Yes forums have all sorts of personalities. And you are right if someone annoys you just don't engage with them.  

Thats a pity I will have nothing to do with him. People who will not concede to another and when in a weaker position divert and evade have a personality issue. If others are happy to be to be played with up to them to indulge his jollies. But I wont

Some short prices today…  R1 Thrilling $2.5 - nice runs behind Leica Lucy and co.  Come to Terms $19 - good run when second two back, Doyle riding well. R2 La Souvenir $2.7 - the Patterson/Grylls combo, nice trial recently R4 Sierra Leone $2.8 - placed behind La Dorada and Co, looks better than these. R8 Meritable $5.5 - fresh up but trialled well. Ran against good company in Sydney. R9 Omega Boy $8 - unlucky lately, 3kg allowance helps. Unscripted $12 - should have won last start, K Myers should suit.

Quote (Firstly, Canada rejected a Trump would be political party and now The Aussies have done the same) .  Interesting isn't it, I suspect Trump was an influence in both cases so in time we will know who was right and who was wrong , Canada has plenty of serious problems and Ausse has reinstated a failing government just like we did when Arden was returned to power , So the question is which country will move forward and which will flounder , time will tell but my moneys on Trump . Numerous political parties in the western provinces, believing there to be no other solution for stemming apparent "Western alienation" by Central Canada, have sought independence. These movements are strongest in Alberta and British Columbia, but lesser ones exist in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Racing.com Andrew Eddy World Series for Elite Jockeys.   James McDonald is one of 12 world-class jockeys to have come together to form a global circuit competition for elite riders in a push to help modernise the sport of horse racing. Racenet reported on Monday that a list of 12 jockeys headed by McDonald, Zac Purton, Frankie Dettori, Ryan Moore and Yutake Take to form the world series, which was founded by Sheikh Mohammed's former right-hand man John Ferguson and ex-Australian wagering identity Lachlan Fitt. The report said the duo stress they are not a rebel organisation and do not want to be disruptive or race in competition against the world's major racing carnivals. "Racing has struggled to attract younger audiences and lacks a globally co-ordinated platform to engage fans," Ferguson told News Corp. "While other sports have successfully built global icons, horse racing has been left behind and for too long has ignored the human element when showcasing our sport. "Now is the time to highlight racing's global icons, the jockeys, and show the world what incredible athletes they are.’’ The other jockeys locked away for the series are US superstar Irad Ortiz Jr as well as Joao Moreira, William Buick, Christophe Lemaire, Mickael Barzalona, Flavien Prat and Vincent Ho. It was revealed it is proposed the global circuit will have a prize pool of $US15m in the first year with up to $US5m to go to the winning jockey who comes out on top in a point scoring system. The 12 foundation jockeys will have equity in the business as they operate their own franchises as team principals and can attract lucrative sponsorships. It is understood up to six events are planned to be staged in 2026 with the Melbourne spring and Sydney autumn carnivals likely to be involved. It is understood there would also be host cities in the US, parts of the Middle East, Asia and the United Kingdom. The report said jockeys would not just simply fly in and fly out to each series, but each would be focused on attracting new fans to the sport wherever they rode in the series.

Twelve of the world's leading Flat riders, including Irad Ortiz Jr., Flavien Prat, and Frankie Dettori have joined forces to create a global jockeys' league that is expected to launch across the sport's most prestigious racing venues early next year.View the full article

Mark Rosanowski called at the Foxton trials 3 weeks ago......seemed to do a good job, being the first time I've heard him commenate gallops 🏇 Could he be back up caller for the CD? 

That is great to hear Scooby. Neither of you sounded like natural antagonists. I see no problems with people floating between the two forums and commenting on various topics as and when it seems appropriate. The obvious wealth of knowledge on here should be focussed on constructive comment. With no effective racing media these days it is up to forums such as this to scrutinise and hold to account racing's leadership. No other body is doing it that I am aware of.

Yes no mucking around. They have incredible depth of callers over there.

Monday A few eyebrows were raised when Aidan O’Brien described Justify as potentially “the best ever” sire in an interview in Good Morning Bloodstock last year – not long after he had sent out Warm Heart, Galileo’s 99th top-level winner, to score in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational with the bravery that was a trademark of her father's output.   “Justify is definitely the most different stallion,” said the master of Ballydoyle about the new apple of his eye. “He’s different from any other thoroughbred you’ve seen. He’s a big, muscly, powerful horse. It beggars belief that he was able to stretch out and win a Belmont.   “His stock stood out the moment they arrived. They’re big, rangy horses with huge strides, all of them genuine and with good wind. We had to wait and see whether they had the class, but as soon as they started racing, it all came out.   “If there’s any sire in the world who demonstrated class, it was him in his last three months of racing. Nobody could have asked him to do more than what he did. One follows another like night follows day, and his progeny are the same. They go forward, they cruise and they quicken. It’s so exciting.   “It’s unbelievable. Justify is a big sprinter, like a quarter horse, who was able to win over a mile and a half. Where on earth does that come from? I think it’ll be unbelievable what his progeny are going to do. I don’t think we’ve seen anything like what’s going to happen yet.”   ‘Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?’ was probably some of my more cynical readers’ response to O’Brien’s paean of praise for the son of Scat Daddy. ‘After all, it's in the job description to talk up the Coolmore stallions.'   I must confess that I did think myself that O’Brien might have got a little carried away with the rhapsodising – not out of his own self-interest, but because of recency bias, with the sire having just supplied the European champion two-year-old colt and filly, City Of Troy and Opera Singer, both of whom were housed at Ballydoyle.   But, as time goes by, O’Brien is looking more and more justified – pardon the pun – in placing the Triple Crown laureate on such a high pedestal.   Whether Justify turns out to be “the best ever” stallion is debatable, but the trainer was right: there is something other-worldly about him (we learned in a piece with Coolmore’s staff on the ground in Good Morning Bloodstock in February that he weighs 700 kilos, a full 50 kilos more than any horse who has stood at the operation’s Irish base) and he has been passing on his exceptional gifts to his offspring with regularity.   City Of Troy went on to win the Derby, Eclipse and Juddmonte International to be named joint-world champion, and is serving his first book of mares at Coolmore in Ireland; Opera Singer overcame an interrupted spring to take the Nassau Stakes; and the Christopher Head-trained Ramatuelle atoned for her 1,000 Guineas near-miss by bolting up in the Prix de la Foret.   Now, thanks to Ruling Court’s game victory in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday, Justify has his eighth Group/Grade 1 winner, the fifth trained in Europe, from four crops of racing age.    The colt, who made a record amount for a breeze-up horse in Europe when sold by Norman and Janet Williamson's Oak Tree Farm to Godolphin for €2.3 million in Deauville last May, was bred in Kentucky out of the Grade 3-placed High Chaparral mare Inchargeofme.    Ruling Court's pedigree was dealt with in this space after he won the UAE 2,000 Guineas in March: you might remember he is descended from Hascombe and Valiant Studs’ bonny little Falmouth Stakes heroine Inchmurrin.   Her maternal line has been in fine form of late, having also given us The Lion In Winter, who beat Ruling Court into third when successful in the Acomb Stakes last August, and Liberty Lane and Godwinson, winners of the Cambridgeshire and Lincoln handicaps in the past year.   Ruling Court is an important horse for the direction of breeding in Europe as, all being well, he will become a first stallion son of Justify for Godolphin’s breeding arm of Darley, presumably in Britain or Ireland.   It is, dare I say, no bad thing to see this particular branch of the Scat Daddy sire-line expand when it has shown itself to be more capable of delivering progressive and versatile horses than some others.   Success should breed success for Justify. His two-year-olds were conceived at a fee of $100,000 but in his fourth season at stud, before he had proven himself, and so while there are plenty of well bred members of that crop, it won't have quite the same strength in depth as other generations, in terms of pedigree.    But with City Of Troy and co driving demand for the sire’s stock on the track last year, those two-year-olds still sold for an average of $327,000 and median of $250,000 as yearlings last year, up from an average of $285,000 and median of $245,000 in 2023.   Seven of those Justify juveniles are set to be offered at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale, the source of Ruling Court, on Saturday. Buyers are creatures of habit, so expect any of those lots who please in their breeze to make a small fortune.   Justify’s yearlings of 2024 were also conceived at a fee of $100,000 after he showed significant promise with his first two-year-olds without setting the world alight (no harm in that, as the current ‘best ever’ sire Galileo showed).    Only 13 came up for auction as foals last year, and they sold for an average of around $286,000 and median of $249,000: a decent mark-up on the cost of production, but European interest in the sire redoubled by Ruling Court might see many vendors of his yearlings this year make even bigger profits.   Justify’s book really went blockbuster last year, after a bumper set of results in his sophomore season in 2023.    Woody Stephens Stakes hero Arabian Lion, Belmont Oaks winner Aspen Grove and Bluegrass Stakes and H Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes runner-up Verifying emerged from his first crop, while four Group/Grade 1-winning two-year-olds came out of his second generation: City Of Troy and Opera Singer in Europe, and Hard To Justify and Just FYI at the Breeders’ Cup meeting in the US.   Equineline reports that Justify covered 263 mares to northern-hemisphere time at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky last year.   They included no fewer than 57 daughters of Galileo, to replicate the cross that produced City Of Troy. Among them were Coolmore’s own top-flight winners Alice Springs, Clemmie, Empress Josephine, Forever Together, Found, Happily, Hydrangea, Love, Magical, Magic Wand, Minding, Rhododendron, Shale, Tuesday, Warm Heart, Was and Winter. This cohort also includes Together Forever, the dam of City Of Troy, unsurprisingly.   Best In The World, the dam of ill-fated triple Oaks heroine Snowfall, and Toy, the impeccably well bred Irish Oaks runner-up, are just two of the other high-profile Galileo mares sent by the operation to the stallion last year. Other notable names owned by Coolmore partners, outright or in part, covered by Justify in 2024 included Abel Tasman (by Quality Road), Alpine Star (Sea The Moon), Bellafina (Quality Road), Bracelet (Montjeu), Campanelle (Kodiac), Cayenne Pepper (Australia), Even Song (Mastercraftsman), Fairyland (Kodiac), Fancy Blue (Deep Impact), Fleeting (Zoffany), Gagnoa (Sadler’s Wells), Gamine (Into Mischief), I Can Fly (Fastnet Rock), Immortal Verse (Pivotal), Kimari (Munnings), Legatissimo (Danehill Dancer), Mother Earth (Zoffany), Newspaperofrecord (Lope De Vega), Roly Poly (War Front), Rosdhu Queen (Invincible Spirit), Rushing Fall (More Than Ready), Samaready (More Than Ready), September (Deep Impact) and Sparrow (Oasis Dream).   Safe to say that the Coolmore top brass play by the rules of ‘go big or go home’.   Lots of other breeders with European connections also made sure to get in on the action with Justify at his private fee last year, though.   Ruling Court’s owner Godolphin supported the stallion with US Grade 1 victress Dickinson (Medaglia D'Oro), Balanchine winner Summer Romance (Kingman), dual Group 3 scorer Tranquil Lady (Australia), 104-rated Victory Wave (Distorted Humor) and high-class With The Moonlight (Frankel).   Juddmonte got behind him with a number of mares including British-breds Jubiloso (Shamardal), who ran third in the Coronation Stakes, and Juncture (Dark Angel), a dual Listed winner. Both are related to Frankel, the former being out of the unbeaten world champion’s half-sister Joyeuse and the latter being out of his daughter Occurrence.   The Aga Khan Studs sent four-time Group 1 heroine Tahiyra (Siyouni), Group 2 winner Darkaniya (Frankel) and Group 3 scorer Tariyana (Sea The Stars).   Lady Bamford’s well-credentialled mares Rosscarbery (Sea The Stars) and Queen Of My Heart (Dubawi) also went to him for their first dates.    Fittocks Stud and Arrow Farm & Stud sent Program Trading’s dam Dreamlike and Fethard Bloodstock sent Sioux Nation’s dam Dream The Blues, both mares being by Oasis Dream.   Among the other proven mares with European interest sent to Justify last year were Star Terms’ dual Group 2-winning dam Best Terms (Exceed And Excel), owned by the Barnett family, and Trillium’s similarly classy dam Marsh Hawk (Invincible Spirit), owned by Rockcliffe Stud.   There was also Camille Pissarro and Golden Horde’s dam Entreat (Pivotal), owned by CN Farm; Mishriff’s dam Contradict (Raven’s Pass), owned by Prince Faisal’s Nawara Stud; and Tilsit’s dam Multilingual (Dansili), owned by Ben Sangster.   Furthermore, Merry Fox Stud sent Round Tower Stakes winner Treasure Trove (Siyouni); Moyglare Stud sent Group 3 winner and Group 1 runner-up Malavath (Mehmas); and Watership Down Stud sent Too Darn Hot’s winning full-sister Darlectable You (Dubawi).   Justify is far from an outpost of European breeding activity, though, and among the more permanently North American-based Grade 1 winners he was mated with last year were Bleecker Street (Quality Road), Byrama (Byron), Cambier Parc (Medaglia D’Oro), Chasing Yesterday (Tapit), Dunbar Road (Quality Road), Eda (Munnings), Malathaat (Curlin), Marketing Mix (Medaglia D’Oro), Pizza Bianca (Fastnet Rock), Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom), Sharing (Speightstown), Spendarella (Karakontie), Uni (More Than Ready) and War Flag (War Front).   All of that is only really scratching the surface of Justify’s 2024 book, which was deep on quality and will be so again this year, at a fee of $250,000 that made him America's joint-most expensive sire.   There is time, and every opportunity, for the stallion to prove O’Brien right by becoming “the best ever” or at least one of the best, then. We might not have “seen anything like what's going to happen yet” after all.  

Firstly, Canada rejected a Trump would be political party and now The Aussies have done the same. Good also to see that Triple's racist mate, Pauline Hansen also dipped out   We have Winston who has gone Full Trump as he knows that if you add up the anti vaxers and the Trump goons he can just get to the 5% required to make it into Parliament.

Sounds like all of this was effective immediately. Both Fowler and Edwards were calling at Eagle Farm and Morphettville respectively on Saturday. 

Just to let everyone know Leggy and I have corresponded today and worked out our differences and have decided to bury the hatchet and move on...thanks for everyones support and lets all keep up the robust debate and hold the ones in charge of NZ racing to account.

Didnt mind Golden Lining in the first, but 3yoF over 2100m against the older horses without much weight advantage doesnt normally tick my boxes so grain of salt stuff

Hong Kong's super sprinter Ka Ying Rising will earn more than $10 million prizemoney in just over two minutes if he cleans up The Everest-Russell Balding Stakes double in Sydney this spring. With Hall of Fame trainer David Hayes revealing plans to set Ka Ying Rising for the two Sydney sprints, it is understood Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) is emerging as a potential buyer for a vacant slot in the $20 million The TAB Everest, which has World Pool status. There are three The Everest slots that could change hands later this year – definitely The Star's slot, and possibly TAB and Australian Turf Club. If HKJC does buy an Everest slot, it would be a logical fit for them to select their own champion, Ka Ying Rising, the world's number one ranked sprinter. Hayes confirmed Ka Ying Rising will stay in Sydney for a two-race spring campaign that includes the world's richest turf race, the $20 million The TAB Everest (1200m) at Royal Randwick on October 18, boasting first prizemoney of $7,500,000. Then two weeks later is the $3 million Russell Balding Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill Gardens which offers $1.725 million to the winner. In addition, there is a $1 million bonus for any horse that can win The Everest-Russell Balding double. Bella Nipotina became the first to win both races last spring. She ran 1m 8.76s on a soft 5 track in The Everest then raced away with the Russell Balding stakes in 1m 14.96s – taking less than 2m 24s to claim the mega-rich sprint double. Ka Ying Rising, which has won 12 races in succession, is already $1.90 favourite with TAB Fixed Odds for The Everest and is set to start the shortest favourite in the race's history. Nature Strip was $1.90 when he ran fourth to Giga Kick in the 2022 The Everest.  

Bonjour from near Toulon in southern France where I have finally got some Internet. Wonderful weekend for Godolphin in both Britain and America. I saw RULING COURT on debut at Sandown last summer and he looked a real prospect. The second ran a huge Derby trial. DESERT FLOWER was dominant in the 1000 Guineas. Ollie Sangster will be thrilled with second and third and I look forward to seeing LAKE VICTORIA over further.

Hawera 2. Charm Zafarm 4. Happy To     Kawakawa 7. Jus Wing It  8. Idyllic  9. Pepeha

I was going to ask who the most prolific talkers are, so cheers for that lols

Normally the Syndicator get 10% as well  dont they?

Will be very interesting to see the ROI for the investors in Wolverine when purchased by DCE.