Special Agent

Definitely expensive.

With all that is happening with the racing industry currently why is how Levin Racing Club is balancing the books so important? Because this small club is bucking the debt ridden trend, maybe others should take note rather than mock. Do you think the Levin Racecourse will be the first to be sold under the direction of a Racing Minister?

Did they? What year was that? Who was on the committee? What tracks were they looking at? Where did you hear that?

Did they? What year was that? Who was on the committee? What tracks were they looking at? Where did you hear that?

Did they? What year was that? Who was on the committee? What tracks were they looking at? Where did you hear that?

Robbie Ker and Peter McKenzie aren't around to answer that question these days.

I assume you are referring to the adjoining development being the lifestyle village with 54 units and caretaker house. That's quite a few dwellers to deal with on a regular basis with their many and varying issues. How many on a racing club committee would have the knowledge, patience and interest to deal with that, and without payment?

Why? How much maintenance at another track do you think that would fund? If the LRC is required to sell as they are a surplus venue, would that not include all real estate owned by the club?

There are other services required for jumpouts, not all are voluntarily run. These include ambulance, vet, horse ambulance, starter and barrier attendants, tractor driver, secretary, cafeteria staff, birdcage attendant, heat timer and results, gap gate and crossing raker, field marshaller and brand checker.

The fees used to be on the fields, maybe some time ago as I can't find one with that information now. I have a feeling they are around the $90 mark, and $70 for Levin based trainers.

Is "subsidised" the right word for revenue being received by Otaki? The course rental seems standard, agreed by both parties, and no doubt reviewed on a regular basis.

Go back over the financials and you will see? They aren't brand new, and cost around the $750,000 mark, whenever that was. Are you suggesting some other racing entity gifted them? Horowhenua is an interesting part of the country. In about 2022 rates on some properties doubled, and some QV's dropped by a third. An equation that has many land owners scratching their heads. Any mental talk of selling the Levin racecourse to prop up another track could only come from the insane. The meagre sale price would be gone in a flash and is significantly outweighed by the service provided to the racing industry. As for the tracks in CD that could provide the number of trialling opportunities Levin does, tell us which ones and we'll debate it.

That the major race on the day didn't deserve merit.

If you go back to the original point that NZTR articles cannot report the fact that the Otaki feature winner was previously with the Cole stable and has provided a nice trainer's percentage for the Pertab stable, when they've probably only fed it a few times, don't you find that odd?

We don't know what the riding instructions were. Jockey may have been doing as he was told.