Huey

Of that I have no doubt. What will be funny to watch though is the massive noms for the few turf track meetings left after the AWT begin their destruction of local racing. The sport has sold its soul , there are bigger issues on the way , adequate staff being one of them and a lack of planning and assistance in that area from the governing body is coming home to roost in the industry.

They are coming for the assets you can be sure of that. A similar approach went on with the race days, it's all been mapped out. You cannot trust them!

lol youre probably right !

No idea, has there been behavioural issues at Riccarton in the past the Police are focussed on?

Really poor response , gonna be fun to watch it all unfold though . its not gonna be the beer and skittles you think it is!

So certain people can get their horses ready to go across the Tasman, screw the rest!

If its a Police direction then the club are partaking in something that is causing that direction to be taken, i.e. Booze up after booze up after booze up, so therein lies the problem. The club is more focused on the party than the racing , the basic problem with racing in NZ in general. In my experience most of the big clubs provide an less than average experience on race day for anyone who isn't there to get off their trolley.

That's exactly what it is, the clubs and governing body have no idea how to present the product as being the main reason to go to the races and thus have to make it a booze fest. It's not a good look and its not good for the future of racing in this country, but it is the easy way out for the aforementioned.

Don't they get put back into the winners distribution? The best thing they are currently doing at NZTR is paying out to 14th, probably the reason the field sizes have remained strong in volume.

As with everything horses for courses.

Looks like NZ racing is set for boom times indeed! One thing I don't get, wouldn't a horse feeling good be more likely to pull? This AWT must be magic! https://loveracing.nz/News/31567/CambridgePolytrackopenforbusiness.aspx

No idea, junk racing at the best of time, let alone prime time Saturday. Never can understand why they don't stick to their knitting ...less is more!

Kolding

I don't think so, I presume thats the price given its Ballot and all, but usually with scratchings the FF price is reduced.

and after scratchings comes into 6s lol

Is this kind of pointless? - Wouldn't the winner of an Open handicap be highly likely to walk into a Wellington Cup field in NZ given the status of the sport in NZ/dearth of stayers/demotion of race status at the moment? - Is there that many horses that miss out on a start in the Wellington Cup at any rate? - Not to mention that NZTR have done their darnedest to kill Country racing and thus cups thinning out the pool for such a promo. https://loveracing.nz/OnHorseFiles/NRB Meeting News/Wellington Cup Ballot Exempt Country Cups.pdf

More Amateur hour in NZ racing! NP Raceway Withdrawal Morning Weather: Cloudy Track: Slow 8 Rail: Out 7m| 1mm Rain Overnight Weather and track updated at 8:38am Wednesday 21 October Please note that the running rail has now been advised as Out 7m Nomination Morning Weather: Overcast Track: Slow 8 Rail: True | 11mm Rain Overnight Weather and track updated at 7.44am Tuesday 20 October

No way they would, they wouldn't match it with any of the top 8 teams in the RWC at Union no hope, different body shapes, technique etc . They'd certainly win the RL part though. Agree Rennie is a real loss to NZ rugby no doubt about that.

I though Cane had another good game, the Captaincy seems to be making him shine a bit, hopefully it continues. Still think we miss a Whitelock in the pack, but they all went quite well.

The league boys wd get destroyed in the scrums, lineouts and at the breakdown, they'd be down by 40 at HT, they'd also get done at their own scrums.

Yep and thats true & from his pov no one can argue that he isn't a knowledgeable guy , who is fairly well respected among the industry. I also find his commentating and commentary quite well balanced compared to others.

We will probably get a slowmo of KFE going off in the stands at HB as well.

It desperately needs new leadership and some innovative thinking, it won't happen.

Pun intended , its a lightweight show at any rate. Simply no reason to tune in. my prediction for tomorrow show = MB + TA love fest on tomorrow, with a dash of the chosen one, some misdirected outrage at the GN golf incident , a whole lot of review (which has already been done and better) on the Aus product to top it off, why would you bother?

With regards to the golfers, why isn't the racing club responsible for ensuring safety around this? Surely anyone with any horse sense would know activities like that don't mix with thoroughbreds at the best of times, let alone on race day! Probably lucky it was a jumps race and they could slow down or see them as they approached, heaven forbid a bunch of 2yos running around the place. Racing club CEO and leadership get lauded for selling, pies,beer, fashion shows & after party but don't get held to account for the most basic requirement of holding a race day i.e. Safety . I'm fed up with everything in NZ racing coming before the actual reason we are having races to race horses, that should be what the course is there for. There is too much focus on other activities occurring at the expense of good basic racing club management- George Simon and others can call them dickheads or whatever they like , but its time people were held accountable for putting measures in place to ensure this event had little chance of happening, I bet they don't call the leadership out though.