It is an Initiative Australia and New Zealand wide. each race won by a female driver during a certain timeframe raises funds for cancer research. here's a cut and paste.  TEAM TEAL TO MAKE ITS MARK IN 2025   The 2025 Team Teal campaign has commenced, with Queensland’s harness racing industry coming together to raise funds for ovarian and gynaecological cancer research. Running until 15 March, the campaign will see the Queensland harness racing industry donate $200 for every race won by a reinswoman in the Sunshine State. This year, Chloe Butler and Taleah McMullen will serve as Queensland’s 2025 Team Teal ambassadors, leading the initiative. All Queensland reinswomen will wear teal-coloured pants to raise awareness for the cause. In 2024, Queensland’s female harness racing drivers raised over $15,000 for Team Teal, with more than $150,000 raised over 420 winners across Australasia. In conjunction with WomenCan, Team Teal donations will support the Australian and New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group’s Survivors Teaching Students program. The program educates future medical professionals to improve the diagnosis and care of women with gynaecological cancer.

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Blackbookers…. Pakenham today R6 EXUBERANCE - nice run first up, should improve $6 KGrange Friday R4 UNCLE BARRY - ex kiwi nice run first up. Tough race this one but $27..? R7 GOOD SORT - should improve on first up run $6

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A superb little story. The world needs more of these.  

So good to see. What a nice young guy with great values. Sadly a rarity these days. I hope he has alot of success. 

I saw that last week and had a tear also...he was so so happy...well done him.

The next generation in Ozzie breeding

The Arkle and The Champion Hurdle were AMAZING watches. It's never over until it's over. 

I enjoyed this quote from "The White House is about to get a masterclass in Kremlin diplomacy."  In the article, the author sees Russia as the main impediment to lasting peace in Ukraine, pointing to recent history as an indicator. "Russia excels at grabbing the ball, pocketing it, debating the rules of the game and points lost three sets ago, before claiming the ball has in fact been stolen clean from them by the other team." "

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Sams runners always worth a look. Particularly at Te Rapa. Made a decent wedge off her two wins on Provence lately.

After a wonderful first two days - second day review to follow shortly  - time to round off the previews by looking at the final day's action on Friday. Triumph Hurdle - 3200m Eighteen runners and Willie Mullins trains no less than eleven but oddly enough his best hope is 10/1 and the market is dominated by British runners. EAST INDIA DOCK has the strongest form having won the two Grade 2 Trial races run over the course by wide margins - in the second, he thrashed STENCIL who was well fancied for yesterday's juvenile handicap hurdle but ran poorly. The trip and ground are fine and the question is really whether any of the less exposed types might have improved past him. NIcky Henderson runs LULAMBA who did it well on his British hurdling debut at Ascot - the bare form is inferior to that of EAST INDIA DOCK but there's plenty of ability in the Henderson runner. HELLO NEIGHBOUR looks the best of the Irish having won their equivalent at the Dublin Racing Festival and to be honest at 5s he might be the value against EAST INDIA DOCK. Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle - 4800m Twenty go to post for the championship race for the staying novice hurdlers and it's wide open as you might expect. The sole mare, THE BIG WESTERNER, is early favourite and she won a Grade 2 at Limerick on Boxing Day but whether she's up to this on faster ground I don't know. I like WENDIGO whose second in the Challow got a real boost when the winner THE NEW LION won the Turners this afternoon. He looks an each way play at 9s. The French runner JET BLUE won over the course and distance in mid December and has to be respected and has been backed from 10s to 15/2. Gold Cup - 5200m The big race of the week and the Blue Riband for the staying chasers. Nine got to post and at 1/2, the concensus seems to be GALOPIN DES CHAMPS will join the elite group of three time Gold Cup winners. He won the credential races at Leopardstown once again, the Savils and the Irish Gold Cup and to be honest some of those who opposed him have sought other options now. BANBRIDGE won the King George at Kempton, one of the three championshp races for the staying chasers (along with the Betfair at Haydock and of course the Gold Cup). The trouble is Kempton is flat, sharp and right handed, the opposite of Cheltenham and there are big questions over BANBRIDGE's stamina to be answered. Were this run at Kempton I'd give him a real chance of beating GALOPIN DES CHAMPS but I can't see it. CORBETTS CROSS won over 6000m last year and could well be staying on up the hill and on that basis looks each way value at 20/1. The Grade 2 Mares Chase supports the big races and needless to say Willie Mullins dominates with DINOBLUE and ALLEGORIE DE VASSY who were first and second in a Listed at Naas last month. BRIDES HILL is trained by Gavin Cromwell but she has run twice in Britain this season and has been turned over on both occasions at short prices.  Selections - Day 4: Triumph Hurdle: HELLO NEIGHBOUR Mares Chase: ALLEGORIE DE VASSY Albert Bartlett Hurdle: WENDIGO (each way) Gold Cup: GALOPIN DES CHAMPS (win), CORBETTS CROSS (each way)      

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The problem with Champions day is it makes this weeks racing look like crap 

He is a couple of years older now too..just saying...as you say each has their own likes and dislikes...

An extraordinary and dramatic opening afternoon at the Cheltenham Festival. Over 55,000 spectators saw the racing which took place on a chill but dry afternoon with the ground confirmed as Good to Soft. The card opened with the Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Novices Hurdle over 3250m run in memory of the 24 year old jockey who tragically lost his life in a fall at Thurles last month. The first of many Willie Mullins-trained odds on shots ran here in the form of the ex-French galloper KOPEK DES BORDES who had bolted up in the equivalent race at the Dublin Racing Festival. In truth, not many got into this. I was hopeful for ROMEO COOLIO at the second last but Paul Townend was sitting quietly on KOPEK DES BORDES and in the end had far too many gears. WILLIAM MUNNY kept the winner honest up the run in but was never a serious challenger. For me, KOPEK DES BORDES won despite his jumping which was far from fluent. I wouldn't want to risk him over fences and I think Willie Mullins has plenty to do to get more improvement but he looks a good prospect for next year. The second did very little wrong and looks more of a chaser. On then to the young chasers in the Arkle Challenge Trophy over 3250m. MAJBOROUGH, last year's Triumph Hurdle winner, was strongly supported to follow up against the likes of L'EAU DU SUD. The first reverse for Team Mullins as MAJBOROUGH's jumping let him down especially at the second last where he basically "sat down" and lost a lot of momentum. In the circumstances, I thought he did really well to finish a close third. L'EAU DU SUD led at the last but emptied badly up the hill but they had gone a searching gallop all the way and that played right into the hands of the Nicky Henderson runner, JANGO BAIE, who had form at 4000m but couldn't live with the early gallop and coming down the hill he was available at 300/1 in running but Nico de Boinville kept perservering and got his reward close home to snatch the race on the jamstick with the first four split by a length and a half. A word also for the runner up, ONLY BY NIGHT, who previously had plied her trade in mares races but took on the geldings and might have won on another day. I'm sure MAJBOROUGH will be back at Aintree or Punchestown but they have to sharpen up his jumping - L'EAU DU SUD looks tailor made for the Manifesto at Aintree. The Mares Hurdle over 4000m was dominated by LOSSIEMOUTH who was solidly supported at 4/6. She had taken a heavy fall in the Irish Champion Hurdle last time but had previously chased home CONSTITUTION HILL at Kempton and beaten TEAHUPOO in Fairyhouse and the two last named were favourites for the Champion and Stayers Hurdles respectively. Another imperious performance by LOSSIEMOUTH who brushed these mares aside to win by seven and a half lengths without, to be honest, having to come out of third gear. The runner up, JADE DE GRUGY, is a decent mare in her own right and was beaten four lengths into fourth in this last year behind GOLDEN ACE. LOSSIEMOUTH made her look second rate. As to whether LOSSIEMOUTH goes from here, I wonder if they'll run over 4000m at Aintree - she seems so much more comfortable over this trip than 3200m these days. On then to the big race, the Champion Hurdle over 3250m. Seven went to post but this looked to concern just three - CONSTITUTION HILL, the 2023 winner, was back and wa still unbeaten having beaten LOSSIEMOUTH at Christmas and then had little more than a canter round Prestbury Park in the Unibet at the end of January. He was backed in to 1/2 but faced two strong Irish contenders. STATE MAN had won the Champion in 2024 but in 2023 had been well beaten by CONSTITUTION HILL and there seemed little reason why the form would be reversed. A more potent threat seemed to be last year's Mares Hurdle runner up BRIGHTERDAYSAHEAD who had won the Matheson Hurdle at Leopardstown at Christmas by 30 lengths. One of those races about which people will talk for years to come. A truly dramatic race and hard to believe the 2023 and 2024 winners would both fail to complete. There's always been a slight quirk about CONSTITUTION HILL's jumping inasmuch as he tends to be too exuberant, take off too soon and paddle through the obstacle. He's got away with it before but at the fourth last he just dived at the hurdle and that was that. STATE MAN was clear coming to the last and having backed him at 12s each way I was counting my money but the bookies were having an absolute bonanza and they got even more hard earned as he in turn stepped at the hurdle and pitched Paul Townend out the front.  First thing to say is both horses and jockeys were fine and I suspect there will be a rematch at Punchestown. BRIGHTERDAYSAHEAD should have been the beneficiary but she was badly hampered by the fall of STATE MAN and to be honest I think she was beaten anyway. With the three fancied runners all out of it, GOLDEN ACE emerged as an unlikely heroine following up her Mares Hurdle win of last year at the rewarding odds of 25/1. BURDETT ROAD ran on into second at 66s and WINTER FOG's connections, who had presumably come for the day out, collected nearly £50,000 for finishing third at 150/1. The Trifecta paid £4,433 and kudos to anyone who had that. GOLDEN ACE was bought for just £12,000 by his owner, Ian Gosden, and is trained by Jeremy Scott in the West Country for whom this was a first Grade 1 success in four years. She becomes just the seventh mare to win the Champion Hurdle joining an elite group including Dawn Run, Epatante, Honeysuckle and Flakey Dove. Whether she'll run again this season is open to question. It doesn't get more dramatic than that in all honesty. After day one, the score in the Prestbury Cup was 4-3 to the British which is better than you might have expected at the start of racing.

Agreed on Kennedy. Gets plenty right as well. We all have our favourites.  Sam Spratt on mild outsiders ($8-$20) can at times be worth a punt.