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Correct me if I'm wrong ATA... ....but when the rails out 3M and they were racing off the rail last week at the true.... ..the Rail should be off this week....yes? Minor rail adjustments like this are THE problem.... ...you either adjust it to include where the body of the field races...6/8M width...or you don't move it.... Yee olde days...Jocks would sort out the best footing for themselves...much simpler...

Waddel? Hes DQ'd and can't set foot on a race course if I'm not mistaken ATA.. Did you inform authorities so they could kick his scrawny ass out over the back of beyond? The 'Champagne Turf' has obvious drainage problems but their handling of the rail position to 3M...where the fields from last week were racing...after that rail was off, must be called out mustn't it? Notwithstanding that...the brand new GOING STICK readings should have been published....not some 'map' that tells us nothing...as proposed Just give us the entire readings from the front straight...and let PUNTERS decide what to do about it for themselves ...we're all grown up now with Big Boys Pants...who knew?

That wasn't Waddell trying to kill someone was it? Then you can just tell there's an Ex Cop running the RIU "a male CAUCASION" Since when did we stop using Racial descriptions for Crims onda run? Last century that's when Can you imagine the uproar if they'd said "Maori male" WTF has Race got to do with it Dear John oatham?

Well F me...if that's 'Champagne' give me TrichloroANISole any day... That was CORKED...looks like shit, smells like shit, tastes like shit...IT WAS SHIT... Basic shit this then...if the rail was off last week and the rail is moved out 3 M this week... The rail will be worn from the horse's last week...racing off the rail Obvious...then they go and put a shit load of water on it... The Wellers wind flung that shit to all ends of the....RAIL BIAS No wonder the Hurricane City's sewer burst last week...it was the shit from the Corked rail An utter disgrace then for THE premier meeting of the year in the CD to be Racing on a GOAT Shit Track Greatest Of All Time? Joke...yea yea

Answer the questions... 'Why has the IFHA banned whipping the flank'? Then you have to ask yourself 'is the flight or fight response activated by the pain of the Whip or the noise'? Has there been a clinical experiment wrt Human nerve endings cf horse's epidermis? Do Jockeys have a favourite 'sweet spot' on the Whip handle to acitivate the stitched end of the padded Whip rather than the flat side...producing greater pain? No prevaricating just answer the questions...thanks

So this is a post from Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Welfare and Animal Behaviour, University of Sydney.. Note the similar strike force impact into the flesh and flank as my post showed...speaks for itself... To be fair, it was only when I saw high-speed images of whip impact that showed visible indentation of the skin in 83% of impacts I appreciated how likely it was that routine whipping of horses in racing causes pain. As a veterinarian, riding instructor and horse behaviourist, I am ashamed to admit how late this revelation came to me. That I had to see it to believe it made me consider the extraordinary impact of images in achieving positive change for animals over the centuries, and what modern-day imagery might achieve.

You'll notice the Whip is also striking the flank at the same time... Try running your fingers up and down a filly's flank and see which end of the neighbours spa you'll be sweating in Thats why NZTR signed up to the IFHA's latest declaration... 'thou shalt not Whip the flank' Alas when Ms Carter got home from the free holiday... Marty Burns and her suddenely forgot they'd signed the document... ...and didn't include it on their latest Whip missive FAIL INTEGRITY 101 BTW zero doctoring on that horror video still... If horses feel a wee bot fly on their skin...imagine how that feels

And don't they cut them in half to win... Walker must like fascist Gumments then....maybe he should stay there if he has those terrible tendencies?

Wouldn't be surprised if Wyatt Earp lined up...big money talks...abide by the rules...ok? Its about standing up with the rest of the World, man is not an Island...who knew? A few years down the Track the young generation will be told previous generations allowed horses to be whipped...to make them run faster... Jaw dropping stuff... This is the pain felt with Leah Hemi's Whip indentation last Saturday And some say it don't hurt...yea na

Billy may have a touch of the yipps at the mo.. Found guilty of not giving 'reasonable and permissible' chance to Hail Damage on 2 Jan...out for 9 days after this week.... Last month when riding one of Bob Vance's at HQ, ran into the backend of a couple...cert beat...then gave up after freezing up..only reprimanded Hes got a kid to think of now as well...gone are the throwing caution to the wind days..

Amid the widespread perception “everybody is bailing out of a sinking ship”, Kranj-based New Zealand trainers Mark Walker and Donna Logan are bucking the trend, having both come forward in foreign media to pledge allegiance to Singapore racing. Walker spoke to ANZ Bloodstock News while Logan gave a recorded interview to Radio TAB, both initiated by the two medias in search of a response to the recent bombshell news that Cliff Brown would end his 13-year stint in Singapore in March, following into the footsteps of Lee Freedman who announced one month earlier he would also return to Australia to open a stable at the Gold Coast. The two high-profile exits are the latest in a brain drain triggered to a large extent by the substantial changes (fewer races being the main conviction) brought by the Singapore Turf Club to the racing landscape in the wake of COVID-19. Australian jockeys Michael Rodd, Daniel Moor, Patrick Moloney and Kiwi jockey Alysha Collett were the first to up stumps last April, followed suit by South African jockey Ryan Munger in December. While former Chief Stipendiary Steward Terry Bailey relocating to Hong Kong at the end of last year and current jockey premiership leader Ruan Maia’s sudden announcement on Thursday he was also leaving for the racing mecca are, on paper, more in the “grass is greener” category, it has not helped quell the rumours all the expat racing professionals are jumping on the bandwagon. Walker’s and Logan’s “stand-up for Singapore” reaffirmations have, however, brought a breath of fresh air to the negativity that has been permeating through the recent collective mood, fuelling a renewed conviction the end is far from nigh. In broad lines, Walker denied all the rumours he had also been planning to throw in the towel any time soon, instead saying he would ride out the COVID-19-induced storm. “Racing has a proud history in Singapore and the government does so many things so well,” said Walker, who pointed out that the neighbouring Malaysian races had again been closed for two months as the country’s government grappled with a second wave of the coronavirus. “I believe it is the best-run government in the world, so once they get COVID-19 under control, I am pretty sure they will look at racing and put the right structures in place and hopefully get prizemoney back to the levels they were when I first arrived here and it will get going again. “I come from New Zealand and they’re still racing for $10,000 maidens, so I know how good the prizemoney is compared to a lot of racing jurisdictions around the world, but COVID-19 has had a big impact on many industries. “I’ve just been sick and tired of people saying I’m leaving, I’m definitely not leaving. We just have to tough it out and see where we end up.” While this year, Walker won’t be able to attend the just-begun New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale, Te Akau’s David Ellis will no doubt help him select a few purchases for Singapore. Regardless, that has always been the modus operandi of the successful partnership, with Walker happy to run the show from Kranji. The 48-year-old, whose two elder children Xavier and Alexis live in Australia and youngest, baby girl Skyler is with him in Singapore, certainly has no immediate ambitions to return to a country where he claimed the trainers’ premiership five times in seven years before embarking on his new Asian challenge a decade ago. “As I say, a good friend of mine, (trainer) Paul O’Sullivan, said to me when I won my first trainers’ premiership in New Zealand, ‘Now, start thinking about making a cheque book instead of a scrapbook’,” said the three-time Singapore champion trainer who finished runner-up to Michael Clements last year, and who, on three winners, currently sits in third place to the same trainer (five). “I was lucky enough to win five premierships at home and I have been lucky enough to win three in Singapore. Financially, Singapore has been very, very good to me, so I have no plans to leave in the short-term anyway.” Logan was also going along the same lines in her radio interview that was aired on Thursday – even with today’s struggles, Kranji is still a better business model than New Zealand. “I am a fighter. I have come here to have a crack and I will stay until I do crack. I won’t give up and I intend to stay for as long as I can financially sustain it,” said Logan, who saddled her first 2021 winner with longshot Pasir Pinji on Saturday. “Singapore is a great place to live and the stakes money here is still far superior to what I have at home. “Australia is a bit different - Australia is flying and it has good stakes money - but it is very difficult to win races over there unless you have a client base to set up for my way of thinking and I am getting a bit long in the tooth to start all over again. “I made a big decision to move here and I am going to stick with it.” Walker is keeping a positive outlook about the Singapore racing industry’s future, with no intention of scaling down on his usual capacity 60-horse stable at Kranji – so long as any improvement in the pandemic situation translates to a relaxation of those crippling restrictions at the races as well. “The government’s handled COVID-19 extremely well, so hopefully once the vaccine is rolled out and we can get crowds back to the races, turnover goes up, and the number of race meetings will increase,” he said.

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OUTSTANDING work Racing Victoria... THE most progressive jurisdiction in the Worrrld... Have a look at how well our first NON WHIP race went in the Amatuer series last year I think you'll agree there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with a non Whip race https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/49590/1/Race-Detail.aspx

https://twitter.com/WHR/status/1353741384272982020?s=20

And add The Thorndon as well... Completely f'd a previously superb Iconic Handicap....to Set Weight and F All Penalty THE MITIGATOR giving MELODY BELLE a Kg with 8 runners F me....just deliver the Cheque now and don't even bother turning up to waste good people's time... This attempt to compete with the rest of the World trying to prove ALL G 1's are seemless has to STOP NOW We're not competitive and haven't been for years in G 1 strength...end of

When will you learn? The Woeful TAB don't give a flying f about your questions.... ian.long@tab.co.nz may answer your undoubtably superb query...but probs not... You could try hard...though...do it... Just like your opposition has invited Macca to answer personally.... Tell Longo you want to do the same here...

Just write him ffs... Labour Ministers are for the Common man...and you're definitely that... He'd be disgusted elite members of society are being granted 'special needs status'.... ...alternatively Knat Ministers don't give a flying f about commoners because they're Elite and Special... Stop the ranting pontifications and do something useful ffs

Rubbish...they don't give a rats ass about it... Personal contact's where its at...pontificating ain't Besides Robertson is a newbie Minister straight out of the Yes Minister handbook.. ....where's he being fed spin...YOU need to tell him some hometruths JUST DO IT

https://twitter.com/TW_Mills/status/1353811659295322113?s=20

Have you contacted them....yet? One can only rant for soooo long before it becomes needless and tiresome... RESULTS are what counts...and WE THE PEOPLE need answers...ok?

Oh yea...maybe...baby... But Lets gets serious.... ...much of the pontificating that goes on here could be solved by a well directed query from Ed Leary types... ..direct to the suits that matter...even if they don't...but think they do... ..which covers much of the white shirts...excepting epidemiologists of course...

And all of the Beautiful People came, dranked, eated and departed...once a year to come again next year... ...mainly from Reemers..spot the others

I didn't realise you'd be having sooooo many issues recently... Did Ma Santa give you punting money or something? Here... ian.long@tab.co.nz

You know I think the new Minister Robertson needs alerting about this shit show...he could have a wee high tea with the Internal Affairs Minister and sort it out Here... g.robertson@ministers.govt.nz Good luck

Pool differentials are now so stark they bare no resemblance to Jump off tote... Perhaps they're too lazy to update every 30 seconds close to start time... ...or their reconciliation with the Oz tote only happens AFTER the finish? Just the other day at Whanganui the winner was showing 8's at the jump and ended up post race 4.6 fav... Thats UNFORGIVABLE Its got to be Australian money entering the pool to have changed that much...Shirley