Huey

Just another cost thrown at businesses , for some the cost will be in the tens of thousands. A day off, a day in lieu, loss of productivity etc etc etc. The current crowd runnning the country are much like the personnel at NZTR , they believe their decisions as much as they appear nice to have on the surface and well intentioned have no cost associated with them and the warm fuzzies they provide are more than worth it, that as most will know couldn't be further from the truth.

Apparently it was a very successful day , I'm guessing someone in a role like this would be in the know 😆 🤣 😂 https://loveracing.nz/News/37704/60SecondsWith-SamAlexander.aspx

We'll take your GC and raise you Waverley, Taupo and the Cambridge Synthetic track! ... and if you really want a battle we'll throw in $20k minimum races at Ellerslie.............boom.... mic drop!!!

Unfortunately this is the prevailing attitude amongst many in the NZ industry, many believe we are in a position to replicate the success of other jurisdictions without developing the fundamentals or the base and grass roots of the industry, it doesn't work like that.

Interesting comments on the other channel about the AWT being great for training purposes. If that is the case that is something positive to come out of them, but why weren't they honest in the beginning about the real reasons for having these tracks if the training was the main reason? I'm hearing that there are beginning to be some concerns from the riders about riding on these surfaces race days, not sure how true those concerns are but one can understand why there would be given recent events.

Don't be a negative Nelly , everything is fine in little ol NZ , we've just got to be positive and everything will be great just great (we'll great for a select few, if you're not one of them then you're just being negative)!

I think we need to put this in context , Ellerslie stakes are going to be a minimum $20k...so get excited, I know I am! See the other site for further positive rhetoric.

Wow I went and had a look,unless the commentator has got it wrong? Either way as you say Hopeless! If your mate isn't happy just give him the Fairy Flash line "Everything is great and youre just being negative and never have anything positive to say"! Heat Time Name Conditions & Distance Time Margins 1 11:00 2YO Catchweight 700 2YO 700m 00:42.50 LEN, 3½ LEN Open /Close Plc Horse Jockey Trainer 1 Just One (2c Justify (USA) - Danex) Ashvin Goindasamy Stephen Marsh, Cambridge 2 ..... (2g Churchill (IRE) - Cajun Queen (AUS)) Lynsey Satherley Michelle Bradley, Ruakaka 3 Perenara (2c U S Navy Flag (USA) - Carnival) Kelsey Hannan Ken Rae & Krystal Williams-Tuhoro, Ruakaka 4 ..... (2c Charm Spirit (IRE) - Rockadubai (AUS)) Ace Lawson-Carroll Ben Foote, Cambridge 5 La Fontaine (2f Tavistock - Special Diamond) Sam Spratt Lance Noble, Karaka 6 ..... (2f Rip Van Winkle (IRE) - The Flying Mullet) Courtney Barnes Ken Rae & Krystal Williams-Tuhoro, Ruakaka

Sorry but this is laughable annoucing this, the biggest club (most well looked after by the industry as well) in NZ telling the industry it'll have min stakes of $20k and this is is the sort of thing we are supposed to celebrate. Meanwhile in Nowra today a town of around 30k population they are racing for $27k! per race.

Best jock in country on - Tick Breeding - Tick Race Record - Tick Trainer / Stable - Tick Draw - Tick Comparative ability vs. rest of Field- Tick Track Conditions - maybe Question mark Can't see how you go about backing anything else?

You needed a trackwork report to back Imperatriz in that field?

I thought it would be higher 60% about right for the suckers that believe all they hype .

You could always buy a share in a horse , you'd probably get a stable tour then?

True , but surely the AWT is supposed to offer a very high degree of certainty around horses getting a run or no one has noticed this year and they'll be much larger fields next year perhaps?

Only 2 out of 7 races on AWT at Riccarton have more than 8+ starters , probably just an anomaly ?

I'd say like alot of stables TA have got enough on their plate, I wouldn't be blaming the stables for a lack of info outside of the obligatory PR work they do for punters can we really expect them to have to provide alot of detail? Our whole setup here for punters and info is laughable and thats not the fault of the stables imo. If they have alot of horses in the same race then back them like Wallers stable, i.e. back the one he didn't give tip out.

How on earth are you expecting this to happen? When you have a governing body who can't even reschedule extra races after racemeetings or put on extra meetings or even utilise the existing assets at their disposal appropriately. Absolutely no chance of this , it would require some specialised knowledge(void of that with the governing body), some initiative, someone whose actually interested in the sport, some vision, abiltity to plan , someone to go against the current agenda that isn't working. Sorry Curious it's no hope, just sit back and watch them kill it thats about all anyone can do now.

You're not wrong , very impressive and his pedigree!!

Do we have a large enough population of horses for a number to not be able to handle it? If not , I still don't get the purpose of it from a racing perspective.

I'd has it a guess you'll be right, then 4 or 5 meetings in it'll be 5 horse fields.

I've just watched them and it looked better than I expected.

Highly likely to be called off then, $300k in stakes where will they go? Will the brains trust running the industry have the gumption to put on another meeting , add races to another venue ?? The posibilities are endless and only restricted by the intellect of those running the industry - we are screwed!

Can't wait for the AWT racing at Awapuni - yee hah!

There has always been some light at the end of the tunnel for some 20% of the industry, for the other 80% that light is a freight train coming at them through the tunnel, unfortunately for the 20% the drivers of the freight train are incompetence personified!