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Great time of the year .

From all accounts it seems the trainers put pressure on for more grass track trials in the region and so NZTR have put on trials at Tauranga on the 6th . Trainers making it clear that the A/W isn't a one size fits all .

Not a word that is in their vocabulary . Even if they identify some areas for improvement any announcement will be all about the positives , as they see them .

LRC was in the Horowhenua Consortium with OMRC when i arrived in Levin 28 years ago . Race definitely intended to sell the track if they got hold of it 20+ years ago and whilst they were going to lease the track back to LRC this time it was on short term leases from what i can gather , the intention would always be to sell sooner rather than later once they got their hands on it . We will see whether NZTR are now going to flex their muscle .

I'm sure he has and good on all that voted for keeping the track , the worry i see is the 40% of members that voted to hand the track over . That is much higher than i would have expected . When the club had to deal with the same issue 20 years ago i don't remember exactly the numbers but it was very small that voted to hand it over . The next move will be interesting .

I am surprised it was that close , obvious divide now , will the losing voters leave it at this ? hopefully , but it sounded like the president and vice are on the side of handing it over , is their position now untenable ? The ball is now in NZTR's court , it will be interesting to see if they have the heart for a legal battle knowing LRC have the finances to fight them .

I personally think she is a season if not 2 too late with this trip , i hope i'm wrong , didn't think the run was the worst , just didn't have a sprint but then she has travelled half way around the world so i would think they would leaving her with a lot of improvement , next race will tell more .

YAWN !

Your putting far to much positive thought into this , please refrain .

Far toooo progressive .

Pleased for the owners and trainers of jumpers finally get a run .

Yeah whatever , you can assume but perhaps Walker had to re asses what and where he was going to run his horses when they chose not to split the race , the 2 unraced fillies he has in the 3yo fillies race weren't originally nom'd for it , fortunately it was kept open . As for plenty of 1200 mdns around , mostly on bog tracks or A/W , or a trip to Ruakaka , so good track options are thin . You'd be one of those that think all is well with NZ racing . As for an apology , i and many more in the industry are owed much more than that from NZTR .

They have now put them in an order of running , hadn't when i had my rant . It still doesn't detract from the fact that 13 young horses won't get a run , when these are the new crop and should be given every opportunity . Also i would suggest 2 mdn 1200 chock full of race form and strong trial form willbring far more betting interest than 2 staying mdn races who have had plenty of chances . The interesting thing will be how many of the Walker horses run against each other . I would have thought Te Akau would have been on to them to split the race .

And a question for anybody to answer , why don't they programme summer meetings at the A/W tracks for the horses that like them , what are they suppose to do , just like we used to have winter racing for the horses that like and needed wet tracks .

Well i and many others read it differently . Plus they seem to do it in Aus , xfering within a a few days , buggers up the fields tho . They still don't get it tho , the numbers tell the story , people want grass track trials and racing more than they do A/W , yet they are still forcing A/W down peoples throat , throwing money at The A/W races , haven't seen them do that at any other industry days . Like what i said earlier about not splitting a mdn 1200 full of young horses because they want to ensure some will race on Wednesday . The whole system is fundamentally flawed when they are trying corral racing where they want it .

Tongue in cheek , i live in that backwater . And looking at the state of the CD tracks at present it would be the best in the CD , hence why trainers like coming to the jumpouts .

No , the rhetoric we got from the start was that we wouldn't see meetings abandoned thru wet weather , well hello . Haven't seen one meeting that might have been threatened by adverse weather moved to an available A/W track either .

Well Huey , i can tell you they are not going to help owners . Taupo on Wednesday has 7 races programmed , only 7 , don't ask me why when at this time of year and the trial numbers show there is plenty of horses around to fill fields . Nom's out and they have the numbers to split 3 races , a R65 1300 ,a mdn 1800 and a mdn 1200 , but no they are only going to split 2 of them , they aren't going to split the 1200 mdn . What a fucken joke , and yes i am talking thru my pocket , i have one nom'd , won 2 trials and as it stands won't make the field . I hope someone from NZTR does read this because read this you fucken morons , this is why people are getting out of racing horses here . If you are going to split any race it's the mdn 1200 , these are the young horses of the future . Wake the fuck up and start serving the people who investing in this sport . This is a perfect example of them trying to manage things to suit themselves , they are trying to corral horses to the Cambridge meeting on Wednesday , not fucken on . Pissed off doesn't even start to cover my feelings at this shambles .

Taranaki OFF , with nothing about looking at moving it elsewhere tomorrow , just go Feck yourself owners . So we are yet to see one meeting saved by the A/W's in any jurisdiction .

From what i can see , numbers in the CD are historically low . The biggest stable would still be the Latta stable and it is not anywhere as big as it used to be . Everyone else is struggling for numbers or are retrenching for personnel reasons , most i have spoken to all say the same thing , struggling to find owners or can't get the track riders so can't have too many horses . The Awapuni A/W was always going to be tight on the bends , we will see with a bigger pool of results to look at exactly how it is going to play . I'll stick to what i said at the start , it will be a greyhound track .

Didn't go myself either , but it is a backwater and still haven't got the new edicts around track conditions . Knowing how wet it has been in the region i would be surprised if the track was only slow .

Cambridge A/W trials and races religiously run 2 1/2 to 3 seconds under evens , only 2 open heats just broke even . Ok it's the first time on it , but i would suggest they couldn't run the bend from the back straight at full tilt because it is just too tight , which always seemed the way it would be . I would only ever run a horse there if it was a real on pacer , even Cambridge lends itself to them . A larger pool of results will obviously give a bigger picture .

Hopefully it's Ayres rock .

Taranaki having an inspection at 9am tomorrow morning , with more information to come . I doubt if that information will be that they are xfered to another track , we don't effing have one . Perhaps the new A/W seeing as how it passed with flying colours today , fields will be reduced to 6 runners tho , good luck to the rest . After this inspection it will be onto Waverley's Sunday meeting . Jesus it's a shite fest .

Just watched all the trials , biggest field was 5 runners so hard to get a real understanding of how hard that home bend is going to be but it certainly looked tight , seen a few running on the inside rein , will be interesting when they get 10/12 runners . Home bend very tight so can't see too many coming around 4/5 wide to challenge , going to be a real on pacers track . I don't like any of them but thought visually this was the worst to watch , JMO