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and deservedly so. It's lucky they're not low now like the general 4-6 k races they run all round Australia every day. But you got lucky and ENTAIN saved the day . (Temporarily you say) It's a Good thing !!! for 5 years you keep saying. In Queensland we are grateful that the ENTAIN group Ladbrokes props us up in the betting market, so we can race 5-6 race meetings per week for our cohort of about 500 horses. excellent stuff. you want to criticise the hand that feeds you ? , but if you didn't get fed ( by Entain) you might of been racing for half the prizemoney they are now by now already ? . And Deservedly So. Deservedly = Because you bloke Refuse to support the 'Product' anymore and slander North Island harness altogether, all the innovations , and you can Really get the feeling of how Popular the once great Harness Racing Sport is in New Zealand these days from the CONSTANT Bagging it gets on NZ harness forums lol. eye rolling stuff 🙄 lol😉 At least in Australia we still enjoy the sport (as a sport) and try and keep the small fields going around at Marburg or Globe Derby or Mildura or wherever. Ballarat even has full 10 horse fields tonight going around in $6000 races. You are right and that will become the norm in NZ one of these days. Oamaru racing for 10 and 12 K races today is just FAR to MUCH. it will be cut in half one day to 5 and 6 k because of the revenue . no one betting on those poor horses. so yeah ! cut the prizemoney in half and see how it goes from there? Why should they get more prizemoney when no-one betting on them ? Par for the course old mate. A sign of tough financial times for one and all. -
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The Scorpion mare Ledecka (lot 19) topped the ThoroughBid November sale at £30,000 on Wednesday. Placed in two starts in National Hunt Flat races, the five-year-old mare is from the family of G3 Queen's Vase winner Silver Wedge (Silver Hawk). She was offered by Beatbush Farm and picked up by Red Racing. Pour Les Fillies (Pour Moi) (lot 17) brought £9,500 from Mickey Bowen Racing. A winner of a NH Flat race, a point-to-point and a hurdle race, the Gordon Elliott-consigned seven-year-old is from the same family as Listed Long Distance Hurdle hero Marello (Supreme Leader). Of the 22 lots offered, 17 sold (77%) for a gross of £83,800. The average was £4,929 and the median settled at £2,500. The post ThoroughBid November Sale Topped By Ledecka appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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The resignation of Minnesota Racing Commission chair Dr. Camille McArdle highlights issues facing the state's horse racing and breeding industry, including continued tension between regulators, political leadership, and tribal gaming interests.View the full article -
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Yep - the answer lies in the soil! They would need special dispensation to get through Australian Customs I imagine. -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Root cause of Awapuni racecourse woes eagerly anticipated George Heagney November 25, 2025 Once a highlight of the summer calender, it’s now been four years since Awapuni has hosted Boxing Day festivities.Warwick Smith / Manawatū Standard Bosses at Palmerston North’s Awapuni Racecourse are awaiting the results of soil testing to see what work needs to be done to restore the troubled track to action.https://bitofayarn.com The grass track has been closed for two years. It was shut for 19 months while extensive renovations were done to fix drainage problems, then meetings have been halted since a slip during the first race at an event in April, which was abandoned.https://bitofayarn.com New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing and the Racing Integrity Board announced in October that all trials and race meetings at Awapuni would be stopped for the rest of the year to work on the track’s long-term sustainability. Richard Simpson is the chairman of Race, which runs racing at Awapuni and Trentham in Wellington. He told the Manawatū Standard what happened next was up to the track experts as consultant Liam O’Keeffe and others from Australia inspected the track last week and took soil samples back. Once they had those results, likely in mid-December, then it would give them a clearer idea of what work the track needed and whether it would have to be renovated. The grass track at Awapuni Racecourse is closed while work is done to determine what is causing issues with it.Adele Rycroft / Manawatū Standard Simpson said they were in “limbo” until then and it was too early to make a call. It had been “extremely” frustrating to have faced repeated problems and lengthy delays.https://bitofayarn.com He said New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing was in control of the project and the track didn’t become Race’s again until after the first successful meeting was completed. But Simpson said the track’s drainage, irrigation and camber was perfect, it was getting the grass to settle and root development that was the issue. Race did maintenance work on the track over winter such as coring and sweeping, which was putting small holes into the track to allow air in and bring the track firmness down, and adding more sand to the track. Not being able to host its major race days such as the Manawatū Cup before Christmas, Boxing Day, and its biggest meeting, the Sires Produce Stakes in April, had been a big blow financially. Boxing Day in particular drew huge numbers of people on course. Simpson said the club had been doing what it had to do to survive. It remains unclear when horses’ hooves will again be allowed to touch the contentious turft at Awapuni.Warwick Smith / Manawatū Standard “Financially we’re surviving, but we’re under a bit of pressure. We thought we’d be back racing,” he said.https://bitofayarn.com “NZTR are supporting us. It’s certainly not easy.” Awapuni had been scheduled to host a return to racing on November 1 but that was put off. Recent meetings had already been shifted to other race tracks in the lower North Island and Simpson wasn’t sure where coming meetings would be held yet. NZ Thoroughbred Racing chief executive Matt Ballesty said the organisation was committed to Awapuni long term. “We are currently in the hands of the experts and are awaiting solo testing and sourcing options before we have a definite course of action. “The reality is these things take time and we like everyone are disappointed it's taken so long but we must make sure each step from here is the right one.”https://bitofayarn.com Soil samples have been taken from Awapuni Racecourse to determine what to do next with the troubled track.Warwick Smith / Manawatū Standard An update would be provided once they were clear what the next steps were, he said. Race held its annual meeting last week and Simpson said the track was the main thing on everyone’s minds. “They’re saying, ‘When can we go racing?’” Race chief executive Tim Savell announced in September he was resigning after four years in the role.https://bitofayarn.com Simpson said they hadn’t looked for a replacement yet while they dealt with the track.
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