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I realise this is a little bit off topic, however can anyone answer this? If a horse-say-wins a trial or two impressively, and as the owner you haven't said to anyone that its for sale...lets say an agent approaches the trainer, says ' I've got a client who'd buy that horse'.. OK lets say you tell the trainer you'll sell for..$$$....and the deal is done...with the proviso that you as owner are not the agents 'client'.. 1. Your'e up for 10% to the trainer ( and quite rightly so) 2. The agent will probably think your'e going to sling him 10%.. My point is-the agent is acting for his own client who will be paying him to source horse/s...so why would the owner of the horse entertain any claim from the agent? And there's every chance that the agent will flick it on to his 'client' anyway ( if there ever was one) and clip the ticket again.. 3. My opinion is-and these deals seem pretty loose-I would tell the agent to get stuffed-your'e not acting for me, and you never were... there's a certain amount of 'pressure'....read 'blackmail' involved in some of these deals from what I hear.. Love to hear any opinions on this.

Yep. And I reckon he's sitting in a hotel room in Singapore right now, large Johnny Walker in one hand, Messara's 'report' in the other....and he'll be thinking, fark how am I going to screw this much moolah out of my tight arsed coalition partners...GREENS and LABOUR .......

As I said. Translation? This govt is farked. Business confidence plummeting. Dairy industry in trouble. They've stopped oil/gas exploration. Stopped coal mining on West Coast. Construction industry failing. Liquidations starting to appear daily..Where's the money going to come from? Trade unions ( nurses/teachers/IRD/etc etc ) are blackmailing Labour- as they usually do. Labour will crumble in the face of union pressure. So...how does Peters announce 30-40 million to help racing get new racetracks? ( Don't forget that it was the dickhead Michael Cullen who used the words 'rich pricks') Convenient that he buggers off overseas to try and come up with another ' I'm the hero' plan. What a tosser. To say that he hasn't had time to read a report-that he supposedly commissioned-is bullshit.

You know something pal? I'd rather have Donald Trump in charge of the country than the bunch of simpering pillow biters and bitter old codgers we've got at present.?

The guys is a fraud and a hypocrite. Heard him on radio a few days denying that NZ First had any agreement with the Greens to support them in the mad hatters coalition...now it turns out that the Greens are 'reluctantly' supporting NZ First re the so called ' waka jumping Bill' as IT IS PART OF THE COALITION AGREEMENT. Get over him Thomarss, he'll be in the old folks home soon, sucking on a whiskey and telling all the other old codgers what a great Prime Minister he was...NOT.

Prior to the Cox Plate at Mooney Valley they race on a Friday night..then the next day again. I've seen it piss down there overnight after the Friday races but the track is great the next day! Never a suggestion of abandoning...thats a Strathayr, so to me there is no question what NZ racing should get....but has anyone been asked for an opinion?

Bet he's already got it. Bet he's been sitting on it for more than a few days. Bet he's doing his usual farking prima donna trick...'how can I drag this out and use it to my best advantage'?

I see on 'another' site that people are saying one of the new tracks will be at Cambridge...are they meaning on the present training track property? Isnt one of the reasons that we need new tracks is to provide a consistant racing surface...? If thats the case is there another property somewhere in Cambridge to put a new track, stands, infrastructure on? Does anyone know?

Well the so called RULES do not have any defence like ' was contaminated by a homeless/squatter/etc ' to a horse being disqualified when found with (P) in it after racing. It has to be disqualified. End of story. Whoever owns or trains it. Or have the RULES been amended secretly? Do they now say.....'must be disqualified' unless belonging to...???

didn't see that. Was that at New Plymouth again? If thats right then its weird isn't it? I'm aware that this bloody P thing is everywhere but to have at least 4? positives for it in horses at one track..?

Well Thomass, you'd have to ask yourself if the horses involved were owned and trained by a battler with no money...would the dispensing of justice per the pathetic RIU be any different? Course it would. Who makes these decisions in the RIU? Is this clown Godber the real quid or is there someone pulling his strings?

Sometimes less is best...the opposite ( seeing a rider belting a horse when its clearly buggered ) is not pretty. People shouldn't substitute losing their money with accusations of a bad ride. Sometimes the horse just didn't have it on the day.

I thought there was a slight chance that Peters might do something constructive to give racing in NZ a decent shot in the arm... However, I've just read that he's now blaming the rising crime rate-murders, robberies etc-on the price of cigarettes! He shouldn't make press releases when he's pissed. Has he never heard of methamphetamine? Thats the real reason, Winnie. Or is that too hard for the bunch of losers we have as a govt to handle? Racings' no chance.

If they stripped off the Strathayr in hong Kong they might find the rice that used to grow there...it was a swamp before the track was put in. Nothing difficult for one to be put in at Ellerslie..its not the practicalities that would be difficult, its a mind set. Why wouldn't they fall over backwards to have a degree of certainty about whether a racemeeting would go ahead or not? How many meetings have been called off at Mooney Valley, or Hong Kong? Here's a clue-bugger all. And I've spent some time in Hong Kong and boy can it rain there.

I really can't understand why the N.Z.T.R haven't said to Auckland RC....stop patching your track up-we'll ( i.e. the Development fund ) will go50/50 on putting in a Strathyar. Or: no more permits to race there until you guys come to your senses and get yourselves into the 21st Century..