First for Jack

Congratulations Fred and Pat and co-owner John McDermott - his first win as a trainer!

It's all official

Kurt reports that the babes have been duly registered and the website indeed confirms this. Apparently there were just 12 Love You foals born this year (3 Sundon mares including Duchesse, 3 Gee Whiz mares including Gwen, 2 Chiola Hanover mares, 1 Armbro Invasion mare and 1 Pine Chip....+2 tba). They are growing well and will be in Wendy's tender care while KG sails away to Europe, any day now.
Meanwhile Marion and Teresa bask on the sand in Martinique!

PORTO video 24/9/08

PORTO video 17/9/08

Latest Babe Pics

Excellent work with the camera KG!. D'Arcy has had a minor op on his leg (it was a little bendy), hence the bandage. Time will tell if it has worked...

Back UP OVER

An enjoyable 3 working weeks in Sydney ended with an extremely pleasant evening at Harold Park as guest (again!) of Robert and Gina Marshall. Robert is on the NSW Harness Racing Regulatory Body but is no longer head of the Inter Dominion Council under the new arrangments. Only one trot on the card but that was an improvement on the situation a few years ago! Robert also took me out to the new 1400 meter track at Menangle, where he arranged for me to start the last race - correction sit beside starter Paul O'Toole in the gate car. A nice despatch and the result took me back to my betting system evaluation work nearly 4o years ago... bet the drifting favourite in the last usually had a positive return. Of course the concept of the 'last race' has virtually disappeared with Trackside showing about 20 races an hour for 20 hours a day...By the way Menangle is a minimum of 1 hour's drive from Sydney and more like 75 minutes and will never be a replacement for HP in terms of crowds and functions. But it's a very nice and very fast country track. (Sadly it's called Menangle Park Paceway, even though there was a trot with 9 handicaps earlier in the day I went.)

Please stop disfiguring my horses!

There is really no excuse for this any more!

Lucie and D'Arcy latest pics

on Kurt's blog

Vicki and Dutchess

Missed seeing Thomas who was at 'kindie' but it was lovely to catch up with Vicki - due to foal just after Christmas - and to catch my first glimpse of Dutchess. Very nice indeed and once her problem of cart aversion is sorted we can hope to see something a little special I think. Tom (Trotupastorm) looks on in the background. He resumes in a week's time.

Midhurst

Midhurst is John and Christine McDermott's lovely new property at Prebbleton, opposite Nevele R stud. Wow... look at that house and those new stables and that superb track... not to mention the new six horse jogger!