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Your interpretation of what we've been saying is not accurate. What we've clearly been saying is hrnz's expenditure is not sustainable and that they will be eating into their cash reserves which will eventually leave them short when it comes to having funds for future stake levels.. the books you quoted show a drop of $3 million in just 1 year. and we've been saying that the guaranteed minimum return from wagering runs out in a couple of years .So theres a possibilty that their income from that source could be reduced.If it is,then add that to the $3m shortfall per year. Then ,you seem to have ignored Mr steeles on record statements about HRNZ policy as far as supporting Auckland harness racing. Hes said hrnz will help the atc set up a training establishment when they have sold the pukekohe training centre. Thats in the $10's of millions,,seemingly close to $20. Anyone can tell thats never going to happen. Any fool should be able to see if it did happen the whole of nz harness racing is screwed. so you take off the 20m hrnz investment in auckland from the $32m and then you take off the current $3m a year they are ovberspending and within 4 years your cash reserves are gone. then you factor in the $13.4m they got from forbury supposedly not being able to be used for auckland anyway,so that would mean if they proceeded with the auckland training centre they may have to borrow money to do that.Of course that won't happen,it will instead be big stake cuts. thats all assuming they were to keep stake levels at their current rates. Now obviously thats a picture that is over simplified given the many variables,but its still accurate enough to paint a picture of where things are headed if HRNZ stick to what they have said they will do. One day,someone at hrnz will start making some sensiblejudgment calls you would hope. -
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
An already standout week for Gainesway stallion Drain the Clock finished on a high note Saturday when a chestnut colt (hip 748) by the first-season stallion consigned by Doble J Equine Sales became the second horse by the sire to equal the OBS track record this week, breezed a quarter-mile in :20 1/5 during the final day of under-tack shows. Out of the Exhi mare Exsqueeze Me, an OBS graduate who is a half sister to GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Wavell Avenue (Harlington), the colt made it three straight days of offspring by the young sire topping the breeze ranks. “I started hearing whispers even in October and you need to be cautiously optimistic or else you could look foolish,” said Ryan Norton, stallion director for Gainesway, regarding the aptitude of Drain the Clock's offspring. “But given his pedigree and given his precociousness and speed, it's something we thought was definitely possible. Now, did I think it was going to be to this level of having multiple sub 10s and two tie the breeze up record at :20 1/5, no. But obviously, we're very happy. I've felt like the prettiest girl in school the last couple days because everyone has been blowing my phone up.” “(His offspring) are the most consistent group of horses I think I've seen in a long time from a stallion,” Norton continued. “It's not necessarily one thing but they're pretty like he is, they look fast and I always thought the pinhookers would gravitate towards him because they are big and pretty.” The commanding presence of first-crop sires during the under-tack shows was further showcased when an Arkansas-bred bay filly (hip 688) by Jack Christopher consigned by Randy Miles, posted the fastest eighth on Saturday, working in :9 3/5. “I can sum up (my expectations) with no sleep last night,” Miles laughed. “Nobody ever thinks they can go :9 3/5 and I'm not one of those guys who thinks speed is everything. But I knew she could do something really special. I just hoped we didn't mess it up between leaving the barn and getting the rider on her. I didn't want to say anything, I didn't want to tout her, I just wanted her to show off. I can't say enough about this filly. I think we're going to read about this filly in the next couple years, I really do. I'm just tickled.” The filly is out of the stakes winning War Chant mare Court Dancer and is from the female family of Grade I winner Fourstar Crook. “She's not real tall. She's not small but she's not one of those big, stretchy imposing types,” Miles said. “But you can see once she gets fit…she's going to look really good as she matures.” The Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale kicks off with the first of three sessions on Tuesday, March 10. Bidding begins each day at 10 a.m. The post Drain The Clock, Jack Christopher Juveniles Lead Final Day Of OBS March Under-Tack Show appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
You might have overdone it. Had winning accounts and kept promos and had winning accounts and got the email saying no more. If you're going to try and milk them they'll cut them off.
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Read back in the thread, I tipped the winner, before it ran and without bringing up nonsense about sectionals, what are you the Bride of Aidan Rodley or something?
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