A.B.C. Thursdays. Welcome back. Grey's Anatomy is all new. Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant? The drama going down. Bunchy jumper from the bridge. Your cords snapped. You need all hands on deck. Is unbelievable. You think your gods give to this hospital? You're just another doctor. My relationship with Catherine is complicated. I'm going to sue you. Your lawyers know where to find me. You're unbelievable. Grey's Anatomy. Only Thursdays, 10/9c on ABC. And stream on Hulu. # # Love Racing, # Dot NZ. Your home of Thoroughbred Racing. 11.41 and they're so popular. It's their tailor that has been on our station twice. And it's not even midday here on this Friday. And we're glad that he's back with us in particular because this is a massive weekend of racing. And I might just add that starts today at Terrapa. Thad, good morning to you. Nine races, some pretty interesting horses and there's some very good talent on show. And of interest in the last in particular, where the Luxe Libertas can make it five in a row for the O'Sullivan Scott Bam. Yeah, and Kylie back to the ownership around Luxe Libertas as well. And good morning to you and your listeners. Yes, you have to put up with me twice before midday. Only CNC didn't even have to do it again. For a third time, when I'll be featuring on the run home this afternoon, this will happen to a whole more party. It gives himself a holiday. So, yeah, your view is sort of the loser's here. But yeah, just say, to rapper today, this is a Saturday quality meeting at Terrapa today. So, yeah, Luxe Libertas are not too many horses can achieve five in a row. And look, they've been just very, very good ones indeed. We've seen to progress through the grades, as we say. So, up to Benchmark 75 rating now, whether it's last one, and did the job very well on a heavy track. The track today rated a soft six. So, a little bit better than it's been seeing thus far, but I don't think that should be too much of a concern. But that might be the only niggling doubt, or nagging doubt around Luxe Libertas. But, yeah, some very good races on the card race five as an excellent opens sprint with the likes of We Will Rock, Wolf Arena resuming, protruding in street gossip for Alan Caric as well. So, use a number of good races on that card there at Terrapa. - Right, okay. Let's head to Hawkes Bay, where a lot of meetings around the country are still racing. Basically, in winter conditions. I'm pleased to say that, even though if I look out the window now, it's overcast and there's a threat of rain, we haven't really had any to take it away, I would imagine, from a good four at this point. - 100% correct, then. Yes, the Hawkes Bay weather doing what the Hawkes Bay weather does, which is we're very thankful for at this time of year to get a good four rating in year. There was, in the forecast, the threat of maybe a shower today, but probably no more than that. So, that won't have any effect on the track. You wouldn't think in fine conditions tomorrow. So, I would expect to be the track to be rated a good four. Tomorrow, hey, things in that will make for some fantastic racing. We saw some great racing on day one in the Tarzino three weeks ago, three weeks ago, and we should get very similar conditions there for the Arafield stud plate day, there tomorrow afternoon. - And Bridal Joy scratched out of the guineas, but there's still a quartet of horses, which I believe are genuine contenders. It may go outside the slot as well, but captured by lovesavegli, super photon, interesting runner, as to as the top e-in poetic champion. Have you sized this racer? - Yeah, yeah, it was, I guess the first talking point here is that the Filly, the sole Filly down the bottom against the colts and gildings here, and Filly don't have a great record of this race in general, but captured by love as a pretty talented Filly in saying that, who runs a second in the gold trail, resuming, was very good indeed, and she's a multiple group two winner, and she looks a real Filly on the rise, with an eye to 1,000 guineas later in the season, they're down at record, and so she's been in stall favourite, there will be many people thinking that the colts and gildings will potentially have the wood on her, even though she has a $2.45 favourite, so it's an interesting race from that perspective. You obviously referring to the likes of Savagli here and poetic champion, who ran very well in the El Rokosur, Colin Mead's trophy on the first day there at Hastings. Poetic champion won the race. Savagli was storming home for a second, and Superfotom was also in that race, had no luck and set wide without cover, which can take a bit of the stuffing out of them, and Superfotom opened at $17 in this field, it's into $8 now, so it's a really significant move around, Superfotom, he looked to be anything early in this campaign, and his two broad season, he was two from two, and they spelled him and bought him back, and he just hasn't quite had the rub of the green in his first two runs back, so they're expecting improvement again, that's a significant move around Superfotom, but so naive as another horse that resumed with the one up there in the Northland breeders, he has to be given some sort of a chance, and Whiskin Roses has made a fair old impression, and it's a few runs to date, and the one at Tierrappa, resuming last, where it was backed off the map in a benchmark 65, how good is Whiskin Roses? Well, we don't know, some school will thought around there, it will probably prefer a softer track than it will get tomorrow Whiskin Roses, but there's some good cults and buildings, so they need to try and take down the fully captured by Love Race by the TRK, our team, so it's gonna make it intriguing Hawkes Bay guineas. - Race 7 is the feature, it is the Arafield stud plate, it's a group one event, $400,000 up for grabs, and I think a very, very even field they've been able to put together here, $4.40 favourite, there'll be a bit of OP Boss and Tex involved, OP Boss and Tex involved in this as well, but SKU with $4.40 favourite, but even field this. - Yeah, it really is, it's a very even betting field, and as you say, you pay the James McDonald tax, and Sydney, you pay the OP Boss and Tex a little bit here in New Zealand because he is that good, he's a top-class jockey as OP Boss and then so, you know, if you get a jockey like that on, it simply lifts the chances of that also winning statistically even for no other reason than that, so SKU with $4.40 favourite, look, done nothing wrong since resuming, good run for third in the Fox Bridge, then came out on the first day in the Tarzino, and ran a very creditable fourth storming home in that one, and looked a step to 1600 metres, you'd think would suit SKU with more than most, so a deserving favourite, I think, but as you say, the chances don't in their room, thoroughly only the 12 in the book was very good, it's kind of second in the Tarzino resuming, and quite a story around Josh Shore is a small trainer that doesn't have many horses, and if he could grab a group one, that would be quite some story around the 12, are thoroughly only, and there are multiple times a mere that is absolutely flying, that's the number 10 horse, multi-time, she's been up at Rua Carca, racing over those winter race meetings at Rua Carca, and racing extremely well, $5.50 as an awkward barrier on 14, but it will probably go back in the run anyway, that's got to be some sort of chance, but now it's just the only narrow Vincey door, as a group one winner, and it's resumed with a fourth, first time up at Rua Carca behind multi-time, he's going to be an improver again, second up at Rua Carca, $6.50 to win the race, but you could go down and mention every horse in this one, otherwise it may be on the top quality horse, one bull cat for a very good stay, and it will be a big chance and a liver mole in a couple of weeks' time, you'd think, so as you say, you can make a case for most of them, and this is Aerofield's stud plate, but yes, skew it for no people else, and T.R. Cal, your current favourite. - That's probably one of the more awkward starting points of group one racing in this country, the 1600 at Tastings. How much do you factor in that when you look at it? - Yeah, well, you factor in the speed map as best you can, whenever you're doing something, and as you say, you're chucking that 1600 metre start at Hawkes Bay, and you have to have a, if for example, now there's a horse drawn barrier one here, and we're having a chat about it on our show this morning, the leg up on track side, Mela Stomp, is drawn barrier one, and ran a very good race for second in the Foxbridge plate, resuming, but doesn't have a lot of tactical speed from barrier one. And it's drawn barrier one, I should say, so where's Mela Stomp going to get to in the run? Particularly with that, they start on almost a bend there, at Hawkes Bay at the 1600 metres, that's a very short run to that first bend, and they're getting into the back straight almost immediately, so if you're drawn barrier one, for example, like Mela Stomp is, and you don't have tactical speed, you could get into a very awkward position in the run, so yet the guys are always looking at the speed maps and thinking where horses are going to land, and whether that's going to be advantageous, so that start can make a difference there in the 1600 metres. You'll see some speed from that wide at that start point, because people want to, they don't have a lot of time to settle into position, so horses that are drawn wide that want to race forward will be coming out of the date humming, and if you do draw it inside with low tactical speed, you could get back on the inside, and then you can strike some traffic problems, so yeah, the guys have to factor that all in, and no doubt. - Okay, Rickerton is the co-satellite afternoon meeting here in the country, if you need a multi-horse that looks like a race to age of discovery might be your value there at $1.40. - Exactly, look, made a good impression. I'm Dave Boo, who was backed as a fun beatable, got the job done and find enough style, and I think that would like the track there at five tomorrow, I think it was a little bit better than it struck, it was a seven-in-the-day at one, so I think the indications were it would prefer a better track, so yeah, you'd say, like a $1.40 around age, just discovery, no spoil, it will move on towards a 2,000 guineas you would expect, and it would be in commission and that, from what we saw first up in with the reputation it has, there's a bit of a darling of New Zealand racing, emerging here in retail therapy, and race number six on the card, made a really big impression since heading south, and speaking of darlings of the track, ridden by a South Island Argentinian-born, Jockey and Tina Common-Yargan, she's a top jockey as well, drawn for again, going for three of its last four wins, and the only time it finished second two starts ago was only beating an absolute head after storming home, so retail therapy has again been extremely well-backed, and race number six on the card, and the main race of the day there is the North Canterbury Cup, it's race number seven on the card, sees the likes of John L. Rocco was a good last start, won a fierce flight for Tiacal, is a good stay there, which I appreciate the 2,000 in cork, has been in good form, but generally likes a way to track, and then it will get on Saturday, bit of a mover as the Michael Matthew Pittman train runner, Star Ballot in that race, was out at $31 into $14, now Star Ballot the dead set stayer, it will probably get back from barrier 11, in fact I know it will, but it should be, it was hitting the line quite hard last time, second up, 2,000 metres, he probably wants even further, but respect the mover around Star Ballot, $31 into $14, so that's race number seven on the card, and there's an open 1,400 there, race five, hit it up by perfect scenarios, a group three winner, it's a great horse, you'd love to own him, he doesn't often run a bad race, tries his heart out, and he won first up over 1,200, the step to 1,400 for perfect scenario, will suit him down to the ground, he's a $3.30 favourite in race number, five on the card there, I reckon. - And just finally, they're racing across the Tasman, of course this weekend, but tonight in particular, the Manicato Steaks is on, which is a real feature, and I wish our winner's quite generous in the market, it's 6.50, are they serious with this race, or are you using it as a lead up? - Hi, there's one big target for our wish I would end, yeah you've got to that right, the Everest, but a good horse is going to win anywhere, and look, he'll be improved after his first up run, he was 1,000 metres there, and the Moyer first up, and that probably wasn't a race, he was going to win just for the type, sort of succumb from Sir at Moonee Valley as well, and look, he's going to get back again from Barry 11, he's going to have his work cut out for him, but he's got an extra 200 metres tonight to round the mark. He's a classic horse of the field by quite some margin, I wish I would, obviously his main target is the Everest, but he's got to go up against an interesting horse, or an interesting three-year-old down the book there, and a growing empire, who has certainly got a growing reputation in the marketplace, growing empire, but yeah, I wish I would, I don't want to see a big run in, they'll want to see him booming home, and he will be, there's no doubt, there's actually a bonus back on the race, if you want to back, I wish I would, if he finishes second to fourth, you get your money back as a bonus bet, up to bonus cash, I should say, up to $50, so that might be a way to play, because I can't see him finishing out so the top four, he'll be rocketing home, yeah, funny old weekend with the AFL Grand Final, the big meeting goes on a Friday night, bit of a split meeting, and ran, we're going to see. - Are you listening to ECNZ on the good old wireless?
