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What makes them think that they are going to struggle for numbers , Riverton as a rule usually draw good numbers . If they lack numbers for the jumping races then it is their own fault , no one really has a clue what the jumping season is going to be like down south because of the crap programming , so why would you bother putting the work and money into a jumper when there is no idea whether there is going to be sufficient numbers in the SI . They know because of their piss arsing around that there is a good chance that there might only end up being 3/4 runners and then they would be committed to running , just an arse covering exercise .

The ultimate definition of an oxymoron .

The sink hole is getting bigger .

So after looking at their report why was only 1 horse declared a non runner , there was 3 other runners that were impeded that didn't fill the 4st four positions , so why were they not declared non runners as well . Bit of a farce really , young horses can easily put off and stop trying , they should all have been declared non runners as well .

As competition for the lot that are there already you mean .

Track staff must have thought management were taking the piss when they told them they had the Easter Hcp meeting on this Saturday . The staff said we're too sharp for them trying to pull one over their eyes , they knew Easter was 3 weeks ago .

They were track staff doing track maintenance when they looked up and seen horses , had to dive under rail . Had an enquiry , first 4 home confirmed but the 5th horse called a late scr . It's becoming amatuer hour when even the staff don't know the races have started .

Wat toooo much common sense being spoken there , so tone it down abit eh .

Nah 5 mil each , he should just accept he was beaten by the better horse on the day . Addeybb has beaten her 3 out of 4 , perhaps he could say best of 7 , then 9 , 11 , 13 .

Must have been a last minute decision to do track renovations , what the F does time critical mean . Always finding ways to make bullshit sound intelligent .

What's your problem , today's track at Tauranga is wet , is that not enough information for us dumb ass punters .

Give it time , could well end up that all we have left is in the Waikato but they will be racing against themselves for frozen chickens.

This is the sort of out of the square vision that is lacking in NZ administration , i love it , the 3 sets of lights would be a huge expense but if it was financially viable go for it . This is the sort of project that would future proof SI racing for the next 50/100 years . I have been advocating the same for the lower NI , sell Palmy and Trentham and set up north of Foxton , huge swaths of flat sand based land to do this and future proof racing in the district . The same up north , lay a course where the horse population base is , somewhere in the Waikato , sell Ellerslie and Te Rapa , Aucklanders can't complain , they don't go to Ellerslie in the numbers that the largest city suggest they should . Doing something like this sets NZ racing up into the next century . But the biggest single ingredient required is vision , massively lacking in at present . These track in the middle of cities were once the requirement , when populations utilized them to the max , no more . More and more they look like they have been shoe horned into there surroundings , no more the vast open expanses . We all know centralization is coming , so do it properly .

I would hope now they have bought the product they will be following all instructions and advice , but there is occasion where people tend to think more than they do and go with what they think , 6 meetings till the end of the season when we should be getting some ideas around the track and how it is holding up to training and regular racing on top of jumpouts etc .

I see we are close to the pointy end of the A/W debate , 4 weeks out from Cambridge running their 1st meeting then every 2 weeks thru till the end of the season . This for me is going to be very interesting to see just how many horses and from which stable turn up , then turn up regularly . Then there is the turnover , with no real on course crowd , not that there ever is , everything hinges on off course betting . So many angles to this , how will the track race , how will it race with heavy rain , will there be track bias , going to be so interesting . I watched some A/W track racing in England between races over the Cheltenham and Aintree carnivals , the interesting thing for me was for a country with a huge horse population the size of fields overall seemed on the small side , might mean nothing , flat racing on grass had started so maybe that was taking numbers , don't know . But anyway interesting couple of months ahead , the one thing i don't want to see is bad injuries or fatalities .

Don't think she can win a 2 horse match race , Addeybb will dictate , the biggest issue i would see is VE still doesn't have the greatest racing manners , improving but not perfect . And why does it have to be 5mil , just sounds like bruised ego , i think 1 or 1.5 mil each would be enough .

Possibly , i think the lack of pace had more to do with it , Addeybb missing the kick really stuffed up the speed map for everybody , Dalasaan was never expecting to lead so his rider done what was right for his mount a dragged the speed out of the race , even Boss said he cocked up , said he should have rolled on Sir Dragonet and taken up the speed , as it was he sat back and that was his undoing . 2.6 L from 1st to last , so a real bunch finish , just a sprint home , suited the 2 sitting up front , 1st and 3rd .

I agree around that there is no future here in the form that we would like to see , as for the time frame i don't know . As much as we all would like to see a plan but haven't i'm sure there is something they're working on outside of what we can already make out , a cunning plan you might say . Can see us ending up as a bit of a homoginized product , a bit like Singy , purely about the betting , where all the things i know i love about it , the horses , the people , the theatre of the sport are dumbed down to dollars and cents . I don't know if you follow English football , but today's announcment about a super league is all about the money . The clubs that sign up , of which 6 in England have , will each recieve 5.8 bil just for signing up . It's vomit inducing , all about the bucks , the beautiful game of football is lost in the flood of money . It was already half way there but this is just about pure greed . I can see us going the same way , all about an elite few getting plenty whilst the great sport is lost in the avalanch .

The great change of stable and to a smaller one to , amazing what it can do for a horse , also not being just a number in a barn . I know i would get bored .

Can't say if he's missed the jump before but interestingly Ron Dufficy said on Thorobred Weekly that it was something that happened regularly with first time wearers , can't say i have noticed that , certainly anything i put blinkers on never missed kick with them on . Apparently the jockey had recommended them as he felt the horse was getting lazy and that they got him up on the bit and travelling better on Saturday . Certainly think that VE didn't help herself over racing for most of the race .

Seems the connections of Addeybb think that blinkers were a massive hekp in him winning Saturday's QE 11 cup . They might be onto something .

With blinkers on .

The ARC has been the NZ racing industry's leader for many years and has run very successful carnivals , and trying to improve on what you have achieved is always the goal , what they have done to themselves and in consequence to other clubs , some not far removed from the ARC status , has become an absolute shambles . You only have a look at this weekend , they are running the Easter Hcp , no they are not they are running a race masquerading as the Easter . A once iconic race has been butchered . They are 3 weeks late , what was the point , i don't get it , what are they trying to achieve , were the figures from running that ICONIC easter weekend meeting that disasterous , are their figures that much better for having the race 3 weeks later . I don't get it , certainly try and improve your product , but this is no improvement , it's shambolic . They have removed the Queens Birthday meeting , their KM meeting has completely Fucked the ICONIC WRC cup meeting , the move of their own cup/derby meeting , the xmas / new year meeting is a shadow of it's old self , and although i think the Derby is in the right place now the rest just seems ho hum .Then they don't race for 3/4 months , what is that about . Your biggest club , in your biggest city and they shut down for 3/4 months , how is that what is best for the industry , Jesus , Mary and Christ you couldn't make this shit up . Good luck guys , we're going on holiday , see you when we get back . And if i'm wrong i stand to be corrected but i'm sure the man to start the " change for the better" was the one and only Cameron George , the man who made the RIU what it is today , and has now made it all the way to chair person of the NZTR board . We should be afraid , very afraid .

History , what history . They can justify it any way they want , and they will , but it is just more diluting of NZ racing . But it is fair enough they don't use it nearly as much as they used to do they , closing down in winter can't help tho can it . All part of a big plan . I hope there is enough participants left when they get around to revealing it .

But the top one was , if you believe that is acceptable for one of NZ's 3 metropolitan tracks then you are part of the problem . Sometimes people just don't want to see the wood for trees , no matter what .