Whoa, nice debut win for Ryan Jim! Half-brother to Ryan Mark.

That was spectacular from Rasa Lila.

GREAT battle between Emily Monk and Mary Quant at Te Rapa.

Nice result in the Guineas. The Justice League deserved to win one after all his bad luck.

Time for the Oaks!

Wow, what an incredible race.

And now a protest!

And they've taken Sofia Rosa down.

Behind on everything but oh, Buffering!

Ed do you suppose there's something wrong with me... everyone's watching Dubai and I'm watching replays of Storming the Tower (yay!!!!!) winning instead? :D

That was great! But a disappointing day overall, with so much rain.

Nice fields for Saturday, especially the G1 Sires' Produce Stakes.

Yeah that looks great... excited about the other stakes races as well (with The Auld Floozie, Maygrove and Paddy and the one with Nashville, Just the Tip and Scapolo!).

Nice field at Ellerslie with Spoke to Carlo (welcome back, good boy :{>: ), Fully Funded, Queen's Rose et al! Lucky you if you'll be there.

Shame about Vespa.

Yep, I'm here! But hardly anyone else is - one of the smallest Ellerslie crowds I've seen.

Wow, what a great performance by Luna Rossa.

Tavago! :eek:

VERY nice and hooray for Tavago! Outstanding!

Oh and lest we forget, Maygrove. That was awesome. :)

Loving the noms for Te Aroha on Saturday...

Welcome home, Abidewithme. :)

Argh! It was raining this morning and the forecast was bad, so I decided to cover today's Te Aroha races at home. Then what happens? It clears up, the track is perfect and the racing is outstanding. Sigh. Wish I was there.

Hollywood Lass was exceptional.

Lovely wins by Perfect Fit, Snapshot and others, including Sofia Rosa in Sydney, but I can't really enjoy them after Recite. :( This sport is so cruel sometimes.

Have not yet watched any of the replays and I just can't right now. So sad about Recite..,. God.

Very happy to see that both Storming the Tower and Abidewithme hit the board even if they didn't win.

Oh ed, this just sucks. I can't believe it. :(

Good luck to Pump Up the Volume in his race and to both Blizzard and Spoke to Carlo at Tauranga.

Nice field for the Gold Cup at Hawk's Bay with Maygrove, Saint Emillion et al. Godspeed Natuzzi :{>: (and Barbaric as well) in the sprint.

Whatever happened to Graphic, ed? Any idea?

Hope he's happy and well wherever he is! :)

I looked at the form for Giant Turtle and he's had four races since the last time I posted an update from hk... he was 12th all four times. 0-0-0 from 10. :(