Chief Stipe

Really?

Well you can't get on locally!!

Can't get access. But have internet access to everything else in the world.

GRNZ wouldn't pay you the time of day let alone any money for your crap stats.

Really? Do you think HRNZ would be treated fairy around a table dominated by Thoroughbred Racing? Hell NZTR just pissed $4m away on a failed IT project!!

RaceInfoMeetingsMeeting NewsATR @ Ellerslie | Saturday 17 February RACE DAY MEETING NEWS ATR @ Ellerslie | Saturday 17 February RACE DAY Race Day Weather: Fine Track: Good 4 Moisture Meter: 20.2% Rail: Out 6m Rainfall: N/A Irrigation: 15mm Irrigation Applied last 24 Hours Weather and Track updated at 6.32am Saturday 17 February Friday Afternoon Weather: Fine Track: Good 4 Moisture Meter: 18.2% Rail: Out 6m Rainfall: N/A Irrigation: 20mm Irrigation Applied last 24 Hours Weather and Track updated at 4.01pm Friday 16 February

You didn't answer the question but what's new.

@Yankiwi what is the normative attrition rate for racing a Greyhound. Hint: it isn't zero.

I suggest you give up then @curious as you are in denial. If you don't accept that what you do each day as a trainer to be successful causes at least some pain then take up Tiddly Winks. Hell most Jockeys go through pain every week.

Bute isn't prohibited except at levels that are detectable on raceday.

All of the above.

But Roger James has said he hasn't used it for 7 years! He probably uses something else but for good reasons. If you aren't using something then give up because you can't compete.

Well would you?

Why would you question Roger James integrity?

So why doesn't everyone talk to each other to provide a good product as often as possible!

See what above? Blue sky? Chicken Licken? Divine Providence?

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Trials scheduled for 27 February Ashburton. How does South Island Thoroughbred Racing event exist?

Environmental contamination? Will be interesting to see what the detected levels were. No charges laid as yet.

James 'gobsmacked' by Prowess swab www.racing.com Champion New Zealand trainer Roger James says he has been left 'gobsmacked' after star galloper Prowess returned a positive swab during the 2023 Spring Carnival. The talented galloper returned the positive in a pre-race urine sample taken before the Group 1 Champions Stakes at Flemington in November last year. RASL reported the sample contained Phenylbutazone, Oxyphenbutazone and Gamma-hydroxyphenylbutazone (a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and its metabolites), which is a prohibited substance on race day. The Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory then reported the same findings in the reserve sample. Speaking to Racing.com a week after the positive sample was announced publicly by Racing Victoria, James said that stable had not used Bute for a number of years. He said the stable provided both its New Zealand and Australian vet accounts to stewards to show Bute was not used by them. James, who trains in partnership with Robert Wellwood, said the stable is yet to be charged by stewards, who are continuing their investigation. "We were all absolutely gobsmacked. It's a drug that I've banned from our stable seven years ago because of its length of withholding time and its contaminable ability," James said. "I straight away said, 'You (stewards) can come over to my stables right now, we haven't got it (Bute)'. "We opened up our vet accounts for however long they wanted to go back. "We have wrecked ourselves trying to work out how it got into her system. But it does you no good at the end of the day. "It's all foreign territory for me. But at the end of the day, we have got to cop it on the chin."

Reinstated a trial for 2yr olds. MEETING NEWS 2YO Trial - Riccarton 23 February An 800m trial restricted to 2YOs will be held prior to Race 1 at Riccarton on Friday 23 February. Entries close with The Bureau the same time as nominations for raceday, Tuesday 20 February at 12 noon

Thursday Afternoon Weather: Fine Track: Good 4 Moisture Meter: 17.1% Rail: Out 6m Rainfall: N/A Irrigation: Irrigating Tonight Weather and Track updated at 3.20pm Thursday 15 February