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Headline news last week about Sean Buckley’s mares Miss Andretti and Strikeline being the subject of a RV investigation into the possible use of surrogate mares in breach of Australian Stud Book regulations. Buckley can find a headline at the moment but this will be a nothing burger story. Buckley has said he will fully co-operate with the inquiry and denies any wrong-doing. “On the allegations, as best I can understand them from the media, I fail to see what the issue is,” he said. “The progeny of the two mares born in 2020 were not and were never going to be registered.” There were no attempts to register the 2020 foals of either mare into the Stud book, as required to race as a thoroughbred in Australia, but a certificate of paternity is pending for 2021 to Buckley’s Cox Plate winning stallion Shamus Award. As an aside - finding a 2006 Stud Book history record last week, “there were also many foals by thoroughbreds which were not recorded with the Stud Book and produced generations of horses in the Non-Stud Book Register”. A notable case was Redelva, who won 17 stakes races, but a pedigree check found its great dam Damelsa was 'not foal recorded' but succeeding generations were mated to stud book sires, which enable his dam Delvena to be promoted to the Stud Book. Rivette, the 1933 Caulfield-Melbourne Cup winner could not be accepted as its parents had not been previously recorded. Aquanita, the winner of 17 races including a Cox Plate and stood as a stallion, could not be accepted because his great-granddam Brilliant Queen had not been returned to the ASB as a foal.

I didn't actually say that. If you were actually following the discussion rather than being blinded by your BATSHIT CRAZY need to justify your equally BATSHT CRAZY betting blueprint you would understand that my view is that head gear is only required to modify a behavioural/mental condition to try and get an optimal outcome - racing wise (horses don't need blinkers when they are stabled). They don't improve a horse's ability. My view is that that behavioural/mental condition is either a trained or learned behaviour and that because of that it can be trained out or unlearned. But that requires time and it is easier to slap some gear and limit the horses vision from 180 degrees to 30 degrees to alleviate the problem than it is to train them to do something. How many trainers with a talented horse early in its career are willing to do a few extra trials or tell a Jockey to deliberately restrain the horse to teach it to relax? And YOU. Who is the non horseman here? Me or YOU or both?

Rule Number(s): Rules 638 (3)(b)(ii)This charge arises from the running of Race 8, the Wallen Concreting Avondale Cup (Group 2). An Information was filed pursuant to Rule 638 (3)(b)(ii) by the Informant, Mr Oatham, alleging that Mr Harris used his whip excessively when riding SOUND prior to the 100 metres. Mr Harris said that he understood ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 642(1)Following the running of Race 3, the Ecochill 1500 metres, an Information was filed Instigating a Protest pursuant to Rule 642(1). The Informant Mr A Calder alleged that horse number 3 (I’M BUZZ) placed 1st (DH) by the Judge interfered with the chances of horse number 4 (NO FILTER) placed 1st (DH) by ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(1)(d)This charge arises from the running of Race 7, the AJC Avondale Guineas (Group 2). Chief Stipendiary Steward, Mr Oatham filed an Information pursuant to Rule 638(1)(d) alleging the rider of LORD ARDMORE (Ms S Spratt), “allowed her mount to shift in when not sufficiently clear of ZOLTAN which was crowded ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 859(b)Miss Haley alleged that Mr McIlwrick failed to obey the order of the Starter when arriving late at the start. Miss Haley demonstrated on the films that after the Starter had given the 5 minute call Mr McIlwrick proceeded to take his horse down the track in the opposite direction to where the Starter ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(1)(d)Following the running of Race 2 an Information was lodged by Mr Oatham alleging a breach of Rule 638 (1) (d) in that H Schofer (JOY ALONE) angled her mount outward passing the 600 metres when not clear of UP “N” POWER (J Fawcett) which was checked which in turn hampered UNDER HER SPELL (J Kamaruddin). ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

I have no idea but there are cases of where a non-registered mare's progeny can be registered. As I said it is a "loop-hole". Whether or not it was discovered before or after the foal was produced is another thing!

Once again no quantitative evidence but a subjective term "MASSIVE".....what % of their horses wear blinkers? If their breakers are producing horses that require "extra" equipment more than other horse breakers then perhaps they should be reviewed. Or the same if their "pre-trainers" are producing horses that require more head gear than others relative to success rate. Once again you miss the points being made. One - there isn't time to re-train a horse once it starts a racing campaign. If the addition of head gear works then it is the easy option. Second - there is no licensing, quality controls nor code of practice for horse breakers and pre-trainers. All that aside you still haven't told us BEFORE a race how to determine if the addition of new head gear is going to make the horse go faster and WIN!

16 months to be more accurate. In either case what is your point? Given the number of horses that race, trial and train on racetracks each year I'm surprised that there hasn't been more cases of "escapees". What do you propose? Deer fencing around the whole perimeter with double security gates on each entrance like a wildlife park? The outside running rail changed to a grilled deer fence? Any consideration of risk vs cost? Yeah na.

The alternative will be much more expensive and because of that likely to lead to injustice as only the wealthy will be able to appeal through the normal court system aka Opie Bosson. There is such a thing as "free speech" when you consider the outcome of the Morton vs Purcell case.

Keep up. The latest on the AI/surrogacy is that the foals produced were not registered in the stud book. Apparently the loop hole is that you can do AI/Surrogacy but not if you wish to register the foals.

Money in the bank. They sold and then leased back

Mikaela Claridge unsaddling a winner at Donald just weeks before her death in a trackwork fall at Cranbourne in August 2019. Photo : Brendan McCarthy/Racing Photos via Getty Images. JOCKEYS Charges arise from apprentice jockey death Article Author Brad Waters 2:35PM22 February 2021 WorkSafe has charged the Cranbourne Turf Club and a training operation with offences relating to the death of apprentice jockey Mikaela Claridge. WorkSafe laid eight charges alleging breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act following an investigation into Claridge’s fall from a horse during trackwork before dawn on August 30, 2019. The 22-year-old Claridge halted her riding career through injury but resumed her apprenticeship to the Ken Keys stable earlier that year. She rode her last winner at Sale six weeks before her fatal accident. Claridge had been married less than six months. Six of the charges were laid against the Cranbourne Turf Club while the Ken Keys-owned Saloon Park Pty Ltd training business face two charges. Mikaela Claridge returning to scale on a winner at Echuca in 2018. Photo: Brendan McCarthy/Racing Photos via Getty Images. The CTC was charged with three counts of failing to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, people other than employees not exposed to health and safety risks. The club was also hit with three counts of failing to ensure its workplace was safe. The charges relate to an area of the Cranbourne Training Centre known as the ‘sand trails ’, which are located on the southern side of the facility. WorkSafe alleges the CTC failed to maintain the sand trails at a safe standard for use. Saloon Park faces two charges after WorkSafe alleged it failed to ensure employees did not ride on the sand trails track in the dark. The case will begin with a filing hearing at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on March 17.

Yes but I'm asking what happened to the previously grabbed assets? The "grabbing" so far seems to have made things worse and made the appetite to grab more insatiable.

How do you save lives if you have nothing that causes death? Are we into virtual mind killing now?

Um where did the "grabbed assets" end up?

Richards has access to the best cattle in NZ. That is a big leg up. I'm not knocking him or Te Akau but it helps when you buy the best bred best conformed horses.

I don't believe they make any difference. She wouldn't go through the gap last start when asked with them on. She likes to be in clear air.

So that's why he was hanging?

Wasn't INCA about 'Race Fixing' or is it about 'Finding whatever we can to justify our existence'?

So if the horse on the inside had been wearing a pole it would have won? What was the pole actually doing? Explain that.

Plus the uncertainty of a Covid-19 lockdown. Why leave home?

Gear additions are to correct a problem. To fix the core problem takes time - time = money. If a horse of ours starting hanging all of a sudden we would look for a reason why. Was it sore? Were there problems with its teeth? Putting a boring pole on with a pricker on it just distracted the horse from one pain to another.