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Ciaron Maher is new trainer at Leilani Lodge at Royal Randwick www.racenet.com.au Ciaron Maher, the nation's premier trainer, has been given the keys of famous Leilani Lodge at Royal Randwick. The Australian Turf Club board had a phone hook-up early on Thursday morning as some directors were overseas and determined Maher's application for the High Street stable complex had been successful. It is understood the board decided on Maher over the Gai Waterhouse-Adrian Bott training partnership. Maher is the nation's reigning premier trainer and with 279 wins on all tracks so far in the 2024-25 season, he is on track to retain the title. He will also win another Melbourne trainers premiership as his 98 wins so far this season has him well clear of Team Hayes on 64 wins. Maher has also trained the winners of 10 Group 1 races including The Everest (Bella Nipotina) and Caulfield Cup (Duke De Sessa) this season to be second only to Chris Waller (19 wins) for most Group 1 wins. With stable earnings of $57.2 million already this season, Maher has set a new national prizemoney record – with still more than a month of the season remaining. Maher's growing presence in Sydney racing has some suggesting he could one day challenge Waller's premiership dominance. • J-Mac gets on the board at Royal Ascot Leilani Lodge has been with the Cummings family for five decades until Anthony Cummings was forced to vacate the stables when his trainer's licence was revoked by Racing NSW in early March after his business went into liquidation. Anthony's father, the legendary Bart Cummings, first moved into Leilani Lodge at Randwick in the early 1980s and won a Sydney trainers' premiership from those stables in 1989-90. An original Hall of Fame inductee, Bart Cummings prepared some of his greatest champions out of Leilani Lodge including Saintly, So You Think, Beau Zam, Shaftesbury Avenue, Sky Chase, Campaign King, Dane Ripper and many others.

Take this image for example what does it prove? Nothing. However in the context of the Topic it was posted under it infers a lot. That's misinformation. Of course you can't see where the other Jockey was whipping their horse because there is no vision of it even for the Stewards. A rule that can't be accurately enforced.

On BOAY these posters would be warned (as they should be under @Comic Dog rules) for stating things out of context and without proof. However I guess the quest for traffic out weighs principles. Of course BUCKY hasn't got the spine to state who he is referring to but just tells a story full of inferences. @Comic Dog if you are following your own rules then where is the "proof" that there are rules for some and not others?

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@Comic Dog I HAVEN'T closed the debate down here. My objection is the selective snap shots of TV video to depict something that may or may not have happened as described. @nomates that isn't an accusation of Photo Shopping not that you would know what photo shopping is let alone know how to do it (how's that for "know all narcissim" for you? BTW you've been warned). So if in the quest for more traffic you are willing to allow misinformation to be posted (selective at that as you are inconsistent in your application of YOUR rules) then go for it @Comic Dog. Not that you have the intelligence or the nous to know what is or isn't misinformation or image manipulation. BOAY WILL allow debate on the whip rules and their enforcement but draw the line at images being posted that are out of context. I note that the only person to identify the alleged flank hitting was @Thomass - no one else saw it or even commented on it. As I have said before I've drawn the line at BOAY being used for misinformation that weaponises the anti-racing brigade with it. The Greyhound industry had individuals doing that and look where that ended up.

Yep that makes sense no conspiracy. $1,334 x$2.5 = $3,335 Subtract $2,000 and you get $1,335 which is close enough.

Then get your camera out and take those birdcage photo's and send them privately to the Stewards!!! Ask for a response! To do anything else is just feeding the active anti-racing minority!! The rules can't effectively be enforced because the Stewards can only see one side of the horse if there are no horses outside it! Good luck looking for where the whip lands from the head on!

No but I don't take too much of the one's provided by ENTAIN either. You can see that in other posts I've made for example not only are the form lines wrong but the stats are too. A few weeks ago they had a horse with heavy track form and it had never raced past Soft. That was because the Racing and Sports system doesn't pick up upgrades it only uses that notified at the beginning of the day. Further to we all know that the track rating before Race 1 is a nonsense at Trentham and Riccarton.

Last throw of the dice by a punter? Or the last leg of a multi?

I'm not into censorship at all - the Comic Dog's site is - I've got many examples of that sent to me where posts have been deleted or refused for no other reason than who posted them i.e. no rules broken - no abuse etc. However I don't want BOAY to become a vehicle for the anti-racing mob as the BOAY Greyhound forum did driven by the likes of @Yankiwi. So a Topic where out of context snapshots of whip strikes are posted is something I don't want. Yes debate the rules and their enforcement but snapshot photos from a TV are out of context. For example - yes a Jockey may have hit a horse on the flank and there may well be the appearance of a welt but it isn't necessarily fact. The picture will be a millisecond in time and yes there could well be an indentation just like when you push your finger into your arm but it is gone just as instantly or certainly isn't a visible welt when back in the birdcage. The Anti-racing brigade have no hesitation in taking such a photo and going "Look!!! Animal abuse..." I know for a fact they did that with @Yankiwi 's material which was circulated to certain anti-racing Journalists. The material was false. The small percentage of active anti-racing types are too lazy to do it themselves. So create rules we can't enforce and KPI metrics that we can't manage? We shoot ourselves in the feet enough as it is.

Isn't that how Sleeper selling works or even a bakery? The bakery isn't worried about your obesity - "would you like another cream donut with that custard square?"

Government requisition plans for Greyhound money revealed MEDIA RELEASE 16 June 2025 Government requisition plans for Greyhound money revealed Greyhound Racing New Zealand said today that the Government will enter unprecedented territory if it requisitions the organisation’s savings fund (currently $16m), built up over decades, as part of its intended ban of the sport. GRNZ is an Incorporated Society, with funds held on behalf of participants in the sport. Governments can only forcibly close and appropriate funds of an Incorporated Society for financial misconduct, insolvency or failure to submit returns. GRNZ has operated impeccably and complied with all requests made of it. Therefore, the Government will need to pass a remarkable new law to close a Society that has done nothing illegal. The Government would need to declare what happens to the Society’s funds. It has been suspiciously silent on the matter to date. GRNZ CEO Edward Rennell said a grab for money rightly owned by the sport and its participants would be contemptible. “The Government will execute the sport on trumped up charges, and make us pay for the gallows and grave,” Rennell said. “It is a real low point; the first Government to fabricate a new law to close an Incorporated Society that is totally compliant with all laws and standards. It’s a cavalier approach to law, justice and democracy. “The Government is grinding its heel into our people by taking their money as well as their sport. “Those funds were built up over decades by generations of sport participants. It belongs to them,” Edward Rennell said. Rennell predicts the Government would excuse the extraordinary theft as necessary to pay for rehoming greyhounds, but he says that the high cost arises from the Government’s ban, and insistence on a close-down faster than greyhounds can be rehomed, requiring long-term kenneling while they wait. Rennell said the ban was unjustified, so at least should be carried out with impeccable fairness. Any ban must be cost-neutral, where the sport is wound down gradually, using profits and savings to cover costs and compensate participants for loss of assets. For further information contact: Liam Constable – 029 200 9842

Not sure what you mean by "Let's gear then"... Do you frequent shady clubs?

Are you ok Bob? Aka @nomates you seem to spend am inordinate amount of time worrying about what I'm doing.

I don't consider it weak at all I just wonder why it took so long. At least now when a female licensee is charged the relevant rule won't refer to horsemen.

Well from what I hear and from first hand experience you couldn't be more wrong.

I realise it is a difficult concept for some, especially grumpy old men types, but the rules were originally written very much in the male gender. Good to see with all the successful and prominent female licensees in racing that the rules are now gender neutral.

17 June 2025 NZTR CIRCULAR 2024/25 – No. 31 TO EACH TOTALISATOR CLUB AND SECTOR ORGANISATION REVISION TO THE RULES OF RACING– GENDER NEUTRALITY The Rules have been revised to ensure they reflect a more modern and inclusive approach. In particular, gender-specific language has been updated to gender-neutral terminology throughout. This change has been made to align with contemporary standards of equality and inclusivity, ensuring the document is appropriate and respectful for all individuals, regardless of gender.

No need to apologise. But if I have low bandwidth which is quite often of you are moving around in NZ the NZ Racing connection or even Trackside on GoSky are better options. The other benefit is that you don't have the video on the TABNZ app reducing the number of horse details and odds that you can see. So you can then bounce between the app for the odds and the video on a browser.

Yep we've talked about this before. One site streams in HD the other in SD or less and requires less bandwidth. The TABNZ app is the same in terms of required bandwidth for videos. They don't have the technology to recognise your bandwidth and adjust accordingly. Annoys the shyte out of me. I don't need to see the welts on a horses butt just who is winning!

I wouldn't dare stop you.

I named Peter Vela. You said I'd probably say Lindsay and Ellis as well. I agreed with you. So that's effectively three I've named that "fit the bill" although you couldn't bring yourself to name Ellis. Now we await your critique.

Where did I say Photo-shop? You've taken part of one frame at way less than High Definition to support your claim. Just about as bad as @Yankiwi taking Google Gmaps screen shot and less than high resolution and sayin the Wanganui Straight Track was crooked!!!

Oh I thought it was synonymous with your term "Matamata Mafia"! I did. We are all awaiting your critique of why they can't help with the "recovery of the sport". @Huey as always you are talking vague generalities. Come on be specific. Avoidance again @Huey - we are all waiting for your critique of those already named.