Nice pick Zak, she looked good winning. To race again 12 January at Ellerslie in a bid to make the final field.

Concentrating on the Sunshine Coast for obvious reasons. R1 Torque To Be Sure - Quietly Arrogant R2 La Bella Boom - Divine Secrets R3 Iconify - Piccadero R4 Until Valhalla - Infatuation R5 Moravia - at least 15 RP’s above anything else, should just win. R6 Shailailed - Lady Shotgun R7 Tannhauser - Arts Object R8 Derry Grove - Baroque Road R9 Lady of Camelot - El Morzillo R10 Vanessi - Hezdarnhottoo Trentham R6 Sassy Lass - Crouch R7 Luberon R8 Black Betty Te Aroha R1 Aurora Storm - Tale of the Gypsy R2 My Sharona R3 Kansas Storm R4 Deep Water Bay R5 Duchess of War R6 Goldburg R8 Customized

Spot on PS, would remove all of the ambiguity My horse was paying $3 when I put the bet on;  19% equates to a $0.57c deduction and my dividend becomes $2.43 The way they display it, $0.19 deduction could lead me to (not unreasonably) think that my new dividend was $2.81

It seems that even our fantastic new high level stakes doesn't prevent our better young horses being sold overseas , real Class sold to Australian Bloodstock , might stay with current trainer till after our Oaks , might go before . When are we going to come up with strategies to stem this flow , or do we just have to accept it as a fait accompli that these horses will just keep being sold . If the second then it's pointless to keep funneling huge money into the biggest races , as seen the other day the Rich Hill and QE didn't have a horse rated over 90 . Start putting more money into the bottom end and keep more owners in the industry , 

Nice win and one I had an eye on. You also picked Shelbyrockin who won nicely as well with nice odds.

Yeah thats what I was getting at, same thing but would have been clearer if it was displayed as a percentage 

ATC as at 31/72024 Current assets            $2,945,344         -not counting Franklin Park Current liabilities        $11,446,633       -not counting Borrowings due to Westpac Administration & other expenses     $2,188,957  -  2023 $1,644,320    averages $182k a month They also have $200k of receivables that is past due by more than 90 days. 2023 $68k Accruals  $1,400,000 (liabilities)   During the year the Club settled a long standing dispute with Eden Foods, a full and final confidential settlement has been accrued during the current financial year. The Club is also in a legal dispute with a former employee over historical bonus payments. The dispute was heard by the Employment Court in June 2024 with a judgement yet to be delivered. The Club has accrued for a potential liability based on the Board's best estimate of the potential liability, having taken appropriate legal advice.  

So I'm hearing one of these so called rockets scientists is up for the new CEO position at NZTR , could be a perfect fit .

Isn’t 19 cents in the dollar just the same as 19 percent?

Yes the Dunn team cost their owners a fortune, but so does everybody else. The Telfers have to be the worse - their weekly costs must be huge compared to almost everybody else. Racing horses is an expensive hobby but then again most hobbies are - skiing, fishing, women etc 🤣    

It’s only one bet per race with a measly $100 maximum plus they can cut you off from the offering if you consistently make a profit from it. if you just add these bets to your other bets while you churn through your bank it’ll work fine for both parties.

Just noticed Crocetti scratched..... Good thing is it's a marathon so plenty of time to fix the dodgy start 😄 I always used to run my second half much faster than my first, taking time to find my feet Hunterville style 🙂

Yes all good. 

GBR/Stakes %  latest figures for Clubs with 6 or more meetings; Auckland T C        GBR/ Stakes   46.9%      GBR/T/O  16.1%            Stakes $4,251,384               GBR $1,995,287        -$2,256,097 Invercargill                                      73.3%                        16.8% Manawatu                                      69.4%                         16.4% NZ Met T C                                     61.9%                         18.8%           Stakes $9,470,737                GBR $5,865,643       -$3,605,094 Waikato B O P                               100%                           18.2% Winton                                            118.5%                        22.4% Clubs with good GBR/Stakes ratio's, but less than 6 meetings to date, include; Ashburton 110%,  Banks Peninsular  120%,  Forbury Park  151%,  Geraldine  123%,  Kaikoura  134%,  Kurow  136%,  METHVEN  223%,  Northern Southland  129%,  Oamaru  119%,  Timaru  115%,  Tuapeka  163%,  Westport  140%,  Winton  118%, & Wyndham 151%

It’s a curious and unfortunate event to say the least. We aren’t immune from such problems in the UK. The track at Musselburgh outside Edinburgh has been repeatedly vandalised with £10k of damage over Christmas just before the track’s lucrative New Year’s Day fixture with damage in the weighing room and hospitality area. To add insult to injury, the second day of the New Year’s fixture was abandoned seven minutes before the first race due to persistent frost and that hasn’t gone down well with the connections who had a 750 mile round trip to see their horse run.

GALLOPS Telegraph  Sacred Satono Wellington Cup  Arby Karaka Million 2yo  Too Sweet Karaka Million 3yo  Damask Rose The NZB Kiwi (slot race)  Aeliana NZ Derby  Sethito NZ Oaks  Luvabeel Auckland Cup Nereus Bonecrusher NZ Stakes Orchestral AJC Derby WILLYDOIT Golden Slipper RETURN TO CONQUER Doncaster Handicap ANTINO Queen Elizabeth Stakes DUBAI HONOUR Stradbroke Briasa NZ Jockey Premiership 24/25 winner Sam Spratt Grand National (Aintree) - winner's saddlecloth number 12 Caulfield Cup ELIYASS Cox Plate  EVAPORATE Melbourne Cup  WITHOUT A FIGHT Everest KA YING RISING US SPORTS NFL - AFC winner Kansas City Chiefs NFL - NFC winner Philadelphia Eagles Superbowl winner Philadelphia Eagles MLB - AL winner  Houston Astros MLB - NL winner  Los Angeles Dodgers World Series winner  Houston Astros NBA - Eastern Conference winner  Cleveland Cavaliers NBA - Western Conference winner  Oklahoma City Thunders NBA winner  Oklahoma City Thunders NHL - Eastern Conference winner Florida Panthers NHL - Western Conference winner  Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup winner  Edmonton Oilers FOOTBALL A League winner  Auckland FC English Premier league winner Liverpool English League Championship winner  Leeds United Carabao Cup winner Arsenal FA Cup winner Manchester United Champions League winner  FC Barcelona TENNIS MAJOR winners (men) Australian Open Jannik Sinner French Open  Alexander Zverev Wimbledon  Carlos Alcaraz US Open  Novak Djokovic GOLF MAJOR winners (men) Masters  Ludvig Åberg PGA Championship  Xander Schauffele US Open  Scottie Scheffler British Open  Rory McIlroy RUGBY Super 15 winner  Crusaders RUGBY LEAGUE NRL winner  Sydney Roosters CYCLING   Tour de France winner  Jonas VINGEGAARD  MOTOR RACING Grand Prix - drivers championship winner Max Verstappen Grand Prix - constructors championship winner  Red Bull Indianapolis 500 winner  Scott McLaughlin Thanks - it was a marathon just doing the picks!

I'm not sure if we are allowed scr replacements before the 12noon comp cut off or not ...  if so, then Telegraph:  Bonny Lass, if not... then all good     

Well, at least Dick Street is an appropriate address.

Dont hold back Maxy. You are so right. And we thought we lived in a democracy. If someone dropped a bomb on Dick Street Cambridge and surrounding areas, N.Z. racing would be the winner.

Maybe this is closer to the truth...they screwed it before looks like they did it again...morons... DON’T BELIEVE THIS SABOTAGE BS, ANOTHER GC TRACK BALLS-UP WAS the problem that threatens the prestigious Magic Millions Carnival from not being run at the Gold Coast the next two Saturdays caused by anti-racing sabotage or the track being inadvertently poisoned during the treatment of a fungus problem? Serious damage near the home turn is so bad that this weekend’s meeting – the MM Carnival Opener featuring the $3 million Sunlight Slot Race and the $500,000 the Wave – was sensationally transferred at the 11th hour to the Sunshine Coast when jockeys refused to give it the ‘all-clear’ safety wise after galloping horses over the problem area on Friday afternoon. "The advice from turf experts was that next Saturday's Magic Millions meeting will be fine to proceed," RQ CEO Jason Scott said. "They believe the track will be able to be fixed up." That was reassuring after his comments to News Ltd earlier on Friday that the meeting only 24 hours away would proceed at the Gold Coast.  Racing Queensland and GCTC officials are still trying to determine what has damaged the new multi-million problem track. The Murdoch Media reported that officials were refusing to rule out foul play by anti-racing campaigners and full-time security had been employed immediately to guard the track in the lead-up to the major MM meeting on Saturday, January 11. LGHR has been assured by those close to the coalface that there was no foul play involved but a mistake in the treatment of a fungus on the track. Samples have been sent for urgent testing to determine the substance that has damaged a 25m by 10m section of the track near the 500m mark. “This is just another colossal balls-up by officialdom. One wonders what Gerry Harvey and the new Government think about this,” a high profile Gold Coast trainer told LGHR. “The trio of rocket scientists running the club will no doubt be looking for someone to blame. Disaster after disaster has occurred since they railroaded Steve Andrews to Beaudesert. He was the one track expert who could have avoided these problems from Day 1 but they wouldn’t listen to him. “You have to pity the poor bloke who is coming from Melbourne to oversee all tracks for Racing Queensland. He will inherit this on-going headache. After three years of stuff-ups and many millions of dollars wasted heads must roll this time. “Forget all this bullshit about track sabotage. The problem occurred because of over-spraying of the fungus treatment. The damaged section is where they turn the tractor around and have not turned the boom spray off resulting in a double dosing of the treatment.” The trainer told LGHR that those who know but are not prepared to speak out in fear of upsetting RQ or the GCTC was that if any significant rain fell the big meeting in a week’s time was in jeopardy. The Murdoch Media reports that representatives from a leading turf farm in New South Wales have been engaged to oversee urgent works next week to ensure next Saturday's bumper Magic Millions meeting can proceed as planned. The sudden change in venue has caused multiple problems. Different bookies are applying different rules for those who have already bet. Channel 7's coverage of the much spruiked twilight meeting is in disarray, with the network going to great lengths to broadcast it on free to air TV.  The BRC reportedly offered to host Saturday’s meeting at Eagle Farm. However, the decision was ultimately made to move it to the Sunshine Coast instead, with the club already hosting a meeting on Sunday.  This is the just another chapter in the dramas that have engulfed the Gold Coast track (sadly some of these could have been avoided). The new multi-million dollar circuit was out of action for nine months after a meeting last March when horses resembled those racing in the desert at Birdsville. In 2023, the Magic Millions was washed out after just 14mm of rainfall on race morning, when a rogue sprinkler was to blame for a wet patch on the track. The brainstrust currently in charge have decided they have no option but to stage a phantom meeting at the Gold Coast while the Sunshine Coast comes to their rescue race-wise. The reason for this is that they have thousands attending and it is too late to stop the catering. It will be interesting to see – among the ‘big name’ invitees, especially officials and politicians, who turns up at the Gold Coast to put their snouts in the feed trough and who travels up to the Sunny Coast to see the ‘real’ racing. What odds RQ and the GCTC put this latest diabolical disaster down to ‘more bad luck’. Wouldn’t you liked to have been a fly on the wall at the Harvey Estate when news filtered through about the change of venue?  IN a HOOFNOTE to this story we were sent this photograph by a Gold Coast racing stakeholder who commented:  'WASN'T it refreshing to see that amid all the doom and gloom over the track and the doubts confronting the Magic Millions Carnival proceeding that GCTC Racing Manager Ian Brown could still find a reason to smile.  Here's hoping the first step toward solution of the track problem - observors say they have administered a dye to the damaged surface - doesn't kill the roots of the grass as some are saying and worsen the fiasco. Guess we should all adopt the motto of one of Mrs Brown's boys and ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE'.