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Haha some just cant accept people being successful..7 straight no matter who it is that is some team effort...but some will never admit it...just saying.

Great ride great team effort...looks like a top class horse...alot of happy owners I would think...do the hard yards and you deserve to get the results.just my thoughts.

Now you are talking nonsense...anyone can compete in the KM races...maybe some others should get some better clients or better judges to buy their horses how can you decry a person being successful if they are prepared to go the extra mile to achieve that the TA team spend months looking at the horses and leave no stone unturned to make sure they buy the right ones and then the whole team then has to go out and sell probably 100 plus shares, you think that is easy...come on get real.......you seem very narrow minded...JMO.

great days racing and no doubt THE best horses in NZ are on show part from 1 Sharp N Smart.

Not sure but its no mean feat to be the leading buyer in the Southern hemisphere...love them or hate them he does know how to find a good one.I am believer of no matter what they are by or out of if they aint athletes first and foremost they won't run...pedigrees are made not bought...the page only tells you how much the particular athlete will cost...my opinion but I learnt from one of the best judges ever.

For all you knockers out there here is facts from after the Magic Millions... Here we aim to highlight the Top 5 buyers that we observed in our 2015–2021 yearling dataset. David Ellis (Te Akau) — 17.02% stakes winners to purchases On raw numbers, founder and principal of Te Akau racing in New Zealand — David Ellis — performed as the top purchaser of yearlings globally on our buyer dataset between 2015–2021. We identified 188 yearling purchases, an average spend of $212,872 AUD and with a stakes return of 32 winners (17.02%)

Haha I dont even remember making the post but I will always stick up for jockeys and trainers If I feel they are being gone after unfairly....you need to let things go and chill...lifes to short to stay angry over such small issue sorry if it offended ....good luck with the comps here...enjoy 2023 I know I will.

Never said it had to be...I know you post on RC as well..no issue...its everyones own choice to post where they want but from after this discussion is finished I have chosen not to post here because of Hesi ...that is my choice.

so what, its not needed. RC has its own base and members and minds its own business doing what it does..yes many are on both who cares the more opinions there are at the moment the better...RC does not need to do any sort of inter site comp why should they??? RC has good comps so does RP why not just leave it at that. RC does not need or wish to work with RP, but that does not mean the sites can not coexist peacefully...which you seem to just try to stir up all the time...there will be no inter site comp...but no reason why there should be any animosity between the two sites...unless that is what you want???

Hesi I came here and joined as Pete asked me to but you just can not stop with the constant sniping and trying to bait RC. I wanted to just post here on relevant topics and never once have I run down or rubbished the site on RC however you just cant let go. I won't be posting here again, thanks Pete for trying but unfortunately it has not worked...I will happily go back to RC and you have lost another poster...so thats two less than yesterday the way I see it.

No and the more you push the less it will ever be likely to...why would they even need to do that...and after what you and Doug tried to do RC...how could you ever think it could work....why not just be happy with what you have and find your own way forward to grow.

Haha I see hesi already starting with the smartarse stuff LOL.

Rogan is a super guy...great worker and a huge asset to the stable for sure.

I dont have all the answers but a few things spring to mind. I think we have to many race meetings in a week...sometimes 3 on a Saturday...hard to get jockeys at two let alone 3...cut the meetings per week down as like the old days and that in itself would increase stakes a little. 2 Fix the programming its a diabolical mess at the moment..especially the SI, geez what's the point of having a 2yo down there you get maybe 3 or 4 chances to run in a season its a joke and the whole calendar needs looking at and be programmed by someone with knowledge of actually how often horses can run. 3 Cut NZTR costs, they are through the roof and keep getting worse, its a joke and nobody seems to try to fix this...way out spending its means. 4 Have a student type academy set up so Jockeys, strappers and trainers can be trained from the start, get the kids interested in High school so we have a pool of talent to get people from. 5 have a tax on selling horses offshore...so we dont simply lose our best before they even race, this has been a drain on our industry for the past 25 years or more. 6 Put people who know and understand racing in charge of it in all areas not wankers with a suit and a CV from some big wig company...thats who is stuffing us now...Sharrock aside.

But as more and more leave then less is left here...look at the RTR sales...50 of the best two year olds gone to HK or OZ, and how many NZ Trainers were active..2 or 3 maybe ...its a no win situation...it cant be both ways as there is nothing to keep them here no argument for them to stay...zero.Sorry but that is just a fact.I know if I get one good enough to go or be bought..it will be gone..no upside to keep it here.

Agree Pete they have no concept of how to deliver the product they are showing every dog cat goat race all considered the same...a chance to get some sucker to bet on them so lets jam them all on the one channel whenever we can...makes no sense but nothing they do seems to anyway.

100% will get downgraded and very soon...agree with Freda re the other race we dont have enough for one decent field for a staying race let alone two...hard to believe a rating 58 horse is in the NZ Cup oh how far this once great race has fallen...

Sounds like the same incompetents run Starship as run NZTR and the TAB.Peas in a pod.

Because its a swamp out there LOL.

Wet would be a worry for me all his form on good tracks...it looks like it will be wet for sure.

Loft out of the Cup...No ride for James Mac.

No I mean was he trained in the CD or just won there...thats what I was meaning.

So the horse may not be from the CD just won there???

An obligation to but won't,just like everything they do its made up. I do not know one single person who bets with online casinos...that figure as well as the 150 mill are just pie in the sky to make people think the world is about to end...just imagine how much the running costs of the TAB will go up if there was that type of money. I agree need to see hard evidence of the numbers and guarantees that costs won't spiral if , and its a huge if the money they are talking about actually exists...its all waffle from the king of waffle Guerin.

No I was meaning of course he would think Opie did the right thing as he got it home...no matter the consequences...