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Shawy38
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Posted: 05 Nov 2019 at 4:03pm |
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Won by 9 at Bairnsdale today
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Second Chance
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Aw drat, you're no fun Shawy.
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Shawy38
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Moved on by Maher because they aren’t city class would be my guess.
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Second Chance
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Utzon (owned by Yu Long Investments) transferred from Maher/Eustace to Matt Laurie.
White sibling Grand Bernini (owned by China Horse Club) transferred from Maher/Eustace to Gwenda Markwell. Conspiracy theories anyone?
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djebel
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About time they stepped her out in trip,
Oaks filly.
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reductio ad absurdum
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Foxseal
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2nd start for Matt Laurie this weekend.
1100m maiden at St Arnaud. |
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djebel
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Strange stable change.
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reductio ad absurdum
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Xavier
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Goes around in Adelaide today
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Karl and Susan Kennedy are my heroes
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anabel
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Maybe. Sometimes the really light horses do look a bit odd. But she had her head in an awkward spot, was reaching for the ground and action behind looked off too. |
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djebel
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Does her whiteness make her action look strange ? When I watched the trial I thought her action looked weird strange.
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reductio ad absurdum
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anabel
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It’s action looked horrible on the way to the gates.
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Batman
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Craig Williams is getting a holiday
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Gambling has brought our family closer together. We had to move to a smaller house.
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Shawy38
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Very messy in the straight. Stewards will be busy
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scamanda
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The winner cam out and gave then all a bit of heave ho Shawy. Mockery didn't help.
Williams will get a holiday for that.
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I started with nothing and still have most of it left
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djebel
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Another example of a stamina pedigree showing speed and so they run her in speed races.
She might be speedy but it is clearly not the cheap and nasty short course speed. Put her away for the Autumn 1600m contests.
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reductio ad absurdum
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Shawy38
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Lucky not to fall
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Carioca
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Silly question by me, of course it would be TJ ( school) |
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scamanda
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He wasn't with T.J.Smith then Carioca. I remember the stable doors faced the gate and we could see both horses from the gates. I don't remember the street name but it seemed very small, almost like a laneway.
Long time ago mate. Faded memory doesn't help.
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I started with nothing and still have most of it left
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Carioca
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Good memories there Scamanda, was he with ED Lawson ( Peter) then or had he left to go to TJ? |
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scamanda
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Martello Towers had a pink nose hence the stable name Pinky. In the stable alongside him was another grey with the stable name Bluey. I'd walk past them every day going to and coming home from school. And even got to sit on both, with them wearing their rugs. The only way of telling them apart was their noses. At least that is how it looked to me but I was only a kid then.
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I started with nothing and still have most of it left
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Sister Dot
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Chautauqua is another classic example, he didn’t start out with those big black dapples on a white background. All greys eventually white out, how long it takes depends on how dark their coat is to begin with. Greys can be born as black, brown or any solid colour foal. The first sign that it’s going to be a grey is a white ring of hairs around their eye. [
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“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined”
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Carioca
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* Won...think I'm losing it.
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Carioca
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Yes that's more like Tontonan exactly what happened , I knew he went off in the gates, I remember this horse from his very first start at Canterbury he was rather "warm" next start at Randwick huge plonk I think a big bookie was involved and one as he liked , watched at the track many times , enjoy your posts mate always great to converse fwiw. |
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Tontonan
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Max Presnell wrote :
" Back in November 1961, the Nepean River broke its banks, washing thoroughbreds, spelling in nearby paddocks, around the countryside. AJC Derby winner Martello Towers, a grey, was washed away. The staying power of Martello Towers also wasn't limited to the Randwick mile and a half and he finally made high ground after being missing for 10 hours. " In all he had 37 starts for 11 wins 8 seconds 4 thirds and $44,806
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furious
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That could of been after his escape from the floods.
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Tontonan
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We are both wrong if Jack Pollard is right.
He claims that Martello Towers lashed out in the barriers jsut before they jumped and badly stripped his back legs, returning to scale with blood pouring from his wounds. Pollard also confirms that laranyx issues affected the horse after he won the George Main Stakes in record time as his form fell away.
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Tontonan
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Close....but no cigar. Sky High was the following year. in 1959 the Victoria Derby was won by Travel Boy, Martello Towers was last of 7 as 10/9fav. Curiously the best horse to come out of the race was Dhaulagiiri - and he finished 2nd last.
I'll need to to do some research on why Martello blew it.
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Carioca
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From memory Tontonan he went mad in the gates whacked his head ( he was a bit iffy at the best of times) he had won the two guinea races and the Derby and I think he was favourite in the VRC Derby , Sky High won the Derby that day.
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Tontonan
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As a sire in WA.
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acacia alba
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Yes, thanks both Cari and Toto, very interesting stories and photos. Where did Martello Towers end up, OTT ??
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animals before people.
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