Mark D

Back when I was an owner and a diabetic, still the latter, could never get a non-sugar drink. Was offered fruit juice!!

I see that betting is unavailable between 12.30 and 3.45am Sunday - they don't say why. Have to have a good reason you would have thought with the rugby starting at 4. Must be making heaps of money to give up on that - or maybe they just don't want to take bets!!

Crashing again - why or why do I bother?

Its all in house generated. No independence. It's blah.

This happens every year. CD trials are scheduled for the same day as the RTR sales and are postponed because of it. Here's an idea - don't schedule trials for the same day as the RTR sales!!! November 7 Nov The Foxton trials on Wednesday 21 November have been cancelled due to the NZB Ready-to-Run sales being conducted that day and in order to give extra time for maintenance work on the Foxton track.

Cancel that - just got the bad gateway sign

yip looking to place a bet on Dorkland and no go not even a Bad gateway sign. Radiator must have overheated

Bad gateway strikes again - no worries not a big day

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/108321403/horse-trainer-michael-breslin-sexually-assaulted-woman-but-penalty-not-tough-enough

Don't know what Messara said about the Mot but I find it unbelievable that they want to get rid of these type of courses. Cost the industry nothing and most of the time is an introduction to people of what is great about racing. No one is more blind than those who do not (want to) see.

Not for me. Reserves are gone, fixed assets have been sold.

John Allen‏ @NZRBJohnAllen 30m30 minutes ago Proud of the NZRB team for delivering another good result for racing and sport in the 17/18 season. Record distributions in a challenging climate with investment laying the foundations for further growth. 1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes Mark Daly‏ @marksparkdaly 13m13 minutes ago Clearly cherry picked numbers without the release of the full report i.e. facts 1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes Mark Daly‏ @marksparkdaly 41s42 seconds ago 2. Seeing you have left out any talk of turnover and margins I predict that those were both flat and any increase in profit has been achieved by cutting costs(not to the management salaries of course) and other non-betting related matters 0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes

Yip another great move by NZTR to ditch Sunday gallops years ago at the same time as introducing Monday and Tuesday meetings - Purcells brainwave as I recall - how did that go?

Seems like same old same old - hope I'm wrong https://loveracing.nz/News/25958/NZTRtrackadviserappointed.aspx

RTR breeze ups have obviously taken their toll. Same old track other than that - leaders/inside bias.

Seems really flimsy evidence/analysis to base this recommendation on - talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater

From the "this horse has already bolted file" Meeting News Central Region Trials Tuesday 30 October - Now at Otaki RC The Central trials that were scheduled for Woodville on Tuesday 30 October will now be held at Otaki. The Otaki track will have machinery put through it this week and will be closely monitored leading up to the trials.

I see on FB that a Waikato trainer said that closing down tracks etc will solve this. YEAH RIGHT!!!

Seems the same "rigorous" testing was used at Ellerslie - expect the same https://loveracing.nz/News/25701/Ellerslietrackgivengreenlight.aspx

A thorough and extensive explanation from the NZTR Meeting News Otaki-Maori RC Abandoned Otaki Meeting Abandoned Due to two horses slipping around the 800m point during Race 3 the Otaki meeting has been abandoned. There is no plan, at this point, to reschedule the meeting.

Yip he did a great job on that trials track at Te Rapa

So they just ran a few horses along as usual?

Track redone, approved and tested by current administration who have done the same thing a number of times over the past decade but they are still in their jobs.

To summarise

PS Might have to rely on the Harness boys - again.