Huey

Ellerslie $1.10 Trentham $1.85 Riccarton $71 ????

Does that include clubs that haven't been allowed to race?

They have made this a laughable joke , like they do most things. It will be embarrassing for any of those in the City category clubs to win an award.

3 City clubs are farcical.

Agree, agendas are usually behind that type of behaviour.

It could happen to every other racemeeting in the country and no one would call them out. I've said it over and over again , the greed from the top has stopped any real development and progress in the sport. We should be utlising every single racecourse available in this country with the exception of the AWT white elephants !

They have no respect for the Grassroots , that should have become very apparent by now in all 3 codes.

It's a clown show & the red nose & floppy shoes started off with the inept Saundry & so it continues.

Looks to be a special special filly, I thought she might have been beat 800m out but that was just way too easy. Someone tell the owners they just won the NZ Derby and its OK to show a bit of emotion , afterall they paid $600k for her get a bit feral after a win like that , another reason I love seeing the battlers win they enjoy it more!

No tracks should be closed , these fools have shown a pattern of utter ignorance and naivety for a number of years. You couldn't trust them to close a goat track!

They probably can't sell it, probably on a lease. Only guessing but more than likely the case.

For starters try getting a jock.

Do we need them to maintain bigger field sizes or would we be better offer helping a few of the smaller ones out to maintain fields sizes? I have a feeling its the smaller trainers not really having a go, for obvious reasons.

It's racing and funnier things have happened , but she looks to be a very superior animal.

You answered your own question.

I would not suggest anyone backs against the filly!

Whatever is getting regular abandonments gets an extra 10 meetings, thats the logic of this lot.

I thought all the barrier draws were rigged?

Why not just moth ball Hastings like they did to several other venues , whats so important about Hastings as a venue?

Unfortunately this doesn't even appear to have worked for the Ellerslie venue, which should have been near impossible to screw up. No beating around the bush, the plans they have put in place around venues have been absolutely hopeless! They however show no initiative or desire to change for the betterment of the industry , absolutely useless!

Exactly and add to that their "absolutely no" attitude towards utilising any other venues for the betterment of the industry , because they want some power trip over venues they believe should be sold, it makes them look like the utter fools they are. I've never known an industry to be so pig ignorant over such simple matters like utilising tracks better (tracks that they have let rot since they have taken racing etc away from them) , we read a laughable venue plan that plans to dispose of venues over the preceding years. It's hard to get your head around it but someone is getting paid to come up with this garbage, they think it'll magically fix itself. Can't wait for the next instalment of the COO email series on track abandonments, its getting really exciting!

Yes its laughable when he tells the whole industry they need to get on board, of course anyone with half brain knows thats corporate speak for "everyone whose not one of the chosen few needs to grin bare it and take it"!

Aren't the chickens really beginning to come home to roost with what these idiots have done closing venues over the past number of years. Many said it would happen and its certainly becoming the case. NZracing still a s**tshow of extraordinary proportions. But don't look there , look over here someone is paying 700k for a slot in race.

That quote is so relevant in NZ today! I'm sorry if I don't get my rocks off over another well bred winner the Lindsays have acquired, an Aussie Bred that TA have thats flying , kid trainers being puffed up in big stables who have mostly seen only one side of the sport,anything Ellerslie being hailed as god like, trackside presenter salivating when speaking to the chosen few and the list goes on. Its become so boring and the character the industry has had in the past slowly disappears.

Also be me. I stand by the my sentiment, sickening to watch.