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What?! Are you saying my new laptop backpack is NOT made out of 20 recycled plastic drink bottles? LOL the other crack up about drink bottles is people don't sterilise them between use. Classic environment for breeding pathogens! Miltons is a good solution of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) and sodium chloride (NaCl) for sterilisation. You can also use the sodium hypochlorite to clean your deck of mould but don't tell Becks Nairn.

But still harder against 15 world class Jockeys in a race at Randwick.

Even though when used at the appropriate levels to make water safe to drink it is recommended by the WHO and the CDC? Only to improve the taste AFTER it has done its work. The irony of course is people don't change their filters often enough and risk disease the risk of which is magnified by cowboy installations of filtering equipiment.

Honestly I can't believe you are giving this woman any credence at all. So I guess you are referring to yourself. Just bizarre the people who have yet to break out of the pandemic malaise and recognise all the good things that are happening rather than focussing on negativity. I can only assume that all these old and pale types feel disenfranchised in the twilight of their racing careers.

This is what he actually said. I can relate to what he says. I've walked a few tracks before horses I've had an interest in raced on them. I remember vividly one particular case at Ellerslie around 2007 where early in the morning several of us walked the track with the Trainer. His words were "well if we hadn't travelled all this way and it wasn't a Grp race I would be scratching" due to the state of the track.

So she is such a keen supporter of racing that she didn't correct him?

Well it isn't easy in those big Group races on the OZ metro tracks. A bit tougher than trying to get one up on Leo Molloy at Washdyke. I saw the Jockey interviews for a race (not sure which one it was) but J Mac had had a really shyte ride and only gave a three word reply.

Profit takers have taken some of their ENTAIN gains and are now buying back in. Financial Analysts are saying their is a 40% upside on current price. Currently 850 GBX with a target price of 1,200.

Fair enough but he had two horses inside him when VS starting improving he then made the move forward on the outside. Aeliana got on the back of VS first so Ceowulf would have been another horse back assuming he could pull back and around the $101 shot Diamond Diesel. Stewards Vision: https://racing.racingnsw.com.au/FreeFields/VideoResult.aspx?MeetDate=2025Aug23&VenueCode=MjAyNjM1MA==&RaceNumber=8&MeetingCategory=Professional&VideoFileType=Stewards With the benefit of hindsight he should have ridden really cold and moved over to sit behind the two waller hotpots at the back of the field. So Grey Way could have won 52 times? Or did you getting the flick become the turning point in his career? ☺️

I strongly disagree. Waller has a responsibility to his owners, his staff and the welfare of his horses. He has every right to express his opinions. Every one benefits from better safer tracks including Waller's competitors so I also disagree that he is trying to swing things in his favour. Not as if he is Lee Freedman getting the track watered before the Melbourne Cup for the Diva. I wish a few more NZ trainers would speak up and express their views about the tracks here in NZ if not individually at least collectively. However they tend to do what you want and that is to keep their mouths shut.

Isn't that the objective - the best horses winning fair and square?

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Uh? Did you watch the replay? When was he ever going to be able to get onto the back of Via Sistena?

You've now modified you comment yet again. So Rosehill wasn't a Heavy 9 the previous week either? Are you suggesting the official track rating of Heavy 10 was BS? I gather from your track work remark that you have ridden track work but I would suggest that based on your remarks you haven't ridden any in recent times the class of those going around at Randwick on Saturday. But back to the Topic - Waller's comments weren't about the track on Saturday but that it should have not been raced on in the middle of winter. The two Sydney tracks are mess half way through the Spring and I doubt this year will be any different.

From the Te Akau Newsletter: While the racing has been wonderful, it has been a more challenging time for me personally. In July, Karyn and I headed away for our winter holiday. The day before our return I began feeling unwell, and though I felt better by the time we flew home, within two days I was very sick and admitted to hospital. The result was major surgery to remove a kidney. I spent almost two weeks in hospital before being discharged in recent days, and I am now slowly recovering. To be back in my own bed was the best feeling, and each day I am regaining a little more strength. I want to thank everyone who has sent messages and well wishes – they have meant a lot to me and Karyn. I also want to acknowledge the excellent care I received at Auckland Hospital. At one point I had a drip in each arm, lines in my stomach and in my back, but the specialists and nursing professionals looked after me with great knowledge and compassion. And of course, I cannot thank Karyn enough for being by my side and taking such wonderful care of me during this time.

Nice listening @hesi

I'd query why you are creating an expectation for 100% traceability. What does it actually achieve? If a horse has retired from racing and is not a breeding proposition surely that is all NZTR or HRNZ need to know. Also I might unlike dogs which can have a litter of 6 or more puppies a year a horse generally only has one foal a year.

That is what it was officially rated at. A Heavy 10. Initially you said 34 and change now 35 and shrapnel. They couldn't break 1:12.5 for 1200m and the last over 1600m was 1:42! Hardly a good track - closer to a Heavy 10 than Good! Via Sistena ran 1:26 which is 24 lengths slower than Fangirl did on a G4 at Randwick when winning the Apollo. Although Autumn Glow's win over 1100m was phenomenal.

You are being naive @curious and I see @Freda supports you in that respect. This woman like a lot of people you support are at best masquerading as supporters of racing when the reality is they are anti-racing. I put @Thomass in that category. If by a very very small chance this woman was a supporter of racing then she would go out of her way to present data and information that was accurate and/or in context. She doesn't. Which isn't surprising when she has no technical expertise or skill in the areas she chooses to weaponise. Now there are two possible reasons for that - one she is ignorant, uninformed and lacks expertise or she isn't and is deliberately promoting misinformation in an alarmist fashion. Either way both end up being anti-racing.

Autumn Glow another Waller trained mare is at the level too. Plus Treasure The Moment with Matt Laurie could be better than all of them.

So what is wrong with them going to the knackers yard? At least they served a useful purpose rather than going to a an industry funded crematorium for a memorial service and turned to ashes!!!

Now the do gooding activists are saying you have to look after them for 30 years because racing them for gambling and entertainment purposes is immoral. Meanwhile they over feed their pet dogs on canned dairy cows.

Why is it a problem? Rehoming every horse as you infer is not possible for practical and cost reasons. Either accept that and move on or go down the emotive rabbit hole with the eventual conclusion that racing stops. Don't buy in to the emotive BS.

Then why didn't you post those figures earlier? BTW you seem to have forgotten your research disciplines. Where are the source cites?

How would you know as you aren't seeing the complete wagering figures. Based on what? What's the purpose of it being bullshit? These are the figures from Australia and I understand that the Tote as a percentage of total wagering turnover has decreased even further.