Garry Chittick News
The Corner with Garry Chittick
Sometimes you wonder, other times you realise what’s the point. We have two new Board members to help guide Thoroughbred Racing to a brighter, more enlightened future. Now, I don’t know either, and I am sure they have been confirmed for the right reasons – I think my concern is where is it our leaders believe they are taking us.
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Smart win for Garry’s Love
Smart Love, racing in Waikato Stud colours for Garry Chittick’s Chittick Investments, made it three consecutive wins this preparation at Pukekohe. The Savabeel mare previously broke her maiden at Te Rapa and continues to impress for Wexford Stables this campaign.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
If you enjoy racing, you will have enjoyed the past week. I am not a racing journalist, far too hard a task for me, but the odd observation to keep the two of you informed and alert deserves a little of my time. The Cup once again illustrated the theatre of racing beyond a mile.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
I keep on proposing my retirement from the burden of a weekly Corner. I make the excuse it is hard to be credible, hard to let the two of you know about anything in our sport that hasn’t been covered before.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
I was going to have a spell this week, after all, if I’m going to comment on our favourite sport weekly, I really want to reflect my belief on how much joy I get from being involved. Sure, not everything is peaches and cream with the occasional need to prod those with the responsibility of managing our future.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
The woeful participation in this year’s local bodies election is a reflection of our changing attitude to service. It used to be a badge of honour to garner the voters’ support, more importantly, such a cross-section of society, balancing the professional leadership, generally prevented radical changes.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
In this week’s ‘Corner’, rather than disecting, Garry Chittick shares an official statment sent to participants by Racing NSW on behalf of Chairman Dr Saranne Cooke.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
The concerns of our animal welfare advocates are of course, shared by all. I recently listened to a podcast where legitimate claims were made of examples none of us can be proud of. We currently …
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
We live in a vastly different world to the world I was born into 80 years ago. Of course, I would not feel the effects of the political values of the time with any likelihood of understanding, perhaps for 30 years, and yet the environment in which my cousins and I were raised in has had an entrenched effect on our lives.
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
It is probably just as well The Corner’s readership is confined to the two of you. Generally, I use The Corner to make you consider, many times tongue-in-cheek, the issues that concern me. It’s important …
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
Many years ago, obviously before my brain had developed as far as it was allowed to go, I was an active member of Young Nationals. It was a social activity for a start, until I …
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The Corner with Garry Chittick
Hear the latest from Garry Chittick: If I had $10 million to spare, perhaps I would believe it might be better to speed up the remedial track work, or, I might have gathered breeders and found a way to underwrite a desperately needed sire.
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