1.  Ellerslie R7-8x9 2. Randwick R1-6x10 3. Randwick R2-2x6 4. Randwick R3-7x12bb 5. Randwick R4-1 6. Randwick R6-3x5 7.  Randwick R7-1x8 8. Randwick R8-3x19 9. Randwick R9-2x18 10. Caulfield R7-9x10 11.  Caulfield R8-5x6 12. Caulfield R9-3bb tHANKS

Yes I did. Too much dreaming going on 🤣 Man the drive down in the pouring rain was stressful. heave traffic from Auckland until the Bombay's, then variable weather on the drive back on the soaked roads. Passing trucks on the way back meant driving blind. 

1.  Ellerslie R7         4/7 2. Randwick R1      1/2 3. Randwick R2      5/9 BB 4. Randwick R3       3/7 5. Randwick R4       1/2 6. Randwick R6        2/3 7.  Randwick R7       7 8. Randwick R8      2/3 9. Randwick R9       1/9 10. Caulfield R7     8/9 11.  Caulfield R8     5/6 BB 12. Caulfield R9     13/14   Thanks SNM and Scooby. GLA

1.  Ellerslie R7 4/10 bb 2. Randwick R1 1/5 3. Randwick R2 9/11 4. Randwick R3 3/7 5. Randwick R4 2/6 6. Randwick R6 1/2 7.  Randwick R7 2/7 bb 8. Randwick R8 1/3 9. Randwick R9 1/18 10. Caulfield R7 9/12 11.  Caulfield R8 1/10 12. Caulfield R9 3/10

Trump says “ things are going very well”……..   President Trump's Rose Garden speech Wednesday sparked the worst market selloff since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Carlos Barria/Reuters   New YorkCNN —  Serious question. What are we, like, doing? Markets are in a tailspin. Business leaders are panicking. Consumers, if they’re reading the news, are rightly confused or scared or both. Economists are squinting at the Trump administration’s tariff agenda and trying to make it, somehow, make sense. Here’s a tip for anyone else who finds themselves gobsmacked: Stop trying to make it make sense.   Looking for logic? You won’t find it. As we’ve written before, President Donald Trump’s stated goals for his tariff agenda are full of contradictions. Even the math the administration used to calculate “reciprocal” tariffs on trading partners is more performance art than, well, math (more on that in a moment). America’s economy is the envy of the world. Yet Trump believes it’s the victim of other nations’ unfair trade practices. Tariffs are his catch-all theory of how to level the playing field and revive American manufacturing. He is unshakable on that — even if it means pushing the US economy into a recession. He claims tariffs will hurt foreign countries, and he’s not wrong. But he has so far shrugged at the fact that tariffs will needlessly punish Americans, too.     For no reason, the US government is now going to force Americans to pay more for things that we simply cannot produce domestically. Like, coffee. Certain wines. Rare earth minerals that are essential to the tech industry. Countless other things. And perhaps most quixotically, Trump seems to believe we can undo decades of globalization and bring back the manufacturing jobs we already shipped overseas. (Even if we could “reshore” those industries, it would take many, many years.) “There is no strategy,” said Mary E. Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, during a Brookings Institution event Thursday. “Are we supposed to knit our own knickers?” Lovely added: “When people say they want manufacturing in the US, they’re saying high-tech, sustainable jobs” — not the lower-skilled and labor-intensive jobs that have migrated to developing economies. “I think a great exercise is everybody go home, and when you’re dressing tonight for bed, look at where your clothes are made,” Lovely said. “All of these countries have large deficits, and that gives them the high ‘reciprocal’ tariffs.” Bad math Lovely and others have made the point that if you wanted to balance out some trade deficits, there are strategic ways to do it. Maybe you’d assemble a team of leading economists and policy experts and take a scalpel to each trade agreement and figure out where you have leverage. But Trump’s government did not do painstaking dollar-for-dollar studies to try to nail down an accurate rate for each trading partner. Instead, it took a country’s trade deficit, divided it by its exports to the United States, then divided that number by two. That’s it.   RELATED ARTICLETrump’s massive tariffs shake markets, spark recession fears A lot of analysts were shocked by that sledgehammer approach. “If a ninth grader in high school presented this tariff chart to a teacher in a basic economics class, the teacher would laugh and say ‘sit down and work on the assignment,’” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote in a note on Thursday. Or, as Lovely put it: “It’s like going to your doctor, finding out you have cancer, and the basis for your medication is your weight divided by your age.” Here’s my favorite part, though: When economist and author James Surowiecki figured out the convoluted formula, the White House tried to say he was wrong and released a scary-looking equation with Greek letters to try to illustrate the very sophisticated math they used to calculate this monumental change to global economic policy. Turns out, that equation worked out to exactly what Surowiecki said it was, just dressed up with symbols that make it look more complicated — and to intimidate people who question what they’re doing, as economist Brendan Duke told me. That is not economic policy — it is Russian roulette in an economic policy costume. “Oh sh—” Since the president’s Orwellian “Liberation Day” speech, the global response hasn’t exactly been celebratory. Stocks began tumbling almost immediately, shedding trillions of dollars in market value overnight. All three major US indexes posted their biggest single-day drop since 2020. Global leaders expressed shock; and some, including allies like France and Canada, promised to retaliate. Oil fell more than 6%. Stellantis, the carmaker behind Jeep and Chrysler, is already laying off 900 American workers and pausing production at some of its Canadian and Mexican plants, citing the impact of tariffs. When the CEO of RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) saw his company’s stock fall 40% during an earnings call Wednesday evening, shortly after Trump’s speech, he uttered two words that just about summed up the thoughts of every other executive that day: “Oh, sh—.” Shares of multinational companies like Nike and Apple were hit hard, as were retailers like Five Below and Dollar Tree, which rely heavily on cheap imports from Asia. “This is the policymaking equivalent of a suicide bomber,” Michael Block, market strategist at Third Seven Capital, told my colleague Matt Egan. “They’re ignoring every rule of classic micro and macroeconomics.” So that’s the word on the Street, the institution that Trump has previously viewed as a real-time report card on his presidency. On Thursday, though, Trump shrugged off the market reaction, telling reporters: “I think it’s going very well”  

One moron telling another moron what to do. What could possibly go wrong….? 🙈     US President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a national security purge that sources said on Friday included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council. NSA director Air Force General Haugh, who is also head of US Cyber Command, was dismissed along with Wendy Noble, his deputy at the NSA, two sources familiar with the decision said. Two other sources said at least 10 staff were let go at the NSC, along with four senior directors, including the entire International Organization (IO) Directorate, which works with international and multilateral groups like the United Nations. No reason was given for the firings, which took place after the Republican president had an Oval Office meeting with Laura Loomer, a far-right political activist known as a conspiracy theorist, who said on X.com she had given Trump a list of officials she considered disloyal to him. The White House declined comment and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump has said he wants his administration staffed with those who support his positions. "We're always going to let go of people ' people we don't like or people that take advantage of, or people that may have loyalties to someone else," he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday.  

So what ???

Thanks Scooby …I’ll have a also  rans go lol 1.  Ellerslie R7. 3/8 2. Randwick R1.  1/5. BB 3. Randwick R2. 5/11. BB 4. Randwick R3. 7/15 5. Randwick R4.   1/8 6. Randwick R6. 3/6 7.  Randwick R7. 1/6 8. Randwick R8. 3/20 9. Randwick R9. 2/10 10. Caulfield R7. 11/12.  11.  Caulfield R8. 2/9 12. Caulfield R9. 1/8      

1.  Ellerslie R7  1, 4 2. Randwick R1 1, 2 3. Randwick R2 1, 3 4. Randwick R3 1, 3 5. Randwick R4 1, 8 6. Randwick R6 1, 2 7.  Randwick R7 7, 8 8. Randwick R8 3, 8 9. Randwick R9 5, 18 BB 10. Caulfield R7 5, 9 11.  Caulfield R8 1, 6 12. Caulfield R9 1, 9 BB Thanks very much Scooby and SNM. What a great day of racing to look forward to.

Yes. Chase A Dream went big again, and another patient drive from the master M. Purdon. It's good to see Chase back to his best because he's always been one of my favs. Speed horses like Chase A dream, DSD and back in the day Amazing Dream have huge sprints if left for the last run. They can make up lengths in the straight. Patient driving pays dividends. 

It wouldn't quite be fair to say that the team around Facteur Cheval, who is owned by Team Valor International and Gary Barber, were anonymous in the week building up to the 2024 Dubai Turf (G1T). View the full article

Leap To Fame was huge. What a tough horse he is. Chase A Dream was driven patiently again and boomed home. Merlin went his best race for a while, he stuck on well. DSD had zero chance the way it was driven. Senseless. Go back at the start, even Leap To Fame does this before he makes his move. Let the field settle down, the horse warm up, get balanced. It was a huge run from Pinseeker because he didn't do any work. He was driven patiently at rear by Cox. If a horse is up three or four wide like DSD in the early rush it's all over for most horses. Giving a horse a gut buster stuffs the horse and some take months to recover, some never do. DSD has shown in his past few starts that he is better driven patiently, he always gets beaten when driven aggressively at the start. Crazy stuff. 

1.  Ellerslie R7 7-8 2. Randwick R1 1-2 3. Randwick R2 6-9 4. Randwick R3 1-3 5. Randwick R4 1-2 6. Randwick R6 1-2 BB 7.  Randwick R7 4-8 8. Randwick R8 8-20 BB 9. Randwick R9 2-18 10. Caulfield R7 3-10 11.  Caulfield R8 1-2 12. Caulfield R9 8-11 Come all us also rans lets have a dip today...thanks SNM and good luck to those still alive in the main comp.

1.  Ellerslie R7              4,  8. 2. Randwick R1            1,  2. 3. Randwick R2            2,  6. 4. Randwick R3            2,  3. 5. Randwick R4            1,  2. 6. Randwick R6            2,  3. 7.  Randwick R7           1,  7. 8. Randwick R8            2,  3. 9. Randwick R9            2,  18.BB. 10. Caulfield R7           5,  9. 11.  Caulfield R8          1,  6. 12. Caulfield R9           8,  13.BB.                         Cheers and Thanks...

What you would call “Governing on the fly..”…getting rid of those she thinks are disloyal….FFS…..🙈  

There is one thing for certain in preparation of next Saturday's Hawkes Bay's Cup meeting at Trentham, and that is they won't be irrigating this coming week. Yesterday the track received 35.8 mm of beautiful steady rain and at the same time the temperature got to a high of 21 degrees. In my mind, that is the perfect preparation for the track to be every bit as good as it was last Saturday. I have to say that the racing weather gods have been very fair to Trentham this year given the incredible amount of racing the track has had to endure.

All I can say is I gotta 'monster' hangover and I'm goin back to bed.🤢 Idol mate I think you ment Chase A Dream, went better than you thought, DSDreamin ran last....   Cheers Iraklis

Stellenbosch and Sixpence look to make a mark for the 4-year-old generation in the Osaka Hai (G1) April 6 at Hanshin Racecourse.View the full article

Betting on Thoroughbred racing in the United States continued to drop through the first quarter of 2025, with overall wagering declining 3.28% to $2,505,271,758, largely due to a 5.17% reduction in race days.View the full article