New Zealand Racing, 2010-11

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The third horse in the Eclipse was Savabill. Yeah, it was a great run.

Those scratchings happened because one of the horses started lashing out in her gate. She was kicking and rearing. She caused slight injuries to both herself and the horse in the neighbouring gate. Just a little bit of skin off their legs, so nothing serious, but bad enough to take them out of the race. It's scary when that happens - horses freaking out when they're standing in such an enclosed space, right in front of a big crowd. It's lucky it wasn't worse.

It was Atapi who came 2nd in the Railway! Haha, he's 9, but he can still break 1:10. What a fast old man.

It was another great performance by Red Ruler. He was a bit unlucky in both of his races this week - could have won them both if there had been more speed in the race. He hates these slowly run tactical races.