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Hope you look after them . Setting him for the Couplands next year ?

Better training effort .

When i see the word scarred it reads retarded . Now i see where your love of a mincy pies comes from , when were chips thrown at you .

Well done Pam and BG , party time .

Bring enough in and they won't all head offshore , plus they won't all be up to heading to the big smokes in Aus .

With the quick success of Warren Kennedy and Craig Zackey since they arrived in NZ from South Africa and now 2 younger apprentices having arrived to join the apprentices school at Byerley Park , i thought perhaps we should looking to be promoting our racing to more of these guys . From what i've seen of both WK and CZ they are class riders , which their records in SA show . Having them here promotes competition and hopefully makes our locals lift their game , which is never a bad thing . Our local stocks are thin and for a number of years we have been bringing in jockeys from Asia , which IMO has been a middling to poor success , and in a lot a cases some simply shouldn't be riding , so why not look to try and lure more from SA , and perhaps even places like South America , Ireland and UK . We have a lot to offer aside from the racing side of things which must appeal to many , i will play devil's advocate and suggest that racing can improve and get stronger which must also have pulling power . Anyway just some thoughts . p.s. A big thankyou should go out to the the guys at Byerley for being so proactive , unfortunately they shouldn't have had to , this is yet another NZTR role that has slipped thru their hands .

Stackhouse said after one of his wins that the track was a bit bare and patchy , not complimentary at all .

I hope for all industry participants that today goes well with no issues , i'm holding my breath tho , 1 horse shifts 1 inch and the day is in trouble .

Mills is just on TV and has just said that the grass may , or may not have been too long but they are looking into it , so why the fuck did they cut . This is the problem nowadays , no one just stands up and goes , " OK , i'm sorry we fucked up and it was on us and will make sure it doesn't happen again " .

Sharrock wouldn't go into detail but does appear a number of track managers are ignoring advice .

Can someone do me a favour and post the Weigh In show , i had set to record it at 10.30 this morning but the fucken useless tits at the TAB decided to show a replay of Wednesday's races instead and start the show later so i only have a short segment of it , why am i not surprised they are as fucken useless as NZTR , cheers to who ever can .

They'll be gunning for him now , not singing from the correct hymn sheet .

Did the jockey get off and apologise to the connections for riding against instructions i wonder ? Most likely not .

Sounds like me after most races i have had a bet on in NZ , with a few more expletives . Certainly not the worst i've heard .

This story was TV1 news , some of the crowd weren't happy , not a good image . I would say we keep shooting ourselves in the foot but we have no foot left after many previous indiscretions .

Really nice young man , with a good knowledge of racing for his age , as you say refreshing , much better than listening to Walker or Ellis .

Nah forgot , he said he would do it , but she said she would do it , it's not our fault .

Mark Walker is a share holder in the Te Akau brand so not a given that TA completely disappears , may evolve into something a bit different but sure it will still have a presence . As for the Richards v Walker debate i am a huge Richards fan but Walker is in a rebuilding phase as in the absolute top horses , so i would give 12/18 months to see if he's made a difference .

If NZTR have organised it don't put money on it getting away on time if at all .

Just make sure he doesn't have Josh Parr's phone number otherwise it's a quick , Eh Nah .

I will say it again , NZTR need to go out into the big wide world and head hunt the best track and turf manager available , no matter what the cost . They want to close tracks , can't do that you fuckwits when the ones you want to keep can't finish meetings .

Riccarton to tomorrow and Hastings to Monday ??

The head honchos will all be at Riccarton but still haven't noticed because it's sausage roll time .

Hold your breath , there is a track inspection under way at Riccarton after a horse slipped free of interference in R2 . You can't make this shit up .

Hahaha , maybe it's just Palmerston North that's shitty , can't finish a race meeting now they can't get jockeys flight to Chch off the ground , flatten the place , never liked it .