Huey

The time to rationalise was also "then" how did that work out? Dumb decisions lead to dumb outcomes. Now as @Special Agent has pointed out the industry wants to use and abuse the very people/venues its being doing its best to dispose of to keep it going. The very trainers and adminstrators who wanted rid of them are now dependent on them, there is no getting rid of venues in this country with after significant ramifications. Even your idols are struggling to find surfaces to prepare horses on @Chief Stipe they were some of the biggest proponents of the rationalisation you speak of .

Good point , maybe we just have to accept racing on wet surfaces here is ineviatable!

Woodville was like other venues was certainly a gone burger or on the menu to go. Worse still this mess continues to erode the little faith the industry has in NZTR who are looking more and more foolish by the day over their inept planning and incompetence. I don't know anyone in the industry apart from @Chief Stipe who has any faith in them any more. A bunch of newbies who will take a lot of time to come to grips with the industry as well, a lot of time the industry doesn't have.

Great point and for sure they will be kicked in the guts by NZTR once/if the tracks they want used come online again.

As they have proven over and over ,we aren't in a position to close a single venue.

Exactly , thats why you spread the load.

Well if I had several weeks notice I might have lost some weight and grown an appetite.

Shame they didn't try to utilize all the tracks they had available to them ,with these ridiculous plans they put in place with little or no knowledge of how any of it would work!

Pretty obvious they know better with the expertise they have at their call!

I'll have to trust you on that one , I never missed the bus they drove it straight past me!

That'll all go smoothly , then when it doesn't they can do an Awapuni / Ellerslie and tell everyone there is a bedding in time , meanwhile get the abused clubs to pick up the slack.

She hasn't far to go back to her box , I pity those poor buggers who came from further afield.

How lucky are we to have this strategy backing us up, one could be worried after another abandonment today , but nothing to worry about once they put this in play. Great to see they've hired someone whose going to work from Aus who currently works at Moonee Valley RC to help steer the ship in the right direction, NZTR think of everything, we are so lucky to have them it's always great how we get great fresh rehashed perspective from them every 3-4 years as well. Whatever happens we will always have the Grand Tour!

I'm not great at counting @Chief Stipe but I did manage to count the number of completed races at Te Rapa today.

Someone counting TA horses @Chief Stipe ,that would be pretty upsetting for their no. 1 Fanboy wouldn't it?