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alas the roos a dime a dozen i'm afraid, and many get culled for pet food all the time . A disruptive one at the Tour Down Under cycle race is a Not going to get any sympathy unfortunately. Yes the rider Jay Vine had successful surgery after . He's a top rider in Europe too , so am glad he repaired ok. He said in an interview straight after that final leg of the race there were 2 Kangaroos and they decided to jump out of the bushes as the Pelaton came past at 50kph. Can only imagine the carnage with that. some kiwi raiders performed very well in the racing too .🇳🇿 👍 Alas most of the Wallaby's around my home area , which has lovely bushland not far away on 3 sides ( and one of our local kookaburras too ) and plenty of possums have been depleted on the road kill list. People are shocking drivers. I'm always watching closely for them, as worked with animals nearly all my life and would feel terrible if hit one.

Why?

I'm advised by NZTR that due to their business, the survey results will be addressed in March.

fair enough. I thought you were meaning on here mainly.I don't think it accurately described what i see on here. bit of a yarn is the only social media i do.i don't do facebook. and i always think bitter is a word used with negative connotations, to describe genuine feelings people may have about something they have experienced ,or someone,for which any reasonable person could often view having said negative feelings as fair enough. Not always,but often. But anyway, after rereading what i posted i think perhaps i over reacted to what i thought you were trying to say anyway. actually about half an hour ago i googled what best describes a person who makes 3 or more socail media posts a day.It gave 7 traits. Not 1 of them applied to me. not that i believe in putting labels on how people think. anyways,not to worry,i still made my point.

it is huge mate. Queensland had some monster Summer floods up North all through January. We usually get some down here in Brisvegas , with the odd summer storm and that. BUT we have had ZERO rainfall so far for weeks in the southeast corner . I'm watering every day 🙄 as do gardening one hour a day( in between watching races ) as the place is getting brown as the grass starts to die off and plants still in 30 degrees days every day mid summer. so even in the Same state we Can have flood and drought at the same time lol. Feb usually our wet season. Happy NZ Day to you ! 🇳🇿 🍻 , and hope for a winner( to break the drought 😉 ⛈️) Australia Day was Jan 26th public holiday so has been and gone already. Like the idea today of NZ grass day trots as can enjoy while doing my weekend Gallops study picks 🙂🏇

any news on the kangaroo that crashed into the cyclists in the tour down under even last week. Looked like the kangaroo came off the worst.I see the bloke that won sustained a broken wrist in the incident. Keep an eye out for kangaroos when driving gammalite.

it will be interesting to see how sam ottley gets bazzoka away from the stand. Ottley one of the best drivers in nz for getting horses to begin in standing starts. bazooka by bettors delight. I always think they tend to go away as well but still may be a shade slow. its interesting to watch ottley. She generally gives her horses a quick stand start practice in the preliminary. also if you watch her and b orange,they always try and have there horses in positions at the start where they are not lagging behind the others on ths same line. Theres nothing worse than having a horse start 3/4 length behind the others in the middle of a full line of horses. otlley and the likes of orange win so many races at the start through their skills at getting horses positioned to their best advantage behind the tape,as they line up. i'm not so sure about the late start. I'm getting rather bored waiting for the races to start as not much else to do today. looking at trackside i see its raining hard at the townsville dogs today.Thats queensland isn't it. Just looked it up, a 15 hour drive from brisbane.thats a long way. that would be like driving from dunedin to auckland. Without the water along the way.Australia a big country.

The ones that aren't anonymous, you only have to read their FB page and see who their friends are. Plus, how people post and write gives you a fair idea about their personality and motives

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What a grouch looking horse his was when he was at his peak!!! Pouncing around the parading ring like The Boss! Then went out and done the same on the track!!! a real racing Monster! a sad demise.

Riding the rail under Ricardo Santana Jr., Will Take It came through a narrow opening in early stretch and outfought Woodcourt to win the $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes Feb. 5 at Oaklawn Park. View the full article

Looks quite the winner after good Addington run . is hard taking $1.85 though when could get $2.00 about Leap To Fame last week for your multi's lol. 🤣 Am loving your idea of some multi's though. a good way to get a few runners in the action. Have no odds for Sunday Methven available to the day in these parts 🙄 , but good luck with your big price multi 👍💰. Might look at taking yours Sunday but will probably drop the trotter in race 5 (as they make me nervous galloping about the place lol 😅) For today though its your pick My Wingman $1.80 into my fav Grass track driver *Sam Ottley on Stormy Vista R3 $12 into BAZOOKA in the Amberley Cup at $7.00 to 'Blast em' apart lol 😉😅 . $150-1 for the treble. *Sarah O'Reilly , another Grass track whiz too so have a $6-1 place double for her too . ( to supply the weekend beer all going well 😁🍻 lol ) with a tenner on R3 My Shatjie into R8 Flyaway to both run a place . At Albion Park today , our very best driver **Pete McMullen has 3 very nice New Zealand bred horses to drive to score a $40-1 treble. in Chezzdale R1- La Sabina R3- Brian Chris R5 , so might go a tenner on that at 40-1. 👍💰 sure to go close.

as in getting to the root cause of any issue!

@the galah you now hold the 2026 Tautological Trophy! Tell me this do you think that your PED use in Harness Racing conspiracies are actually true?

excuses! na. you mention workplace, racing riding and the lifestyle that goes with it if very challenging! yip, dumb is dumb, but! move on....

Another erudite wlll thought out post from @Huey - NOT! As always your bias clouds you ability to see the point let alone debate it.

You have enough air time as it is @Thomass

so this is social media site. The current topic reflects what you typically see on this forum and its got a lot of comment from regular contributors. and there you are generalising how you would sum up people who post on here,or say the other channel. so your either going to say,yes they are as described or no you weren't meaning the current ones posting.Of course if you weren't meaning the current ones posting then you undermine your own comments on what you describe as the typical poster. Also tell me,if many are anonymous like you say,how do you know so much about their personalities,motives and how they feel after posting and how they see the world. is the reality not,there will be people as you have described but your generlisation is just that. In other words your taling a smaller % of posters and placing greater emphasis that they are representative of all posters and people who comment on social media.Doesn't that reflect on how you see the world as well. so you post a put down generalisation of social media posters ,while knocking people who post put down generalisations on social media..Whats the point in that

No I agree, but they undertook a survey & clearly didn't like the results so we haven't seen anything yet. So why do it ? It shows how delusional they are to expect a positive result to their survey that should tell you all you need to know about them.

Probably the most pertinent statement in your post.

There is a lot wrong with it. Because it is pervasive doesn't mean that it is good. Slavery was OK once. I would suggest that if someone uses gossip for anything more than it is then they lack intelligence. I've seen people's lives damn near ruined through unfounded gossip. It is too easy with readily accessible social media to turn a piece of gossip not based on fact into a narrative that becomes the "truth". Unless you are financially loaded it is near impossible to turn that around. If the weight of individuals supporting the narrative is great enough then you can't change it. So when I hear someone saying I know someone who said such and such about so and so and then others feed into it and fuel it I come down hard on it. Where are the FACTS?! Support what you assert don't just repeat what you heard or wanted to hear. That's another reason why I think AI the way it is being used at the moment is a crock of shyte and dangerous to boot. AI is based on algorithms that classify "truth" based on the number of times something is repeated on the internet weighted by the assessed reputation of the person and or entity that said it. Not to mention the delivery of these facts in Google linguistic style and grammar - whatever happened to literary creativity? From my experience to date it is so much harder now to find accurate information - my days as a Google IT Engineer are over.

How ? They undertook to do the survey, so release the results. Id like to congratulate you this is looking like the dumbest post of the year already & it's only early February!

Again, you put your finger in the air, make outlandish claims over moi then it becomes the 'hate thomass narritive' Examples of when, where I've 'crossed the line most of the time" Put it on a penny black

Riding the rail under Ricardo Santana Jr., Will Take It came through a narrow opening in early stretch and outfought Woodcourt to win the $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes Feb. 5 at Oaklawn Park. View the full article