LOVERACING.NZ Thoroughbred Racing preview with The Mail Run’s Micheal Guerin on Mornings with Ian Smith including Group 1 action at Hastings this Saturday, racing at Timaru today & more
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LOVERACING.NZ Thoroughbred Racing preview with The Mail Run’s Micheal Guerin on Mornings with Ian Smith (25/9/24)
LOVERACING.NZ Thoroughbred Racing preview with The Mail Run’s Micheal Guerin on Mornings with Ian Smith including Group 1 action at Hastings this Saturday, racing at Timaru today & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Duration:
- 13m
- Broadcast on:
- 24 Sep 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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First of all, if I could ask you, Michael Guerin, about your reaction to this exciting new development announced through New Zealand Bloodstock and their Kiwi trophy, T. Paul Hordle. - Yeah, I was lucky enough to have it in the studio for one of my shows on Monday night. It's magnificent, and it's very New Zealand. The trophy, those who haven't seen it, it's got a large trophy, wooden base, a lot of green stone in it, and the green stones each to an outline of New Zealand. It looks fantastic, so it's very striking, and it's very different from other racing trophies, I mean, most racing trophies are either gold or they're silver, and to a degree, they sort of look the same. Yeah, it's very New Zealand. It's exactly what you would hope it would be, very imaginative, and obviously embraces both cultures. So I think it's absolutely fantastic. It's bloody heavy, smoothie. (laughing) I'm not sure there'd be too many people who win this, which is the trophy for the Indeed Big Kiwi slot race on March the 8th. What to do if you're holding it above the heat? But I think it's also one of our trophies there, unlike some caps or dishes or bottles and all that sort of stuff that people wouldn't. I think it'll be treatable for a speak. I think it'll people will realize how important it is and how it'll be expensive for a start, but also it is very representative of New Zealand. So I think people love their country. So if a New Zealand-based owner wins it, I think it's one of those trophies that you might take somewhere and almost like the rent and shield, not quite like the rent, really shield for obvious reasons. But because it gets a bit of rough and tough, it gets a bit of rough and tumble on its day. But I think it's one of those things you might want to say, right, to the big fella or whoever, you're in charge of the trophy or take it somewhere, but this isn't a trophy. It's going to be escorted around the bars of Auckland. Put it that way, because it is a very significant piece of heart. We're going to hold on to Eamesy TR for being an imaginative about it and embracing a culture rather than just rocking out with a big, coldy, gold-type thing. It's very similar to the Everest. The Everest trophy in Sydney is actually magnificent. And it's not your typical trophy, but of course, back in the days, we've been developing cups in the New Zealand. Some of those things, though, but some of the cups seems to be the thing. And my awkward hands are drinking in up there. - Yeah, it can eat off a plate as well. If you won the Aerofield stud plate at the weekend, a $400,000 steak as well, you might have a decent old feet of seafood off that. I would be thinking, but this is over a mile, Mick. And this becomes very important with the barrier draw. Now, Hastings, barrier start point for 1,600 metres, can be quite awkward, and the barrier draw is out for our feature this weekend in New Zealand. - And it's quite, it's incredible, Smithy, about three of the five favourites have drawn wide and are not naturally go-forward horses, but you're right. It's only a short run for the first bend at Hastings. And being wider, Hastings for the miles, not a disaster, if you have a horse who doesn't mind settling, but if you want to get out of the gates in rock and roll, then you need to be getting out of the gate really hard because there can be a squeeze coming across from outside. So the horse was the winner out of the barrier draw, it's Al Vietse Du Bois. He's probably seen more as a 2,000 metre horse in a mile of these days, but he's a go-forward horse, and it's going to put him in a position to potentially control the race. He'll be the horse who will tighten in the markets after the barrier drawers. The ones who didn't feel so well, correctly-only, who they paid the late fee to get into the race, will start from about eight, skew with, because there's two emergencies coming out, skew with will start from about 10, and mulch time from around about 12. Mulch time tends to race back anyway, but she's got no choice now. Skew with, not good OP Boston, so he'll be able to make that decision. And correctly-only, probably likes to race a little bit closer to the speed. It's not a bad draw for who, but she won't want a couple of horses kicking up inside it. In saying that about the barrier drawers, there are quite a few horses in that sort of two, four, five, six sort of range who are favoured horses. Many of them are horses who are going to be taking a lot of money in the market, and they're probably not horses who are going to try and race on the speed. My apologies for the other very lab. I caught the going over top of me, so I'll talk to you. But yeah, so the barrier drawers, it's a very intriguing barrier, and it's one of those barriers that punters need to sit down and work out. What's actually going to happen here, rather than just assuming the horses with the bed of drawers, I don't know, dominate from the front end. So I'm looking forward to diving into that with the horse people over the next couple of days. Interesting other race, too, is the Hawkes Bay guineas timeline event. It's a group two, a fair four hundred and seventy five K. And it could well be dominated by three horses. So whiskey and roses drawn out in the car park are we, but 11, and the two walker-burges and horses, which Opie's decided to ride unbridled joy. This looks to be quite a nice little three-year-old event this. Good race. And I think it's the first of the major lead-ups to the NZB Kiwi. Horses who win the Hawkes Bay guineas are good horses. And the horse who wins this race, if it's eligible for the NZB Kiwi, the two TRK horses are not, because they are willing to breathe here and the purges out of Australia. If the one is an eligible horse, it'll get an invite to the Kiwi almost certainly. That's how it works. But interesting thing is that Opie wouldn't have had the choice of those rides, because the favorite catch of my love is 55 kilos, or carrying 55 kilos. I doubt Opie would be at 55 yet. And he probably could have got down to it, but I don't think he'd want to get down to 55 for a guineas race. So, he's probably said, well, 57 is a more realistic weight for me. All right, that one, Warren Lloyd's captured for love. And I think the Colts hold the key of the race. I think it's nice enough to be in this race with me. Super motor has had no luck so far. It's got a good barrier. I think it's peaking at the right time. I just think if they put it up $6 and $2, I'll be baking. I don't know what, I'll put it up. Those markets will come out at two o'clock today, but you're right to rub the day at the bay. And it's good timing, like the big lake goes up 10 o'clock. Yeah, I can tell it rained overnight. And enough to be nervous. That's important to me. That's important to me. It was a good fall this morning. How much rain particular? Well, it was substantial enough to wake me up. But, you know, sunny now. I won't say it's a hot sun, but it's sunny now. But it was rain. And I'm not sure it was forecast this early in the week. I thought they were thinking more Friday. So, I don't think it was damaging, but it was noticeable. Put it that way. Well, they would have had to irrigate anyway. Like in the next two days, they would have had to irrigate to keep the track and that's sort of five to six range or five range in case it does rain. But look, we'll update you obviously. You're down here in the bay. You can apply people in its couple of days. And I'm on the mail first thing on Saturday morning. But anything in that five to six range is fine. All horses will handle that. It's when it starts getting past a six to a seven, it might change the way you think about the race from a betting born again. You're excited about a potential clash coming up here on Australia's Richard's race, not so much between horses, but between New Zealand's biggest stud farms. Two of them, biggest ones in Cambridge stud. And why can't I stud? Well, this news came out this morning, smoothie. So, the Everest is Australia's richest race. It's $20 million and it's a very Australian race. It's a speed-based sprinters race. And it's basically a rarar, a job for the Australian breeding industry. Remarkably this morning, Joel Lee Star, who's owned by Brendan and Joe Lindsey, who owned Cambridge stud, confirmed to run in trainer Chris Waller's spot. So, Joel Lee Star will run for Cambridge stud in Australia's richest race. Up against the favourite, I wish I win, who's owned by Waikato stud. So, here we have these two giants of New Zealand breeding, well-known for breeding horses, who have a great 14, 100, 16, 100, up to two mile horses. Now, going head-to-head. So, the Chetics, March stick, and his family, Waikato stud, have the favourite for the Everest, and Joel Lee Star could well have the James McDonald on board and be one of the other favourites for the Everest and their own by New Zealanders. That is absolutely not the blueprint that anybody thought would happen for this. It's going to make for a massive day because New Zealand will now feel like it's got two horses in the Everest. It's locked over the 19th, and of course, it's going to be that rivalry. And maybe a little side bit between the two. So, great for the New Zealand breeding industry. I wish I win, is by obviously New Zealand's stallion. Joel Lee Star's not, but if they think about Joel Lee Star some of these, when she's retired, she'll be retained and retired to Cambridge stud. Now, if I'm not saying she's going to, but if she wins the Everest, and she comes home to a heavier broodmere career in New Zealand, well, that would be unbelievable. They've already got an incredible broodmere band with a lot for probably all, but if Joel Lee Star can prove this off to be a real Everest horse, then be standing in New Zealand. What you have, is more people wanting to come to our sales, to buy foals out of these great nieres. So, huge effort from both Waikato stud, and from Cambridge stud. But yes, you could have had very long odds when the Everest was set up six or seven or eight years ago, that two New Zealand studs were two of the favourites by 2024. - Of interest to this Friday night is the Mankato stakes, which has generally run on a Friday night these days, just generally prior to the Cox played, actually. I wish I wins still in the field, drawn out in the car park, they've drawn 12 mainly valley over 1200, not advantageous. - Well, I mean, if it's a $2 million race, and for whom it's a lead up race, I mean, they would love to win, of course they would. But this is about getting into the Everest with miles in his legs, and I think that's what they want to do. They'll race here, then they'll ease right off them, and not race them for three weeks till the Everest. So, I don't think they're too concerned, even though it's an awful lot of money, and there's some very good horses, and there's a three-year-old on their global empire, who's just a machine. He is an absolute machine. Whether he's good enough to beat the old horses, we're going to find out, but he's very, very good. So, yeah, things are really heating up, sweetie. But for you all of that, of course, we've got the rugby on Saturday night, too. Yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of people not spinning too much time away from the couch on Saturday this week. - Might include me. And our expert, our bully that comes and tells me, "Boden Barrett, number 10." So, there you go. - Is it right? - I mean, you're right. - You're right. - You know, what we're hearing, Ken? - As much as I love D-Mac, I don't mind body being back at 10. I just, you know, like it gives you the option to go Jordan back to 15, and I don't know. It just seems to, it almost seems like it gives us the option to play structured, all we can play, run and go. And I think Bodey gives you both those options. I'm not sure D-Mac gives you both those options. Obviously with the number 10, right? We know. [BLANK_AUDIO]