day long. This guy so cool sounds A bit like Elvis and Tom Jones combined 😂👍

Hey Max , I'm not sure how they did in NZ but about 30 years ago , 2 very famous kiwi siblings were dishing it up to the Aussies. I'm sure you've heard of them , as they were fantastic horses. always in the thick end of the action here so must of been Top Shelf Winning there in the shaky isles too ? ... The Phantom and his younger brother The Phantom Chance . Looked like they might fight out the Caulfield Stakes until Naturalism came along to steal the Win. The Phantom then ran 3rd in Caulfield Cup , while The Phantom Chance defeated Naturalism in the Cox plate. They then met in the MacKinnon Stakes on Derby day with The Phantom 1st and young brother 'Chance' rolling in 6th. Great sibling rivalry.

G'Day NG . The Interdominion Grand Final run last night had 2 x half brothers in, and they ran 1st and 3rd . just missing the Quinella in the Flagship harness racing event. Doubt we will ever see that again at going so close to the quinella. The Auckland Champ Delightful Lady won 38 races at Alexandra Park and sometimes her Full sister Davey's Jill would win the feature 'trot' on the same racecard while the 'Lady' was winning the Feature Pacing race on the card.. that was Quite extraordinary and less likely to happen again , than the above scenario with Swayzee and Leap To Fame last night.😁

Well with No kiwi's turning up to Win like Yulestar and Take A Moment did last time we had a Brisbane Interdominion .......... the Local Hero and Best horse in the World (for this weekend anyway) has taken Victory . Demolishing the NZ Trotting Cup winner Swayzee (3rd in photo here) with Better Eclipse 2nd in near World Record time and Big margin. Congratulations to Trainer /Driver Grant Dixon (and owner Seymour who has literally poured millions into Qld harness ) Grant Dixon near the nicest bloke going in harness. Never heard a bad word out of his mouth about anyone , or anything . A Champion Bloke. 🏆 and 'Ollie' wins at ASCOT just now too in the west. his final ride in the 'Gold Rush'. Australia is blessed today with 2 Champions having a Big Moment . 1st 6 LEAP TO FAME GRANT DIXON FT 2.00 1.20 2nd 11 BETTER ECLIPSE GREG SUGARS BL 2.20 3rd 3 SWAYZEE CAMERON HART FT 1.30 4th 9 SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS JACK CALLAGHAN BL

Big storm yesterday as SummerStorms in Brisvegas hit hard. so a steamy 35 degrees today...near 28 now at 8am even, and might storm again before we get to Eagle Farm R9 today . hopefully the galloping boys can get it done before the storms return. 1. Te Rapa R4 / 6 - 9 - 11 2. Te Rapa R6 / 2 - 3 - 6 3. Te Rapa R8 / 3 - 4 - 6 4. Eagle Farm R6 / 1 - 2 - 3 5. Eagle Farm R7 / 1 - 3 - 6 6. Eagle Farm R8 / 4 - 6 - 9 BB 7. Eagle Farm R9 / 4 - 6 - 7