New Zealand Racing

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by _ed_

Fritz, NdJ, Red Ruler, the Princess, Insouciant...unbelievable.

Wow!

Good luck to NDJ and the Princess.

Can't wait to see the replay of Fully Fledged winning! (Think he will anyway...)

I don't know most of the names in Gold Trial.

[_ed_]

Will post the videos tomorrow, but here are the results:

Race 2:
Perky Parrot
Lauaki
Fully Fledged

FF hit the lead just before the turn and kicked away from them, but tired under his weight in the last 100m. Perky Parrot? Who's he? 3yo gelding by Viking Ruler, trained by someone I've never heard of. It was his 3rd start...he was a maiden! He was 26-1.

Gold Trail Stakes:
Juice
Daffodil
Il Quello Veloce

Juice is the real deal. Awesome performance.

Towkay Stakes:
Special Mission
Beaver Trap
Imananabaa

Special Mission is a daughter of Towkay and she won the Towkay Stakes! Was her 7th win in 14 starts, really good mare. G1 winner last season.

Stoney Bridge Stakes:
Princess Coup
Nom du Jeu
Fritzy Boy

The Princess got to $3 million in earnings today. Awesome performance, was last at the top of the stretch but blew by them. NdJ went ok and Fritz was brave. Can't complain about that race, pretty much perfect.

[_ed_]

Here are the videos now.

First have a look at this one:
http://www.dailymotion.com/classicco...lack-oak_sport
This is a horse called The Black Oak in Race 1. He's by Pentire, the same sire as Xcellent. He's now 2-for-2, and some people are already comparing him to X! It's way too soon to do that, but he does run his races the same way. So impressive.

Now FF's race:
http://www.dailymotion.com/classicco...y-parrot_sport

Juice in the Gold Trail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htcvVUPmcWo

And Princess Coup in the Stoney Bridge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7DuHfRID18

Great day of racing.

[my miss storm cat]

Thanks for the vids and cheers to the Princess! Blazing on by indeed!!!

[my miss storm cat]

Jesus. Give him a break already.

8-10.15 TAYLORS LAKES FAMILY HOTEL HANDICAP (1600 METRES)
Of $60000. 1st $36600, 2nd $10800, 3rd $5400, 4th $2700, 5th $1500, 6th $600, 7th $600, 8th $600, 9th $600, 10th $600.
For Four-Years-Old and Upwards.
Field Limit: 12 + 4 EM
No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Penalty Handicapper
Rating
1 SIR SLICK (NZ) Graeme Nicholson Brian Higgins (a3) 2 61 107
2 ON A JEUNE Barry Dunn Mark Zahra 12 59.5 104
3 NEW SPICE Brian Mayfield-Smith Damien Oliver 3 58 101
4 FIRST MILITIA Brian Rowe Darren Gauci 7 57 99
5 MAGNETIC Michael Kent Ibrahim Gundogdu (a3) 14 56.5 98
6 ANNENKOV (IRE) Peter G Moody Luke Nolen 8 56 96
7 DR NIPANDTUCK James Fraser Vlad Duric 15 56 96
8 FREE THE ROBBER Terry & Karina O'Sullivan Brad Rawiller 16 55.5 95
9 SALIENTE Karen Fox Greg Childs 5 55.5 95
10 SCHILLING Mick Price Craig Newitt 9 55.5 95
11 BARBARICUS Danny O'Brien James Winks 13 55 94
12 BLITZ'EM RILEY (NZ) Marion Shears Stephen Baster 11 55 94
13e DAKA'S GEM David Brideoake 4 55 94
14e ROSLOTTA Pat Hyland Nick Mehmet (a3) 6 54.5 92
15e ELECTROMOTIVE Lee Freedman Dwayne Dunn 1 54 86
16e MOCK Tom Hughes Dean Holland (a2) 10 54 86

[_ed_]

Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. Poor Slick. He's not enjoying it anymore.

If he had been trained by someone better he could have done so much more.

[_ed_]

In happier news...a great guy who actually cares about his horses, Roger James, had 2 impressive debut 3yo winners yesterday.

Islington Bay - http://www.dailymotion.com/classicco...gton-bay_sport

Quartz Reef - http://www.dailymotion.com/classicco...rtz-reef_sport

Both in to about 12-1 in futures betting for the 2000 Guineas in November. FF still fav for that at 3-1.