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Apparently 4 million more people have died in India than reported by the "corrupt Government"! Where are the bodies? 27,000 people die a day in India in an average year.

Industry Crisis strikes troubled Eagle Farm track – yet again Tofane beats Vega One in the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm. Picture: Grant Peters–Trackside Photography. By Ben Dorries 05:03pm • 22 July 2021 8 Comments A growing number of trainers believe the troubled Eagle Farm track must be ripped up again, as it emerged the Brisbane Racing Club will refuse to take back the management of the track from Racing Queensland next month. The flint-hard Eagle Farm surface has again flared into a major drama and it was an embarrassment to the Queensland racing industry when horse numbers were so limited at Wednesday’s meeting that there were only 47 starters in total across six races. By contrast, the bush meeting on the sand track at Gympie last Saturday attracted 56 starters across its six-race card. Late in the day on Wednesday, a posse of trainers met behind closed doors at Eagle Farm and there was almost unanimous agreement that the track must be ripped up for the third time. Racenet has spoken to several of these trainers. The trainers are also armed with support from several big-name Sydney trainers who privately say the Queensland winter carnival was a success only because of the reputable Doomben track. While Eagle Farm managed to get through the winter carnival despite its issues, increasing amounts of trainers are now limiting the horses they race at Eagle Farm and some are contemplating whether to race horses there at all. There will be a crisis meeting between trainers and other industry participants, potentially as soon as next week, which will involve both Racing Queensland and the Brisbane Racing Club and possible solutions will be thrashed out. It is understood participants have been told, that if the track is to be ripped up, it cannot happen until after next year’s winter carnival as the huge expanse of kikuyu grass needed for the project would need significant time to grow. The management of the controversial track was due to be handed back from RQ to the BRC next month but BRC chairman Neville Bell says the BRC will refuse to take it back. “We can’t consider taking the management of the track back as it currently is,” Bell told Racenet. “It is not up to standard, so we won’t take it back. “The BRC has been working with RQ on the management of this track for two years now. “There is a meeting next week with stakeholders and RQ to assess where the track is now and the next steps.” Brisbane Racing Club chairman Neville Bell. Picture: Jared Vethaak The Australian Trainers’ Association’s Queensland representative, Cameron Partington, said: “We are having ongoing discussions with our members about the recent and current performance of the Eagle Farm track. “At this stage we are not in a position to comment, as we don’t wish to unduly influence the further discussions and negotiations over the coming weeks with RQ and the BRC regarding the future plans for Eagle Farm.” Vega One wins the Kingsford-Smith Cup for trainer Tony Gollan and jockey Jamie Kah at Eagle Farm. Picture: Grant Peters – Trackside Photography The latest drama comes only seven months after a crisis meeting was called over the Eagle Farm track in January, prompted by what trainers said was a series of botched renovations and refurbishments dating back to 2014. In that time there have been a series of complaints about various incarnations of the Eagle Farm track, but the latest issue is it is just so hard that many horses simply don’t let down there while others pull up with issues. There are other issues to consider in how to handle Eagle Farm going forward. Gold Coast Turf Club chairman Brett Cook said his Turf Club had been accommodating in the past with track projects at other clubs which had priority over the Gold Coast’s own infrastructure projects. Cook was supportive of the most recent revamp of the Eagle Farm surface, but says the Gold Coast has now waited long enough and its project is fully funded and approved by the State Government and Racing Queensland. “As a matter of priority, the Gold Coast project should be fast-tracked which would provide a world-standard racetrack while Eagle Farm is getting renovated,” Cook said.

Yes well you are a sycophantic believer in the "leader of men" as in one Leo Molloy.

I'm not sure I'd use the Ivermectin dose gun from the local cow cockie. But I see no harm in taking the recommended dose of tablets. I did some research trying to work out why Ivermectin has an antiviral property. I might be way off beam BUT Ivermectin is supposedly anti-parasitic yet the parasites that cause River Blindness carry viruses themselves. Maybe it is the viruses that the parasites carry that cause the diseases and not the parasites. We should have taken the Sweden approach which was EXACLTY what every country and WHO had agreed to as a pandemic strategy after decades of research.

Who knows why it was changed. No doubt @JJ Flash with his connections to the TAB will enlighten us. I would have thought there were bigger improvements to make e.g. why do the apprentice allowances disappear after viewing the fields once? You'll see an apprentice claiming 4kg's when first viewing the race and then if you go elsewhere and then go back to the race the 4kg's has disappeared. Another is the historical form presentation. Overseas sites are so much better than our own and presumably the source the same data!!!!!

My views are aligned to yours. I've been offered it as well - been given a booking number by text. I have considerable doubts about the long term effects of the vaccine but mainly for young adolescents and children. They have a substantially different physiology to adults with many of their internal systems still developing e.g. endocrine, reproductive, brain and nervous system etc. Given that the risk of Covid-19 is very low to this cohort in the absence of long term data I don't think it is a good approach to open up vaccination to them. At times it feels I living in a lunatic asylum when reading the alarmist NON-scientific pretending to be scientific information and anecdotal evidence being promoted. The latest was this 5 year old that died in Alabama (some reports had him in Florida!). The child also had a staph and strep infection. Tragic though it may be these things happen. Last year a 14 year old athlete of quite some ability dropped dead while running the 800m at the local interschool sports! Is the 5 year old death any more tragic or common than that? Or for that matter the 44 year old man that died from blood clotting from the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. The media then reports that the odds of dying from the AZ vaccine with blood clots is less than taking oral contraceptives......since when have men been taking those?

Actually this virus ISN'T mutating very quickly at least not to variants of concern. In nearly 20 months there have only been FOUR variants of concern. Influenza is a different beast entirely. I won't debate the efficacy of flu vaccines except to say there is some doubt about how effective they actually are. Influenza is different because there are different STRAINS and variants therein - it isn't easy to predict from one year to the next which Strain will be the dominant one. In my mind the fact that the supposedly best of the vaccines doesn't have the same efficacy against the Delta variant NOR as Pzifer announced in the last few days have lasting immunity isn't a factor of Covid-19 but a factor of the vaccine technology. It is interesting to note that as yet Sweden does not have a third wave driven by the Delta variant. I postulated this on another forum and was immediately banned for misinformation. My hypothesis is that Sweden allowed the initial virus to circulate and although late to do so has protected the vulnerable and sick first. Primary schools have not closed down at any stage during the pandemic. I read a research paper recently that theorised that Sweden had a level of pre-immunity and that coupled with immunity gained through infection and now vaccination (Sweden has vaccinated about 45%) has reached a level of herd immunity that will only alter if a more infectious variant emerges.

Funny thing was I tried about 5 American and Canadian race meetings to get a screen shot example. LOL they had all been ABANDONED. No there hasn't been a massive summer snow storm across the USA just not enough people betting on these shyte races before daybreak to meet the minimum pool amounts!

If you make a bet online you will see new so called functionality in how you put your betting amount in. You can't just use the pop up delivered by your phone (which is the internet standard) to enter the amount you have to use the on screen system.

A local school near where I live has had a drop in its roll. So three well built prefab classrooms with bathrooms were no longer needed. Earlier this week a 20 tonne digger turned up on the back of a truck. Demolished them - smashed the glass and aluminium windows and the digger then picked it all up and put in a truck and it went to the dump. At least three people living in the same street would have purchased them and used them. Hell they could have been used instead of $400 a night motels!

Don't know about NZ but I did read that the Victorian Racing Spring Carnival will have a record $100m in stakes.

Geez I just had a look. What was wrong with the previous version? Or do they have enough money in the bank now to pay for the "extra upgrades" that they previously couldn't afford?

I'll start another Topic on this because there are similarities between our INCA and the OZ cobalt saga's. The SGF-1000 that is talked about has similar properties to blood spinning however both are only therapeutic NOT performance enhancing. The theory behind both is that the promote healing in joints that have low blood supply and can assist with muscle repair.

I've tried it all. Chevaux (horse meat) at a restaurant 20 years ago in Wellington, Bambi (Venison), Skippy(Kangaroo), Emu, Crocodile, Turtle, Ducks Beaks and all parts of an OX and a Chicken in China. Funny how we don't mind feeding a lot of that stuff to our pet dog reconstituted as kibble!

@the galah are you still keeping across the Navarro and Servis indictments in the USA? I read that one of the alleged PED's at the centre of the case is one labelled SGF-1000. Interesting stuff that a therapeutic can be labelled (allegedly) a PED. I know quite a bit about the science behind SGF-1000 as it is an Ovine (sheep) placenta extract. I led a business negotiation in China about 16 years ago establishing a market for NZ sheep placenta. They were extracting certain cells from the placenta for cosmetic development and also were working with the Swiss to develop injectables - not for horses but humans. Shame that such innovative technology has wrongly got tied into alleged PED doping when it is purely therapeutic. But then a good dose of bicarb after a hard race is therapeutic too.

You know full well I read the JCA reports as is evident by the direct quotes I make from them. Unfounded conclusions BEFORE the JCA reports are published i.e. when all the evidence is produced. You jump to conclusions both BEFORE and AFTER and then pull the "there is obviously more to this than meets the eye" line WITHOUT any evidence.

Since when have I defended anyone who has been proven guilty of breaking the rules? I just don't jump to unfounded conclusions and the promotion of myths like you and @JJ Flash do.

Yep it isn't ILLEGAL to tube a horse. In fact there are many many reasons to do so for the health of a horse. @the galah have you actually trained a racehorse? Or been involved with any high performance elite athlete? Giving a horse post race a treatment of bicarb when it is showing severe tying up symptoms such as swelling across its rump and difficulty in moving is an intervention that relieves the stress of the horse. The condition is caused by a buildup of lactic acid in its muscles particularly across its rump. That's why treatment before a race can offer some performance enhancing aspect because it offsets that acid build up and the muscles don't tire as easily. How many cases have we had? Not many.

Come on Gamma's the horse was the Cowboy and Indian - car, ute, tractor and at time battle tank. That's why they were prized! You've watched far too many romantic Wild West movies. Didn't stop either from eating them when desperate. Be realistic - 3,000 plus horses a year? Who will pay for their homing? Who will feed them during a drought? Or shift them before he pending flood? There is hardly enough revenue in the game as it is without forcing on owners a life long obligation. Why is the racehorse any different to the Wild Horse's of the Kaimanawa's which are rounded up and if not wanted shipped to the abattoir? But that's fine because is is protecting Conservation land. Quite frankly I've met quite a few horses that not even their mothers loved.

Judge Nullifies Horse Trainer Bob Baffert’s New York Suspension BY ASSOCIATED PRESS , JUL 14, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — A New York federal judge on Wednesday nullified the suspension of horse trainer Bob Baffert, finding that the New York Racing Association acted unconstitutionally by failing to let him adequately respond to claims made against him after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test. In her written ruling, Brooklyn Judge Carol Bagley Amon said a prompt post-suspension hearing where Baffert could refute the claims was required to meet constitutional muster. But she said the racing association “had held no hearing—let alone a prompt one.” Attorney W. Craig Robertson III, who represented Baffert at a Monday hearing before Amon, said the ruling confirms that “following the Kentucky Derby, there was an improper rush to judgment and Mr. Baffert has been treated unfairly.” He called Amon’s ruling “one step, in one venue, toward righting those wrongs,” and said he hoped it would lead to cooperation between the parties rather than division. “Bob Baffert and NYRA have had a good relationship in the past. My hope is that they can get to that point again for the overall good of horse racing,” he said. A lawyer for the racing association did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Amon said she concluded that Baffert had established a likelihood he will prove the suspension violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. She said he also made a “strong showing” that there would be irreparable harm if the suspension was not overturned. Amon noted that lawyers for the New York Racing Association had argued at a hearing Monday in Brooklyn that the public depends on it to ensure races are conducted in a fair and honest manner and to protect the integrity of the sport. “That may be true, but the public has no interest in having the ‘integrity of the sport’ enforced by unconstitutional means,” she wrote. On Monday, Henry Greenberg, arguing for the racing association, said the organization acted quickly because the Belmont Stakes, the third prong of horse racing’s Triple Crown, was fast approaching. The NYRA operates Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Saratoga Race Course. In Baffert’s lawsuit last month seeking to get the suspension lifted, the Hall of Famer contended he was suspended without “any prior notice” and was not told the duration or terms of the suspension or any New York state law or regulation he might have violated. The suspension would have eliminated Baffert’s ability to enter horses at Saratoga, which opens Thursday. “The 2021 Saratoga summer meet is a one-time opportunity. And given that many of the races are limited to horses of a certain age, an inability to compete in those races now means those horses will never have the chance,” the judge wrote. “Baffert will face substantial damage to his income, client base, and reputation if he cannot enter horses at NYRA races for the indefinite future. He has already lost one prominent client and stands to lose others, and has been deprived of the ability to compete at Belmont,” she said.

So you'd have them looking for DNA? Perhaps a more positive proactive approach would be to spend their extra time visiting kennels to assist with getting good treatment systems and protocols in place. I know they do that for Thoroughbred stables when asked.

Wouldn't they be better to focus on promoting Greyhound racing, improving wagering revenue, increasing stakes, fix tracks and thereby making it worthwhile to be professionally involved in the sport? Or are you happy that it devolves further into an amateur sport akin to pigeon racing?

But that isn't what the Journalist said. He deliberately or through incompetence misrepresented the truth not only in this article but in previous ones. Oh and it is OK to tube a horse on raceday - as long it is after the race not before it!

And keeps many dogs and cats fed. Something like 75% of carbon emissions from the livestock industry are from the manufacture of pet food. Shame we don't have much of a market for veal in this country.