billy connolly
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This debacle is similar to the Riccarton Park episode a couple of years back where "road cones" were left on the track for the field to hurdle in the first race! Is it too hard for a stipe to at least drive around the track and ensure all is in order before the meeting commences? Why pay a blind stipe (Wadley) to stand around at the start in a suit and do absolutely nothing of any consequence?
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The buck stops with Wadley (the blind stipe) .... is he on a fixed salary, if so how much please ???
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Totally correct, I know poor jockeys when I see them and this lot are abysmal. Virtually every race most of them lost their compass at some point and if I was paying the riding fees I would be asking for my money back.
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And what is the purpose of having stipendiary steward Wadley at the start? If he can't pick up errors like this he shouldn't be there. I always thought a stipendiary stewards role was to observe the races. Wadley spends the whole day at the start doing fark all, then when the field is fully loaded and dispatched he gets in a four wheel drive vehicle and follows them .... from a distance !
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Pleased to hear that Reefton is capable of extension. Judging by your posts on these forums you seem to be reasonably clued up and have the good of the industry at heart, maybe your energy would be better utilized at a higher level than club administration.
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Maybe better footing wise but it's a "bull ring" and if it didn't have a prime holiday race date it's gone burger. Whoever said Westport is "by far the best track on the coast" has obviously never ridden there. All coast tracks are BAD and if they never had prime holiday race dates they're history IMO. Mr. Pitman has the right idea though, he gets all the spoils on the southern Christmas circuit while the others wait for the usually heavy coast tracks with North Island competition !
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Maybe better footing wise but Reefton is a "bull ring" and if it didn't have a prime holiday race date it's gone burger. Whoever said Westport is "by far the best track on the coast" has obviously never ridden there. All coast tracks are BAD and if they never had prime holiday race dates they're history IMO. Mr. Pitman has the right idea though, he gets all the spoils on the southern Christmas circuit while the others wait for the usually heavy coast tracks with North Island competition !
