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@hutchishonkers
| formerly Trackside NZ & HKJC
Congrats Damien Oliver, what a way to end your stellar career by winning on Munhamek!
Saturday’s Gold Rush experience was unforgettable & the scenes other worldly - thoroughbred racing theatre at its ridiculous best.
Because seriously, just how ridiculous was it?! 😂🤯🫶🏼
This was an absolutely extraordinary podcast to listen to with Amanda Knox &
@joerogan
… so many things to take from it. Thanks for giving so articulately
@amandaknox
.
#phenomenal
Had a 3 hour conversation with
@joerogan
, who was genuine, thoughtful, compassionate, and humble. We need more such conversations, less judgment, fewer hot takes. Thank you, Joe!
Happy to hear that the man who nearly cost human & equine life during r8 at Trentham has been arrested.
The vision below is graphic
It further highlights the highest danger of said man’s actions given the speed & power horses travel at.
“Get offfff, you idiot”, is audible
For 20+ years my sister Kiri has worked tirelessly as a lawyer for families & children of NZ. Today it was announced that she has accepted a call to the bench. She’s an incredible asset to the NZ Justice system. Our family couldn’t be more proud of her.
#manawahine
#JudgeTan
As the article linked discusses, NZ racing & its people are working very hard to keep the sport going in the midst of a pandemic.
TFC isn't a part of the plan & whilst there are myriad bigger things, it's weird being removed from the fight.
My statement
Congratulations to
@Kemeys
& the
@boysgetpaid
group for what they’ve achieved today with their
#KarakaMillion
punters’ club.
The execution of it all was phenomenal (+27%!) and hopefully the benefits to
#NZracing
will be manifested for generations well beyond today’s numbers.
Very very sad to learn that Trevor McKee has died. A legend who was a kind-hearted man to all humans and horses he interacted with. Rest in peace TJ. Thank you sir. Thinking of his wife Noeline, son Stephen and all the family at this time.
A thought for the day.
If you’re anti-horse racing & not a full practicing vegan, then your reckons are invalid to me.
Happy to have rational discussions with those who practice what they preach, live the values they want others to hold, & don’t just cherry-pick causes.
Legendary NZ thoroughbred trainer and raconteur Murray Baker has announced his retirement!
Training partner Andrew Forsman will take sole control of operations at the start of May. Exciting times for both people. Could Murray sign off with another Oz G1 this Autumn?
Whilst of course it’s a great opportunity for Jamie Richards to train in HK, his appointment is a breathe of fresh air for the ranks there. It’s hard to imagine Richards not being a star performer & like many, I wish him the best of success.
@HKJC_Racing
@HutchisHonkers
It’s really hard to underestimate the James McDonald effect on the horses he’s won on
@Ellerslie_Races
. Yes, on quality thoroughbreds that are well-trained, but his balance, timing and feel for tempo has him a world-class standout.
#NZracing
#horseracing
The framing of this story is disgraceful. Aside from the clear deflection from Racing Victoria when the buck starts & stops with them, having Wiremu Pinn headlined with “show cause” & pictured heavily implies he’s somehow part of a plot to deceive. That’s clearly not the case.
Clayton Chipperfield says Catalyst has come through his G3 2nd to Alligator Blood in great order. In fact straight into the feed bin back at his Mornington base. The trainer is looking forward to Catalyst being off level weights over 1600m in Aus Guineas.
@TAB_Racing
@Racing
New Zealand horses just won the Newmarket Handicap! Roch N Horse wins the G1 on the inside rail for
@BallymoreStabls
& Patrick Moloney. Levante won the ‘stands rail race for 4th overall! 🤭
#NZRacing
@littleavondale
I’ve pulled out my phone to watch this race again 17 times already today. Can’t remember a more anticipated Group 3 race in this part of the world, and one that delivered like a Group 1.
#AlligatorBlood
#Catalyst
Don’t get chills watching racing often. But geez it’s a special achievement to win 14 group one races. Melody Belle covers herself in glory and sits alone as the greatest group one winner of the NZ turf. Brilliant Troy Harris & the handling by
@JamieRichards3
+
@TeAkauRacing
.
I could watch this for hours: James McDonald on Dragon Leap (green & red, right of screen). The horse wants to run out (near point he did at his last start), but a quick l/h reminder encourages him to gallop straight and true. James usually uses crop in his r/h.
#horsemanship
Pretty hard to play league when only one team is getting penalised. Dead set fair crack
#NRL
. Seriously cooked second half performance from the officials.
#NRLStormWarriors
We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of one of racing’s bright young stars, Megan Taylor ❤️
Megan was a hardworking and determined young woman with so much love for the horses and the community around her. Her infectious smile and bubbly personality will be sorely missed.
Feeling the thrill of winning a race with a horse I hold a share in is not a regular occurrence, but today Raced Evens provided enjoyment in spades. Chur
@SweenzRacing
, Johnathan Parkes & trainer Jaimee-Lee Lupton. The filly is from a super
@WindsorParkStud
fam
#celebratethewins
Excellent to be able to join the Cambridge, NZ leg of the 2023
@MelbourneCup
tour.
The
@FlemingtonVRC
team do an incredible job of taking the “loving cup” to the people.
🫶🏼 The special race is 7 November - a Tuesday of course, with stakes of AU$8mill!
I’ve watched this three times... and don’t know whether you should too? When something is so bad, it’s so good I guess, so why not watch! 😂🤣😂 thanks
@Hkhutchi
,
@Racing
@GetOn78
&
@JaseRicho
.
The thought of the lives taken and ripped apart by this inhumane act or terror is incomprehensible. In. New. Zealand. In. Christchurch. 💔😔 Not here, this was
#Godszone
.
What a great example Jayne Ivil is of someone who is incredibly talented and matches that with a strong, professional work ethic, with a drive to improve all the time. Rare and valuable qualities in so many respects. 🌟🌟
Top viewing this.
Jayne Ivil explains how she started her career in media with Trackside, where she worked as a producer and pre/post-race mounted jockey interviewer.
She also talks about her new little girl Pippa, and what her career ambitions are going forward.
Plenty calling this “ride of the day”. Fair enough, but how about “the ride of any day, any where, in any reality”?! Maybe that’s too much, but my word! The
@TABtrackside
camera angles and Tony Lee’s call say you won’t be seeing a more extraordinary ride any time soon!
"Have you ever seen anything like that?"
This is a must watch.
@TABtrackside
present all the angles from the incredible piece of horsemanship displayed by jockey Aaron Kuru when winning the Maiden Steeplechase at today's
@AwapuniRacing
meeting
@SKYNZ
#NZRacing
No more monkey! Jason Collett is a Group One winner! Awesome stuff!
#Invincibella
#TattsTiara
deserved success and the riding siblings Tash, Alysha and Jason have all won Group 1’s! What a racing family.
#Kiwis
Murray Johnson is the lead English broadcaster for the JRA. Today will be the 17th time he’ll call the
#JapanCup
. Here’s him in action during race 4 from his position (next to Adrian Webber) on an outside balcony, about 40 metres before the finish line.
#JapanCup18
As good at the year of the Tiger was, I hope for a banger of a Rabbit year! Happy New Year to friends & followers! Kung Hei Fat Choy!
#CNY2023
#RabbitYear2023
Last night the NZ family welcomed in the New Year with our annual feast where people who can cook, cook amazingly!
Huge credit to
@Ellerslie_Races
for the staging of
#NZDerbyDay
.
Even given the lack of a crowd, the
@TAB_Racing
Trackside NZ team gave the event the gravitas it deserved with a superb broadcast. The colour, stories & info provided on the horses & people made for great viewing.
Group 1 races don’t get much messier & dangerous than the Telegraph Sprint just run at Trentham. Feel sorry for a number of horses who got carved up & their connections who had to pay to watch the carnage unfold. Hope Johnathan Riddell is okay after Lincoln’s Kruz came down.
Who wrote this script
@hkdarren
?
The racing gods have said yes. The GOAT goes out a Gold Rush winner on the almighty
#Munhamek
!
@nryanracing
& Aaron Mitchell take a bow.
Caspar & Alix Fownes with
@HKhutchi
can 👋🏼to the crowd!
The launch codes have been verified🚀
Didn’t he do it professionally again Elephant, now 5/5.
Tractable and can sprint. You’d have to think 1600+ is what he wants and obviously has improvement in him. Congratulations
@Em_spartaracing
!
Victor Wong has given Jamie Richards his first winner in Hong Kong by steering Handsome Rebel to a big victory!
The first was never a doubt. How many will be the exciting unknown for
@JamieRichards3
!
9 years ago James McDonald & Fiorente chased home Green Moon & Brett Prebble to run 2nd in the
#melbournecup
. Today he’s reversed the result beating his childhood riding idol on kiwi-bred Verry Elleegant.
Romantic Warrior has won by 4.5-lengths and broken 2-mins for 2000m on a track that’s played on standard. Extraordinary win in the
#HKCup
for
@mcacajamez
& Danny SHUM.
He jumps into a spot, relaxes, then sprints fast! Special, special horse
#HKIR
@HKJC_Racing
@7horseracing
100% Aidan. Absolutely incredible the amount of speculation, rumour & frankly shoddy public “reporting” surrounding TAB redundancies. Also, whilst many are wanting “blood” & costs saved, there are plenty of people without work who have given their best to their jobs in good faith
@itsgrego
@TAB_Racing
Greg, it's not my place to be commenting on TAB redundancies. A lot of good people are losing their jobs and it's still pretty raw. That there's public speculation and conjecture about the livelihood of certain people is unhealthy and unwarranted.
The racing world is Jamie Richards’ oyster. He’s backed by an amazing
@TeAkauRacing
organisation with top people, who source and manage some great horses, but this is no ‘by chance’ achievement. Quite freakish.
#congratulations
#horseracing
Jamie Richards sole nominee for Champion Trainer (as last year) after an unbelievable record breaking season - most wins (NZ record), most stakes' wins (NZ record), most NZ Grp 1's (15 - NZ record), most prize money (NZ record) ... Te Akau's 8th Champion Trainer title ...
#proud
Congratulations Mark McNamara
@fencetalknz
for adding so much to racing broadcasting and in particular harness racing in NZ. All the best back in Oz. Looking forward to hearing your sharp & colourful calls from there.
#littlebigMac
#quality
#NZracing
has witnessed the brilliance of James McDonald in Melbourne the past week, but to have Opie Bosson back riding & winning for
@TeAkauRacing
on Noverre, brings me as much joy. Nearly an unlucky placegetter (like Field Of Gold), but over the line a G1 winner.
#TGG
How long will Kearney get away with giving rubbish reasons for failure? Remember he was 10/42 with Eels after being asked (and given time) to ‘rebuild’ club. With a far better roster & structure with Warriors he’s only 24/56. It hurts watching an aimless team regress.
In a million dollar race, sometimes you need a million dollar ride. Johnathan Parkes, take a bow. What positioning to win aboard
@TeAkauRacing
’s On The Bubbles! The first-four home for Jamie Richards-trained horses. Again peaking his charges on the big day.
#incredible
“You needed five pairs of eyes in the straight”. Matt Hill describing the last race at
@FlemingtonVRC
won by Berkeley Square.
Five pairs of eyes = a pair of Matt Hill’s eyes.
He’s an incredible broadcaster and race caller.
La Crique. There’s your best NZ horse right now. Stunning mare.
The Alexander’s have another beauty &
@CraigGrylls
notches another G1 in emphatic fashion.
One of the brilliant aspects of Stephen McKee is how great he became with media contributions. Training Sunline demanded that professionalism in many respects, but with Trevor he always delivered. That wasn’t the norm in NZ, but it helped attract new people to racing.
#legacy
Thanks for your concern about my personal growth. That race though will bring me happiness for a long time to come. Regards Jason Peter Pan.
#AlligatorBlood
#Catalyst
However yesterday’s Caulfield track was prepped by staff, along with the prevailing weather, should somehow be bottled & sent around the 🏇🏿🌏. Looked a perfectly fair surface. Big ups
@MelbRacingClub
. Top runs by Probabeel & Aegon from a🥝angle made for A+ lockdown 📺via
@Racing
Irrespective of politics, there’s no doubt about the economic contribution of the horse racing industry to New Zealand and the thousands of people who are employed within it and obviously then, spend money and pay tax.
Funstar is class, but how about Probabeel? She’s so game. Get the feeling there’s plenty more match ups to come between the two G1 fillies.
@cwallerracing
@TeAkauRacing
I don’t know how many feathers will end up in his G1 winning trainers cap, but Chris Waller
@cwallerracing
just keeps delivering in the biggest races he aims his horses at. As for James McDonald, he’s the man for any occasion. So good.
#RoyalAscot
🇳🇿
Congratulations to
@JamieRichards3
closing this chapter of his training career with a Group 1 double at Trentham with Imperatriz winning the Levin Classic and Belle En Rogue the Oaks. Quite brilliant to provide the
@TeAkauRacing
owners a first-4 & quinella in those races also.
What’s the opposite of ‘champagne turf’? Or the opposite to ‘jewel in the crown’? Whatever they are it describes Trentham racecourse and its place in
#NZracing
I have no positive words for the ‘management’ of that track. Very sad for industry participants.
Pretty classy reaction from
@McnabMjmcnab
post losing the
@vodafoneNZ
by a nose on Mongolianconquerer. Spoke so clearly & with honesty to
@Agent200
on
@TABtrackside
. Get the feeling he’s on the cusp of taking his riding career to the next level.
Hard to imagine the Warriors getting anywhere near a
#NRL
premiership under Kearney’s coaching. Terrible record as a first grade coach and so far this season they look a
#rabble
.
NZ-bred stayers 1st and 3rd in the Caulfield Cup with Epsom Derby-winner Anthony Van Dyck splitting them! She’s not just a tough kiwi, she’s a classy kiwi Verry Elleegant!!
#brilliant
In fairness if you were Opie Bosson (and there is only one so no one else actually could be!), you would’ve hoped Alligator Blood would’ve taken you deeper and more quickly into the straight than he did. Melody Belle found the back of favourite who did little.
Must give credit to
@FlyAirNZ
for a cracking Friday evening offering in the lounge! Wok-fried crayfish with a Panhead Ale is a super way to be sent to Japan to watch
#AlmondEye
and
#JapanCup18
!
#chur
Shout The Bar was perfectly rated out in front by Adam Hyeronimus and beat a tough field in the
@VineryStud
Stakes.
Congratulations to Adam on his first G1 winner
Little double-fist pump from Opie Bosson said it all as Imperatriz crosses the line first to win the G1 William Reid Stakes! Geez. Another big sprint for 🥝 in Oz!
@TeAkauRacing
& Mark Walker this time!
“He’s done it! Kozzi Asano has ridden the last five!” Race-caller Tony Lee as the rider concludes apprentice day by winning the last race aboard Cate Blanco (Allan Sharrock) and completing a domination of the card.
It’s seems unfair to deflect from the equine stars, but it’s impossible not to think Jamie Richards isn’t anything other than elite talent. He’ll say it’s the team, and one should never underestimate that, but I doubt anyone in NZ racing works harder than him.
Even though I’m in New Zealand for the next four weeks I will operate by Greenwich Mean Time. Between
#RoyalAscot
#WorldCup2018
&
#Wimbledon
I feel this is an appropriate measure to allow me to navigate through this phase in my life. Thanks.
Gee, the best thoughts with Jamie Kah and Craig Williams after a mid-race fall at Flemington. Hoping for the very best outcome as bad as it looked. 😔🙏🏽
An extraordinary NZ trotting cup with Cruz Bromac winning for Australia in NZ’s “all star” colours. A first cup win for driver Blair Orange and a shout out to
@matthewcross01
for a cracking first call of a race that I hope he’ll get to describe for many years to come.
#NZCup
An absolute tragedy that cancer takes a good person from his family (and many friends & colleagues) in this manner and way too soon. Rest in peace Andy.
For all the many challenges facing
#NZracing
, they become secondary when abandonments like Riccarton happen. Today seems an abject failure of club administration. Amateur hour stuff irrespective of the undoubted spin the CJC might try to put on it.
Aren’t expectations amazing. Winx just brained Le Romain and other’s by 4 lengths... and the feeling was that it was a struggle. What a horse she is.
#Sunline
was my first love.
#Winx
is an affair I’ll never get out of my head as long as I Iive.
A champion New Zealand-trainer, who achieved great results in Hong Kong, all the while maintaining incredible humility and great personality. What a legendary person Paul O’Sullivan is.
A Hong Kong Derby-winning handler, Paul O'Sullivan departs Hong Kong at the end of this season as one of the city's finest trainers. 🙌
🥇 x512
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🐎 Vital King
🐎 Fellowship
💰 HK$519.81 million
@NZTRinc
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#HKracing