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Brodie,what do you think of the latest media article on stuff which profiles who is most likely not to take the vaccine."the most consistent predictors of non vaccination are things like distrust of science,the police,dissatisfaction with the government,dissatisfied with their personal doctor.The more deprived the area a person lives in the more vaccination sceptic they're likely to be." I read that and thought these people the media turn to are just as ignorant as the "disinformation Experts" they have on the one news. Not one of the 6 predictors of non vaccination applied to me. The morons who come up with this rubbish haven't even worked out that it was how government and media responded to a persons vaccination choice,which has led to the distrust. Just so dumb.

Mark jones is a trainer i admire.He's as good a trainer as anyone. I watched Krug. To me he looked like a tired horse.Maybe thats why he broke the week before. Last night he was gifted the lead from his 1 draw,received no pressure on an average speed,then just fell in to 2nd,fading quickly the last bit. Will be interesting to see how he goes if he keeps racing.

Is there? What was it chief?

Magic four last 2 starts were seconds at cambridge,one behind a handy 3year old in a 1 win race,and the other behind a horse who has had 5 wins from 50 starts,who had dropped back to the 1 win grade because it had been unable to win at manawatu. So i don't think brodie would have on that one. But well done to the reid/ mcmullan team. It was a good race to watch ,but you would have to ask has the dylan ferguson driven horse got to the finish yet. No surprise it was down to a walk before the 200m mark,given the way he drove it. Someone needs to tell him he wasn't driving lazarus. Still he did add excitement to the race,even if he did look rather stupid.

Actually you would no doubt have noticed Brodie,what Donald Trump says,or more accurately doesn't say,when he is asked the question about President Bidens's declining mental capability. Its one of the questions hes always asked. You would have seen his standard answer is never to criticize that aspect of Biden, instead he always prefers to change the subject or talk about why his policies or achievements are better.

So because Trump,the man,showed very poor judgment by mocking a reporter in 2015,that is a good enough excuse for the southern commentator, justin evans, to often make disparaging remarks about trump when a horse with his name races. Thats some strange logic.It seems to be a contradiction to say you condemn that type of thing,when you also support it.

Kerr too honest to do that do you think chief?

Nothing wrong with his commentaries, but why does he always seem to make some disparaging remark about the namesake of the horse Donald Trump. Today it was he wouldn't what to put you through having to looking at trump in the shower.Seriously,this fella can't help himself. I don't get what his problem is.

One can't help but think you are giving a lot of oxygen to this archie butterflys views and publications. Still, promoting a conversation around the use of performance enhancers does has its positives,even though i think by continually referring to the dunn stable you have done that stable more harm than good. Actually i had never given any thought to sundee sons winning the dominion handicap,and had never given any thought as to the dunn stable and performance enhancers. Its not something i personally had considered. But your highlighting in this thread sundee son winning the dominion and breaking the nz record by 4.9 seconds does make me wonder how does that happen? I just used to go on what i saw to form an opinion,but when you analyse it,how does a horse improve so much? I just had a look back at some of the media coverage,and "staggering" seems to be a common word. Deeply shocking and astonishing is the definition of staggering. Keep up the good work chief. People need to ask questions when they see out of the ordinary performances.

I thought the dividend of the winner,better talk art was amazing. It was well favored in the similar race a couple of weeks prior and i thought had put in the best run of anything,just being poorly rated. So never should have paid$37. Just a shame my internet wasn't working when i tried to get a bet on a couple of minutes before the race.Not sure whether that was a nz TAB or a local area thing,as it does happen occasionally. I thought belle of montana should have been retired some time ago as its clearly been running as if it had serious issues,and i had actually thought Better twist had been racing poorly by its high standards,and was actually surprised it went such a good race,albeit unplaced. Gammalite you mention South Coast Arden. I thought in its only recent run from the Mangos stable it looked like it had lost a leg in comparison with its runs from the all stars. Time will tell as the north island doesn't have any depth. I agree with gammalite about gifting races to the top horses by not putting them on a handicaps in races like the nz cup,rowe cup and dominion. Races like that are no longer as exciting,not as good betting wise as they would be if the dominant horses were on handicaps. Also personally i think the connections of some who line up against sunndees son in races like the dominion off the same mark,well they are just mugs in my opinion.Just look at this years race run in record time.The hope pair and bolt for brillance have raced well since,but everything else has dissapointed,but what do you expect when horses get their heads kicked in,lining up in a race in which they were always likely to have a gutbuster for no possible return.

Turns out Cox admitted the charge and got 5 days. Just goes to show Cox obviously didn't think himself capable of arguing his own defence well enough. I guess it just proves that Cox agreed with forbury about his own lack of judgment. Strange but true.

At least we will still get to see William Pike riding in australia,as NSW doesn't discriminate like the other states do. Pike recently was quoted "i'm just a bloke trying to carry on. i'm just trying to make choices that i think are right for me."

Part of the group the protesters represent are those that had jobs,but were given the sack because of the vaccine mandates.Take for example the 100 nurses,14 midwives and 10 doctors who worked for health boards and who were just some of the reported thousand workers in the health care sector who no longer can work. You must have heard the recent calls by some education administrators for the unvaccinated sacked staff to get vaccinated as they no longer have enough staff in some areas.. You must have wondered why a government would implement a policy that results in someone who has a heart attack in auckland having to wait over an hour for an ambulance when the hospital is only 7 minutes drive from the patient,like was in the news a couple of days ago. So they are there to support hard working new zealanders who were thrown on the scrapheap by the government.

Don't you think its crazy that people believe having a 3rd shot of the same thing will protect them from omicron,when even the government acknowledges that the first 2 shots have given them little protection. And the sheep somehow believe that though protection will wane over time, the same as it did with as the first 2 shots,somehow its different because they call it a booster,instead of a third shot. I get the impression many people think the booster shot is different from the first 2 shots. Yet official websites confirm that for anyone over 18 "the booster dose will be the same dosage(amount) of the same vaccine,as your previous 2 doses". Its hilarious in some ways.

I remember buying tickets for the South African game against the hannan shield team( combined mid/south canterbury and north otago teams). I had arranged to take the day off work. Then they went and canceled it, supposedly to give the police a rest. The polls had said our district was the most pro tour region in nz,so the cancellation didn't go down well with the locals. The previous time i had seen an international team was when the lions had played the hannan shield team. That day didn't end well either. I was only 16,but had managed to save enough to buy myself a brand new Datsun sunny,but while driving home after the game,stopped in a que not far from the rugby, i watched a fella in my rear view mirror gazing at the crowd,just before he rear ended me as he screeched to a halt. Still,it wasn't too bad and i had a great run with that car.

NZ media are just peddlers of government propaganda.Journalism used to champion freedom of speech,but they are the opposite now. If you look at the protests in wellington,the Police have become willing pawns in the arrest of previously law abiding citizens. Institutions who once had the respect of all new zealanders have alienated forever a certain part of the population. Of note all the unvaccinated people i know simply believe in the rite to choose what they put in their body.Whether people take a vaccine or not is up to the individual. I haven't yet met anyone who has said people shouldn't have the choice to get vaccinated if they want.So when the media and government label everyone who hasn't had the vaccine as anti-vax,And lumps anyone who attends a rally into the anti vax group, its all a lie. Its just another way of manipulating peoples thoughts.

An interesting story on the stuff website at the moment. Headline says ACC confirm 1708 covid vaccine injury claims. obviously that number have thought their reactions serious enough to claim. Amongst other things it says 627 so far have been accepted,513 declined and 568 to be decided.Most seem to have cost ACC under $500 but 12 have cost between $10,000-$50,000............. Fewer than 4 claims have been lodged for fatalities........the ACC states,as if thats a good thing.

If you had been watching the turnovers today you would have noticed they weren't very large. But what was very noticeable was the last race,which probably wasn't the strongest 1 win race you would see, seemed to clearly have the highest turnover. To me it was yet again proof that the average punter is just as happy to bet on any race ,as long as they think they can make a $. Had it been a 6 horse field of higher quality with a short priced favorite,punters wouldn't have bothered.Just look at the turnovers they get on races run at auckland as proof of that. So the key to get punter participation is more about the exposure a race gets,in this case the time slot on a wednesday just before tea and not having a dominant favorite that puts the average punter off.

actually people should read an article currently on theconversation.com titled whats the difference in protection against omicron between 2 and 3 doses of vaccine. it explains why the australian health minister expects the definition of fully vaccinated to change to three doses instead of two. it says emerging evidence suggests 2 doses provide 0-10% against infection from omicron,and 35% protection from hospitalisation 5-6 months after the second jab. it also states 3 and a half months after your 3rd jab your still only 30-40% protected from infection,and that will continue to drop over time.hospitalistion is higher with the 3rd dose but will drop over time as well. Why should the 2 dosed people get let into our tab's or racecourses,as it sounds like they are just as unprotected and as much a cause of spread as the unvaccinated. Has there ever been such a farce in ones lifetime.

Another article on stuff today to scare everyone as much as they can. Todays story says the latest modelling shows there may be millions of nz covid infections,and hundreds of thousands of those will be confirmed cases by testing. It says there will be 460 deaths if a high uptake of booster,but 560 deaths if only 70% uptake. Doesn't say how many if no uptake. So load up the car with the families youngsters and get down to the chemist for the booster as quick as you can brodie. Stuff and the government has warned you. I see a study undertaken by otago and wellington universities a couple of years ago found an estimated 500 per year die from the flu in nz. A dr michael baker was one of the high profile familiar names behind that study. Better book in for your flu jab as well brodie,as it looks like the flu each year is almost as deadly.

Yes would be the answer to both.The cost of each test mentioned would be what comes out of his budget for testing. opps,the "and his research was continued to be funded with new parameters" actually doesn't apply to the new york man. They are trying to be pro active in uncovering doping. I had thought i had typed that bit onto the bottom paragraph of my original post,and when it didn't appear i wondered where it went to,so that explains that.

The article was published in a New York newspaper,the times union.I don't know how to post links,but the headline was "New York lab losing battle against doping in horse racing" . Its a rather long article but at the top it has quotes contained in the story which you can click on which takes you directly to that part of the article. "who are you kidding" is one of those,so that would speed up your search for the quotes from the head of New Yorks testing lab. I think you fall into the "who are you kidding" group chief. He also says it costs US$180(270 nz$) per blood test and US$250(nz$375) per hair test.He complains about not enough funding anyway.And his research was continued to be funded with new parametres. Also you should note so much is political over there when it comes to who gets funding for research,appointments made to positions and the like. I read an article last year about one former outspoken hardline anti doping vet, who worked for one of the high profile State racing authorities..When they had a change of leadership at the top of that states racing leadership,done through political contacts,it was expected he would lose his $400,000 job and some of his projects would no longer be funded,as he had been rocking the boat too much.. Well though and behold this anti doping vet was reappointed to the surprise of many,but with it came a change of rhetoric and actions around doping. Apparently he no longer believed that doping was as much of a problem as he had previously thought...and his research continued with new parameters.

Well an article published in the last couple of days in the USA quoted a dr george maylin,head of the new york horse racing drug testing lab,commonly respected as one of the most advanced in the U.S". Seems he wouldn't agree with you chief. heres just a couple of his quotes. When asked why the performance enhancers described in the indictments were not caught by testing maylin said" he can test for some of the drugs,not all.He was not familiar with some of the compounds described in the indictments, therefore can't test for those...I don't believe anybody knows what the heck these things are,if anything" as to EPO "His lab,along with most facilities in the U.S. can only test for 3 varieties of EPO,while scientific literature cites 82 kinds of EPO worldwide...Are they being used.i don't know, but they've been synthesized ,they're available. So if your testing for EPO's and your only doing 3 and theres 79 others out there,who are you kidding". seems to me he answered some of the questions you are mulling over chief.

We could do the back and forth thing again but i'm not in the mood today for that. As to the Curtin thing. Your not stupid. When you said i trawled through the list because of my so called obsession,well actually i didn't. It was published as a list of USA clients,so instead of going through them all, i just looked for the name of the person who had made regular trips to new york,who had numerous connections with trainers and owners who operated from the yonkers track,who had been the most vocal person in criticising anyone who dare suggest the all stars had used products which were not picked up in testing to enhance performance,who had been one of the stables high profile owners,who had openly used his own forum at the time(harnesslink) to criticise Jeff Gural from the meadowlands about mr gurals decision to bar certain trainers from his tracks because of their use of performance enhancers,who would have had a financial motive,etc,etc....... So i looked under that persons name and there it was. Does it prove anything.......NO. Heck there may even be 2 John curtin's from nz. although whats the chances of that? So if you don't think questions should at least be asked then go ahead and keep your head in the sand where you like it to be. I actually looked for only the 2 names. The second one I looked for was the tritton name. I did that because i always believed the tritton australian stable at the time had used performance enhancing products which they weren't testing for. You only had to look at how they got a massive improvement from the horses of other trainers,claiming that constant galloping was the key,with some gullible journalists claiming it was a new revolutionary way to train.To me at the time the connection was his father who raced many of his horses at yonkers. I had no idea how it worked,but there had to be a connection. And you guess it,peter tritton stables is on the client list of the corrupt one. So i've answered your question and will leave it at that.

So thats your take on it. You think because i have said a John Curtin from NZ appears on the client list of the most high profile corrupt Vet in the usa,that i am saying John Curtin is a cheat. If thats your take on it then it seems you have drawn an inference from his being on that list.. What i'm saying is it raises serious questions.Surely you can see that or is your mind that closed to information that doesn't support your view.