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I've read where Te Akau have picked up some big Australian clients. The hardest part from what I see is the step up in the class of horse and then placing them. Winning at Cranbourne, Ballarat, Werribee, Pakenham is harder than winning at the majority of our NZ tracks.

I think the term Red Neck Cafe is apt

Still a hard road, that Aus market is very hard to break into. Don't quote me, but I think many of the other NZ trainers that have gone over there have taken several years to make their mark as they establish the contacts and clientele

That Wallace aka @Joe Bloggs is a nasty piece of work. He says I trolled his wife - I don't think he understands the meaning of the word troll. He the person with three accounts on BOAY and a similar number on the Premier Anti-Racing site. He now says his wife was one of the accounts which is utter BS. I guess he doesn't understand the meaning of syntax. He and Little Bobbie couldn't have found a better pal in the @Comic Dog.

I see Mark Walker has the second highest Victoria Country meeting strike rate at 21% with the lowest number of starts at 60. Not too shabby for a stable in only its first full season.

Duh @nomates aka Bob Scott - who's biting who? Or do you have some weird virtual telepathy going on? Just for you Little Bobbie - you can race here for $17k if you want and call it wonderful (which you don't because you are negative about everything) but horses have to start somewhere and $45k maidens aren't to be sniffed out.

Pathetic aren't they, then again Herlihy on the FB site is not much better, questioning the integrity of the stipes is getting onto dangerous ground. Just keep it ticking CS, some nice numbers of people who read the threads, and with all the other things planned................

LOL well did that set the rabble off elsewhere! I guess $32k and $45k for winning a maiden race in Victoria Country isn't good enough for some! Mind you Farknuckle (aka @Joe Bloggs ) and @nomates are perennial whingers and anti-racing. How are those Roc De Cambes going Mr Wallace? As for the @Comic Dog I've never dissed Te Akau on RaceCafe but I guess you think I did because you misidentified someone as me. Which you do all the time because of your paranoia. Who's watching who?

Didn't take long did it @Thomass.

The biggest cost is the cameras - the automatic caputure plugin is a very small cost in comparison.

Try Craig Grylls, Opee, Sammy Collett, Matt Cartwright, Leah Hemi, Kelly Myers et el...ANY Jock who wants an RIB blessing (complicit with tacit approval) tick WITHOUT penalty then observe and watch this video shocker from last Friday...only the head on here...but it's obvious what's going on Toni Davies on the rails leader OVERRATED...the whip in the forehand position, vertical skywards...then assaults the head/neck with total intent for an audio storm where it shoots clear and hangs on Against the rule..."no contact forward of the shoulder or in the VICINITY of the HEAD"...any horseman can easily recognise the intent https://loveracing.nz/Common/SystemTemplates/Modal/Video.aspx?v=http%3a%2f%2fwww.racingreplays.co.nz%2fmedia%2f202512%2fM4_TAKI_R07_041225.mp4&i=%2fCommon%2fImage.ashx%3fw%3d565%26h%3d314%26a%3d1%26o%3d1%26z%3d1%26bg%3deeeeee%26p%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.racingreplays.co.nz%2fmedia%2f202512%2fM4_TAKI_R07_041225.jpg&r=Race 7 - EYEZ ON ICE R65 1800M&rs=1 It's not only an assault on the head/neck region of our beloved thoroughbreds but it's an assault on the integrity of racing along with the dignity of our best mates The Noble Thoroughbred..it's truly shocking what's going on and I have a disgraceful head on screenshot of Kate Hercock striking the ear and eye of her mount when winning on Saturday..without a question from the RIB

So NZTR didn't buy the Automatic Capture Mode (ACM)? The manual you are quoting from is for the athletics system not racing. However that system does have a motion sensor which activates the camer recording. As you point out the most expensive parts of the system are the cameras because the record images at very very high frame rates e.g. 1,000 to 20,000 (or more) frames per second. The standard TV programme is broadcast at 25 fps by comparison - hence the inaccuracy of using a video recording to determine who won. The Trackside cameras do record in HD 4k but the frame rate will unlikely to be much higher than 60fps.

FFS I'm not arguing I actually said the manual activation of the camera by a Judge is one option but NOT the recommended option!! There are two other automatic options. I watched the HKJC video you posted and I must have missed where they said "they pressed a button"! So I gather you are suggesting that the Judge forgot to press the button? Are there technical reasons for not using an auto activation feature? Ellerslie have recently installed the TripleSData system (when they built the new track) which can include a photo finish system. My understanding is that it is auto activated. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

NZ racing would be to budget to get the automatic capture eye…these cameras cost upwards for NZ$30k

Very good 'learnings' as the younguns say SO when Oatham admits to "human error" it would appear a button presser or the home help was out to the imbibing free lunch and was as pickled as an olive in Sinbad's oil? Shirley a head should role for screwing up a Group 1 race four chuck stakes?? Where's the accountability? Remember the Pukekohe meeting last year when poor sweet pea Marsh's neddy was the subject of a Sunday Star Times article courtesy of Bazza Lichter?? The timer help had a massive argument with the 'judge' according to Bazzo and the RIB brushed it away as if it was a minor mozzy bite!!! FFS x 2

Are you going to argue with the HKJC? I witnessed the photofinish at Ellerslie a few years ago…someone presses a button the capture the photo…100%

That's oncourse surely? On Trackside you have back to back racing on two channels! About one race run per ball bowled. Or 103 per one Mark Richardson style batsman runs. That's easily fixed turn the TV up in the marquee!! Sounds like they're the type that are easily bored although I guess you bored them with your negative views and complaints on NZ Racing.

Klaravich Stables' Fully Subscribed notched her second graded stakes score Dec. 7 in the $200,000 Comely Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack, winning by 4 lengths over multiple graded stakes winner Quietside.View the full article

Despite losing a shoe in Saturday's GII Remsen Stakes, Paladin (Gun Runner) came out of his win no worse for wear, according to trainer Chad Brown on Sunday. “He looks good,” confirmed Brown. “He lost his right front shoe in the race, so we'll give him a few days and get him down to Payson Park next week.” “Overall, he looks like he's in good shape. It's nice to see that he got a lot of experience that will help him down the road. This horse is for real. He's a serious horse, and to get his career started with two wins off the bat–we couldn't ask for more.” Demoted to second behind Renegade (Into Mischief) in his career debut going a mile at the Big A on Oct. 17, the chestnut turned the table on that rival when adding an eighth of a mile while taking on stakes company for the first time in the Remsen. The $1.9 million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale purchase is campaigned by Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Brook Smith and Summer Wind Equine, who also bred the colt. The Coolmore partners and Smith also campaigned Champion 3-year-old and last year's GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Sierra Leone (Gun Runner). “He's running faster figures than any of [Brown's Classic runners] in the past,” Brown said. “He's a little ahead of where they were to be honest. He's got good forward, positional speed, all things that are very good things to work with going forward.” Sierra Leone was retired from racing after his runner-up finish in this year's Classic and will stand the 2026 season at Ashford Stud. “It's rewarding because you send a great horse home, and you hope to have a replacement right away,” Brown said. “They've supported me with plenty of expensive prospects in recent years, so to be able to keep it going and have a new, fresh horse on the Derby trail and a potential exciting stallion prospect – which is the broader plan here–is [exciting]. I feel I am doing my part in keeping something in the pipeline for the whole big picture here.” The post Paladin Exits Remsen Win in Good Shape appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

As I said what has the NZTBA done in the last 25 years?

That's not entirely correct. A properly installed Lynx camera system will receive a signal from the same button that opens the gates which also initiates the electronic timing. That's the recommended option which also offers accurate timing for the entire race. Or a movement sensor (another camera) placed a short distance from the finish line which starts the main finish camera. However there is a manual option which involves someone pressing a button but that would be the least reliable option I would imagine. Are you suggesting that the camera installed has a manual button?

Dual Group One winner Orchestral has been retired. The Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained mare suffered an atrial fibrillation when running 10th in last month’s Gr.2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m), and the decision was made to bring the curtain down on her racing career. “Unfortunately, she had an atrial fibrillation in the race and her heart hasn’t come back to a normal rhythm,” Wellwood said. “That counts her out as being a racing prospect, so she has been officially retired and is going to be a mum.” Orchestral was a standout on the track, particularly as a three-year-old, when she strung together five consecutive wins, including the Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m), Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m), Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) and Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m), before placing in the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m). Last season she went on to win the $1 million Aotearoa Classic (1600m) and placed in the Gr.1 Otaki-Maori WFA Classic (1600m), bringing her career tally to seven wins and four placings from 18 starts, with earnings north of $2.7 million. “She has been a wonderful mare,” Wellwood said. “When you look back through her record you pinch yourself that you are involved with a horse like her. “The Karaka Millions was very exciting, that is probably when she announced herself. To be able to win a Derby with Roger was a dream come true. I joked with him when we first started training together that he needed to teach me how to win a Derby and I remember when he came down the stairs after the Derby he said, ‘job done’. “To win a Group One in Australia too just capped it off, she really showed her class. She is certainly one out of the box and you feel very privileged to be involved with a horse like her. “It has been a dream run and although it is gutting to not have another season with her, we look forward to the Litt family hopefully breeding some superstars from her. “We have unfortunately missed this (breeding) season. She will have a nice break for 10 or 11 months and look for a boyfriend in the new season.” While disappointed to lose Orchestral from his barn, Wellwood was pleased with his team’s efforts over the weekend, recording three wins over as many venues. Regally-bred filly Dance The Night got the stable off to a winning start when taking out the Dunstan Horsefeeds 1600 at Pukekohe at just her third start. A daughter of Group One winner Stolen Dance, Dance The Night has shown good progression, finishing seventh on debut in a stacked three-year-old maiden field at Taupo in September before finishing runner-up behind stablemate Ariadne over a mile at Pukekohe last month. She returned to the South Auckland venue on Saturday, where she was backed into a $5.30 second favourite by punters, and duly delivered against older rivals. “She is a nice filly,” Wellwood said. “It is always hard for those fillies against those older horses. She was only getting 3.5 kilos from a four-year-old gelding. I thought it was a tough effort and she is probably only going to get better from the run.” Attaining black-type has become the focus with the filly, and her trainers are eyeing some stakes targets with her over the holiday period. “We need to sit down and have a talk with the owners, but whether we go to one of those miles, the Eulogy (Gr.3, 1600m) or Boxing Day (Gr.2 Eight Carat Classic, 1600m), or whether we look at heading to New Year’s Day over 2000m (Gr.2 Sir Patrick Hogan Stakes),” Wellwood said. “Hopefully she is going to be able to pick-up some black-type in one of those races.” At Trentham on Saturday, stablemate Foreverintime made a winning return to New Zealand in the Wellington Seamarket Sprint (1200m), having previously raced out of Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman’s Pakenham barn, for whom she won one of her 10 starts across the Tasman. The Barneswood Farm-raced mare was previously in the care of Peter and Dawn Williams in New Zealand, for whom she won on debut before running fifth in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m). “She looks very exciting,” Wellwood said. “We didn’t really know what to expect as it was her first run for the stable and we gave her a very quiet trial. “Peter and Dawn Williams had her in New Zealand, and I know they had a high opinion of her when she was here. For whatever reason she didn’t quite fire in Australia, but it was great for her to come back here and do that. “Off that effort you would like to think that she can put her hand up in some nice races going forward.” On Sunday, the stable celebrated the maiden win of four-year-old mare Honour Mission in the Mike Fraser-Jones @ Bayleys 2200 at Te Aroha. “She did that nicely, but I think with more time she could make into a nice staying mare,” Wellwood said. Looking ahead to this coming weekend, Wellwood is excited to head to Te Rapa on Saturday with last start stakes performer Spellbound and three-win mare She’s A Dealer, while stakes performer Dealt With will head to Trentham on Sunday. View the full article

It was my post. Read it again you champion copier. I make my comments then put in the last third of NZTBA CEO comments. Regarding your comment re not being impressed with your interaction with CD branch 20 years ago, I thought you would know better than focusing on 'form' that dated😅

https://racing.hkjc.com/racing/english/learn-racing/photo-finish.aspx somone still has to press a button to capture the image…just like using your phone to take a photo…pressing a button