O'Marilyn! WOW. :eek:

That was the best performance by a 3yo in NZ so far this season, and by a long way.

Very nice from Darci's Dream at Riccarton. She's a lot better than I thought she was!

Pure Champion!

Ed I am so confused... I want to watch this one first but what's up with the replays? They appear fine for the first 4 races and it's like they cease to exist. :confused:

That's not good! Annoying. Hopefully the rest will be put up soon.

I hope so. You know where you click on the results for a specific race and it says overview / dividends / video? Strange how the video part is completely missing!

I did just watch O'Marilyn and WOW. :) That was a gutsy ride from Sam!

Also watched Darci's Dream and a few others (was going to say Chumana's race but I suppose I should remember it from the winner, Victoryshallbemine, instead of her awesome blaze, huh? :D ).

Surprised to see Amun Ra running against older horses at Matamata but maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Hope he does well. I really do hope he ends up being all that!

That is a bit surprising, but when I talked to the trainer last week he said he needed to give the horse another run before the Hawke's Bay Guineas on October 4 - his plans were messed around by the cancellation of the trials last week.

The rest of the replays seem to be there now. :)

They are and thanks. Watched most of them... beautiful win by Pure Champion and, of course, I Do was great but that was really nice to see Soriano with such a great run (too)!

Lovely fields for the 3yo stakes races at Ellerslie on Saturday! I just hope the track dries out a bit.

Looks like fun!

Great noms for the Livamol Classic (!!!), just watched the Amun Ra race (which I really should call Busta's race... nice win for him. Disappointed though although he did break awkwardly, huh?), shame about Nigelissima... not a career ending injury though, right?

What do you think, ed... has Veyron had enough now? Starting to wonder... :confused:

I'm starting to wonder too. I'll give him one more chance to prove he's still got it.

Nigelissima will be fine. :) Just a pulled muscle.

Exciting photo finish in the first of the day at Ellerslie! Six lengths back to third.

Whoa, Avisto and Volkstok'n'barrell were so impressive today. Especially Volkstok.

I just watched that one... VERY nice!

Also just read your piece in the Informant and am so happy there are big plans for Soriano especially!

http://www.theinformant.co.nz/racing...or-Classic-bid

(Noms for the Livamol are crazy good)!

Almost had a heart attack cause when I looked at the NZ Racing site and seeing a Sangster win pic! I mean that was a truly nice 2nd behind The Cleaner on Friday night but I thought well wait did he go home and race again already (and win!)?! :D

Ha, I noticed that as well! But that was a really nice race for him behind The Cleaner. I hope he does win another one soon.

Wow, I'm getting to write about so many great horses in my preview articles for this week's newspaper - Puccini, Stratocaster, Fix, Silent Achiever, Bounding... I can't believe I'm getting paid to do it!

Aw. :(

http://www.theinformant.co.nz/racing...lined-by-virus

It was nice to be the first one to report this, but I wish it hadn't happened. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

I continue to read your stuff (and smile when I see your name) all the time. I'm so happy for you.

Great job (always). Your passion and enthusiasm shine through. :)

(... and yeah that is a shame about Albany Reunion. Get better!).

Opie... what on earth is going on? I was surprised to read about his... do we call it a break?

Thanks!

Yeah, I'm not sure about this break for Opie either. He's done it a couple of times before, said he might not be back and then come back a few months later. But that was always in the winter, when it was harder to keep his weight down and the racing wasn't that good anyway. This a bit different. But I hope we see him again soon.

Arrived at the track. :) It's freezing! But a beautiful sunny day.