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Bullshit. The fact is Trentham's timing and photo finish systems have been a mess for years now. So you are identifying @Wingman as a broom or a brush?

Yep - a $42,500 maiden and now $23k in the bank.

I see Farknuckle aka @Joe Bloggs has Little Bobbie aka Bob Scott aka @nomates (an appropriate moniker that!) wrapped round his charisma which is funny because he has none. Just for the record - I DID not troll Farknuckle's wife. @Joe Bloggs had three accounts on here which when he got pissed off he said one belonged to his wife. Very convenient and then he went all BS and bluster over it when I know for a fact that he uses the same email addresses on other accounts on the Premier Anti-Racing Site. Show's you the nature of the man when he uses's his wife like that. Both very nasty little people and quite frankly @Comic Dog deserves them. This last little rumplestiltskin episode by the three of them started because I started a topic about Mark Walkers season so far in Australia. We all know @Comic Dog is trawling all over the net looking for stuff to copy because he is bereft of any initiative and so he decides to comment on it. Lo and behold the little pekingnese lap dogs bark on queue. All a bit pitiful really.

I've read where Te Akau have picked up some big Australian clients. The hardest part from what I see is the step up in the class of horse and then placing them. Winning at Cranbourne, Ballarat, Werribee, Pakenham is harder than winning at the majority of our NZ tracks. But then the money is so much better. You don't earn $800k winning 13 races plus placings in NZ racing in maidens and benchmark races.

That Wallace aka @Joe Bloggs is a nasty piece of work. He says I trolled his wife - I don't think he understands the meaning of the word troll. He the person with three accounts on BOAY and a similar number on the Premier Anti-Racing site. He now says his wife was one of the accounts which is utter BS. I guess he doesn't understand the meaning of syntax. He and Little Bobbie couldn't have found a better pal in the @Comic Dog.

I see Mark Walker has the second highest Victoria Country meeting strike rate at 21% with the lowest number of starts at 60. Not too shabby for a stable in only its first full season.

Duh @nomates aka Bob Scott - who's biting who? Or do you have some weird virtual telepathy going on? Just for you Little Bobbie - you can race here for $17k if you want and call it wonderful (which you don't because you are negative about everything) but horses have to start somewhere and $45k maidens aren't to be sniffed out.

LOL well did that set the rabble off elsewhere! I guess $32k and $45k for winning a maiden race in Victoria Country isn't good enough for some! Mind you Farknuckle (aka @Joe Bloggs ) and @nomates are perennial whingers and anti-racing. How are those Roc De Cambes going Mr Wallace? As for the @Comic Dog I've never dissed Te Akau on RaceCafe but I guess you think I did because you misidentified someone as me. Which you do all the time because of your paranoia. Who's watching who?

Didn't take long did it @Thomass.

The biggest cost is the cameras - the automatic caputure plugin is a very small cost in comparison.

So NZTR didn't buy the Automatic Capture Mode (ACM)? The manual you are quoting from is for the athletics system not racing. However that system does have a motion sensor which activates the camer recording. As you point out the most expensive parts of the system are the cameras because the record images at very very high frame rates e.g. 1,000 to 20,000 (or more) frames per second. The standard TV programme is broadcast at 25 fps by comparison - hence the inaccuracy of using a video recording to determine who won. The Trackside cameras do record in HD 4k but the frame rate will unlikely to be much higher than 60fps.

FFS I'm not arguing I actually said the manual activation of the camera by a Judge is one option but NOT the recommended option!! There are two other automatic options. I watched the HKJC video you posted and I must have missed where they said "they pressed a button"! So I gather you are suggesting that the Judge forgot to press the button? Are there technical reasons for not using an auto activation feature? Ellerslie have recently installed the TripleSData system (when they built the new track) which can include a photo finish system. My understanding is that it is auto activated. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

That's oncourse surely? On Trackside you have back to back racing on two channels! About one race run per ball bowled. Or 103 per one Mark Richardson style batsman runs. That's easily fixed turn the TV up in the marquee!! Sounds like they're the type that are easily bored although I guess you bored them with your negative views and complaints on NZ Racing.

As I said what has the NZTBA done in the last 25 years?

That's not entirely correct. A properly installed Lynx camera system will receive a signal from the same button that opens the gates which also initiates the electronic timing. That's the recommended option which also offers accurate timing for the entire race. Or a movement sensor (another camera) placed a short distance from the finish line which starts the main finish camera. However there is a manual option which involves someone pressing a button but that would be the least reliable option I would imagine. Are you suggesting that the camera installed has a manual button?

I wasn't going to comment on your post @Thomass as you don't need much encourgement to go off piste! You need to be thick skinned to run a forum website and above all be comfortable in your own opinions and expressing them i.e. not be too precious. Plus be prepared to look dumb occasionally - no harm in learning something and admitting you didn't know it! @TAB For Ever taught me a valuable lesson and although his insatiable positivity sometimes was a bit much he actually opened my eyes and I looked for the things he could see and found that there were positives to be found. Sadly he also taught me that life is short which was reinforced yesterday when I learnt my longest friend who I've known since we first met in the sandpit at the Hokitika Free Kindergarten had suddenly passed away. 61 years of friendship. Your description of the Kohi Cafe (my mate lived in the area and it was one of his coffee stops as did @TAB For Ever) debates reminds me of the ones I had there and the ones I frequently have at the locals pub table. The face to face debate actually helps moderate opinions and derive the truth. I'm afraid that your beloved Cindy knew that and that's the biggest reason she stopped us from meeting during lockdown either over a beer or a coffee. All that said I DON'T want endless snapshots taken at millisecond intervals of misplaced whips on BOAY!!!

seasons starts 1st 2nd 3rd win % place% prize Money 2025/26 102 13 15 13 12% 40% $1,081,105 13 Wins so far. Needs to get his strike rate up but a lot tough in Victoria than NZ. @JJ Flash

Really? It wasn't YOUR post - you copied someone else's missive. It is laughable that the NZTBA should NOW be seeking accountability. Where have they been for the last 25 years while the issues we now face started to develop? Quite frankly my brief interaction 20 years ago with the CD branch of the NZTBA did nothing to impress me. I will respond to your copied post in due course.

Incorrect. So @Huey and @Freda can take their likes back. It wasn't a camera malfunction at the Breeders Cup. Just the first time that in a major race the photo finish showed an actual deadheat. The technology they were using WAS modern to the extent that it was believed that an actual deadheat was impossible. So they spent 13 minutes deliberating over a number of photos. There were other things to complain about however the fact is the photo finish camera AND the electronic timing have been problematic at Trentham for over THREE years now. If we can't get those key pieces of infrastructure working correctly on a Group 1 day or any raceday for that matter then the sport is still stuck in amateur mode. It just amazes me how you CD guys are so duplicitous - you bag or promote certain tracks and then turn a blind eye to others. Seems Trentham is a protected species which of all ironies fits into @Huey and @Freda view of the world.

Hastings and Awapuni WILL be back and running. Woodville, Tauherenikau, Waipukurau, Otaki. Choose which 2 go if Trentham stays.

Judging from the over head pictures of Trentham I would say the dodged a bullet thanks to rain they received even then the track was very patchy. As most of us know you can't rely on Mother Nature all the time.

They need capital invested in their assets to get them up to scratch.

When Awapuni and Hastings are up and running Woodville will be surplus to requirements. It is no more than a 90 min drive from 5 other racecourses.

I'm not but I guess you consider yourself to be an average punter. Why? Who were the average punters betting offshore?