Yankiwi

Two positive posts in row from me about Manukau. Who would have thought? Wayne Steele & team back racing there. A good sign. But just look at this. Last 22 Oct, this happened to a greyhound they train named "Love It". LOVE IT (3) - tightened and hampered first turn becoming unbalanced then faltered and fell. Referred to the Veterinarian where it was reported to have a suspected right scapula fracture. The Greyhound was transported to the Northern RTR contact to be transported to GRNZ's contracted Veterinary Clinic for treatment with this being followed up in the coming days. A 90 day incapacitation has been issued and the Greyhound must trial prior to racing again. Subsequent x-rays revealed no fracture but a muscle tear under the scapula with the stand down reduced to 42 days. After recovering, the dog raced twice more at Manukau in early Feb for a 2nd & a 3rd placing. Then it was restricted to racing at Cambridge from 22 Feb to last week, for unknown but probably obvious reasons. Then they line it up today in a top-grade sprint and it romps them straight out of the boxes in 18.43.

Nearly a 3-month investigation thus far. Animal welfare concern (by the RIB's own admission) involved so was it put on the back burner? https://racingintegrityboard.org.nz/racing-in-breach-of-the-vaccination-rule/

#2 knows what to expect when it gets to the point of the bend. This from its racing record.

From last Thursday, an interesting 4 second clip from race 12 on the Cambridge track. Why is it that this seems to happen with regularity at Manukau & Cambridge, yet very rarely, if ever, on any of the other 4 tracks in the country? ScreenCapture_23-05-2024 4.35.24 pm.wmv

Hey Chief, Is your name M Haines and did you buy a racing greyhound? https://www.grnz.co.nz/greyhounds/profiles.aspx?AnimalID=37268

Some people worry about Covid. Some people worry about what colour pedestrian crossing are. I worry about how well Stewards enforce the GRNZ rules. The Stewards down south are useless. The #1 very clearly failed to purse the lure during what the dog's idea of the race was. The rule is clear - Stewards MUST impose a stand-down. The #1 satisfies all 3 qualifications of the definition. Vet checked - not injured. Surprising as it may be, Yankiwi does have a sense of humour too.

You are right Goldstar. Nice catch! I'm not too afraid to admit when I got one wrong.

#4 is petitioning for the return of hurdle racing.

This replay should become GRNZ's new promotional video. "We love our dogs, they love to race, here's proof". But instead, the RIB will probably come down hard on track staff for not securing the lure properly to the lure arm.

Here's some full transparency for GRNZ. No mention of the #4's front left leg over the rail? No vet check after the race for the #4? Welfare underpins everything we do, unless a dog very likely gets hurt. Part of GRNZ's reduced injury rate is due to not vet checking dogs which clearly should be checked after a race.

#3 had a second opportunity to crush her skull after the #4 had his run in with the rail & wanted away from it in a hurry.

PN has a nice new lure system, just like Manukau & Cambridge have too. But where are their 2014 safety rails? Race 5 today. Here we have #3 with the opportunity to crush her skull & #4 with the opportunity to amputate his left front leg, thru no fault of either of the dogs.

GRNZ's media release. https://www.grnz.co.nz/News/3200/GRNZ-Media-Release-Greyhound-Racing-is-important-to-New-Zealand-and-deserves-support So Mr. Rennell, if GRNZ has full transparency as you claim, just where has GRNZ released their 2nd quarter (Nov - Jan) and 3rd quarter (Feb - Apr) injury data? It's not here ~ or here ~

Manukau now has two race meets behind it since the remedial work. Safety rail still a GRNZ broken promise. No surprises there. Minor injuries still tracking near recent historic levels. Most importantly, no major injuries recorded. Hopefully without the added pressure on the Cambridge track, it too will revert to returning "acceptable" major injury levels.

The antis are out in huge numbers at Manukau this afternoon. I counted both of them. Maybe it's time GRNZ installed a rainbow track for the dogs to race on to bring them on board too.

I saw it as the inside dog (#7) was having a go for three strides at the middle dog (#6), while at the same time the #8 was closing down towards the rail for the corner. This grab is the final time the #7 attempted to mar. Even in the side view, if you slow down the video replay down to 1/4 speed, it become fairly obvious, unless you're a blind/inept Steward. The head-on might be telltale if it wasn't censored.

Inaccurate. Two dogs were humanely euthanized after the race due to catastrophic injuries they had sustained during the race. There is a difference.

This might be handy for your argument. Current 4th quarter injury stats.

Exactly the way I see it too. The track was deemed inconsistent at the end of the backstretch, which is half a lap away from where the incident happened. Likely an over-reaction after a bad situation IMO. Now RIB/GRNZ you need to do another tidy up to last night report. This is twice I've noticed this deception in a week. Stop trying to smoke & mirror the injuries sustained during a race. It doesn't make the dog uninjured & only adds more evidence that you're covering things up.

https://www.grnz.co.nz/catch-the-action/15894/stewards-report.aspx When a dog sustains an injury during a race but isn't an injury statistic GRNZ? Not on my watch.

Dogs are supposed to be vet checked after a fall. Steward must have forgot their eyeglasses today.

https://www.grnz.co.nz/Files/Animal Health Welfare Committee minutes/00 2024 02 21 AHWC Minutes - Draft (2).pdf From the minutes of the AHWC's 20 February meeting. Manukau's previous 8 race meetings (prior to the meeting) injury rates (1 Jan to 18 Feb). So GRNZ's Chief Executive believes that a major injury rate of 19 dogs per thousand (KPI target is 6 per thousand) is acceptable? We now have two of GRNZ top brass that should be stood down from their duties due to incompetence within GRNZ. MD & ER. Who on the AHWC would like to be next to be exposed for what they are doing to the future of greyhound racing?

I sure hope they have the Manukau is some sort of safe raceable condition. Cambridge (the alternative) has taken a serious turn for the worse safety wise. Since 21 March, when GRNZ announced that Manukau was shutting down for 5 weeks, which ended up being 6 weeks, Cambridge returned some rather shocking numbers. While total and minor injuries in the were down a tad with the 1200(ish) starters after transfering racing operation to Cambridge, the major injury percentage per starter jumped up from the "GRNZ acceptable" 0.5% to doubling the "acceptable" target rate to 1.2% Overall to start the seasons 4th quarter, only 9 days in, when tracks should start returning better results, it's simply not happening yet. If Manukau starts returning numbers anything other than what a safe track should return, things are going to look really grim, really fast.

The footage from the first race meet has been released from Wanganui straight track. The winner of the 1st race was #8 in 2 minutes & 46 seconds. Link to full replay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UehdnByh2dc

Thanks mate. But if going thru GRNZ, isn't getting it spayed/neutered a requirement? Most concur that 8 weeks of age is the time you can look to removing a pup from its mother. Also, desexing is suggested that you wait until 6 months of age. I don't believe GRNZ is the governing body of everything greyhound. They govern all greyhounds that are being prepared for and thru their racing career. The pup I'm talking about would never be registered with GRNZ in the first place. It's never going to be prepared for or raced. Same as a beagle or poodle for that matter. It will become a two-month-old pet, not a race dog.