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What will racing look like in 10 years? We asked some of racing's best and brightest to give us their predictions. Want to submit an answer? Email suefinley@thetdn.com At my core, I am an optimist. Fast forward to 2036 and horse racing is thriving. The NTRA remains a unifying voice throughout the industry and all of the major stakeholders are working collaboratively and thoughtfully to continue to make the sport fairer and safer for all involved. While some change is hard, it is also inevitable. The way we have always done things cannot be the way to do everything in the future if we want to remain relevant and not just survive but thrive. A girl can dream, right? We have already lost too many tracks and left major markets without ways to expose future fans, horseplayers and industry participants to the sport in meaningful ways. Each track lost is a significant one for the health of the industry as a whole. In 2036, perhaps the ownership of some tracks looks different but there is hope to preserve the ones that we have. Growing up at Suffolk Downs, we always felt like we were on the edge of extinction–we were a hard-knocking blue-collar track. The giants, like Arlington Park and Hollywood, seemed untouchable. We have learned that no track is immune at this point and all should be treated like the endangered animal that they are. I have optimism for the foal crop but if and only if we preserve and continue to develop the state-bred breeding programs throughout the country. These programs are the heart of the sport and bolster the agricultural economy in states like Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia. Great horses can come from anywhere and the key to full fields and competitive racing comes from successful state bred programs. Horse racing needs to do a better job of cultivating additional sources of revenue whether it is coming from fixed-odds or other avenues. There is a generation of folks who are enthusiastic about wagering and are so engaged through the ability to bet through their mobile devices. The other change I hope to see in 2036? More female announcers on major circuits. The post Racing In 2036: Jessica Paquette, Track Announcer, Parx appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Stats certainly don't lie, one wonders why he's had the snub for the hall of fame, but the facts are there for all to see, but regardless we've always known how good he was, it probably makes the hall of fame decision makers look a bit strange.

Jay Rooney SUGAR SUGAR - R4 (1) Should relish a drop in class and prove very hard to beat back at the Valley Owen Goulding RAGGA BOMB - R3 (6) Only found one too good last start and has a perfect barrier to work from here Trackwork Spy KING MILES - R8 (2) Won two of his past three in good style and should be hard to beat again Phillip Woo ROMAN CROWN - R7 (9) Was second two runs ago from an identical draw and can go one better Shannon (Vincent Wong) SURAR SUGAR - R4 (1) Class drop and...View the full article

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55 hurdle victories from 260 rides including three Grand National Hurdles, a Great Northern Hurdle and a Wellington Hurdle which won't ever be repeated by a predominantly flat riding jockey. No incumbent Hall of Famer would've been brave enough to have 260 hurdle mounts let alone win 55 of them. Johnson should've been the first HOF inductee not the last and Des Coppins should've been buried with the Friday Flash !

Will buyers at up and coming yearling sales be targeting harness 5000 series don't think dalgety purdon dunn barns will be

lol! I could share some stories about when they were working on that sort of thing!!!!!!!! happy to report I still hold a clean card!

Yeah bloody shame as always a popular meeting, looking through the fields be a struggle to find a winner, Ultimate Counsel tad unlucky last start, no champ but handy draw will help, old boy evidently pick something up over the circuit, let year the Mitchell's bought horses to Westport I think for the first time, I got on to Sinai Sermon, 25s Westport 40s Reefton, done the double, although was the March meeting, always seem to have a win at Reefton, Sinai now been exported to China, was a half brother to Lazarus.

Thought he won the year previous, was unplaced in the race after 3rd in cup, was a good horse, Empire rose won Nz cup after placing in Melbourne cup, I think, was some time ago, she certainly was a good mare, big girl, did she leave any winners in the broodmare barn

Remember also, that even though people are saying Well Written is a home run, and we think she is very good and probably is. There are a lot of 3-year-olds in Aus, still to show their hand. Evaporate and Perfumist were late additions and ran well. Ironically the first nominated , Domain Ace ran last

This meeting is being demoted in some ways and more than likely it does affect the turnover, better fields better betting.

Hard to tell , I can't remember who was running around against them. I think JC would have had a go at the slot , probably the one who could have done both.

Then didn't Mercator come back and win the Cup at Riccarton? or was that Double Take?.

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Just testing, always good to know that they keep on reading BOAY

@Joe Bloggs lawyer must be on holiday eh @nomates?

@Comic Dog this Topic started on BOAY 11 hours ago 4 hours before yours. But who the hell cares other than you and @nomates ? Oh thats right you have a mortgage on any topic.

WTF Is the muppet Leigh Mckenzie on about? I thought he said he didn't visit BOAY?

100 in work at Matamata, ... https://www.youtube.com/@teakauracing7967

That too

Quality over quantity

never tried the stuff myself! last thing I need is something to make me go faster!

Make that 12 out of 32

Here is a question or two for the experts then Would horses like Wahid, Jimmy Choux and Silent Achiever, who had shown good form in the months leading up to the Derby in 1600m races, and who were then aimed at the Derby with runs in typical lead up races like the Waikato and Avondale Guines, would they have gone on to run in the Derby or NZB Kiwi if it had of existed on the same day as the Derby. Would Excellent have run in the Derby or Kiwi under the same scenario. I see, he who never had an original thought, getting ideas for threads from this site. I note Chief Stipe, that there is hope for you yet lol, with the thread on this site getting more views and a lot more replies. Admittedly 12 out of 18 have been mine

It was moved to be 3 weeks earlier with some weird logic that fillies could then run in the Oaks and the Derby