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Everything posted by Chief Stipe
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You're 🎳 underarm.
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Lose your PR/Communications person Paul.
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Interesting fact - both Imperatriz and Verry Elleegant won at Ruakaka.
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This is so disappointing. Everytime that I've had a horse racing at Ellerslie since 2004 I've walked the track early race day. When I heard they were spending big dollars and taking 18 months to build a new StrathAyr track I thought the worm had turned. I have walked Ellerslie three times since Karaka Millions night and have been very very disappointed. So where are all the scheduled stakes races for Ellerslie going to be next season? I hope Riccarton has sorted their shit out ...I'm not confident.
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FFS Sharrock and Clement should turn up. Both are responsible for providing fair and safe tracks.
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Well the latest is the 25 May meeting has been moved to Pukekohe!!
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I know what you mean. I was lectured to by some of the best turf and sports field experts in the world. None of what I've seen at Ellerslie resonates. I'll ask the question again who is the Sandman?
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Forgot to add that 10,800 cubic meters cost about $648,000 at $60 a cubic meter. So that leaves another $54.3m that was spent in not changing the iconic shape and rocks and gravel.
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They're flying in the StrathAyr people to work on the track that the ATR customised to NOT be a StrathAyr.
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But your analysis doesn't stack up. Not that you have provided much more evidence than Frankel.
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That's a very narrow range. Verry Elleegant won Grp 1 races at more distances than Frankel. Frankel was a freak but a narrow freak.
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Why don't we compare Frankel vs Verry Elleegant? She'd win overall by a mile. She had 39 starts. Frankel 14. She won from 1400m to 3200m.
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Yes she was tired. How many UK horses do what she did in her last two seasons over a range of distances let alone run 2 high class 2 mile performances. Her last Melbourne Cup run was elite and she was unlikely to ever come back from that.
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Well they quoted Warren Kennedy after the post-renovation trial. I've being trying to work out who should be laying down the law on the problem. You can't rely on the Jockeys nor Trainers as they have too much skin in the game. After Karaka Millions there was a fair amount of disquiet amongst that group. So it sits with the Club, the RIB and NZTR. In my opinion the RIB should be the organisation that without fear or favour is banging heads to get a safe and fair surface to race on. Afterall isn't that what integrity and horse welfare depends on?
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Hasn't Matt Cameron done that before? I'm not pointing the finger but I've have this nagging memory that there is a commonality somewhere. As for Senior Jockey's - who exactly?
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Oh so you now have three separate arguments. Werther kicked off in NZ. Trained out of Otaki if I recall correctly. Certainly measured up in OZ and Hong Kong. You chose one example I chose one. Werther won a Group 1 over a middle distance in HK.
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You're kidding me? It may come right in the sense that it will be a broken rough surface and horses can get a grip but still won't be a nice consistent surface to gallop on. As for the Jockeys did Guerin ask them what was the difference between Karaka Millions night and the two abandoned meetings? Other than stakes.
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Interesting that you should point that out. I did a calculation the other night but wasn't brave enough to post it in case my math was off. One cubic meter of sand covers 10 square meters to a depth of 10cm. If the top layer is 30cm then 3 cubic meters is needed per 10 meter squared. So roughly (1800 length/10) *20 width)) x 3 = 10,800 cubic meters. A cubic meter of sand weighs 1682kg. So 10,800 cubic meters x 1682 kg = 18,165,600 kg or 18,165 tonnes. I'm sure @barryb will correct me if I'm wrong.
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Far from not good enough - rank incompetence. I see a common theme in the approach so I'd love to know who is advising them.
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I think part of that is to do with the different training and racing approaches. Both struggle to adapt to the other.
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But you've only given one example. Yes but as you would surely know quite a few horses don't adapt to the environmental and training conditions in Hong Kong. I'll use one example for Hong Kong - Werther.
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So you base your opinion on one race?
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The Anti-Te Akau Thread aka the Anti-Syndicators Thread.
Chief Stipe replied to Chief Stipe's topic in Galloping Chat
If they bought two 2.5% shares one in Espionage and one in Imperatriz they'd still be way ahead. But you are not comparing apples with apples. Espionage was bought for a Stallion making syndicate. Now that really is a lottery regardless of the tax breaks. Imperatriz given her breeding always had residual value as a broodmare. -
MEETING NEWS Awapuni Synthetic Trials Cancelled The Awapuni Synthetic Trials scheduled for tomorrow (23-04) have been cancelled due to insufficient entries.
