It' a good drive whenever you get the money, but Jesus H Christ what about the horse?? I thought Jnr had left it too late but didn't he gather them in around the home turn??, out 4 wide??? I'd love to know what he ran that furlong in! No horse I've seen has had the right or temerity to do what ITMQ did there, gobsmackingly sensational.
Nice drive. Jr had ice in the veins and the horse power.
Having not watched a lot of racing from WA until this carnival, I must say I have been very impressed with the young guy Woodley. He certainly has the head and the hands to get his charges around.
Sorry to have missed the funOriginally Posted by broncobrad
But there isn't any need to look too far for your improved sulky design! Jim Walsh has already done the work for you
http://www.rjwalsh.com.au/models.htm#apollo
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Warning: Horses are expensive, addictive, and may impair the ability to use common sense.
How much extra for the periscope and wheel spikes Phil??Sorry to have missed the fun
http://www.rjwalsh.com.au/models.htm#apollo
I love the look of the Regal Hittite Special and to think it has already established a world record at Young! Could you imagine 8 of these going around at Menangle with only the most ambitious of drivers being considered for selection to compete over two miles? It could become the REAL CHARIOTS OF FIRE.
Seriously though, credit where credits due, Hall Jnr deserves every plaudit for remaining ice cool to the metre and let the horse show us what he really is capable of in our premier event. Like every one else, I was thinking its time to go, its time to go, its really time to go...and then when you think its too late he lets him go. BANG! To the harness racing tragics it was a much louder and more pleasant sounding BOOM heard all over Oz & NZ than the crap we have had to endure for the last six months.
Disappointed in SU galloping (apart from the hip pocket pain) because we will never know what may have happened and the opportunitys for both animals to compete against each other whilst still at the top of their game are fast running out.
Loved the series and love the competitive driving that small tracks engender. Well done Western Australia. The junior driving championship has also been absorbing and the girls have been sticking it to the boys.
His drive on ITMQ was disgraceful...........why would you let a horse that has been tailed off 50 metres go around you with a lap to go......didn't he see how much ground SU lost.....the week before he took off at the 1000 metre mark and cruised around hard held!.........then he decided to trail SU at the bell, until he finally realised it was gone! Give me a break, I hope his old man tells him not to do that again!You seem have gone all quiet there HP. I trust you are not feeling poorly.
Have you seen two better drives than Jrn's efforts with Gracias Para Nada (sp?) and of course, Imthemightyquinn. Outstanding.
What a joke, an ice cool drive wins a $1mil race which happens to be an inter and that's the best you've got
Now I won't attempt to argue with your kind of intelligence but there is a bloke with a little bit of it that watched the same race
That just doesn't happen in races . . . and it doesn't happen in Inter Dominions," master horseman Brian Hancock said of Im Themightyquinn's breathtaking last-to-first win at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
His sheer speed is amazing. You win nine out of 10 race with that speed," Hancock said.
And he was full of compliments for the Hazelmere father-and-son team who executed the win.
"They worked out how they would do it and said nothing," Hancock said.
"They knew they had the best horse but you still have to win it. The kid (Gary Jr) outsmarted them and he seemed to be the only person who didn't put pressure on himself," he said.
I have tipped ITMQ all the way through the ID heats, I posted a market on this site that had ITMQ odds on favourite before he became tomato sauce odds anywhere else..........My market also had MF at 8/1.........I thought the ITMQ was a certainty with any luck in running......he had 20 metres on any othe runner (based on his heat runs)......Please explain to me why he let a horse that had been tailed off 50 metres during running take off in front of you???? Then you take a trail on him, and realise 150 metres you have made a mistake..........JNR should have taken off in front of SU, maybe another runner may have come out and given him a trail up to the leader and he would have won by 20 metres with his exhilarating speed!! The race was not run at a fast tempo, it was time to get on your way...........the fact is he still won the race, which shows how much the horse had on the field.............
"The kid (Gary Jr) outsmarted them and he seemed to be the only person who didn't put pressure on himself," he said...............Really?????......he sat last in a slowly run race.......let a horse go that had been tailed off..........pulled out 5 wide at the 450 metre mark and got home by 1.4 metres........lucky the horse had a lap on them!........I would say that was a possible recipe for defeat........Thankfully, JNR was on such a great horse!......"Hail the Mighty King"
The fact that you have the best horse does not always make you the winner........If you remember.............2ND DECEMBER, 2011, ITMQ, (driven by N R Jack) sat close to the leaders at Melton in a FFA, and was beaten by Melpark Major, when they dawdled upfront and sprinted home......even though ITMQ ran fantastic times himself!
To claim a great drive by JNR we beg to differ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jeez I'm glad I didn't take you on in a debate, your abiltiy to dismiss a master speaks volumes of your experience in all things driving
And wow! and your skill to see everything that didn't happen is amazing
I did not dismiss a master, I think BPH spoke more about ITMQ's ability than anything else........to have such sheer speed and acceleration is what makes a great horse, and he appreciated that in ITMQ, because his training methods were always to develop the speed in his horses and hopefully, they would develop toughness with maturity.......I don't know what he used to think of old Bundanoon as it was more of a stayer than a sprinter! BPH also said "His sheer speed is amazing. You win nine out of 10 race with that speed," .....that's the point not 10/10 but 9/10!
At the time of the race, BPH may not have known the sectionals that were being run upfront, but they were not fast, but the horse overcome the obstacles and ITMQ won the race........thank goodness!..............you mention about my skill to see everything that didn't happen is amazing!...........please let me know where my observation of the race is not accurate.......as I pride myself on accuracy more than anything else, BPH maybe one of the greatest drivers of all time, but he doesn't spend the time doing the form analysis of horses that I do!...........I maybe a little harsh in my comments, but I don't think so, as SNR & JNR both indicated they had a leg on the field.............JNR did not drive that way.........he may have been a little too cute.......it could have cost him the race!.......I still believe my analysis of the race is correct!!!!!!!!!!!
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