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1. Riccarton R3 – 1,32. Riccarton R5 – 3,63. Riccarton R6 – 2,64. Riccarton R8 – 3,9 bb5. Moonee Valley R4 – 3,66. Riccarton R10 – 7.87. Moonee Valley R6 – 4,68. Moonee Valley R7 – 3,49. Moonee Valley R8 – 9,1310. Moonee Valley R9 – 7,15 bb Good luck Maxi, not confident today, those MV field selections are pretty much guess work and a bit of help from Racenet Time for talk(bs) is over, good luck Dreamers Thanks PJ

I see the much heralded, bigger and better Punters Club on BOAY, due for launch on Aug 1, never eventuated, 100/1 and drifting Too many sadsacks, doing something positive, would have been too challenging. Keep up the excellent work Jason, too many people underestimate what it takes to plan and run such a venture

Give me Ricky Ponting anyday If you owned a company making yellow sandpaper, what a windfall it would have been

Luckily The Ashes is not administered by anyone associated with NZ Racing, they would want to fiddle around with it to change it to something that works

A picture of the sandpaper section at a Birmingham hardware store, Mitre 10 style. Unfortunately Steve Smith answered them in the best way possible. It still makes me want to puke though, when I see that video of him breaking down and sobbing

Back on the old site, which is now inactive, so results are somewhere in the 'cloud', but don't ask me where or how Pete is good with clouds, perhaps he might know

I'd prefer to try and make it 8-0, but I suspect you are going to be hard to beat on Sat Maxi. Very good selector, right up there with the best we have seen in these comps in recent years. TC, John, Roland, Maurice, Howie(where is Howie anyway, surely he hasn't gone feral on us, he so loves PJ's comps), Ian and quite a few others If I can contribute to another victory, then all well and good, but all about the team win, 3-2 by a slim margin, still gets us to the final Good luck on Sat Maxi

The guy is a classic example of a narcissist, read below, could it describe him better Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder Grandiose sense of self-importance. ... Lives in a fantasy world that supports their delusions of grandeur. ... Needs constant praise and admiration. ... Sense of entitlement. ... Exploits others without guilt or shame. ... Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others.

See if I can slip this through then while nobody is watching The Dreamers will play their joker on Sat

Love the rhetoric

There will be tonight unless someone beats me to it

TAB refunding all bets on the Warriors, after the disgraceful officiating decision, the 'forward pass' I presume So what are we going to see next, the TAB disagrees with a stipes decision not to relegate a horse that causes interference and refunds all bets on the affected horse. Dangerous ground I thought, not the TAB's job to decide what is right and wrong

No WC blues for Guppy, knocks up 86 at 17/over in a T20 for Worcestershire(the county Glenn Turner played for 15 years). Just 1 of those 84, dare to dream

Racing shockers: Colic hits 20 million stud stallion 29 Jul, 2019 5:00am 3 minutes to read Roaring Lion winning the Juddmonte International at York last year. NZ Herald By: Michael Guerin The New Zealand stud career of world champion Roaring Lion is almost certainly over before it even began. But for Cambridge Stud the health of a horse that had only been on their property for hours is more important than the commercial reality of what his loss could mean. The outstanding thoroughbred, rated the best 3-year-old in the world last year, suffered a colic attack soon after arriving at the famed breeding establishment in Waikato on Saturday, just hours after clearing quarantine. He was operated on almost immediately and his chance of survival, rated 50-50 straight after the operation, had improved to 60-40 last night. That percentage is unlikely to change much in the next few days until Roaring Lion's condition settles. "While it has been a terrible experience, we were very very lucky that we had such expert vets on hand," says Cambridge Stud chief executive Henry Plumptre. That expertise and the speed with which the colic attack was diagnosed and then acted on may have saved the life of the Roaring Lion, who is valued at north of £20 million ($37m). "He got to the stud on Saturday and we followed the normal procedure for a stallion coming out of quarantine and arriving," says Plumptre. "That is 30-40 minutes on their box to recover from the float trip then an hour in the paddock to get used to the farm but soon after we put him in the paddock he started to roll and look unhappy. "That was first spotted by Marcus Corban [long-time Stud manager] and we soon had our main veterinary advisor Rob Hitchcock examine the horse. "It all developed very quickly from there and 10 minutes after he arrived at the equine hospital he was being prepped for the operation. "So to have that and then two top surgeons like Alanna Zantingh and Greg Quinn operate on the horse was crucial." Quinn told the Herald the operation went as well as it could have but the next 48 hours are crucial to get Roaring Lion's bowel moving again to speed his recovery. But although the initial emergency may be over and Roaring Lion will hopefully survive, his much-awaited New Zealand stud career may not. Plumptre, speaking on behalf of Cambridge Stud's new owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay, was realistic about the chances of getting Roaring Lion back to the stud. "Our first priority is to get the horse healthy again and whatever is needed for that," says Plumptre. "Obviously we are deeply disappointed to lose his stud services for the season ahead and it was a really tough job to ring the shareholders and those who had booked mares to him to tell them what has happened. "But Brendan and Jo quickly decided all those who took shares in the horse will be refunded. "So commercially of course it hurts but we have been entrusted with a great horse by his owner Sheikh Fahad Al Thani and David Redvers from Tweenhills [Stud, England] and our responsibility now is to get him back to them a healthy horse in December. "To him he is like family and we are acutely aware of that. "While we would love to get him back here for our sake and the breeding industry in this part of the world, realistically with Roaring Lion being worth so much it is going to be very unlikely an insurance company would allow that. Brendan and Jo are in the industry for the long haul and they, like all of us, are hurting. But the horse comes first, simple as that."

Found a video on FB that I will try and load when I get home It's pretty bad, so may only stay up for a short while

So, any theories on the fate of that one poster?

Any thoughts on the season We still seem capable of producing good horses, still a strong base of training expertise, still producing good young jockeys. A resilient industry, despite the horrible turnover stats(that we never get to see these days) Have listed the HOTY finalists below Champion Two-Year-Old: Aotea Lad, Aretha, Probabeel, Yourdeel. Champion Three-Year-Old: Crown Prosecutor, Madison County, Media Sensation, Sentimental Miss, Surely Sacred. Champion Sprinter-Miler (up to 1600m): Bostonian, Enzo’s Lad, Melody Belle, Shadows Cast, Te Akau Shark. Champion Middle Distance (1601m to 2200m): Danzdanzdance, Melody Belle, On The Rocks, Savvy Coup. Champion Stayer (2201m and further): Five To Midnight, Glory Days, Rondinella.

Thanks for the match Ian and your team. Sorry about Roland's little demolition job, he has a knack of doing that. Well played Dreamers, going to be a tough nut next week with Maxi and his Kool Kats

Got ya now, ta Would have been easier also, just to have a direct link to the trainer and jockey

Like I said, this particular example is great fodder for the anti-racing brigade

Agree, but then I thought the Black caps were the 5th best team at the WC Did you see Broad and Woakes execute a 15 over demolition of Ireland

Yep, just provides fodder for the anti-racing brigade. I suppose the comeback will be, the horse was fit and happy to be racing, or it would not still be racing. How would they know. I'll ask the question again, when you have run and won G2 in Aus, what is the point going around in maiden hurdle races

Assign Well performed in Ireland, ran in a Melbourne Cup, won a Herbert Power, 700K in the bank, ends his days in a lowly maiden hurdle in Rotorua. What's the point?

Peter, I make it our team tote should be 1161.60 with the 838.8 from Roland, and Roland's score 944.60 to give Ian an even bigger headache Ta

HOW THE F did you do that Roland, nice one BB/quinella