PWJ Posted January 26, 2023 Author Share Posted January 26, 2023 30 minutes ago, ngakonui grass said: Call Report ? No but another I had forgotten about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Raise a crown or clear choice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted January 26, 2023 Author Share Posted January 26, 2023 1 hour ago, ngakonui grass said: Raise a crown or clear choice? Nope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 It is ... Erb Prinz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing Show Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Barney 'O !! 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted January 27, 2023 Author Share Posted January 27, 2023 5 hours ago, von Smallhaussen said: It is ... Erb Prinz It most certainly is VS. How did you work it out ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted January 27, 2023 Author Share Posted January 27, 2023 1 hour ago, Dancing Show said: Barney 'O !! 😀 Also The Lion King and Prince de Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 5 minutes ago, PWJ said: It most certainly is VS. How did you work it out ? Vice Regent clue 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted January 27, 2023 Author Share Posted January 27, 2023 The original owner who stood him at Kotahi Lodge in the Manawatu was going broke around 1990 and the farm put him under some sort of lien giving the matter to a lawyer who had no idea about bloodstock. I offered them $10k for the stallion but the lawyer thought $15k was a better price. I didn't have $15k ! But I thought if I really loved him I would find a partner. Then I went to inspect the horse and found he was barely 15.0hh and not 15.3 1/2hh as declared in the register. he was a rabbit ! A lovely rabbit though no less. I just couldn't bring myself to buy him given that factor. He ended up going to HB to be stood by my good friends Graham and Isobel Roddick and later ending up in the backblocks of North Taranaki near Urenui at what used to be Maple Park Stud. he only left 26 foals in his first 4 crops and never had more than 11 foals in any given crop so I'm not sure if that was fertility or just poor marketing and management. The Lion King won the Inter-Island Steeple while Prince du Val was placed in the Wanganui Guineas. Erb Prinz was by Vice Regent whose full brother was the Champion racehorse Vice Regal (the Canadian one) but Vice Regal failed at stud while Vice Regent - a minor winner of 2 races - was Champion Sire about 8 times ! When stood at Urenui Erb Prince was only about 30 kms from Dave Littlejohn's Vice Regent - a son of the NZ Vice Regal (just to add more confusion) and full brother to All Glory 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Today’s trivia A big race at Trentham - can you name the horses and jockeys for the first two home ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 1st - Count Kereru .. R B Marsh 2nd - Pinotage .. J P Riordan 3rd - Lilt .. D A Peake 1972 Telegraph Hcp. - such fond memories of that day as a young school boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 16 minutes ago, von Smallhaussen said: 1st - Count Kereru .. R B Marsh 2nd - Pinotage .. J P Riordan 3rd - Lilt .. D A Peake 1972 Telegraph Hcp. - such fond memories of that day as a young school boy Too good VS ! Have to make these harder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 3 hours ago, von Smallhaussen said: 1st - Count Kereru .. R B Marsh 2nd - Pinotage .. J P Riordan 3rd - Lilt .. D A Peake 1972 Telegraph Hcp. - such fond memories of that day as a young school boy not 100% sure but i seem to remember that Pinotage was trained by the owner of MAINBRACE. Anybody able to confirm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 58 minutes ago, ngakonui grass said: not 100% sure but i seem to remember that Pinotage was trained by the owner of MAINBRACE. Anybody able to confirm? NG - according to the on course racebook that I still have for sentimental reasons - Pinotage was trained by B E Kennedy at Cambridge. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I was wrong i thought it was Bob Nolan.Thanks for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 36 minutes ago, ngakonui grass said: I was wrong i thought it was Bob Nolan.Thanks for that. not quite wrong - he was part owner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzstar1 Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 That was the oncourse double and concession i took with simon de montford firsr leg back a few years ago over thousand or was it 1300 .i had a brilliant day at trentham then those days . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 Stables.....but at which track ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Foxton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 1 hour ago, von Smallhaussen said: Foxton? No VS, but looking at the pic I can certainly see a great similarity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 Here's an "action shot from the same track" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turny Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Waverley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 15 minutes ago, Turny said: Waverley No,but getting warm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Stratford? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted February 2, 2023 Author Share Posted February 2, 2023 Yeah, well done again VS Home of one of the more curious grandstands in NZ. I loved the inclined walkway connecting to the public stand. Bet it was built in the 30s. Somewhere in those sheds over the back I made my first sale as a vendor of a mare. It was a curious affair as the stock and station agent doing the auctioneering was making a pig's arse of it so I asked if I could take over. Grabbed the microphone and ripped into it. The mare was an American-bred daughter of multiple Champion California Sire Windy Sands. She was in-foal to Seattle Slew's half-brother Great Charmer and was subsequently the granddam of a good open class galloper of about 20 years ago in Global Charmer. Anyway I got the damn thing sold which was under the liens act due to a bad debtor - an American-based breeder who didn't pay his bills. Bloke from New Plymouth bought the mare. Heather may remember who it was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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