Ocean dream Trained by a man who can win a derby or two Easy winner Willydoit- never a chance to win a derby. He's not a machine - remember this is his first proper preparation

I was at the track today and I noticed that they didn't appear to be going that fast. If you were back was hard to see anything making up ground and threatening. Need to watch replays but sadly the adminstration the decision makers are totally ruining NZ racing. This watering the track to get to a soft 5 is the result of slipping and we saw this when only 1 race was run in Otaki. The track was getting markings as if it was a soft to heavy track

I'm 100% with you on the coffee shop shut early It's Ellerslie and ATR- What do you expect!?!   They certainly aren't there for the people and encouraging new persons to the sport/industry. They mentioned today on the TV about involving ATR members with their slot decision- as a lifetime member I'm still awaiting communication.. This highlights my post from the trials there last week about the catering failing miserably. Obviously things haven't changed and lessons havent been learnt. They'll never change- all about the big rich guys looking after each other. They whole lot make me sick- they aren't real kiwi men; more so little half men who can organize a booze up in a brewery I can absolutely 110% guarantee that Pukekohe will be a real sad, and useless day for ATR in terms of services available to owners and patrons. 

I watched the scenes and interviews after the Oakleigh Plate. You can see in Australian racing it is all about the passion and enthusiasm and respect for tradition. The NZ approach is to throw millions into some new races and expect people to get excited, while ignoring tradition. The Aussies are happy to embrace the new rich races but still appear to value the traditional races more. NZ appears to be largely intent on ignoring tradition and its intangible value.

Congratulations John. Well deserved on every count. You are a superstar.

Points table after Week 3 Previous leader Houlahan drew a blank today (foreshadowed perhaps with the "fold like a deckchair" comment), while the scorer flukes a stint in top place - somebody should audit the scores. Jack flew up the standings as did Floyd who has overcome a poor week 1 score to make the top 8. Still three rounds to come.  LGL format next week!   ENTRANT Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 TOTAL 1 Say No More 38 42 35 115 2 Jayar 42 31 38 111 3 Basil Brush 36 26 41 103 4 Al Feilding 33 34 36 103 5 Gubellini 37 35 26 98 6 Jack  31 19 45 95 7 Richie 23 38 33 94 8 Floyd Pink 4 45 44 93 9 Pak Star 15 44 29 88 10 Kilcoyne 11 39 37 87 11 Blaird  16 40 27 83 12 Pegasus 30 18 34 82 13 Houlahan 34 46 0 80 14 Reacher 21 29 30 80 15 Pete Lane 32 24 23 79 16 Kiwignome 26 37 15 78 17 Arjay 25 27 25 77 18 Sayer 14 20 42 76 19 Canterbury Man 5 43 28 76 20 Joan 40 22 13 75 21 Pheroz 28 41 6 75 22 Ohokaman 22 33 17 72 23 Montydrum 41 28 2 71 24 Majestic 19 36 16 71 25 Kloppite 43 5 21 69 26 Scooby 27 23 17 67 27 Peter RS 13 8 43 64 28 Chestnut 17 14 31 62 29 Von Cettes 35 16 9 60 30 Insider 6 32 22 60 31 Pure Steel 8 9 40 57 32 Ponderosa 3 11 39 53 33 Aaron 12 30 7 49 34 Lucasduke 9 15 24 48 35 Black Kirrama 24 21 1 46 36 Seddon 39 2 4 45 37 Hall 0 25 19 44 38 Koriokaramea 0 7 32 39 39 Dogzstar 29 0 8 37 40 Alf 10 13 14 37 41 Winner69 0 17 20 37 42 Foxmerts 20 1 12 33 43 Voice Of Reason 18 6 0 24 44 Seakem 6 4 10 20 45 Mr gee 1 12 5 18 46 Maximus 0 3 11 14 47 Manfield 0 10 3 13

An imbalance due to a disproportionate number of migrants from the same countries also comes into play. Those people are not educated the same as some about how the wider New Zealand economy works. They spend their time walking around aimlessly fixated to their Mobile phones - we suggested to Westfield recently to have an Internet/ Phone free day as we are fed up to the eyeballs of these "Zombies" who simply don't fit into life of New Zealand society. Well done David Richwhite and a few others who encouraged and have contributed to the consequences of his actions that impact on the lives of ordinary people of New Zealand who have been left to face the consequences due to his arrogance. Do remember Fay Richwhite also have been instrumental in pushing for a Cashless Society - Asset Card...

Week 3 - Caulfield R9 - Final race # Name Jockey/Driver/Trainer Win Place 7 Jimmysstar Ethan Brown 8.00 2.90 15 She's Bulletproof Craig Williams   1.80 5 Rey Magnerio Jye McNeil   2.00 Bet Type Runners Dividend Quinella 7,15 28.20 Trifecta 7:15:5 215.60 Jimmy - I'm surprised rdytdy hasn't posted an email yet Jack with a stonking best bet trifecta in the last to fly past Floyd and take Week 3 honours.  Floyd and Peter RS round out the podium spots.   NAME LATEST RACE TOTAL Jack  690.00 1456.00 Floyd Pink 0.00 1280.00 Peter RS 128.00 904.50 Sayer 37.00 855.80 Basil Brush 9.00 814.60 Pure Steel 18.00 789.60 Ponderosa 109.00 705.10 Jayar 18.00 625.70 Kilcoyne 345.00 614.40 Al Feilding 239.80 598.70 Say No More 119.90 578.80 Pegasus 239.80 568.20 Richie 54.50 561.20 Koriokaramea 54.50 554.70 Chestnut 109.00 504.20 Reacher 18.00 501.80 Pak Star 128.00 489.20 Canterbury Man 18.00 486.60 Blaird  54.50 461.90 Gubellini 9.00 460.40 Arjay 18.50 452.80 Lucasduke 0.00 447.80 Pete Lane 119.90 434.50 Insider 9.00 433.40 Kloppite 9.00 415.70 Winner69 54.50 414.80 Hall 119.90 411.80 Ohokaman 109.00 411.70 Scooby 64.00 411.70 Majestic 54.50 401.70 Kiwignome 109.00 390.40 Alf 0.00 377.50 Joan 18.50 362.60 Foxmerts 128.00 349.50 Maximus 109.00 343.50 Seakem 119.90 332.40 Von Cettes 0.00 323.10 Dogzstar 109.00 285.20 Aaron 18.50 276.40 Pheroz 9.00 260.40 Mr gee 54.50 255.00 Seddon 18.50 245.00 Manfield 0.00 234.70 Montydrum 18.00 219.50 Black Kirrama 9.00 193.50 Houlahan 0.00 174.50    

Well if you do you can stay .

Jimmy!  And Jack!

C Dalgety has a lot to do. 

All great points. I'm sure that explains why very few people attend Ellerslie other than on a couple of big days.

Telco merry go around - just like when Mobile Brick phones and Espionage camera phones are traded in and all that data stays in a system that who knows who is accessing as they went to South Africa/ Rwanda and Nigeria to be used as part of there Social Security Digital Wallets where they were trialed first aye? Next minute, people here are scammed. Well done Tony Blair institute to.   New Zealand has been screwed over by idiots in inferior places.

Stipes had no problem with the pace of the race. Jockey on the hot fav said he was unable to quicken.  Not sure what the stipes will say if there is a massive form reversal in the Derby. On that result hard to see him winning the Derby.

I used to work for Vodafone and we had endless complaints about the Vodafone TV box which I believe is the same new one Sky TV is upgrading customers to  I refused to upgrade and still have the old one . Sky really needs to get their shit together and with these current problems hopefully they will learn a good lesson from it 

Why do they bother with using a Drone? Perhaps the use of Drones at places one used to be able to go freely without being filmed is what's also putting people off from attending such places - they are a grotesque intrusion of privacy and people don't want the insides of their hand bags filmed ( it's disgusting that nonsense has crept everywhere in society) and people get sick to death of cameras in their faces to only to be shown to who knows who who may be watching. Some of the perverted type filming  of women's breasts and close ups of legs etc we have seen is unacceptable - who can blame people for not attending?  

It was a problem all day. Even George Simon alluded to it in the last when he said "once again they slam on the anchors" after Vegas Queen went around to lead and then slowed up considerably.

Times change. Less than 1k at the races and 27k plus at the beautiful game. 30 years ago, it would have been the reverse.

I'll be expecting to wake up 5' 6", blonde and stunning.   

Willydoit derby ? Ocean Dream huge race at only 3rd start.