New Zealand Racing, 2010-11

[my miss storm cat]

DID HE WIN YET?



(Hope you had a beautiful Christmas, ed).

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Hope you had a beautiful Christmas, ed

Thanks! And thank you for all your support for NZ racing here. Happy Christmas to you as well, and anyone else who might read this.

As for your question...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwzcGZvGf4

Other races:
Zabeel (G1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHYj2hN_gUw
Eight Carat (G2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXpVhXidV8A
Newmarket: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChoRKLeRwo

A great day.

Love how awesome the racing looks on my home track on these big days.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by _ed_

Thanks! And thank you for all your support for NZ racing here. Happy Christmas to you as well, and anyone else who might read this.

As for your question...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwzcGZvGf4

Oh my God ed are you kidding me?????

I read your post and i thought well alright he probably had a nice enough run but you didn't want to post that Jimmy was 3rd or something.

How cool was that???

Brilliant!

SO happy to see him back and winning and wow Red Ruler and Banchee... just breathtaking and so close for both. (Great runs by the winners but hey... sentiment).

Those were fantastic... all had great finishes and yes your track looks great.

Thank me for my support?

No thank you for showing me a part of the world I wouldn't have considered.

I thought HK was last in the respect department but man I can't even find results for NZ most of the time.

This needs to change.

You all have some great horses and yes I mean great as in great and not the overused kind.

Thanks for the replays!!!!! This made my day and it's still morning.

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Haha, I didn't want to ruin the surprise.

Jimmy was so amazing. He got bored once he got to the lead, and he started looking around at the crowd on both sides of the track. He would have won by 5 if he'd kept concentrating and had kept going in a straight line!

Poor Red Ruler - second in four G1s now, and still looking for that first G1 win. I hope he gets it some day!

So good to see Banchee back at her best!

And Dashing Donna - two G1 placings, but no stakes wins until yesterday. She deserved that.

[my miss storm cat]

Red Ruler is kinda like Youmzain.

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That's a good comparison! Yesterday's field wasn't quite the Arc, but Red Ruler does have that same 'so close, but not quite' problem.

Some news about yesterday's winners...

Jimmy Choux is still targetting the Derby in March. I hope he does well in that, but I really think he'll struggle with the distance. Hope I'm wrong.

Smoulder will be running in the Royal Stakes on Saturday. Not sure yet about Banchee.

Dashing Donna will run in the G1 Railway on Saturday.

Booming is aiming for the 2011 Melbourne Cup, so will have a light summer/autumn before starting his Cup campaign next spring.


Is it wrong that I usually miss New Year's celebrations with my friends (lots of them go out of town) because I don't want to miss the January 1 races? There are 7 stakes races on that day! They just don't seem to understand.

[my miss storm cat]

I know exactly how you feel, believe me... and if we're the crazy ones well hey at least we're happy in our insanity.

I'd opt for the 7 stakes races too.