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crooked_gambler
Champion Joined: 27 Jan 2015 Status: Offline Points: 4676 |
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Good horse, great trainer
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3blindmice
Champion Joined: 22 Oct 2012 Status: Offline Points: 18105 |
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Fellow I know has a 10% share. Bit of a roller coaster ride after showing huge potential as a colt but will be wrapt today.
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Magnolian Khan
Champion Joined: 23 Dec 2015 Location: SA Status: Offline Points: 8437 |
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Nothing wrong with the outside
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Morgan Dollar
Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2010 Location: SA Status: Offline Points: 2626 |
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Excellent ride/tactics
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Go The Dollar..!
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Xavier
Champion Joined: 28 Jul 2016 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 3660 |
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That's my boy
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Karl and Susan Kennedy are my heroes
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tillyras
Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2012 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 7540 |
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Redzel AnnouncementRedzel Secures slot in The Everest |
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Sir Gov
Champion Joined: 17 May 2016 Status: Offline Points: 2278 |
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In it up to his ears - rated off the map wit the last win
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Breeding Above All
Champion Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Status: Offline Points: 715 |
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Love watching this horse.. even though I for some reason ripped Spieth last start, everytime I watch this horse I'm more and more impressed. Cruising speed seems phenomenal and dependant on the speed in the race is if it wins imo. I look at Everest possible fields and there appears to be a fair bit of speed demons and should be a hot pace
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djebel
Premium Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Status: Offline Points: 53960 |
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I have tweeted ( disparagingly ) that this bloke was like a child overdosing on red cordial.
The Everest: Redzel's part-owner Peter Piras mirrors fight of orphan foalAdam PengillyPublished: October 12 2017 - 12:41PM Peter Piras knows what people think of him from a few seconds of crazy vision captured by a TV camera. You know who he is by now, the over-exuberant bloke who part owns Redzel – with the red-framed sunglasses to boot – wildly pointing at the lens when his horse wins. Want to know why there is such unbridled joy in those few moments? It's about the only time he doesn't feel pain. When the bones aren't hurting. The chemotherapy is briefly forgotten. The kidney feels OK. The eye can see clearly. When that horrible diagnosis one late December almost 20 years ago – "two days before Christmas, what a present" – doesn't matter. Because his horse has fought off every challenge – and challenger – just like he's tried to. "And after he wins a race it feels like the pain has gone," leukemia sufferer Piras says. Even this week, when his horse is just days away from running in the $10 million The Everest, Piras is fighting. He's had "a couple of bad nights with the bones" as a result of a previous bone-marrow transplant and has barely slept. He struggles to keep weight on and once needed almost a year for a foot fracture to heal naturally, his steady dose of tablets meaning surgery is never really an option for any ailment. But when he looks at Redzel it's like looking in a mirror. His horse was an orphan foal who lost his mother Millrich, a star broodmare, just weeks after he was born. And he's fought all the way to a spot in the world's richest turf race. "I see not only me [in Redzel], but it's the story behind him," Piras says. "My mother lost her mum at a very early age and when she heard the story herself she knew exactly how that horse felt. And how hard it is. It would have had to fight to even survive. It's a match made in heaven. "It takes mental power to keep going and it's amazing what your mental capacity can do." As recently as this year Piras, who has dabbled in the restaurant game in Wollongong, was driving to Rosehill to watch Redzel in The Galaxy when he was caught up in a car accident. His vehicle was a write-off. He broke four ribs and bruised his lung. Paramedics wanted him to get some further treatment. He just wanted to see his horse, which was ultimately pipped by Russian Revolution in search of his first group 1 win. "I had to lie to the ambulance [staff] so I could make it to the races," Piras laughs. "I was in so much pain and he nearly did it." Then there was the time he felt so weak driving himself to the races he pulled over three times. But still didn't miss Redzel, whose group 1 win eventually came during the Brisbane winter carnival. It was about as good as it got for Piras and Triple Crown's syndicate of owners, who will race the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained sprinter under James Harron's slot at Randwick on Saturday. Piras often used to scour Magic Millions catalogues on the eve of sales and marked out a Snitzel colt. To his surprise, he noticed after it had gone through the ring Michael and Chris Ward's Triple Crown had bought him. He got on the phone immediately and asked for a share to be reserved for him. He encouraged some friends and his dad to join him, but his father, a liver transplant recipient himself, had been scarred by a money pit which had been a previous horse he'd raced. He didn't want in. "I said to dad, 'trust me, this horse will win you money back'," Piras says. Little did he know how much. So even despite Piras representing Australia in previous Transplant Games competitions, Redzel is now his sporting pursuit. "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a donor and I want to make sure donor awareness is so important," Piras says. "People can save a life with a simple process of ticking a box. These days you never know. It could be your family, you ... anyone can get sick. Without that I wouldn't be here, my dad wouldn't be here and so many others wouldn't be here. "And this horse not only keeps me going, but also my family." Which is why Piras will battle his bones this week and make it to Randwick to watch his horse, the one with "a big heart who is like a pitbull". The cameramen know who he is by now. They'll be close by waiting for the television gold. And if Redzel wins The Everest? "I will go crazy," Piras jokes. You wouldn't blame him. |
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reductio ad absurdum
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Straight Connector
Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2015 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 1702 |
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What a legend!!
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furious
Champion Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Status: Offline Points: 25165 |
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Stories like this are worth more than the race. I hope She Will Reign wins as that would be a miracle but a dead heat with this boy wouldn't hurt would it?
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maccamax
Champion Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Status: Offline Points: 41473 |
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Nice story . He has won his recent starts with authority , drawn perfect so a Redzel win is very likely . Many chances though.
Record buster besides Redzel is Deploy . Broke 1200 Randwick & Rosehill 1300 M Course Records at his past two outings, Great stuff. Up 2K and Up in class but is probably the real value in the race. |
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jacko1
Champion Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1801 |
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Nice story on some of the owners
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TheCat
Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2011 Location: Adelaide Status: Offline Points: 492 |
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Tactics? If he can cross Houtzen it could make it sticky for She Will Reign, but it could also mean that one of his biggest dangers (Vega Magic) sits outside him and controls the race...Can't wait, what an interesting race.
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"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned."
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Sir Gov
Champion Joined: 17 May 2016 Status: Offline Points: 2278 |
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Cannot see the weaker Melb form standing up here. The Sydneysiders normally have a length or two on the Mexicans
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maccamax
Champion Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Status: Offline Points: 41473 |
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You get the Bouquet narrowly today----- Love battering the Mexicans |
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maccamax
Champion Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Status: Offline Points: 41473 |
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My saviour you wonderful HORSE. .3 outside the course record. Back up top where you belong |
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SkyDancer
Champion Joined: 02 Aug 2014 Location: Cranbourne Status: Offline Points: 8429 |
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Summary: 20-10:4:1 Prizemoney: $7,195,250
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Magnolian Khan
Champion Joined: 23 Dec 2015 Location: SA Status: Offline Points: 8437 |
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Yep |
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scamanda
Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Location: The Manor Status: Offline Points: 16246 |
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He's now faced the best Australia has to offer and beaten them hands down.
Chaut has been a grand champ for a long time but now it's all about Redzel and I can't see anything pushing him at the present time. He's the champ.
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I started with nothing and still have most of it left
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furious
Champion Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Status: Offline Points: 25165 |
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Couldn't agree more scamanda though I hope She Will Reign can come back and give him a run for the money at Easter.
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max manewer
Champion Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Status: Offline Points: 32947 |
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Certainly those crying about the Vega Magic ride in Sydney, don't get a lot of support from today's proceedings, although they were on a different part of the track today.
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maccamax
Champion Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Status: Offline Points: 41473 |
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No doubts today .. I thought the straight 1200 might test him but he was going away . |
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3blindmice
Champion Joined: 22 Oct 2012 Status: Offline Points: 18105 |
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Yep, his early pace makes him very hard to beat. Has come a long way since his 2yo days when they held him in high regard but he disappointed. Gelding and more importantly maturity has made him bulletproof. Great horse
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Bi Carb
Champion Joined: 09 May 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2082 |
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Loves to win.
Maturity , and the absolute key , getting his nuts out.
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Shrunk in the Wash
Champion Joined: 25 Mar 2016 Status: Offline Points: 9890 |
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Great little horse but geez some of those owners carry on like fools
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Bi Carb
Champion Joined: 09 May 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2082 |
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Agree , its one thing to have a good time and enjoy it , but its another thing to make tools of yourselves. No grace , its an epidemic.
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acacia alba
Champion Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Location: Hunter Valley Status: Offline Points: 41480 |
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Funny, but I was thinking the same thing , watching them yesterday. I would be over the moon too if it was my horse, but its embarressing watching some of them. Of course its exciting and we all celebrate in different ways,,but While one has to feel for the bloke who has been really ill, he seems like he is dead set on shoving it in everyone,s face that his horse is a winner and the rest can get stuffed. ( Myabe he took a leaf out of Michelle,s book ). You just get the feeling that if he hadnt been ill, and so got the sympathy vote, you would find him to be a real jerk. |
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animals before people.
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max manewer
Champion Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Status: Offline Points: 32947 |
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Amazing the way the public money stuck to the horse, it paid $3.60 paramutuel everywhere, with bookies and betfair in the $4.2 to $4.8 range at the end. That is unusual today.
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djebel
Premium Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Status: Offline Points: 53960 |
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Best sprinter in the country compiling a lovely picket fence.
Snowdens under pressure to build on that fence. |
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reductio ad absurdum
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