Claudius Maximus, I guess you know who cleaned up on that result, paid way overs and was in with a big show …. Always easier after

I don't mind Sidorova each way in the same race,. A healthy respect for Katherine too, by far the best horse in the race, but she always needs an ounce of luck in the run to show it.

Frank Fletcher Racing Operations' Rocket Can rediscovered his winnings ways with a 1 1/4-length victory in the $150,000 Harlan's Holiday Stakes (G3) Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park.View the full article

Finding room in midstretch, Major Dude accelerated to catch stretch leader Win for the Money and outlasted a late-closing Fort Washington to prevail by a neck in the $200,000 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes (G2T) Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park.View the full article

Jockey Edgard Zayas placed Be Your Best in a tracking role in the one-mile Suwannee River Stakes (G3T) Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park, and the filly kicked clear in the lane and scored her second consecutive graded stakes victory.View the full article

Palmy, with Roydon Bergerson.  https://loveracing.nz/News/47695/TeAkauholdstronghandatTrentham.aspx

Gore today hardly inspiring, but North Island horses starting down there are always of interest. R7 Canny Man $5 and Caledonie $10 ( with Tina C on ) have both run against better horses than these. R8 Me Liberez $15 with Donovan Coopers 2kg off. Won both races on heavy tracks and third up. Home track too.

I like Katherine for that race , pretty much same money. Sprint race so she's a good swooper.

With 2 days till Christmas, I guess the "potential", has not turned into reality, yet!!

Definitely!!, and if as stated by some, they put at least $750k into Friday nights races, the finances are further in the red, with the interest payments they will have reached their Debt Limit by the end of this month when it was supposed to be repaid, it will have been renegotiated and the figure raised no doubt. Last season the average GBR percentage to Turnover for ATC was 18%. To break even on one million dollars of Stakes, you need a Turnover of $6million, about as likely as me winning Lotto without a ticket. In the last 15 months (probably more), ATC have only achieved one million $ T/O; Friday 24/5/24       T/O $1.121m   Stakes $692k   Funding $719k   GBR $417k  = LOSS $302k The best T/O so far this season; Friday 25/10/24      T/O $796k      Stakes $191k   Funding $218k   GBR $128K = LOSS $90k

Thanks Scooby , have a good one too and Merry Christmas to you and yours, Happy New Year and beyond

CJ Thoroughbreds' dual graded stakes winner Hang the Moon, last of 12 in the Nov. 2 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) at Del Mar, drops in class and is the likely favorite in the $100,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes (G3T) Dec. 27 at Santa Anita.View the full article

Built earned 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Dec. 21 with a dominating gate-to-wire score in the $96,000 Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. View the full article

These Southern race meetings always so good to watch , as the fields are pretty even and the numbers are there so good returns on the first 4's . Not having a bet , but if I was would be Race 7 Bonnies Girl . Got a shocking draw but Blair is up $6 and $2 fixed . Great place money for her 

With the recent setback of Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Full Serrano and the barn change of Skinner to Cherie DeVaux's stable at the Fair Grounds, the newly renamed Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes (G2) has become a wide-open affair Dec. 26.View the full article

Augustin Stables' homebred Mouffy has been disqualified from her victory in the listed $145,500 Perfect Sting Stakes July 4 at Aqueduct Racetrack after testing positive for the corticosteroid dexamethasone.View the full article

Well done the winners and thanks to the team and sponsors for making this comp. possible. The good thing about a long and varied competition like this is that it eventually sorts out the real deals from the pretenders(I know my place)🙄

For all or any of you that got on Carter @ $2.50 or more - now is the time to bet on Sam T - he has some good drives today and at Westport and Gore  As always get on and at least cover your bet on Carter

Ex Te Akau , Worth a read but one I'm  sure of  David Ellis is 100% behind the success at Te Akau and deserved the hall of fame recognition the others are all benefiting from the opportunity's he creates so make up your own mind who the better trainer is but without David would some of theses people may never have got off the ground. Walker joined Te Akau Racing straight from school and rose to the heights of top-class thoroughbred trainer, capable of making his mark in any racing jurisdiction worldwide. Prior to leaving his home at Matamata, New Zealand, to set up stables for Te Akau at Kranji racecourse, Walker set a new benchmark for wins in a season when he trained 108 in 2009/10 season, eclipsing the previous seventeen-year-old record. Winning the training premiership six times in New Zealand, Walker was the youngest to achieve this with his first success in 2003/04 when only 31. This was subsequently eclipsed by Jamie Richards when winning aged 30 in 2019/20, while also establishing a new record (160) in 2020.21. In 2022 Mark returned to New Zealand to assume the role of Head Trainer in Matamata, following Jamie Richards’ invitation to train in Hong Kong. In the 2022/23 season Mark and the team smashed New Zealand racing records left, right and centre . Mark became the first every trainer to train a double century of winners, with 203 to his credit at season end.  This was 103 ahead of the closest trainer.  He also captured the fastest 100 winners (previously also held by Te Akau), and recorded his 100th stakes’ winner. In the blockbuster season, Walker claimed 33 Group/Listed victories in New Zealand and a Group 1 with Imperatriz in Melbourne, amassing well over $9 million in stakes for Te Akau owners.    Results speak volumes for both his talent and ability to lead a team. He has won six New Zealand Trainers’ Premierships and in the 2009/10 season won the Premiership with 108 wins (28 more than the closest rival). In doing so, he broke a 17 year old record set by Dave and Paul O’Sullivan (104) for the highest number of wins in a season.  While that record was overtaken – he has now claimed it back with 203 wins in 2022/23 – his Premiership wins came in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010, and in 2022/23. In Singapore, Walker was Champion Trainer in 2015, 2017 (record 87 wins), 2019, and 2021, runner-up three times, third, and fourth. Ellis freely admits that apart from marrying Karyn, employing Mark Walker is the best decision he has ever made      

Congrats Stoyde, 3rd place. PM me  in NYear with your $50   bet and I will get you on ! Rev.