Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits sunlive.co.nz

It's been a funny old week. But then here at RR headquarters, most weeks are fairly peculiar.
The election weirdness has gone, thank goodness.

A mixed bag of results, but we won't go there for fear of boring you senseless. We've thrashed out the results and dissected the outcomes all week on SunLive. Thanks to the thousands who tuned in to see it all unfolding, as it happened, on the Bay's instant news service. Thanks also, to those who flicked up their comments.
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Here's a quick opinion of the election form, thanks to an astute reader:
One Horse Race
Crosby creamed it – Mayoral stallion, so to speak – stuffed the competition.
Groos – untamed hack – sent to knacker's yard well and truly by punters.
Leaming – was despatched to glue factory last term, still won't fit through door.
Robson – very expensive show pony – made plenty noise – fell before starting.
Guy – sideshow pony – creates his own race where he is the star performer.
Curach – Shetland pony – useful only for taking punters for a ride.
C Stewart – wooden horse – only useful for punters to use and jump over.
Grainger – draught horse – plodding around the two roundabouts at Hairini looking for a tunnel.
Faulkner – warhorse – still battling for the punters and defying attempts to put him out to pasture.
D Stewart – rocking horse – big motion but goes nowhere.
Moultrie – hobby horse – the Mountie's mount – stops racing at ward racetrack boundaries.
Baldock – back from the knacker's yard – retired halfway after last start in favour of race with bigger stakes – soon fell on that race and was put out of his misery by punters.
Molloy – scratched by punters at last start – made a good comeback – not ready for museum yet.
Christiansen – dark horse, came from nowhere.
Evans – gelding, predictably failed after many false starts. Played huge bets on himself, now being sought by bookmakers for not paying his bets.
Baker – thoroughbred with low profile – not show pony to his detriment – punters failed to notice his form and fell at last hurdle.
Love – old warhorse, but came with all bells and whistles- expensive training, came out of gates early but faded by race end.
Parkinson –– very fast colt and highly-trained, but not for this race. Bookies bet for a place early on but found going too tough.

Pick 6 didn't pay out for last three years and took punters' money on misrepresented form.

After this race neigh-sayers have a lot of horse manure on their faces. Some are full of horse waste and some are in it over their heads. Clearly a Best Bets written by some of the competing horses themselves may not be a good indicator of true form. Anonymous competitors administering slur milkshakes also crashed spectacularly.