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By Chief Stipe · Posted
Or pour money into to bring it up to modern standards. You can't have a bob each way on this one. Far too late for that. -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Well you are not setting a very high bar if you compare them to Trentham!! -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Firstly I've been frustrated as well and I'm not in the CD. Have travelled a long distance two years in a row to Te Rapa to watch a horse race only for the meeting to be abandoned two years in a row. Not to mention the 750km trip to the Hawkes Bay Guineas last year to see it abandoned. The poor horse must be thinking - "here we go again today - heading to a dance that aint going to happen. Ho hum!" In terms of accountability - who has done what wrong? This problem has been decades in the making. Blame every Club committee, member and NZRB, NZTR employe for the last 30 years if you will but you can't blame ONE individual. Stop looking for a scapegoat. Stop blaming too much irrigation or not enough. Stop blaming the positioning of the running rail. Stop blaming the length of the grass. Stop blaming track managers past and present. The fact is every single one of us didn't stop to think that we needed to put capital into maintaining our racetracks let alone the buildings and other supporting infrastructure. Until we stop the blaming and accept the fact that we need to invest in the tracks nothing will change!!!! -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Seriously Jess it isn't like that at all. Having walked recently in the rarefied air of the misnamed Waikato Racing Bluebloods I know for a fact they are as frustrated as the rest of us with the tracks and the weather. Contrary to the myth they too want diversity in options. One stable in particular is doing that very well. At the moment though the difference in options are would you rather travel to a track 45 minutes down the road and risk and abandonment of travel a day or more and face the same risk? -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Rangiora galloper Show Pony (NZ) (Vespa) has been near-unbeatable so far in his four-year-old season and trainer John Blackadder is hoping his rise can continue up in grade at Ashburton on Friday. Showing promise early in his career, the Vespa gelding finished fourth in a Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at just his second start before placing behind southern star Pivotal Ten in the Listed Gore Guineas (1335m). He earned a trip to Trentham later in the season where he finished at the back end of the field in the Gr.2 Wellington Guineas (1400m), but since returning from a spell he has recorded two strong victories and a second placing behind Elusive Impact at Ashburton last-start, making up lengths in an on-speed dominated affair. Blackadder has been delighted with Show Pony’s progression, putting his only defeat this time in down to poor luck. “He’s been going amazingly well really, he just got a little bit too far back in his last start and that cost him his chances, he was just unlucky,” he said. “He’s matured a hell of a lot, he’s just grown up into a lovely horse. He goes down to the beach when the tide is available and he loves it, all of the horses do with the change and variety in their work.” Friday’s Ashburton Raceway Your Gateway To Entertainment (1600m) will be Show Pony’s first test in open company, with Blackadder giving his charge the opportunity to step up for a possible Gr.3 TAB Mile (1600m) tilt during New Zealand Cup Week. While the $250,000 middle-day feature holds great appeal, he wouldn’t be disappointed if Show Pony headed to a Rating 75 equivalent race instead as an up-and-coming horse. “There are two or three options through Cup Week, the TAB Mile is in the back of our mind so we’ll see what happens on Friday,” he said. “I’ve put him in the Open mile to see where we’re at with him, if he happened to go alright, it is worth a lot more points than running in the 75. If he doesn’t, there are nice 75 races there for him on the first and last day of Cup Week.” Show Pony will continue his association with Central Districts jockey Kate Hercock, while stablemate Amiinit will be ridden by Mereana Hudson in the same contest. Blackadder is hoping the current Heavy 8 (as of Tuesday morning) track at Ashburton will improve for three-year-old Gap It, who steps out for his second start in the Agraforum Comcat (1200m). The son of Ancient Spirit battled on well on debut in tough ground at Wingatui and Blackadder was given good confidence from the comments of Hudson. “He hated that heavy track down there, he was really battling in it but Mereana got off and said that you’ve got a really nice horse here,” he said. “We’ve got a nice draw (2) and hopefully the track will come back a bit by Friday for him. We’ll see how he goes.” View the full article
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