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I did not refer to any of your above story Jamie , ALL I said was she went ordinary & was disappointing in a trial , big deal . She is a very good mare , would like one like her myself .Originally Posted by triplev123
The insanity of the inferences from old mate and the rest of the peanut gallery are two-fold.
Firstly, even if her trial was not particularly sparkling, she was in with 2 other very handy Luke McCarthy trained mares, no less than (Our) Sixpence (1:55.5 & a slate of 39-11-5-2 & $161,657 banked) who won it and Lady Euthenia (1:53.3 & a slate of 34-21-4-0 & $449,065 banked) who finished 3rd also in handy enough time. To top that off, Lilac Stride is exactly not some no name mare. Admittedly she will be 1st up from a spell BUT this will be after stringing 5 or 6 impressive wins together at the end of her last prep. when in against her own sex &/or sex & age group including taking out the 4yo+ Mares Breeders Crown in slashing style. It is not as though this is a mare that has done nothing to date. She's got a 1:54.4 mark, a slate of 47-15-12-7 & $245,448 banked. Big surprise if she wins? Some great training effort to do so off the back of one so so trial? Gimme a break.
I did not refer to any of your above story Jamie , ALL I said was she went ordinary & was disappointing in a trial , big deal . She is a very good mare , would like one like her myself .
Last edited by peteboss4; 01-06-2012 at 02:26 PM. Reason: took out a line & added a bit
Similarly Peter, I did not include you in the Peanut Gallery.
I Must say that was a long winded Defensive and sometime arrogant reply to pettbos4 observation that a trial was disappointing , are you always this quick to jump on other members ,if so I don't think I'll bother putting any of my thoughts on here.
Good idea Ron, you've gotta watch the old triple, if you don't agree with him he'll brand you an idiot/straw man/6 fingered banjo player/cello player in a marching band etc. And whatever you do, don't get all riled up and retaliate, that'll just lead to disbarment.
Thanks for the Tip
Danno are you any relation to a Brian Gibson that used to bring a little Horse called Sedats boy ,up here to Tamworth many years ago ( probably 20 or so)
I remember he was only a little bugger who went pretty good.
Ron
Geez Ron you've got a fair memory, I thought we were the only ones to remember the little horse. Brian is my Dad, the horse you are thinking of was Sedate's Pride, a tiny lttle Chestnut stallion who epitomised the old pharse about " it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog".
He was a terrific horse to us, won about a dozen races, several of which were at Tamworth on the old circle track. I actually drove my first two winners on the little fella at Tamworth as well, (16yo....man did I think I was a genious! ha ha took me while to work out that it was more the horse than the driver )
Bit like some of the clowns on here, dunno how many of them have ever worked a horse much less actually had a licence, trained and driven half decent winners, very small percentage I think. It often reminds me of that Banjo Patterson poem " riders in the stand"
anyway thats enough of a whinge from me, thanks for remembering the little horse, like I said he was very good to us all those years ago.
Cheers,
Dan
Sorry Dan I did not realize you had to be a trainer or driver to know anything about the harness racing industry. I am sure the trainers and drivers would survive without the breeders and owners !!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry Greg, I didn't mean to offend anyone really, just shooting from the hip, as I'm prone to do every now and then. Without breeders and particularly owners we would not have a game full stop. The punters might tell you something similar, but theres a few of us that are mugs enough to still keep racing horses for fun/ribbons as we would be without the punters. There are a couple a very opiniated people on this forum that are a dead set pain if you're not in their camp, and I was more having a bit of a dig at them, not the whole forum community.
Cheers,
Dan
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