Huey

If its consistently happening , which appears to be the case you want to go back as far as necessary. Most in the industry know this is one of the untouchable stables & very little will happen to them.

2025 KM at Ruakaka ??

Exactly , it's partially the reason we are in the position we are. Clubs/tracks have been allowed to get away over focusing on the booze up at expense of the horse , its gone on for too long. Some of the scenes after the races with the bottles of champers were cringeworthy imo

that they won't race their next meeting there

and you still have fools saying we need less tracks in NZ, we need every single available track in this country given the history of abandonments, white elephants (AWT) and the new one too much drizzly rain ... lol

Wow if this is true, this is a debacle of epic proportions.

He certainly did . I think a couple of times at least , all purely accidental though of course .... 🤣

I think its a mistake making in 2 days, I don't think you should messing with the current setup , they dilute the occasion. Whose left at the end of the sales only us local peasants, end up like the in between day they used to have years ago at Ellerslie.

Sounds to me like your just repeating what they said on TS.

$9.5m is pretty impressive, but given Entain made the KM the only show in town PR wise for the last 3 months you'd want to be doing pretty well. Some nice horses seen there last night , I think the Champions Day concept may be a better watch for real racing enthusiasts though.

Didn't Orchestral come from off the pace?

Interesting the CEO said on TS in the morning ,he was no longer worried about that amount of rain .He made need to rethink that claim.

So it's racing like The Valley i.e hard to come from the back.

There is a reason they get the red carpet treatment. Possibly TA & OP having a shocker hasn't helped.

Agree , they aren't finding any value they are just punting prices.

So same return as backing a $1.50 placegetter?

Haha ... yeah right!

Youre certainly a ready made sucker when it comes to this stuff CS, so you'll love their latest excuse .

You can hardly expect them to care with the way the industry treats them over tracks, 2 in the last 3 days off. Who'd want to be a rider. Don't worry they'll suffocate it all out with stories of big Dave buying yearlings, Warren Kennedy being thankful for being in NZ, the huge resurgence in the industry that everyone is apparently talking about , BGP getting the red carpet treatment from the industry which they of course do out of the love of their hearts, moan some more about JMac not being in the Halbergs etc etc etc ... then hold you down till you admit that you've never in all your life looked forward to anything more than KM night at the new Ellerslie!

No jocks want to ride the next day , all out partying after KM and everyone is off to the sales which are on tomorrow. Besides that if the jocks were going to ride next day, most of the jocks from today wouldn't get a ride.

Not presented cause it simply isn't what they want it to be.

The trouble is the wrong tracks are identified, there is no equitable or fair manner undertaken. The tracks are chosen based on nothing more than nepotism in the training & breeding ranks.

Are you saying they put the good ones on there?

Especially not when you have jocks on retainers like several do.

The Open at Trentham clearly hit by the KM meeting tbf