Guy's take a tip from me and self ban yourself from responding to him in anyway. Then he might just go away. Well hopefully anyway.

Thanks and oh so true.

Oh dear Hoki's on the desperation trail again Must be all the even more winning the Don has done in the 48 hours that sets him off  CHOO CHOO

Lucy In the Sky wearing Lindsay colours (that fooled ya.) Trained by Pikey. Tonys got another couple of Hellos yet to come. Watch out for them.

Hopefully you will get the $50 back soon PS I reckon Sky Rocket will keep getting better he is such a big horse . Funny you should mention Gary Jones . Gary and I worked together for nearly two years for his step father Doug Hawkins .  I don't think people apart from us knew how good a driver he was . Golden Command , Regal Nova , Shadow Lord in particular he drove so well . He was really good to me as well letting me drive Grand Hanover all the time when he really should have .   

Yes good point . Olivia has a great opportunity to get some Group winners too , helping Hayden Cullen with his strong team and all. Got beat on Sky Rocket a couple of times of Regan Todd's so she needs to make up for that yet ? 🤣  owes me 50 lol.  How hard is it to get a quid with your horse in NZ ? A really nice horse like Sky Rocket , been racing 3 years now for 7 wins from 38 starts , but only has  66k in the bank . ?? would be lucky to be breaking even with the fees ? (over that time frame)  No wonder so many get sold off to Aus.  when a nice mid-class horse can't even make a quid.  Don't know Gary B at all, but Gary Jones was a fantastic (part-time) driver in the Juniors around that time. could of been a great reinsman if kept at it. 

Oh dear, reality hits home…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14373483/trump-u-turn-china-tariffs-shein-temu.html

Crikey can't do those Aucklanders out of a Sunday sleep in and there Cafe Brunches, maybe they should have Sunday Brunch meetings in Auckland, All day Breakfast prices and Steaks

Guppy is ex St Peter's boarding school , Cambridge and a Pharmacist.   Read The Press article, Sales Venue change opposed by Club, 15;August 1985. Consequences just like at all the other Racing , horse and Greyhound, venues.   There are advantages and disadvantages to all to be considered and one would reasonably expect factoring into account the detriment to the prestige of a district ( community), increase in expenditure, the fact one would have to spend a considerable amount in fitting up new premises ( think Takanini/ Alexandra Park ( the original Club in Auckland when it was Rural), the antagonism to the wider Racing community together with the fact it should be shown there is Economic, Efficiency and Convenience to all parties.a   It's copybook Blue / Red Book used by Politicians and is exactly what is happening with the Banks and Post Offices.... they lack common sense knowledge about Town Planning and why facilities and Racecourses amongst other places are positioned where they are.   Truby King from Plunket and North facing buildings must be turning in his grave, as must previous "Kings and Queens" who have lived before us and saw the importance of a balance in life. All roads lead back to people who are ignorant of Laws and rights to be integrated into society.   There is absolutely no need whatsoever for "Richard Nixon spin, Fast-Track" nonsense in NZ    The maths and Data Mining statistics dredged up by "Data Scientists" aka Statisticians has screwed up the economy.

Nice card at Te Aroha today.. R1 Schmooze should win. Miss Manzor R2 Eva Magical - Zappone R3 Cashla Bay - Steezy R4 Cast of Diamonds - Dancing in the dark R5 Capt Stan - Daring Dame - Skiddlydoo R6 Chinook - My Sharona - Radrada R7 Bertie Wooster - Morning Cocoa R8 Annabelle - Annie Oakley R9 Phantom Dragon - Cupids Arrow

Maybe the CD is carrying more than their share of the Sunday Meetings, 27 I think for the Season. Staffing can be a problem, not so much the Sunday but the Monday. If NZTR can put on 25K stakes for a Twilight Meeting then why not put on 25K for Sunday's. I guess that would make it more attractive for the Northern Clubs to take more Sunday Meetings.

A consequence maybe related back to the era of 1985 and shifting the Sales from Wellington to Auckland - see Sales Venue change opposed by Clubs, 15 August 1985 in The Press. Some will be from that and the rest because the Australian Stockman's Report that saw the shutting down of Clubs, a little like all those other "Clubs" 

Bring back all the rural communities Race course Clubs because that's where the Horse and animal populations are. Most of the ones that have been closed down had 2 days of meetings coinciding with local Anniversary days and holidays when children were off school helping on the farm / lands. Think Thames, Dargaville, Paeroa and all those other country regions. Crikey and here we know get called Zombie Towns by the economists from Bangladesh advising our Government. There used to be very good systems all around in this country that have all been screwed over.    

Is the irrigation matter related to local Council and droughts? Or are they not on Town Supply water? Bring back the real farming communities managing the tracks with cattle naturally ploughing the earth, any Draught horses that way to do the job?

Not knocking the Northern Drivers PS , but I think with the smaller fields its easier for them . Those Southern fields especially Addington and the grass meetings it's tough and they need to make split decisions . I reckon you are spot on with Wilson H and Carter . I would like to add Olivia Thornley . I love the way they drive because they show so much patience especially Wilson . Prior to me driving I used to back Gary Bergerson do you remember him ? Graeme Mangos was also driving at the same time , I remember those two battling out some races together 

Very observant of you Mike. I too had noticed very little Canty presence at Invercargill apart from the Parsons and a couple of 3yos. This despite $50,000 stakes for lower grade races. You do wonder what sized fields might have turned up if there had been a low grade Canty meeting tomorrow.

Not many at Taranaki either, with hardly any Canterbury horses travelling south to Southland one wonders if 2 days could be reinvented at Blenhiem over this weekend,  never a problem for the Canterbury harness guys going to Blenhiem so why not the other code, for 2 days you would more than likely attract one or two large teams from the other side of Cook Strait.

I think the issue with Woodville at this time of year is to do with irrigation. it would make sense to race there instead of Tauherenikau because its closer to the CD horse population

Yes, well. I don’t know how the process works - is it a tender or does each region take a number of fixtures slots? I can certainly see why some think the South is hard done by - every fixture looks to have plenty of runners so why aren’t more fixtures programmed? Is there linkage with the harness racing calendar to avoid overlap? I can understand every course wanting to race on summer weekends when the weather is good and the crowds turn out but as others have argued, the programme  has to be supportable in terms of the horse population. The other option is to pay for southern runners to come up to the North Island with either appearance money or covering expenses.  

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