Chief Stipe

If he's an "investigative racing journalist" then I'm a Group 1 Trainer!!!! Most of what he writes is pure speculation and defamatory. Anything accurate he has copied from somewhere else.

The best jockeys switch hands when needed. Don't horses have a tendency to run out?

I'm not sure a punter cares as long as the horse they have backed is given every chance. I'm firmly in the camp that a whip enables you to better control a horse.

Better to weed them out now than do what the Labour Government did. Found out after they got ministerial limo's! Seems to improve ACT's polling. Hell they are closing in on Labour. Imagine if the Red's ran third!

Legendary jockey Damien Oliver has weighed into racing’s debate over whips and industry fatigue. Picture: David Caird By Ben Dorries 11:18am • 06 September 2023 3 Comments Retiring champion Damien Oliver feels there is little chance of Australian jockeys ever allowing racing to move to the point where there are whip-free races. Oliver's home state of Victoria has been at the forefront of plans to reduce whip use and move towards whip-free races. Racing Victoria chief executive Andrew Jones recently said he would bet there would be no whips in racing in 20 years as he hinted at a staged reduction over time. RV was also behind a secret push to stage a whip-free racing series in December, with the plans aborted for 2023 after industry anger boiled over. Oliver, the greatest Australian jockey of all-time, feels the jockey community would push back strongly if whip-free racing was ever on the verge of being introduced. The 128-time Group 1 winner can't see whip-free racing happening and he insists padded whips do not hurt horses. "I don't think the jockeys will allow it to get to the stage where there are no whips," Oliver told Racenet. "I feel padded whips don't hurt the horses. "It's more the noise that the whips make. "The whips have come a long way from when I started, they are padded whips now, and the authorities have changed how much you can use them. "But horses need direction, they need standing over sometimes, it's also a really important tool to get the best out of the horses. "I am comfortable where things sit at the moment. "We may have to tinker with things a little bit, but I can't see it happening (whip-free racing)." Jockey Damien Oliver, pictured holding his whip aloft after winning the 2001 Cox Plate on Northerly, says jockeys won't allow it to get to the stage where there are whip-free races. Picture: David Geraghty The Australian racing landscape has changed dramatically since riding great Oliver, 51, started as a wide-eyed young apprentice. Oliver has warned authorities to be extremely careful with pushing the envelope too far in terms of night racing and the "relentless schedule" of seven-day a week racing. He said the issue needs to be looked at closely as the current gruelling regimen is pushing exhausted participants to the brink and will force people out of the sport. "Everyone understands (wagering) turnover can be better at night, but I still think administrators have to understand that a lot of the participants are pushed to their limits at the moment," Oliver said. "You have early morning track work, day racing, night racing and backing up day after day and night after night. "There has to be an understanding that you can't push people too far. "You have to work with people to get a result. "The way it's heading at the moment, it's just relentless." Racing Victoria wants a reduction in the use of the whip for encouragement purposes and has stated the whip remains essential for safety purposes. Racing NSW, under chief executive Peter V'landys, has no plans to further limit whip use and says the public must be better educated that "riding crops" do not hurt horses.

Are you not watching the first 5 from Hastings?

If Bute caused the recent deaths then the toxicology reports would have found traces. The @Archie Butterfly is clueless and uses science reports as evidence when he clearly doesn't understand them. He quotes one study that tested bute at TOXIC levels so you would expect undesirable outcomes. One of these days this idiot is going to cross someone with money and time.

Giga Kick draws out in small-but-hot McEwen Stakes field Australian sprinting star Giga Kick is back on Saturday. By Adam Dobbin 12:49pm • 06 September 2023 0 Comments Exciting stayer Goldman begins his march towards the Melbourne Cup when the gifted five-year-old resumes in Saturday's Group 2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) at The Valley. Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Goldman, currently an $11 equal second favourite for the Melbourne Cup, is unbeaten in three Australian starts since coming across from New Zealand. The latest of the trio of wins was in the Roy Higgins (2600m) at Flemington in March which secured the son of Verdi a place in the "race that stops the nation" on the first Tuesday in November. Saturday's meeting at The Valley also sees the much anticipated return of The Everest favourite Giga Kick in the Group 2 McEwen Stakes (1000m). The reigning The Everest hero, which has drawn trickily in barrier six, will tackle a field of seven as he launches what looms as a lucrative spring campaign for trainer Clayton Douglas and jockey Craig Williams. THE VALLEY The Valley track was rated a good (4) at acceptance time. The rail will be in the true position on Saturday. The Bureau Of Meteorology forecast for Melbourne is. Wednesday – Partly cloudy. 19. Thursday – Partly cloudy (80% chance of 1-4mm of rain). 20. Friday – Mostly cloudy (80% chance of 2-8mm of rain). 12. Saturday – Mostly cloudy. 14.

What fucking work? Getting in the way of the private sector? Geez their involvement in the Americas Cup was a classic example of their mismanagement.

Just shows you that the GFC and the Christchurch earthquakes were bigger crises. The Covid panicdemic was poorly managed and the economy shutdown was unnecessary - Sweden proved that. At least the expenditure in 2011 went into infrastructure. I'll ask you again but in a different way. What Crown Expenses have Labour pushed off their balance sheet to elsewhere?

Explain the efficiency of this increase @holy ravioli !!!!

Really? MBIE 3723 employees in 2017. 5,931 in 2022. Nice work Labour. An increase of 2,208.

FFS let it go - you're living in the past. But I guess going back a decade is all you've got.

Have you seen a copy of the unredacted document that Pzifer submitted to the EU, Australia TGA and presumably the NZ MOH? In it you will see how many of the normal tests and safeguards for approving a vaccine were bypassed. Remember we were told that the contents of the vaccine do not travel throughout the body but remained localised at the injection site? Well in that report there is a table showing the results of a pharmacokinetc lab test on 3 rats (or mice) where the results show distribution to every organ in the body. Or the assumptions made by WHO that the contents of the vaccines were no different to the one other previously approved RNA vaccine therefore Pzifer could ride in on that. The serious flaw is that the RNA type used was different as were the nano-lipids. The latter were substantially different and a recent study with mice has shown that they are extremely inflammatory (whatever you do don't inhale them as all the mice that were treated intranasally died from extreme cytokinine responses). But worse the whole document was based on trials (lab, animal and human) done using a different manufacturing process than the one used to mass produce the vaccine. The trial vaccine was produced under very controlled lab processes that couldn't be scaled up. The same with the nanolipid manufacturing - the process used was very difficult to get consistency in quality.

As opposed to Robertson borrowing and hoping while increasing the totally inefficient bureaucracy particularly MPI and MBIE. Those two departments alone stop any productivity. Over 3,000 employees in each with an average salary of $120k plus tax payer funded coffee.

Using a new Net Debt measure conveniently introduced during Budget 2023. Do you think it should include or exclude NZSF? Did you ever answer the question is Housing NZ debt included in Public Debt?

Do you really think the population will conform this time? This article is a good summary of the growing concerns with the mRNA vaccines. https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/conflicting-evidence-of-mrna-technology-raises-serious-concerns-about-rush-for-use-in-new-vaccine-development-5480328

Roy Morgan poll 24% and the trend is downwards. What's the feeling like in your Government Department?

Is it included in the $194billion?

I didn't sat that. I said they way Labour are going Jones might be wrong and they go under 20%. I guess you are desperate to win something out of this election.

Where's your prediction?

I think you are right Jones will be wrong. The way Labour and Chippy are going it will be under 20%!

You heard it correctly. To think this BS cost the country at least $100b.