Garry’s Corner: News
The Corner with Garry Chittick
As you can imagine, making sense of a subject weekly to satisfy you, my five readers and harsh critics, is not that easy. Most racing news has been well covered by professional journos and is …
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We were of course disappointed not to make the Rupert Clarke field. When your horse is three-dollar favourite then the punters, who are not always right, inflate your expectations. Clearly, he didn’t quite have the …
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The Racing Awards are over for yet another year and we at Waikato are proud to once again to have played a major part in the seasons results. Probabeel’s return to the podium is a …
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success only to spoiled by the prospect it may have been his last. But, hope springs eternal, the prospect of having him around longer with the administration of a non-subsidised treatment motivated his mates to …
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Racing can be and is great fun. On Saturday, Waikato Stud joined forces with Te Rapa for the Waikato Stud raceday featuring the time-honoured Group 2 Foxbridge Plate over 1400 metres. This is the start …
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Don’t you love it, a day at the races where the driving force is a group of retired or nearly retired racing enthusiasts and I must emphasise, their partners. This is of course Taupo, which …
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We have had a reminder this week of the risks our jockeys are exposed to. The death of Taiki Yanagida, a young man who chose to learn his craft firstly in Australia then under the …
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Well, another year of racing over. The excitement of a new season, new crops of age groups, you’ve got to be enthused – if not, why be involved? Our involvement covers all aspects. We invest …
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
It was nice last week when one of my five readers found the time to reprimand meciting the lack of a Corner. To realise that in the hustle and bustle of poppingchampagne corks, watching a …
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
The five faithful readers will be conscious that The Corner does not dig into the politics of our powerful country. Until now. You see, we six, me and you, will have gone close to cardiac …
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
I read with interest the recent article on the restructuring of TabCorp, the isolating of their interest in the Casino and Lottery component from the wagering on the three racing codes and sports betting. As …
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You know the season is about to close when the icy blast of winter strikes. Sure there is a month to go, but apart from the Group 1 Tatts Tiara, we are now into winter …
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