ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- The trotters stole the limelight at the 1979 Interdominion Championships at Addington Raceway in Christchurch. New Zealand trotter, the inappropriately named No Response, turned in a performance that had harness racing fans talking about it for weeks afterwards. (I'll bet you watch this more than once!!).
I was there that night. I was a university student in Christchurch. I have never seen a race like it. You don't really get the idea from the camera angle of just how he wove through the field, but at track level I can tell you it was amazing. I sat in the box with Reon Murtha when Lyell Creek won his final Dominion, but it was nothing compared to this. Others mention Lord Module's FFA. I was there that night too and it was also awesome, but this race has the edge. It is the greatest feat in the nearly 50 years I have watched harness racing.
What an amazing race. I wasn't there but watched it on TV. It will remain with me forever, I asked dad to put my $10 in the piggy bank on No response...how life was so much simpler back then! Thank you for the posting the video.
Still get goosebumps watching Richard Brosnan pull off the impossible here. Great posting Ian.
Thanks Ian for posting this great race of No Response winning the 1979 interdominion final,as I have great memories of that race.Love to see more of the races including Noodlum & Arapaho
Thanks Ian for for the Alan Matson FFA, is the race i wanted see with Lord Modules amazing win and still have the original newspaper clipping. Is hard to imagine was 36 years ago. Thanks again.
This is my altime favourite race. I was 21 and even to this day can still remember that night and that call.
A great era for NZ pacing & trotting. I loved Young Quinn and Robalan. Does anyone remember Noodlum. I have been in Aussie since the early 80's and really miss my NZ racing.
hadley howarth I’m 70 now and All I think about is the best pacer ever... Halwes, just a shame he was scratched from the Interdominion final in NZ less than an hour before the race. He won the three heats , was hot favourite.. would have killed them ...I saw him at melb Showgrounds in a standing start from 24 yards .. when starter let them go halwes was facing the wrong way. The field was 100:metres in front when driver turned him around, he caught the field, had a breather for a lap, then raced around with over a lap to go and cruised to the line winning by 25 metres. It was breathtaking. They say Popular was a better horse but the gruelling interdominion or over 2900 metres or more, a Halwes would have broken Popular Alm heart. I feel 20:years old when I reminisce like this
I simply cannot stop smiling I was there that night, No Response won and I saw the Allan Matson free for all win of Lord Modules but my biggest thank you for posting Armalight's Cup Win, wonderful memories, cheers. Jeremy
We were on holiday in Rotorua at the time and watched it on T.V. Big thrill
thanks for posting i have been waiting to see this race again for over 30 years and has to be one of the greatest finishes i have ever seen many thanks. You wouldnt have Lord Modules last to finish in the NZ cup by any chance?
battleheights Hi and thank you for your comments. I have just uploaded the full race coverage of Lord Module's Matson FFA. I am gradually working through my VHS tapes and I think I might have Lord Module's NZ Cup win in 1979. I'll let you know when I find it.
battleheights Hi. I have uploaded Lord Module's 1979 New Zealand Cup win. Cheers, Ian
Hi Ian. Thanks as well. I too remembered this race and have been waiting for someone to post it. At the time it seemed impossible for any horse to win from this position let alone the fact that this was a major event and I don't think he was even touched with the whip. The poor Aussie probably thought he had this one in the bag.
Stunning win! No Response made the others look like they were stuck in concrete!
Was beautifull natured old boy.He was known as butch to us i grew up on the farm where he died richards old place in kerrytown david had it at the time and had a couple horses in the stables at the time.Butch (aka)no response was crafty as a shit house rat you wouldnt know he was 28 he could fly even in his old age.Was a bastard to catch but had a good nature and was a playfull old chap i beleive his head stone is still up the side of the driveway on the farm is still my favourite horse👌🏻my memory of him anyway😎i still come back to watch these videos every now and then i get a tear in my eye everytime man he was fast i call it an honour to have had the chance to be around him even though he was gettin on i had a bubble the day they buried him i was around 11 or 12 but yea little bit of useless info for you sorry about grammar
I remember this race, boy what a finish by No Response.
hi ian. thanks so much for postng no responses vids. fred black was my grandfather, i remember these races as i was 10. my parents and i have enjoyed watching thm again. do u hv the other race? i am told he won both that week (interdomin & trott cup). we hv just been to timaru and found his grave whch promptd me to google. we tried many years ago to get video frm tvnz of his races but no success so ths has been great. thanks again. louise.
I remember telling me mum, no way Gary Dillon would win the NZ Cup...back in the 60's....mum wanted to put 10bob each way on it, she always backed Wolfie......I got home from school, and mum was not very happy with me...!!!!
Hi Ian. My name is Tim Newton and I want to thank you for posting this video. I have been looking for it for years. I am living in USA last 25 years and I used to race Basil Dean. I was wondering if you have any videos of him at Addington. As you will probably remember, he won the 1984 Dominion and NZ Trotting Championship to name a few. He won 13 at Addington. I know it's a longshot but no harm in asking right? Cheers Tim
Hi Tim. Your posting was most unexpected, but very welcome. I have quite a lot of harness racing from the 1980s on VHS and am planning on uploading a number of the races for all to enjoy. I have just watched the 1984 Dominion Handicap and I will convert it from the tape into a file to upload. It is the full 15-minute coverage, which includes the last 500 metres of the 1983 event when Basil Dean led in only to be run down into 3rd by Sir Castleton (2nd) and the winner, that wonderful Aussie mare, Scotch Notch, in a great sprint finish. As the winning owner in 1984, your name is mentioned in the post-race coverage. I will have a look for the NZ Trotting Championship and other races he competed in.
Cheers, Ian.
Ian Grant Thank You very Much Ian, really appreciate it.I have some dates that may help. There are quite a few and I don't want you to go searching everywhere and spend too much time but I will list them and it should help in finding any that you may have. His 1st win was 10/06/82 then 6/11/82 then 01/01/83, 03/01/83, 15/01/83, 04/02/83 then Boxing Day at Ashburton, 02/01/84 then the NZ Trotting Championship on 21/04/84, 25/08/84, 11/09/84, 06/11/84, then Dominion you have on November 06 and his last win at Addington on 05/01/14 in the Canterbury Park Trotting Cup. Once again thank You very much and even 1 race is a bonus to me as I lost all these when I moved over here and while I have all the memories nothing beats a video of the race. Thank you for everything.. Tim
Tim Newton Hi Tim. I have now posted the coverage of the 1984 Dominion Handicap. Enjoy. Very pleased to assist in enabling you to re-live your association with Basil Dean. I will keep looking for more in my collection. Cheers, Ian.
Ian Grant Thanks Ian, I cannot express to you how happy I am that you have this race. Brings back so many great memories. It's incredible that it is 30 years ago this November. Time flies eh........ Thx Tim
Tim Newton Hi Tim. I am very pleased to hear you are enjoying seeing Basil Dean do it again. I tried to reply to your last two messages but the system failed to deliver them both. No doubt you remember that Trotting Championship win was on Easter Cup Day, the day of the bad smash in the NZ Derby. I have all of that on video too. I will keep working my way through my tapes, about 70 in all covering all sorts of different subjects (mainly sport), and will upload a lot of the races that I have. I suspect there might be a couple more of Basil Dean's wins in there somewhere. At present I am working through the 1983 Interdominions at Alexandra Park, where Basil Dean raced but he really started to make his mark in 1984.
You might not be aware that Phillip Leishman passed away a couple of years ago after a battle with cancer. I knew Phillip personally through golf but he was very much involved in covering harness racing back in the 1980s. John May passed away just a couple of months ago. You will no doubt recognise John's voice providing the post-race comments of the videos I have been uploading. Just a couple of weeks ago Ron Bisman passed away in Queensland where he had been living for some time. The NZ Trotting Conference put a very nice notice in the papers acknowledging Ron's contribution to the sport and I have a number of his books in my collection.
More races to come.
Cheers and all the best,
Ian
Wow! Richard is a champion, & his son is also doing rather well in the trots. I still reckon Kiwis run the wrong way around the track.