Quote Originally Posted by Richard prior View Post
No moves and no attacking the leader, Very unusual in NZ.
Very true. But what the NZ races become are hand-up-athons. You find the early leader a lap later is three sometimes four back on the pegs. Horses keep going around and the latest leader hands up. Once Kerryn got the front there was no way she would hand up. Basically the race was over after 100 metres. They may as well waived the chequered flag then.

As for being boring it was but not in the usual NZ way. What it did do though was show the NZ drivers in a very poor light. Showed how one-dimensional they are and once the race was not run in their usual pattern they were frozen in their sulkies. Zero initiative shown. You have to wonder what they were thinking or even if they were thinking at all.

Even Natalie handing up the death at the bell was very ordinary. Her horse seemed to be travelling well.

Lastly, as for Ima Corzin Terror why did they not take a driver with them from here? Alford, Jack and Sugars have all driven him (Nathan Jack my choice) and would all be far superior to the NZ driver they used.