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  1. Mark D
    And stories like this (and in doing a Google search for this particular story I was stunned how many other ones came up) don't help either https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/117206318/race-horse-owner-and-trainer-lisa-corfield-convicted-after-neglecting-starving-horsess
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    PS and you Thomass regularly bring up examples that are contrary to Mary's narrative. Use of whips would be a prime example
  3. Mark D
    However sensible and fact based it sounds to us most (non-racing) people will regard it as merely counter spin and with the face we present to the public of old white male dinosaurs (mostly well off) - I know where the sympathies will lie.
  4. Mark D
    Oh absolutely
  5. Mark D
    Maybe not. Have Trackside on and the Graphic just read M$ R10 Bevan Sweeney Selcts - no attention to detail which has been dogging Tside for years - as well as Bev
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    Haven't bought a Saturday Dom for awhile but I see in another "sensible" move that have included the Sunday fields instead of re-running the fields put in the Friday paper.
  7. Mark D
    Three domestic meetings on a Saturday and one on the Monday of a long weekend. Bizarre
  8. Mark D
    Rare Saturday off so I can follow the racing but both domestic meetings had their ratings changed after Race 1. Still looking after the punters
  9. Mark D
    Thought the same. Then I thought too little too late, damage is done etc etc
  10. Mark D
    How to bankrupt a licence to print money 101
  11. Mark D
    Well "working with Sweeney" is a huge handicap to start with
  12. Mark D
    So no big bonanza from fixed odds - what a surprise
  13. Mark D
    And lets not forget the brilliant decision made by the political savvy tandem of Hughes/Allen of borrowing money on the basis of expecting to get the racefields legislation passed in an election year.
  14. Mark D
    The fact of the matter is that JA said if he didn't turn things around in 3 years he would walk. He didn't and he stayed. He had a good reputation, whether he deserved that or not or whether it was all perception (which it so often is), that is gone but I am sure it won't stop him getting another top job somewhere. An abject failure and disappointment
  15. Mark D
    Its never made any sense Freda.
  16. Mark D
    https://sports.yahoo.com/report-2018-triple-crown-winner-justify-failed-drug-test-before-kentucky-derby-230949560.html
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  17. Mark D
    Its called double dipping
  18. Mark D
    So Glenda is standing for the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Her slogan on the billboard I saw yesterday was that a vote for her (and a couple of her cohorts) is a vote for competence. Making the TAB bankrupt is not competence.
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    No point being passionate if you're arrogant and stupid Steve https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/warriors/115334796/warriors-coach-stephen-kearney-says-theres-no-drama-with-cameron-george
  20. Mark D
    Valid concerns is an understatement Freda. In some cases "scam" is what I would call it
  21. Mark D
    Don't forget Jo
  22. Mark D
    CG always thinks he knows better - he's an Aussie he knows more about racing and league than mere Kiwis. Just don't call him Mate - he won't cop that (eejit that he is) https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/warriors/115232257/nrl-stephen-kearney-wants-cameron-george-warriors-off-footy-talk
  23. Mark D
    Happy for McGrath. Sometimes where there's smoke there's a smoke machine.
  24. Mark D
    Don't think I always agreed with him but always felt sorry for him having a parade of idiots and the next best thing to work with and for and of course leaving and he being left to clean up the mess.
  25. Mark D
    Obviously no applicants that were obsequious enough for their liking. Dodgy Fokerd still on the selection committee?
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