Chief Stipe

I'm sure you will be welcome with open arms in the Jockeys room.

I assure you I do get out a lot! As for shit stirring - who's the real shit stirrer? Becks Nairn and her weird science podcasts and facebook postings of unsubstantiated twaddle. Which it seems you believe. Or the "shit stirrers" that are bagging hard working Jockeys by taking out of context screen shots of their whip action. I'm surprised @curious or @Thomass can find someone to ride their horses. Actually @Thomass is more an armchair critic than an active participant. The industry isn't sick and on that we agree. It is no less healthy than society as a whole. In that respect it reflects society. Strangely the industry holds licensees to a higher degree of scrutiny and punishment than the rest of society presumably because of the mistaken construct of requiring a social license. The fact is INCA found SFA. Not because they were necessarily incompentent nor didn't have enough funding or the right tools but because there was nothing to find. So the ends justifies whatever means in your case. I gather you are another Anti-racing person who I'm sure will be welcomed on those sites that are Premier Anti-Racing Sites.

Likewise I have a science background as well. That said I believe we do have different opinions on the veracity of the mRNA vaccine testing. Nairn doesn't have a clue what she is talking about and the conclusions she draws are ludicrous.

Her posts. She makes wild allegations without any proof. I realise it suits your anit-racing agenda or levelling the playing field or whatever it is.

Then the others are uninformed or ignorant if they believe the crap she writes. There will always be rogues and exceptions in any industry let alone livestock industries. But those examples aren't representative of the entire industy yet the anti-racing mob and I include Nairn in that group represent those exceptions as being the norm for the racing industry. Just like the attnendent anti-racing news media who sensationalise the smallest indiscretion with headlines like "Horse returns positive Cocaine" and then proceeds to write an article that infers horse drug abuse is rife. The fact is it isn't rife! Do any of you stop to think that the RIB can't find anything because there isn't anything to find? INCA proved that. Yeah the $14m that was spent on INCA wasn't enough to produce results! Yeah na. What "dirty little secrets"? The platform is all yours to reveal. But I take it you are either anti-racing or an underachiever in racing and will just rely on misinformation or just inneundo, inference and supposition. BTW I assure you I'm not anyone's sycophant!!! LOL @hesi will readily attest to that!

Meeting News Venue Changes Confirmed for RACE Awapuni Spring Meetings New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) and RACE Inc. have today confirmed further changes to the Spring racing calendar in the Central Districts, as remediation works continue at the RACE Awapuni track. The meeting scheduled for Saturday 11 October, featuring the $120,000 Group 3 Spring Sprint (1400m), will now be run at the Ōtaki-Māori Racecourse. While progress is being made at the RACE Awapuni venue, the ability to race there in October remains dependent on weather and grass growth. Given the prominence of the meeting, a decision has been made in consultation with Entain to transfer the fixture to Ōtaki-Māori Racing Club. The meeting originally scheduled at Ōtaki-Māori Racecourse on Saturday 18 October will be transferred, with the new venue to be confirmed following further discussions in September. As previously announced, the RACE Awapuni 6 and 20 September meetings have been rescheduled. NZTR and the TAB NZ Dates Committee have approved the following venue changes: Saturday 6 September - Otaki-Māori RC at Ōtaki Racecourse Saturday 20 September - Marton JC at RACE Trentham Saturday 11 October - Otaki-Māori RC at Ōtaki Racecourse A venue for the meeting currently scheduled at Otaki on Saturday 18 October will be confirmed in the coming weeks. A formal RACE Awapuni track review will take place on Monday 15 September, attended by representatives from NZTR, RACE Inc., the Racing Integrity Board (RIB), consultant Liam O’Keeffe, the New Zealand Jockeys Association, Entain and senior trainers, with all parties working closely to bring the venue back to racing standard as soon as possible.

Don't tell me you take @Transparency aka Wightman seriously?

I find a lot of negative types have unsubstantiated views based on rumour, innuendo and inference. Nothing more. They are destructive. For example I had one small trainer tell me a story about the big trainer who gets this secret courier parcel every week inferring that it was something dodgy. I immediately said bollocks and pointed out that I know big trainers regularly get their horses bloods analysed particularly leading up to big races and they supplement feed or deliver intraveneously to correct any anomalies. They also deliver therapeutic drugs that may or may not have witholding periods for specific horses. Part of the delivery process is making sure that the supply chain is tracked in detail. That's part of ensuring that nothing is interfered. Standard GMP processes. Nothing sinster just good management practice. I think we should all call out anyone who makes unsubstantiated allegations and do so strongly. The fact is modern testing regimes can find anything you want to look for. This particular woman is untrained and clueless. It's only a "HUGE" issue because a minority make it so. I have no problem with people looking after their horses from the cradle to the grave. That's their choice. But don't try and make your approach an animal welfare issue and higher cost for me.

If there is no known therapeutic use in humans then how the hell is it going to have a use in horses?! There has been some therapeutic experimentation with wound treatment and stomach ulcers but I doubt that it has any "go fast" properties. Another one of these stables rumours that many stupid people in the industry are prone to give air to fir no other reason than it helps explain their on lack of performance.

Then she throws in proceedings totally unrelated to horse welfare. I imagine even Teaz admits he overstepped the mark by calling the handicappers "corrupt"!!

It's bullshit @curious unsubstantiated bollocks.

So now she's sidestepped and gone from banging on about the expensive and hard to obtain Xenon to banging on about Argon which is more readily available from your local panel beater. She's clueless as are anyone who thinks she has a point.

She's talking crap and I'm surprised that the likes of @curious and @Freda supoort this BS.

Does it matter when we are just trying to get you past security?

Avantaggia trial Te Awamutu 26 August 2025 The third horse looks OK too.

Actually @muzenza365 the next time I'm in town I'll bring along a good looking lady and an empty pram and wheel you in.

I just looked important, reached down and shook the hand of the little guy in the colourful clothes (clown suit?) and walked on in. Not as easy as Cowboys in the past I might add.

True but he had three horses inside him and would have had to hook the horse back. I think it was literally a split second he got wrong. They all do it. I've seen Jmac ride some real stickers.

Been there about three times in 8 years.

I'd have given him a 4 or 5. He needed to make a split second decision when he missed the start to go to the inside but I'm sure he had the Trainers instructions still at the forefront of his mind which was to get handy from the wide draw. He hesitated and three horses got inside him. No real option after that but to go wide in clear air or wait for a gap up the middle. It's a bit like hitting the Headquarters bar with a plan then hesitating when you see the gorgeous blonde on her own. You spend the rest of the night looking for gaps.

This is really a post for the Harness Forum.

She trials again today at Te Awamutu as do a number of up and coming three year olds. https://loveracing.nz/raceinfo/55097/meeting-overview.aspx

Well whatever they are doing must be working because Antartic Ice is increasing as is the Great Barrier coral.

Doubt it would have bottomed him. He had two lead up trials before Saturday and in OZ their trials are usually quite strong.