Chief Stipe

No cancel culture. Your spreadsheets are inaccurate as are the inferences you draw from them. Particularly when you take what essentially is a snapshot of data to skew/bias the data to support your hypothesis. Misinformation at best. You should apply for a job at the Climate Change desk of the BBC. They have mastered the art of selectively choosing time periods to show an emerging climatic disaster. Which is akin to choosing 3 weeks of data and inferring a trend or a problem.

Paying over $2 which you don't consider value? Lay them then. The favs may be vulnerable first up and there are a couple of more than useful horses in the fields at false odds. The word is Velocious is heading to Australia hence Spratt getting off her. Surprisingly Velocious is still favourite on fixed odds for the 1000 Guineas.

You haven't found why it's dull and boring? @Doomed infers an on pace track bias. But there isn't any evidence to support that. If there is a bias it is a Jockey driven one which is reflective of most racing in NZ. If Ruakaka is dull and boring which tracks in NZ are bright and exciting?

It's less than 10.

40 ft is 12 metres.

WTF does this post have to do with anything other than your aimless crusade?

How many Jockeys do you see in NZ that are on a horse that jumps and lands handy and they give up their position? They panic about being wide wide.

So what were the other Jockeys thinking? "It'll come back to me because I know how to assess pace!"

Agree. Probably this seasons 3yr old stars are on display!

That was the era when we should have invested in renovating the tracks. But everyone took the money and ran. Those that grew crops in the Bombay Hills south of Auckland found that their yields were failing around the same time. Why? They hadn't renovated or looked after the soil the Patamohe Clay Loam. Lincoln College (my Alumni) helped them sort it out. Same with Dairy Farmers - paddock rennovation soon became a mantra. Unfortunately our old school racing committees didn't get the memo.

Could it be a typo? You didn't know the dog had already trialed. You are so bloody minded about nailing GRNZ or the RIB or any big Trainer that you missed the main point!!!!! FFS I give you a hint and you are so fixated on being right that you miss a chance to finally make a name for yourself!!! Then you conveniently miss the statement at the top of the Stewards Report: Stipendiary Stewards report as posted is provisional and subject to further review and amendment.

This is hearsay but I heard that NZTR forced Ruakaka to irrigate their track last week when it was at G3. It was G4 on raceday morning. Now clearly there was rain forecast - New Plymouth was brought forward (justified). But WHY was Ruakaka forced to irrigate? A sand based track that from my knowledge has never had a meeting abandoned due to slipping. Wind once if I recall correctly. Did someone from NZTR inspect the track to confirm it needed irrigating? BTW I'm not against irrigating and in some cases not enough enough is done but as the old saying goes horses for courses. Or should that be "hoses for courses"?!

I've walked it three times since the upgrade...I don't have much confidence that it will play safe, fair and even. So you might be onto something regarding inside knowledge.

So how do you get on when a race is delayed? The book goes out the window...not that NZTR would update the birdcage times in real time.

I had a horse eat the book once. Didn't give me any winners.

I haven't touched New Plymouth since a very very big collect oncourse when my horse won the Taranaki Cup. Soon after that I asked Hayden Tinsley (a very good Jockey) to rank the best tracks in the Central Districts. He put New Plymouth at the bottom.

I think it will. A couple of horses in that field that didn't handle the track and also will strengthen.

I guess you still like a printed racebook in your hands when on course?

Basically they are taking poop from people who have healthy gut biome's and deflavouring/de-smelling it and putting it into gel capsules to deliver good bacteria to the gut. Two Australians discovered (1982 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1246068/) that a type of bacteria Heliobacter pylori was the main cause of stomach ulcers and stomach cancer in humans. It also affects horse. I suffered for a very long time from gastric reflux to the point where I couldn't sleep at night and would end up vomitting. I'd been treated with Losec and Omaperazole for a long time but they didn't really work. Before the problem started I used to love a whiskey - but then a sip and I would have really bad "heart burn". Fortunately I changed Doctors and explained the problem. She said she knew exactly what the problem was and got me to do a poo test. I came back positive for Heliobacter pylori - fortunately there is a fix which requires treatment with three different anti-biotics and lays you really low for two weeks. I'd never watched Games Of Thrones before and was lucky that there was a Box Set on Sky - binged it! Anyway fixed the problem. Boy did I enjoy that aged single malt whiskey!! The two Australians won the Nobel Prize in 2005. What I've found since is that many Doctors haven't heard of the problem and their first call is prescribing proton inhibitors such as Losec or similar.

No you initiated the Topic in which you posted these posts on 04 March 2024 - NOT 16 August 2024 as you suggest. Once again accuracy isn't your strong point. Yes and No. The first post in the new Topic is yours. The Topic Title represents more accurately the subject you raised for discussion as opposed to your original Topic "GRNZ - You can't make this shit up!" Given you were essentially making shit up I could argue I was doing you a favour. BTW administrators of forums do this all the time when new subjects are introduced to existing Topics. It keeps people focussed on one issue hence the software developers provide a simple select and click function to shift posts to a new topic. I didn't - the software did because your post was the FIRST on this very valid Topic. I could throw the Comic Dog line at you - "It's my forum so I do as I please" but I won't. I suspect that your angst is more related to the fact that separately a very important Topic (which you raised) shows you got it so wrong.

It wouldn't be that hard to update the online programme book. Do they?

Plus 3 x 3yo going around in the 3 trials before the races. I think it is an consequence of a lack of turf track trials leading up to these races. As well as the weather...

It may come down to interpretation of the rules. At least you must concede there was no animal welfare issue. You would have picked that up if you had done some more research. I suggest you hold the trigger a bit longer in the future.

I bet he doesn't complain when it's blowing an Antarctic southerly at Addington and a chill factor of minus 20! The most inhumane thing about it would be the fact the trainers and staff have to work the horses in minus 7 degree frosts. The horses get a warm water hose down whereas the staff go straight back out with another horse!!

It is a good point by @Huey but I suspect he was being tongue in cheek. Perhaps the trials are to school a few reluctant flat racers?