Chief Stipe

Very inbred though. Same mare on top and bottom.

So @Pete Lane are you still saying dear old Wightman is not "prominent"?

Rawiller answers Minervini SOS for New Zealand stud prospect Meritable By Racing and Sports Newswire - January 17, 2024 Mark Minervini is banking on the renowned horsemanship of Nash Rawiller to help extract the best from budding stallion Meritable when the pair team up at Rosehill. Group 1-placed in the New Zealand 2000 Guineas as a three-year-old, Meritable hasn't quite gone on with the job in his handful of starts since arriving in Australia almost two years ago. However, he turned in his best performance for some time when runner-up to Dragonstone in the Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) at his first appearance for Minervini in December, before finishing down the track behind Noble Soldier last time out. The horse heads into the Rosehill Bowling Club Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday with a month's break between runs and combined with the booking of Rawiller, Minervini hopes it is a winning formula. "I think the older horses with a bit of a mind, Nash might be the right man for the job," Minervini said. "He seems to be able to get the best out of horses that other guys can't, so I'm hoping it's the right move, but the proof will be in the pudding on Saturday." Meritable is raced by New Zealander Colin Wightman, who bought the entire with the plan of standing him in his homeland to serve his group of broodmares. The timing of the acquisition wasn't right for a career change last season, so having seen Minervini's success with tried horses such as stakes winner Hosier, Wightman sent Meritable to the Newcastle-based trainer. "He bought him to stand on the South Island of New Zealand. Incredibly, there are no sons of Snitzel there and Colin has got a broodmare band of his own, maybe fifteen or twenty mares, so his intention is to use him," Minervini said. "It was too late in the season to retire last year, so at this stage he will go to stud this season. "Hopefully he can win a race or two in Sydney which would cap off his resume." Share this article on: Facebook

Yep the horses name is Meritable second in the 2021 NZ Guineas beaten by Noverre.

How do you know very few have come to "prominence"? The definition of Prominent is: leading, well known. That he is. I've been around as long as you have - if not more. Yes you are entitled to your OPINION but what are the facts? What in what you describe as an expose is wrong? You are very quick to toe the party line without doing any research. So come up with some facts of your own.

They use a penetrometer to measure the firmness of a track. Has anyone used a penetrometer on the Riccarton Poly track? I'm picking it will come up as an F1 or a G2. Yet most Turf tracks need to produce a G4 or worse on a raceday morning.

To accuse someone of fraud there has to be some personal gain from committing the fraud. So what gain is there to Colin Wightman for spending all that time writing the report or even orchestrating the photos? I can't think of any. The fact is the outcome that is evident now was forewarned on BOAY months before the AWT's were even built.

Not quite 90!

How long does it take to fix it?

He's owned and raced more horses than you have. Probably still does. Instead of playing the man why don't you comment on what he is saying? The pictures posted are accurate. Would YOU race a horse on that surface?

Some have suggested that Colin orchestrated the pictures above (not all of them are his). For what reason would he do that? He's not asking for the track to be closed just maintained correctly. How do you orchestrate this picture?

Perhaps he is perhaps he isn't. However I've recently received confirmation that his concerns are valid from sources that I respect as genuine. Give him credit for doing some work on putting something together and instead of moaning about it or turning a blind eye has tried to get it fixed. Apparently Riccartons leading trainer has never inspected the track.

I thought the same. Plus the weather is improving.

$4m colt Galveston flops to run last on debut By Luke Sheehan 6 hours ago This week on Hold All Tickets, Alex and Xavier dive deep into the G1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield, with the MRC Foundation Cup also offering a golden ticket into the Caulfield Cup. At Randwick, Alex is with a glamour filly and doesn't tip the galloper that he owns? Big vibe check in the Yays and Neighs with a contentious scratching in England. The Aidan O'Brien-trained Galveston hasn't excited his connections just yet (to understate it), fizzling out to run last on debut as the short-priced favourite. The $1.67 fav in a seven-horse field at Naas was unable to live up to his £2m price-tag (as a yearling), beaten 8.25L by the winner Call Me Captain ($19) in the 1400m event for 2YOs. Galveston was spaced by the second-last horse, finishing 2.75L off Washington Street ($5) - who was the second-fav so the race was a bookie's fantasy. The winner, Call Me Captain, was bought for a comparatively measly €18,000 in September last year (about A$29,500). Reckon the man that bought him might have had a grin seeing the price of one he towelled up! "He's a horse we liked a lot at home. Paddy Turley bought him and he liked him as well," Craig Bryson, representing the winning stable Natalia Lupini, said post-race. "He was just ready to start today and showed his greenness down the back. We hoped he'd run a nice race but coming to a maiden like this you are only hoping. "He showed a wee bit of class there today to get to the front and get the job done nicely. "He's a nice horse going forward. If he had come here today and been placed we would have been delighted, to win is brilliant. "We'll see how he is after that. He could possibly have one more run but he's probably a middle distance horse for next year, although he's not slow either as that was seven (furlongs) today. "He's going to progress into a nice horse. He's a massive big horse." The runner-up Reyenzi ($61) was some sort of run, out the back early by about 4-5 lengths, only to poke up the inside and only miss out on the victory by 0.75L. Reyenzi was chasing tail early, but he was still able to reel in four-mill boy Galveston ... and nearly the rest of them too (Image: TAB) Maybe Galveston spent all his tickets in the mounting yard ...

The photos provided in this thread have been independently verified and were not orchestrated.

Seems they are loading some of the ones that have been missed for about 8 months too! Still doesn't OZ do it the same day as the race? At the end of the day it can be done programmatically I.e. without the need of an employee but auto loaded through technology.

Racing: Te Akau move to strike out colt but are feeling love By Michael Guerin NZ Herald· 20 Sep, 2024 05:00 AM 3 mins to read One of Te Akau’s stars of the spring returns the day after another has been sidelined. The racing giant has had to pull Group 1-winning colt Move To Strike out of the 2000 Guineas and his other spring assignments after he was diagnosed with a breathing issue. The exciting three-year-old raced well below his best at Hastings two weeks ago and extensive veterinary examinations have revealed he will need a tie-forward operation. That involves a horse’s larynx being tied forward to prevent its soft palate from displacing and cutting off the horse’s airways. “The tie-forward operation has a far greater success rate than tie-back surgery so we are very confident of getting him back,” says Te Akau boss David Ellis. “After the surgery, he will obviously have a break and then we will set him for races like the Telegraph [Trentham, January 4] or the Railway [Ellerslie, January 25].” Being a Group 1-winning colt by champion stallion I Am Invincible, Move To Strike is potentially one of the most valuable racehorses in the country, particularly if he can return to racing and win an open age Group1 such as either of those two glamour sprints. Although he is gone for the spring, stablemate Captured By Love remains the favourite for next week’s Hawke’s Bay Guineas and last Saturday’s Riccarton maiden winner Age Of Discovery is into second favouritism of the 2000 Guineas. The stable goes into the relaunch of Ellerslie tomorrow in great form, with four winners at Cambridge on Wednesday and Campionessa resumes tomorrow a week later than expected. Last season’s Zabeel Classic winner was to have started at Te Rapa last Sunday but the heavy track saw her scratched and she now meets Orchestral and Habana in the open 1400m. While Campionessa is better know as a 1600-2000m mare she did win the Auckland Breeders Stakes fresh up over 1400m last season, beating Faraglioni and Malt Time, so could sprint well fresh tomorrow. Originally lumped with 62.5kg, she gets a 3kg claim with Ngakau Hailey aboard so now carries less than Orchestral and Habana. “We think she can race well this weekend and then her next aim is the Livamol [Hastings, October 12],” says Ellis. Discover more RACING Habana set to shine as Ellerslie reopens with star-studded 1400m clash The other open race at Ellerslie tomorrow is the 2100m handicap which looks ideal for Nereus, who was heavily backed to win over 1600m at Hastings two weeks ago but should be better suited by tomorrow’s longer trip. He finds himself up in the weights with 59.5kg for a horse who has only had 11 starts. But he did win the Group 2 Awapuni Gold Cup last season and it is hard to make a case to back any of his rivals to beat him tomorrow. ● Although Ellerslie is the major northern meeting this weekend, today’s Taupō card sees some promising maidens who could have black-type goals before too long. Trainers with three-year-olds looking for a good surface are heading there and horses such as Kitty Flash (R2, No 11), Love Poem (R5, No 9) and Sought After (R6, No 10) are just a few racing today who could be better than maiden grade. Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald’s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world’s biggest horse racing carnivals.

The alleged cartel isn't driving all this. It is a small group of alleged administrators.

You're not special. I've got more than that and I don't bet!!

Glad you agree.

Bit like your crooked track that is straight.

Yeah and that is killing all sports where it was introduced. If you want to take a microscope to localised actions then you are producing more fodder to the woke who want the game ended. BTW that's how we ended up with this Climate Change nonsense.

An example of how @Yankiwi manipulates the truth (tells lies) to support his false narrative. He posted many posts on the Wanganui straight track being crooked. He manipulated Google Maps images to support this narrative. If he was genuine all he needed to do was use Google to search for images. If he had (perhaps he did) he would have found this one which shows the track is in fact straight.

Cool there will be a job for @Thomass in the bunker reviewing every horse in every race in High Definition. I doubt the Stipes let alone Joe Punter will notice in real time.

Ya reckon?