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Wanganui crooked track. No wonder the dogs seem to run all over the track.

Nice job!

LMAO Wanganui Crooked Track. GRNZ - Don't build another one of these in the North or down South. You're out of your depth.

Well Chief, here's the Capalaba track GRNZ flew over to observe/survey/copy for the Wanganui project. The Capalaba track obviously has a drag lure down the center of the track. However, it doesn't narrow down the track prior to the finish line to funnel dogs into a catching area. The Wanganui "straight" track has made it way to Google at a time prior to completion. Why aren't the outside barrier fences parallel? This is what GRNZ built. This is what GRNZ was supposed to copy. They seem different? You keep supporting/defending GRNZ Chief. I'll keep calling out the bullshit they don't want you to know/notice.

Same race. #5 & #6 easing just short of the line. More evident for the #6 than the #5.

The silver collar (or other 700m+ races) where dogs are brought right past where their handler has just boxed them away, don't quit chasing the lure and simply divert to the boxes to say hello. Dogs are easing prior to the line at the straight track because their vision is saying to them that the catching area is the edge of the cliff & they aren't keen on jumping off it. More distance between the finish line and the catching area will eliminate that effect as well as giving them room to funnel the dogs into the narrower area by tapering them in from BOTH sides of the track to a more central area. You know, just where the lure they have been chasing has just been dragged thru. If I didn't want straight track racing, I wouldn't be offering opinions on how to remedy the OBVIOUS design flaw. Have your say Chief, explain the actions of the #7 dog during race 5 yesterday in its last 6 or so strides prior to the finish line. It didn't slow because it got instantly tired.

Why did the dog do it? It never happens on an oval track, where it simply eases up for no good reason & reverses direction. The only time on the oval a dog does reverse direction is after it has fallen or has sustained a very serious injury. 2023/2024 NZ racing season ~ 200 starters on the straight track - one instance. 35111 starters on oval tracks - zero instances. Many dogs are putting the brakes on short of the finish line. This particular dog amplified what is regularly happening, not only easing well short of the finishing line but also turning around & running back on top of it.

Had a hard time deciding whether to post this on the Wanganui straight track or You can't make this $hit up thread. Decided to put it here. Here's yet another example of the lack of integrity within greyhound racing. Race 5 today, the #7 seriously had the breaks on short of the line for the final 5 or 6 strides (becoming very typical as I estimate at least 1 in 10 dogs are currently doing it). The photo finish image they provide doesn't even have the lead dog at the finish line yet. That begs the question, did the #7 or #3 actually win the race AT THE FINISH LINE? Click Here For Race 5 Replay Then in race 8 today, the dog #1 makes one of the tracks major design problems glaringly obvious. Click Here For Race 8 Replay GRNZ, you should not be holding tote races on this track until a complete redesign of the narrowing down to the catching area is made to make both sides of the track equal AND increasing the distance between the winning post & caching area has been done.

Seems UNSW & Australian Racing Forensic Lab believe Cobalt is performance enhancing. https://www.unsw.edu.au/science/our-research/materials-sciences/materials-sciences-research-impacts/cobalt-threshold

Chief makes a very good point here. If Iron can increase blood's ability to carry Oxygen in a similar way to which Cobalt does, GRNZ needs to set a threshold for the Iron level in urine into the rule book & the RIB's lab needs to start testing for it. Now that Cobalt has been proven to have been used within the code in an attempt to gain an unfair advantage, it's time they start digging much deeper when future positive Arsenic swabs occur. They've been very dismissive in all the previous instances. Since the new racing season starts in about a week, what better time than now to set an Iron threshold & begin targeting the cheats?

You said it Chief. Very good. Transparency, or lack thereof. GRNZ is always claiming they have full transparency. Those positive cobalt swabs were taken on 28 Jan & 15 Feb, or roughly 4 months prior to the Silver Collar taking place. Why weren't the public/punters informed that Grande Vue Ace was currently under investigation for returning two positive swabs for Cobalt, with the swabs returning very high levels well in excess of the threshold? 16. GRANDE VUE ACE was post-race swabbed and on 2 March 2024, ELS issued an Analytical Report detailing the sample had screened with a Cobalt level of 189 µg/L. 189 / 3.44 = 55 times the median level of a greyhound. 5. GRAND VUE ACE was pre-race swabbed and on 13 February 2024, the Eurofins ELS Limited laboratory (ELS) issued an Analytical Report detailing the sample had screened with a Cobalt level of 290 micrograms per litre of urine (ug/L). 290 / 3.44 = 84 times the median level of a greyhound.

Yet again, the big race was tarnished.

I hate to nitpick Chief, but if you're going to have yet another dig at me at least you should be accurate. I have never trained a greyhound in my life. I suspect you haven't trained a greyhound either. So that begs the question, how do I seem to know much more about it than you do? Go make yourself a nice cup of coffee Chief. Maybe you could put a teaspoon of Ironvita Blood & Oxygen in it instead of sugar, to get your blood working like a champion.

Rotorua. 18.8mm rain since midnight. Rotorua rainfall - last 14 days. Distance between Airport (weather station) & track 8.5km (by road). If the Rotorua track can't take 30mm of rain over a couple of days, after basically a dry week prior, there probably shouldn't be a track there. I live in Rotorua, with no puddles at any time today in the fairly level back section of my place, which consists of 150 to 200mm topsoil over a thick clay base.

My words were https://greyhoundstar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WALLIS-INQUIRY.pdf Here's the NZ rule~ Here's the test results~ He knowingly & intentionally gave his dog Cobalt on race day. Instead of being critical about his actions, you're critical of my action, simply talking about it. Says lot about you @Chief Stipe, doesn't it?

This I believe is where the problem is and makes it very serious. By giving a dog what is considered to be a performance enhancing substance 4 to 6 hours prior to the race points directly towards the trainer doing so to give his change an unfair advantage. The exact reason why dogs are swabbed on a race day in the first place. He wasn't hard done by. He did it on purpose & he got caught.

Good on you Chief. It's about time you stepped up.

I guess Mr. Pringle didn't get the memo to keep a dead rabbit in his freezer, like happened in the O'Regan incident. https://racingintegrityboard.org.nz/decisions/non-raceday-inquiry-written-decision-dated-17-july-2024-robert-pringle/

Have you asked yourself why the rule is there in the first place?

It seems the "rule" only applies to handlers/catchers. The rule doesn't apply to a former trainer & now current GRNZ staff member around/behind the boxes, even when that staffer is a former training partner of a current trainer that has a charge in the race. It becomes even more suspicious when the ex-training partners charge goes on to win the race at extreme odds. Since the RIB seems to have their hands tied in this matter, someone would have to ring GRNZ to seek integrity. This is GRNZ's suggested person to contact for integrity matters.

Early days. Worrying trajectory.

So it's consistency that is the bar. Both Wanganui. 12 July. 28 June.

At least the trainer (R Waite) did the right thing. Good on you sir.

Yes, I understand we have very differing opinions of the future of greyhound racing. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. They want it shut down. I'm mostly kicking GRNZ/RIB in the nads, trying to get them to do things required to keep the sport viable. GRNZ thinks they are doing enough & have thought that they have been for many years. When are they going to look into integrity? Like a 2014, Nov 2023, Jan 2024 safety rail at Manukau. Like changing Manukau into Manawatu on documents that had already been signed off as being "confirmed as a true and correct record of the meeting". Whether they claimed Manukau & Cambridge or Manawatu & Cambridge, all three tracks were untrue. Where is the safety rail? Where is the accountability?

OK Chief, since you've requested it, I will. So Dave, are you claiming that you don't partake in the subsidy for traveling to Ascot, offered in the email CGRC sends out to trainers each week, asking them how many dogs they took down during the week? I understand for taking two dogs down, you'd be entitled to $350.00 I hope this information will lessen the financial blow you have experienced. Possibly we could crown fund the other $30 if necessary.