Huey

Rolling from strength to strength! Fortunately all will be solved when the AWT goes in just look up north works a charm.

It says State of track , so presumably may have been a slip or something? Only in NZ can you move a meeting due to fears of abandonment & then abandon said meeting!

Surely trainers in NZ wouldn't partake in such shenanigans based purely on our prizemoney levels .... 🤣

Yep the true heart & soul of the sport, but they realise that over there whilst we continue on our slippery slope to no where attempting to kill off country racing and a helluva a lot of support for the sport You're so right about the silly M Report!

Centralisation it really works!

Even with their extraordinary prize money over there, they still get what many of us having been saying over here for years about looking after the base of the industry.

NZRACING Industry- What's a plan?

Those type are all the same, won't go to Aus to race cause it would mean they are likely in the same situation as the rest of us horse wise.

They are all on this weekend ; 0

and this is where we go wrong, our administrators , naive owners etc look at this and think we need an Everest, Eagle or a Slipper (in our case read Champions Day, Breeders Champs etc)to change things around when what we really need is the building blocks in place to allow us to strive to have such events not these events at the expense of the building blocks!

and he is only the tip of the ice berg with that in mind ... plenty of others should have gone to pasture years ago, but the cash is too easy and the accountability near zero , perfect for many!!

I agree it wouldn't be hard, but I think at present they use the thoughts of a few of the bigger stable and base it around that, well that appears to be the case. It wouldn't be hard to set up a system for it , but instead we get a 2yo race at Otaki that had 4 in yesterday, 6 in 2 years ago (no race last year cause of Covid) , 5 in 2 years prior to that - hello something is wrong !

Despite that, surely its possible to use jumpouts /trials/trackwork to guage what is ahead. Not the industry fault if NZTR haven't engaged enough to get a handle on this , perhaps its a job for the COO to look at , but as I've said before unless its a copy paste exercise there is no hope of it happening - largely because they haven't got a clue how it works, or simply do not care. If trainers thought by them doing something they would get something out of it i.e. vote for races required at race meetings etc they would do it, I have no doubt about that, but that needs to be communicated to them by those running the show. Also by doing that they wouldn't be able to make it up as they go along for the benefit of a few in the industry which means it probably won't happen. Absolute no innovation in our local industry , no new ideas too worried the establishment won't like them - thats one of the main reasons we are on the road to no where (not entirely true I guess oblivion is a destination).

How hard can it be? You plan a route to the bigger races on the pattern i.e. Derby, Oaks , Gunieas , Cups (Aus are superb at this it flows like melting chocolate) etc and you programme races that are likely to be in high demand. I can't understand why every single race meeting does'nt have a 1200,1400,1600 & 2000m race or equivalent in the maiden ranks at industry level , its a no brainer surely these are usually the races trainers are planning for their horses. How hard would it be to set up a voting system in the online trainers centre for what races trainers are looking for in a month or two months time, how hard is it to plan races around what a meeting in that region had a fortnight or month beforehand? But probably like everything in the sport in this country its been hijacked by self interest!

The ones running the sport don't understand it either, be honest the entire sport in this country is a complete and utter shambles!

Unfortunately they are that silly that they will, only a matter of time.

That is the way TA operate and I guess the Stallion advert quote from the jock sounds better coming from OP than JL if the horse wins ?

A month or two in good weather usually helps.

I'm not sure how anyone could watch any of our local channels anymore, I find them all unwatchable drivel.

For the quality of animal they have I'm surprised to see that Stat they normally also move them on if they don't perform. Could be a staff problem , no decent riders or something with covid?

Anyone like a few of the lighter weights ? Star of Tralee, Floating Artist or Great House?

Both of them, you mean you got the first two of what looks like many.

Yep they certainly don't think things through do they, could be a significant impact on the industry.

This is what this entity is good at - Copy and Paste management, forget the million other things that need sorting.

Agree , absolutely loath Tauranga and never have a bet there, is like the AWT to me just cannot bring myself to bet there.