The Cashel Palace Hotel has stepped in to sponsor the Group 3 Derby Trial S. at Leopardstown on Sunday, May 12.
The three-year-old contest, which is run over 10f, has served as an important stepping stone for many Classic aspirants down through the years but had been run without a sponsor after Derrinstown Stud ended its long association with the race in 2021.
Leopardstown chief Tim Husbands commented, “We are delighted to welcome Cashel Palace Hotel as the sponsor of the Derby Trial Stakes. Their support and partnership will add a new dimension to this event and further enhance the experience for participants and spectators alike. We would also like to congratulate them for their recently received Michelin Star.”
The Derby Trial S. was won last year by the Jessica Harrington-trained Sprewell (Ire). Prior to that, horses like Sinndar (Ire), Galileo (Ire), High Chaparral (Ire), Yeats (Ire), Dylan Thomas (Ire) and Fame And Glory (GB) have landed the race.
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I'm sure there is sympathy from us all for people who through no fault of their own find themselves homeless. We do however know one size doesn't fit all on this topic.
More and more people in our communities however don't embrace the homeless via Kianga Ora being set up in their area. Why? Reason number one is many of these people bring all of their issues with drugs, alcohol, crime, gangs and violence right into their neighbourhood and on a daily basis. Their quality of life is invariably demolished and the value of their biggest asset is often negatively impacted. Many of these people are routinely intimidated, abused and threatened by their new neighbours. This is where the next big issue arrives. That being the refusal of Kianga Ora refusing to act on the thousands of serious complaints they receive.
The complainants who are often elderly homeowners are told there is nothing that can be done as these people need a home and that's their only priority. It's now beyond dispute that many of these social housing tenants are fully aware Kianga Ora gives them protected special treatment. Many take full advantage either via their conduct or not paying rent.
Residents all over NZ are aware of the facts so the moment they hear of yet another monstrosity about to be built in their area they don't want a bar of it. Kianga Ora have been just as much the architect of this outcome as the unruly tenants.
Now we have a new Government that is finally respecting home owners and their quality of life. Unruly tenants will now be evicted just like they would be in the real world.
First to bitch and moan about it was predictably the Green Party. At no point did they go into bat for home owners. It was just the poor old tenants regardless of the distress they've inflicted onto others....their victims. Absolutely no mention of the real victims from the Green Party and other bleeding hearts.
Here's a novel idea. Be warned that your outrageous conduct will no longer be tolerated. If you decide to ignore the warning, you'll be evicted.......just like in the real world.
I see now that Mr Useless Sausage Roll Munching Hipkins is saying he should have done more with tenants that terrorized neighbours while Labour was in Government. What a joke! How ironic that now he's powerless he says that.
He and his colleagues very deliberately dismissed every complaint made against these tenants. Servicing their agenda was their priority. Labour have been their enablers and made a rod for the backs of many good New Zealanders. Same sort of logic involved in keeping certain serious criminal offenders out of prison. We have all paid the price for that.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/labour-leader-chris-hipkins-concedes-his-government-could-ve-done-more-on-unruly-k-inga-ora-tenants.html
And overall better fields at Auckland this week with several Southerners chasing the better stakes this week and in coming weeks ahead.
Many prefer to fly nowdays so it not cheap to transport !
And the two year olds getting into the Young Gun series !
The problems that plague the NZ industry have been around for decades and this current Administration is trying their best to give the Industry a chance at picking up from it's dire position.
After decades of decline there is some hope , and Industry participants see new hope ,its a tall task. The Group 1 types are contributing big time. Breeding better horses that are attractive to overseas market , racing a ton of horses with money earned in outside businesses , syndicating horses to a lot of new owners [ Te Akau alone have bought 50 this year] and a lot of our top horseman are thriving overseas . Earning big money .
The much maligned Messara report clearly pinpointed the dire position of our industry , the tracks and the Infrastructure. Please read it ! Not all gospel but it sent a clear message.
If Entain fails to resuscitate betting on NZ Racing what happens then. ?.....there will be even more Overseas racing to bet on , many on here prefer Aussie now. There will be certainly more Sport to bet on plus the on-line gaming is growing rapidly and will continue to. So they may have more betting with way less overheads. They won't have to cart their gear up and down NZ and fly staff/accomodate them etc etc. Northern racing may splutter along as some trainers will survive preparing horses to race locally then go to Australia or be sold. The South may survive a while with sweepstake racing for every horse ,maybe sometimes racing for a bag of Kumaras.Maybe they will allow pony races to be TAB races. So little will change except there will be a lot of jobs lost .
Racing will most certainly be a TV sport then , if it ain't already.
If this post offends please send a real nasty reply with plenty of personal abuse ,I find it tells readers more about you than it does me.