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Stay inside very disappointing , the one rider is it is a shit of a track to come from the back from against good horses , also looked like he blew out the last 100 , so will give him one more .

I thought the same start of last prep and she sat 3 wide at the back and munted them , i think at Caufield to , mares race and looking thru the form there is nothing close to her class , but as i said we're talking horses and my punting ability .

Always does , done the same last prep , won 1st up and should do the same today , a class above this lot she meets today . Blinkers go on which is the norm . But we are talking horses .

Doesn't surprise me , as said generally the slipper winner carries on and gets hammered physically and don't come up , not machines . Suppose some go to stud before their 3yo year also .

His partner Claire Cunningham is due to give birth .

To be honest i think Anamoe is the better horse , huge in the slipper and won the sires on 3 legs , would have been in today but for a small issue , looking forward to him reappearing , Caufield gns horse , will be a grouse horse next Autumn .

Watched his trial win , looks to have come back well , one of the few slipper winners to go to the paddock straight after the slipper which will make a huge difference as to whether he comes up as a 3yo . Looks a special today going on the trial .

Racing here could have kept going , but we would have needed 3 things , 1 , the Govt to allow it which considering how conservative they have been i doubt would have happened , secondly our mob would have had to come up with a comprehensive plan on how to manage it throughout any lockdown levels , they have issues ordering their sausage rolls . Thirdly trusting everybody involved to play their bit and having knowledge of the standard we have now that would have been an ask . The Aussie administrators are a different level , remember we have their offcasts , just look at V'landys , has kept racing and rugby league going , can you imagine the difference in the force of his argument as against what our pitiful bunch would have produced . V'landys even got rugby league moved to Queensland in a lockdown . That is an administrator .

They could have kept racing going here , but our hierarchy can't plan for tomorrow .

Shit loads !!! As long as it's not me or mine .

Will appeal , possibly reduced to 2 months , they are setting the bar high to stop any others . They want to keep racing .

About sums up our racing . But staying positive that CG and his board and BS have a plan .

Sorry thought i had only copied the story , got all the crap as well .

Look i don't give a shit about the percentages and i don't have to answer any question regarding it , MY point was that without the lockdown the number 347 would have been higher because those infected cases would have been spreading it around , that's all , nothing more nothing less . I appreciate your stance , but you obviously feel i need to be educated but i can assure you i don't , you might want to change my mind but i don't want to change yours .

A year and a half after Sweden decided not to lock down, its COVID-19 death rate is up to 10 times higher than its neighbors Aria BendixAug. 21, 2021, 11:55 AM FacebookLinkedInRedditTwitterEmail Sweden’s state epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell. Getty Sweden decided not to implement a full-scale lockdown during the pandemic. It now has up to 10 times as many COVID-19 deaths per capita as its Nordic neighbors. Sweden also didn’t fare much better economically, suggesting its gamble didn’t pay off. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Months before the first COVID-19 cases were detected, public-health experts ranked Sweden as one of the most prepared countries to handle a pandemic. But in March 2020, Swedish health authorities surprised the world with their unorthodox approach: Rather than locking down and requiring masks, as many countries did, Sweden let residents decide individually whether to take those precautions. New footage in Cuba shows the largest anti-government protests in decades Thousands of Cubans are protesting against the Communist government of Miguel Díaz Canel as the country grapples with a severe economic crisis.The gamble, Swedish authorities predicted, would pay off in the long run. Ideally, vulnerable people would choose to stay home, the economy wouldn’t suffer too much, and healthy people might get mild COVID-19 cases that ultimately contributed to the population’s collective immunity. But a year and a half into the pandemic, it’s clear that bet was wrong. Sweden has recorded more COVID-19 cases per capita than most countries so far: Since the start of the pandemic, roughly 11 out of every 100 people in Sweden have been diagnosed with COVID-19, compared with 9.4 out of every 100 in the UK and 7.4 per 100 in Italy. Sweden has also recorded around 145 COVID-19 deaths for every 100,000 people – around three times more than Denmark, eight times more than Finland, and nearly 10 times more than Norway. Had Sweden implemented tighter rules, experts told Insider, the country might have seen a COVID-19 death toll more similar to those Nordic neighbors. “They underestimated the mortality tremendously,” Claudia Hanson, an associate professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, told Insider. “Sweden became a dream for many people to think one can do it differently,” Hanson added. But in retrospect, she said, “it was maybe not a good idea.” Sweden’s approach: allow residents to move freely Students eat ice-cream in Stockholm, Sweden on August 21, 2020. Martin von Krogh/Getty Images Life didn’t look much different in Sweden last year: As coronavirus cases tore across the country, residents went to bars, attended school in person, and walked around maskless. Many disease experts warned that the lax approach would result in unnecessary death. But Anders Tegnell, the chief architect of Sweden’s coronavirus strategy, was wary of depriving residents of income or personal freedom. “You can’t open and close schools. That is going to be a disaster,” he told the Financial Times in September. “And you probably can’t open and close restaurants and stuff like that either too many times. Once or twice, yes, but then people will get very tired and businesses will probably suffer more than if you close them down completely.” Tegnell compared lockdowns to “using a hammer to kill a fly.” So Sweden became one of the few European nations that did not implement a full-scale lockdown. Its population mobility from March to May of last year went down the least out of 28 countries examined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Public transport and leisure activities dropped just 22% during that time, compared with 66% in Spain (the country that saw the highest reduction in mobility). Masks weren’t required, either. A recent analysis from Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou, an associate professor at the Swedish Defence University, found that Sweden’s Public Health Agency decided against a mask mandate even when burgeoning evidence supported it – and long after the scientific community had overwhelming encouraged the practice. Sweden did, however, still take some precautions: It closed high schools and universities in the spring of 2020, required social distancing in bars and restaurants, and asked the sick and elderly to stay home. Public gatherings were also limited in size to varying degrees over the course of the pandemic. Sweden’s strategy would ‘likely result in a massacre’ in a different country An outdoor restaurant in Stockholm on March 26, 2020. TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson via REUTERS When Sweden opted for a no-lockdown strategy in March 2020, scientists were still sorting out how deadly and contagious the virus was. But already, according to email exchanges published by freelance journalist Emanuel Karlsten and the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Tegnell was considering allowing the virus to infect young, healthy people as a means of increasing immunity in the population. Hanson said she was “absolutely disgusted” by Tegnell’s approach because it presumed knowledge that scientists didn’t have at the time. “Is he God, or even above?” she said. “That’s what was terrible with the Swedish approach: the supremacy.” In a paper published in September 2020, philosophers Mirko Farina and Andrea Lavazza argued that many lives could have been saved if Swedish health authorities had followed the strategy of their Nordic neighbors. “On paper they’re all good scientists, but de facto in practice, most of them end up missing some basic human values,” Farina told Insider. Their paper also argued that Sweden’s low density and small population – combined with residents’ trust in national authorities – likely prevented a deadlier outcome. If a denser, more populous country like Italy were to adopt Sweden’s strategy, they wrote, it would “likely result in a massacre.” Sweden didn’t fare much better economically than its neighbors Store manager Domenica Gerlach works in the Lifvs unmanned supermarket store in Veckholm, a village of a few hundred people, on May 6, 2021. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images Farina said one benefit of Sweden’s approach, however, may have been less stress, anxiety, or depression among its residents. The latest World Happiness Report showed that Sweden remained one of the happiest countries in the world in 2020, based on how residents rated their quality of life and reported experiencing positive or negative emotions. But the report also found that prioritizing an open economy wasn’t conducive to overall happiness. “Driving community transmission to zero and keeping it there has been better for all the pillars supporting happy lives: good health, good jobs, and a society where people can connect easily with each other in mutual trust and support,” the authors wrote. Plus, Sweden’s economy still shrank 8.6% from April to June of last year – its largest quarterly fall in at least 40 years. By comparison, Denmark’s economy shrank 7.4% during that time, Norway’s 5.1%, and Finland’s just 3.2%. (None of these economies shrank by more than 4% over the course of 2020, though.) Sweden’s unemployment rate also rose from 6.6% in March 2020 to 9.5% in March 2021. Norway, Denmark, and Finland all saw unemployment rise by smaller margins: around one percentage point, on average. “We live in highly interrelated world,” Farina said. “If something major strikes, it’s going to be affecting everyone everywhere, irrespective of the national measures that you take.” Swedish scientists lamented their country’s approach A resident at a nursing home in Gothenburg, Sweden gets a COVID-19 vaccine on January 7, 2021. Fredrik Lerneryd/Getty Images Scientists called for changes to Sweden’s strategy as early as April 2020. In an open letter that month, more than 2,000 experts criticized the government’s decision not to lock down. Two months later, 23 Swedish doctors and researchers publicly questioned the nation’s laissez-faire mask policy. Eventually, after Sweden’s daily COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and death skyrocketed from October to December, the country closed non-essential public spaces, such as gyms, pools and libraries, and recommend masks during rush hour on public transport. “Countries that had mandatory restrictions have done better than us,” Lars Calmfors, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told the Wall Street Journal in December. “We like to think of ourselves as being very rational and pragmatic,” he added. “I can’t recognize my country anymore.” Hanson, too, lamented the fact that Swedish authorities failed to course-correct sooner. “Some people saw this tsunami coming,” she said. “So why didn’t we run?”

Never mentioned Sweden . But good on them .

I,m not missing any point , i simply stated that the numbers would be higher without the lockdown .

As i said not looking for a big debate but i do wonder what the cost has been for NSW/Aust/GB/America . Not just financially but in lives , people are happy to put up with some deaths till it touches them , always the same , i'm fine till i'm not .

Exactly , i have been happy to go along with most of it but when they have clear demarcation lines as to where the cases are and that Wgtn is clearly ring fenced to close contacts they should have gone to 3 tomorrow , as even JA stated there isn't a great deal of difference between 3 and 4 , even if it had been 3 from Sunday night but this is just pissing people around .

Aegon , The Chosen one , Elephant . The immediate group races would be looking much poorer without the Te Akau horses . We could be lucky to have a G1 in NZ inside the next 5 years .

Not looking for an argument but those numbers are because of the lockdown , they would be much higher without it .

I don't know about far too clever but they are saying they are going to have a meeting with the relevant parties , what the fuck are they talking about , they should have already had that meeting knowing there was a strong chance of this weekend not going ahead , had a provisional plan ready to release to the industry as soon as the decision was known . This is not fucking rocket science but by god they try their best to make it seem so . They are so reactive hence the present state of the NZ industry , they always wait for the spiral down before they do something . This one was easy to have ready but alas all too hard .

So we're all staying in 4 , so what will the plan be for race meetings ? I personally think the simple plan to give all horses and owners opportunities that they xfer Te Rapa to Wed , Cambridge to Thurs and Hawera to Friday , and allow Asburton to go with what suits the locals , with trials at Otaki Thursday and Cambridge trials to Friday , that leaves next weekends meetings on Sat as per with probably moving the Sunday Ellerslie jump meeting to Te Aroha . Te Rapa on Wed allows those horses going forward to Hastings a chance to race and sufficient time to recover . Will that happen or will they take a s softer option and save somestake money . As i have said many times this is about looking after industry participants and rewarding their patience . Nothing i have suggested above is in the too hard basket .

The consequences of their inaction has been real for a long time hence the state of the industry , even locally people don't speak out .

I think going on locations of cases that they will keep Auckland and possibly Wellington stay level 4 and the rest of the country to level 3 , makes no sense that after 10 days they keep the rest of the country in full lockdown . As for the industry putting up with it , it's what they do , look after their own backyard and keep their heads down .