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I agree. Beau is aged 11. Are we that desperate for track riders that NZTR is bending the rules?

Facebook is a bottomless pit of misinformation. Can you provide more information or a link?

Proof? Detail?

@Huey has found another way to manifest his Te Akau hatred.

WTF? You're a misogynist dickhead. Her looks and your preferences are irrelevant. These women just cleaned up the card at Morphettville. Give them some credit rather than denigrating them. Why does their success scare you? They certainly diminish @billy connolly 's limited achievements on horseback and yours.

Why does it matter? They are involved.

A legend in your own lunchtime. But you'd struggle now as the average female jockey would be better than you. Of course no one would comment on your attractiveness or use that as a criteria for asking you to ride their horse.

So three times in OZ and NZ in the last 4 years but zero before that. Yep - happens a lot!

Maybe we could all chip in and buy a house in BF OZ and pretend to be in residence.

Shame you didn't get it done earlier - might have improved your riding record.

Hell you talk some shyte. Every horse is different. 27 for some horses 24 at the elite level can induce significant wear and tear. Some horses can't sustain less than that without injury.

A handfull is 5. Imperatriz had 27 starts. 24 at Group level.

Same ilk.

Caitlin Jones was the partner of Jason Holder. I say was because not sure where they are at now.

Typical comment from you. I'm not sure you'd look that good either without makeup and having ridden a few horses not to mention cap hair.

The bunny would tire out.

Perhaps your punting is suffering from a bias as found in the attached paper. Over a 20-year period, the effect of jockey gender on fixed price betting odds was examined in National Hunt racing. Employing censored regression to account for non-finishers we find female jockeys to be underestimated by the UK betting market. Results indicate an increasing trend for underestimation in recent years, despite growing representation and rising performance levels of female jockeys. We conclude that mistake-based discrimination and confirmation bias may be impacting efficiency in the betting market. The market might recognise some improvement in female performance but may be failing to adapt at the speed with which female jockeys are professionalising. 1-s2.0-S0167268122002864-main.pdf

Nor the "Non-binary". You say it is hardly an unusual occurence - when was the time prior? It's only been done once in NZ that I can recall. On 10 October 2019 at Tauherenikau Racecourse.

Not to mention that if they redirected the money from boosting the top tier races and the novelty races they could probably run $25,000 minimum races all year keeping horses in the game longer to feed higher rated races. But who cares about Open Handicap racing anymore...the suits obviously don't.

I don't understand why SAFE don't protest outside French Bulldog breeders and owners homes?

Correct and why didn't they? I should have said 1969 or 1970 but then you'd pull me up on the size of the fields and once again miss the point. I was there at the Hororata Domain track in 1971 to see Arapaho win the Hororata Cup beating another good horse in Robalan who was off 24 yards. A 16 horse field. The fields that day were huge - 17, 18, 14, 19, 16, 18, 16, 9, 16. 143 in total! The TAB app wouldn't cope and you'd need a 95 inch TV just to see the win odds! The last race was in 1980 with 4,000 people oncourse and a turnover in excess of $600k. Which takes us back to the Topic. Has does that turnover compare with Addington today? Hororata – Whilst not strictly classified as Mid Canterbury, Hororata (situated on the north western edge of Canterbury plains), has been included in Mid Canterbury section as they now hold their annual meeting at Methven’s Mt Harding track. The club formed on 11 September 1951, held matinee meetings from 26 March 1952 on Hororata Domain (1 mile grass, 1½f straight), non-tote meetings from 8 January 1955 until 6 October 1956 before their inaugural totalisator meeting on 26 April 1958. Prior to this the Hororata RC (formed 1875, trotting races since 1885) programmed trotting events at the Domain from 9 January 1891 until 8 December 1956 (meetings Riccarton 24 March 1923; 16 December 1933; 14 December 1946 and Waihora Domain. Motukarara 15 December 1945). The Racing Club invited the Trotting Club to assume a half share in its assets with no interest payable for the first three years. The Racing Club is now a ward of the Canterbury JC and races at Riccarton. The Trotting Club continued to race at Hororata Domain until forced to close and move elsewhere with its final meeting 10 March 1984. In 1985, the Hororata TC commenced racing on the all-weather track at Ashburton until its annual meeting of 4 March 2001; moved to Addington 1 March 2002 – 22 February 2013 and since the annual meeting of 22 February 2014; has returned to its roots of grass track racing on the Mt Harding course at Methven.

One of my favourite teachers at High School was a Mr Gugich. He loved a punt. Knew my Dad had horses and was always asking me at the end of class if I had any tips. He used to put a good word in when at the beginning of every year I invariably missed the first week and a half of the new school year. Our family was holidaying on the Nelson/Blenheim Harness circuit.

Those fences looked terrible. Not very high either. I could have jumped them!

If you didn't measure it then your observations have no value.

We've all seen what happens when you go one race too far. Or one season too far. Verry Elleegant springs to mind.