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You're the one making the accusations - you ring him. Quite frankly I don't believe anything you write.

Chazza this is about as much heat you are able to put on:

Exactly which is why you published it. Why don't walk the walk instead of just talking the talk and lay a complaint? https://www.bsa.govt.nz/complaints/make-a-complaint

Right and you re-publish it. If you have an issue with it there are other avenues to formally object.

Running 1:12 for a 1200m Grp1. What's that tell you about the track and or tempo.

Only 2 of the winners ran home in under 34 seconds.

I'm not sure what races you were watching but it wasn't Ellerslie. Many races dictated by slow early tempos and sprint home. I suspect the Jockey's were psyched out by the rail being out 5m from the 1000m resulting in a poorly cambered 600m+ sweeping bend with variable surface conditions.

I hope the others learn from the mistakes Ellerslie has made with their $50m effort.

Your anti-Kah bias clouds your judgement. Her strike rate is currently better than JMac.

I disagree. The biggest issue is the fact most races are slow early tempo and sprint home. That has very little to do with the track That said the track surface isn't holding up as well as it should and there are definitely good and bad lanes.

Why anyone would bother responding to Chazza online I have no idea.

Have you given Kingston a call yet?

So Cameron George kicks off an IT project which is very quickly in trouble and hires a CEO that openly says he knows very little about IT.

You just contradicted yourself.

So it's the trainer's merit when the horse wins but the Jockey's fault when it loses? Given that Kah rides for some of most successful trainers in Australia I find it hard to believe they get it wrong that often.

Another good day at the Office for Kah yesterday. Another Grp 1. Getting back to top form eh @Newmarket ?

Excuses for beaten Imperatriz | RACING.COM www.racing.com Star mare Imperatriz will need a vet certificate to race again after being beaten but far from disgraced when runner-up in Saturday’s G1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m). A post-race scope revealed the five-year-old suffered EIPH, an explainer for the recently perfect sprinter’s first defeat in more than a year after she went down to Cylinder by 1.25 lengths. Immediately after the race and prior to the vet’s report of EIPH, Te Akau head trainer Mark Walker said the team plan to press on as hoped with the beaten nine-time Group 1-winner’s Autumn campaign should she come through the run. “You never make decisions on race day, most likely she’d go to the William Reid and then onto the TJ Smith,” Walker said. “She had her chance, full credit to the winner he was just too good on the day. She ran well and we’re happy with her.” Imperatriz carried 58kgs and would’ve been the third mare in history to carry that weight or more and win the time-honoured Handicap. Pendant won the race with 60.5kg in 1906, and Peter Moody’s unbeaten legend Black Caviar shouldered 58kg to win in 2011.

There is more than one type of abuse.

Quite frankly I haven't seen any difference in the level of arrogance in road users throughout the country. The point I was making is that many of our racecourses would be affected by a serious road accident on a main road to them. It isn't a city vs country thing.

Have you given Kingston a call yet?

Then don't. Doesn't um.

Really? Normally there is only one road in to most of our provincial tracks with no alternative routes.

Races put back one race due to accident on southern motor. Horses and Jockeys stuck in traffic.

So who benefited?

Well the writer did contradict himself. It causes very little harm.