Chief Stipe

Rule Number(s): 869(4)&(6)(b)&(c)Following the running of Race 3, Hydroflow Handicap Trot, an Information was filed by Chief Stipendiary Steward, Mr N M Ydgren, against Licensed Open Driver, Mr R J Butt, alleging that Mr Butt, as the driver of ANDOVERLOV in the race, “forced JIMMY CARTER (M J Williamson) to race wider on the track near ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 869(2)& Whip & Rein RegulationsFollowing the running of Race 7, Livamol NZ Trotting Free-For-All (Group 1 Race) an Information was filed by Chief Stipendiary Steward, Mr N M Ydgren, against Licensed Open Driver, Mr B M Williamson, alleging that Mr Williamson, as the driver of CRACKER HILL in the race, “used his whip with more than ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Dexter Dunn - half back. Tim Williams - first five. They both kept some pretty decent rugby players out of the team. But that's another trivia question.....

Welcome! Just compare it to turning up to the local the first time after you have moved across 5 States.

A Trivia Question: Which two harness drivers played half back and first five respectively for the Canterbury Country Rugby team?

In respect of Thomass he is only stating the obvious.

I'll leave others to judge if my analysis of propaganda is "woeful". However you have never countered my analysis with your own. All you do is keep posting the party bullshit. Most of us are not that gullible.

Not about balls or lack thereof. You just hadn't reached the threshold of where I was motivated to respond. I don't need to publish "evidence" as I respect the integrity of the person who informed me. If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck then it probably is a duck. Totally unrelated. You are scurrying. Proof? Or is that hearsay on your part? "Toxic Site" - name it.

If what you say is correct then that is hypocrisy at its worst. However in Molloy’s defence he has always defended and actually fought for David Walker. The hypocrisy lies with NZ Racing Admin. You can't proclaim integrity if you are inconsistent with the application of your "grey" rules.

It shouldn't be a priority. I know I sound boring and repetitive but why do we expect racing to be any different to rugby in terms of attendance? As you point out Curious the key to racing surviving is where the rubber hits the road or in horse terms where the hoof hits the turf. Good consistent safe turf tracks with quality fields and the punter will punt. They don't need to be on course to punt.

Rest assured any partner of mine would see through JJ in a Flash.

Which explains your propensity to regurgitate their propaganda without any cogent analysis.

Well what do expect when I was informed that you were using the PM function to slag BOAY and encourage posters to leave. Similar to the RIU modus operandi. Allowing you to do that would be a bit like lending my car to you so you could go screw my partner. Yeah na you won't cuckold me. Now that isn't a restriction on free speech because you can still post your crap for everyone to see.

Twice in one week agreeing with Galah. I must be ill. Copy That wouldn't have won that race. He was off for some reason. Blair Orange didn't drive him with confidence either. Probably more than one reason why avoiding the FFA.

I wonder if ALL Trainers are happy that they are irrigating? Makes sense to me - Friday and Saturday look like being screamingly hot at 26 degrees plus! Thursday Afternoon Weather: Fine Track: Dead 6 Rail: Out 3m from 1100m To 450m, Out 3m In The Chute | 8mm Irrigation today Weather and Track last updated at 12.36pm Thursday 12 November

Cool you have your own water walker.

But by the time you get to that stage hasn't the build up work been done elsewhere? Also isn't speed at which you are galloping the key factor.

I see the tyre tacks Curious - did you run the groomer across before you galloped?

I hear you and NZ has some of the best training tracks free of charge and auto maintained in the world - none near the Waikato though. I see a lot of trainers use one near Melbourne. This one isn't near Melbourne though but 200m from the Ruakaka race track.

Lichter's article is also a bit misleading - understandable considering who pays him. But the disadvantage that Copy That experienced was made worse by that horse's seemingly reluctance to get going. The following picture only serves to slant the argument. Oh I wish for a return to objective journalism rather than opinion-ism.

I've read a few comments about Lamb working for the RIU but just passed over them thinking it was just smoke. Until I read Lichter's latest article. Sure it is "Source say..." but surely that is a huge conflict? No wonder he appears to have immunity with the Stipes! Sources say there is also friction between Lamb and many of the drivers in the wake of the Operation Inca inquiry. Lamb not only acts as the sole starter in the Canterbury area but he is employed by the Racing Integrity Unit as an investigator and was involved in the long running and so far essentially fruitless cases against a number of drivers, a conflict that many argue should not be allowed to continue.

But where do draw the line with CT/MRI scans? Why only for the Melbourne Cup? How do you determine the line where a horse is OK or it isn't? Seems a slippery slope to me. Statistically is it going to make a difference? Was Anthony Van Dyck scanned when he arrived?

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I was more thinking about the accumulative affect of a number of seasons training on the AWT (and soft tracks) e.g. the UK.

I don't disagree however the point Freedman has made (and others) is that the difference between UK horse training and Australia is that the surfaces are generally softer. So when they travel south their legs are not accustomed to the harder surfaces so any latent issues with their legs are quickly found out. So if you agree with that logic and we train more on softer/forgiving surfaces will we increase the potential of breakdown especially when our main money tracks (stakes wise) are considerably more firmer than an AWT. To use an extreme example if you train your horse up during the late winter/early spring on the Riccarton AWT and then had raced on the track presented on 3 October is your horse more likely to become sore/lame than if it had be trained up on a firmer surface or perhaps more importantly an inconsistent surface? Bone density increases when it is placed under stress - it is a natural physiological response. If you don't place a horse under stress and then allow periods of recovery bone density will not increase.