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I think what you are asserting is WAY off the mark. If you look at Lisa's record it would be one of the cleanest in New Zealand gallops. I'll think you will find that a combination of events which Lisa has had very little control over have conspired to affect her current strike rate. Covid-19 must have had a huge impact. Her normal number of starts is over 500 a year but for last year it was down to 380. In saying that her stable has never had a high strike rate and around 12 and last year it was at 18. So in my opinion statistically her stable is running just a little below par but has been severely affected by the Covid-19 outage.

Rule Number(s): 642(1)Following Race 6 (FOREST360 1650 Maiden) a protest was lodged pursuant to Rule 642(1) by Mr Rauhihi alleging that horse number 3 or its rider placed 1st by the Judge interfered with the chances of horse number 6 placed 2nd by the Judge. The information alleged interference in the home straight. Judge's ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 869(3)(b)Following the running of Race 2 (Join the Breeders Mobile Pace 2200m) Information A11106 was filed with the Judicial Committee. It was alleged by the Informant that Mr Whittaker drove carelessly near the 600m by shifting ground outwards contacting SIPOWICZ (J Abernethy) with Mr Whittaker becoming momentarily ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(3)(b)(ii)Following the running of Race 5, David Emerson Accountant & Business Consultant Handicap, an information was filed by Chief Stipendiary Steward, Mr J P Oatham, against Licensed Jockey (Class A), Mr A Balloo, alleging that Mr Balloo as the rider of PRODUCER in the race, “struck his mount excessively prior ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Good luck with that idea. Many of us have been promoting revenue to clubs be correlated to their performance as well as aligning race stakes closer to what they generate in revenue. But......deaf ears!

Can be none other than small clubs subsidising the higher cost corporate style clubs.

Thanks Dougie - I multied your selections!

They don't need to grow much more in OZ - Loving Gaby, Prague and Farnan! https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/242861/phoenix-thoroughbreds-banned-from-racing-in-france Anyhoo - if they get banned there will be some good horses up for grabs at possibly a discount. The only worry in that regard would be if assets were seized and that stalled these horses racing. However with Farnan there are other owners such as Aquis and Kia Ora.

I thought the apprentice rode the horse very well. Couldn't have really done much about where the horse settled. I've seen so many jockey's both apprentices and senior ones become intent of either pulling the head off the horse to go back and get closer to the rail or kick it up to try and find a possie forward. Very rarely does either strategy work. Best to let the horse get into a rhythm and relax which the young fella did very well. Pressed the go forward button at exactly the right time. I was impressed with his effort and the horse's. Sits low on the horse too which I like.

Rule Number(s): 330(3)(c)Information No. A12925 was filed with the Judicial Committee. It was alleged that Mr Bosson failed to make the weight for Race 1 (BABY SHARK), Race 2 (MARKUS AURELIUS), Race 3 (LETHAL), Race 6 (KHAFEEF), Race 8 (SUPER SID). Mr Bosson said that he understood the Rule and acknowledged that he admitted ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Lazy.

There is a pool at Awapuni.

Based on the criteria she used for going to Level-4 the first time. Then Auckland will be in Level-4 lockdown tomorrow evening. If it isn't then she once more confirms she is duplicitous.

Very good point.

Mmmm now the story has changed again. Two sites - one a finance company - 130 people being tested some displaying symptoms. Another site 160 people being tested.

Somehow I don't think so. I did see a report that the number of ICU beds have been increased but not by much. No trained staff anyway. From recent interactions with the hospital system it seems to me that the constraints aren't buildings or room for beds but certain pieces of equipment and trained staff at the hard end. For example a friend of mine was in hospital just this last week - had to wait two days for an ultrasound!

Now it appears to be small firm that imports goods from overseas.

Mind you that was Stuff and NZ Herald is reporting something completely different.

Might all be moot anyway. The latest is that an Auckland Finance Firm has been shut down. 150 employees over four sites being tested. Some have symptoms. Having recently worked in that industry these third tier lenders are focussed on the South Auckland polynesian community. I would say that they will have trouble containing this now.

Under Level-2 hospitality can be managed and the protocols are clear. I see no reason why they can't go ahead with what has been planned at Riccarton. I wouldn't imagine that they have been booked out. Why not move groups to bigger rooms? You would only have to do that if the groups were bigger than 10.

Makes good sense. Now just ban Auckland trainers from Ruakaka and request an exemption for horses from the Waikato to be transported through Auckland on the motorway and no stopping between Pukekohe and Wellsford. Easy peasy.

Not necessarily. Winnie and the industry's great leaders on the phone and some good rationale arguments and you could do it. Surely our industry leadership was prepared for this eventuality and had strategic plans in preparation? Why should Ruakaka take one for the team AGAIN? When they have already given an arm and a leg. It is simple. Is transporting horses on a horse float any different to transporting potatoes and onions from Pukekohe to Northland?

We could never completely close down our borders. International law prevents it. For a start what would happen to diplomatic travel? That is constant and necessary to keep New Zealand operating in the world. What about the export and import of goods? The last time I looked aeroplanes and ships need people to operate them and load and unload them. Unfortunately the Government has sold us (well not all of us) a line that was never ever sustainable. A bit like RITA really. New Zealand cannot function as a completely isolated island nation waiting for some miracle Covid-19 cure. The first Level-3 and Level-4 lockdowns have to date cost us over $100 billion! To put $1 billion in perspective. One billion horses nose to tail would circle the earth 59 times! We are borrowing $77 million dollars an hour! $2 billion a day! As a country our only way of paying that back is to trade be it produce based or human based (e.g. tourism and education). At $2 billion dollars a day you can't keep our borders closed for very long. No our only option now is what we should have done in the first place. Take a non-isolationist approach and MANAGED the pandemic. Not put our heads in the sand. The 80,000 deaths prediction was a lie and has proven to be one. In Sweden the same model said 96,000 (even though they have twice the number of people as us!) and they have had under 6,000 deaths. If they had managed aged care facilities better then that toll could have been conceivably half that or 250 fatalities/1 million people. That would equate to 1,250 deaths in New Zealand NOT 80,000. That would have taken our yearly death toll from 45,000 to 46,250!

Why not apply to the Government for an exemption? Afterall horses from south of Auckland are just going to travel on the motorway through Auckland and not stop. Your plan will be another nail in the Ruakaka coffin - if you move the meeting south of Auckland AND there is no travel exemption granted then Ruakaka based horses/trainers are stuffed. Another issue of course will be trainers that are caught inside the Level-3 area - from south of Pukekohe to north of Wellsford. However I'm picking it will all be moot by Friday. I can't see how this latest outbreak can be contained. Racing should be preparing to follow the Victoria Racing's protocols to allow racing to continue. NZ Racing cannot sustain a countrywide Level-3 lockdown. If our code administrators are on the ball they will putting in new protocols ASAP AND lobbying Government. Get Winnie on the hotline and tell him unless he gets some new protocols and exemptions approved then he will be needing to find another $100m to get the industry alive. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

I'd have to agree. Now we have no money in the bank as a country. I doubt the Government will be able to enforce Level-3 effectively this time round certainly Level-4 won't be received well at all. Time to take on a modified Swedish strategy.