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  1. Special Agent
    It's going to take a lot more new customers for starters. They must be confident they have the formula. Interesting times.
  2. Special Agent
    I think these anti-racing lot are given too much air time. Having said that the time given to the PETA rep showed him up to be the dick most of them are. RIU and NZTR have been fooled into their perception of what they call social license. Hoodwinked, the lot of them.
  3. Special Agent
    The amount of cash would only shout the staff to lunch in that city category. I'd like to think winning such an award in a limited line up would not qualify for extra race days.
  4. Special Agent
    That was certainly a beaut piece of footage. The horse was full of beans before the race yet raced in such relaxed fashion. The hot pace might have helped. Didn't he go when asked!
  5. Special Agent
    What would Awapuni be classed as? Not one of the three should even be nominees. I wonder what they will spend the prize money on.
  6. Special Agent
    Billy, I know/knew all three of these decent horse people fairly well. I'm not sure if you can say the same. So, you say the two horses mentioned above were cheats. I saw Lord Module win at Addington with blood pissing out of his feet and Domingo raced with a sweeney. Rather than the horses be cheats, maybe they were capably handled to win the races they did. Cheats would not have won carrying the afflictions they had. Who the hell are you to berate Freda's training? Like Dave, Freda gets her horses as ready as possible before taking them to the races. Like Freda, Dave did not win every time he lined one up.
  7. Special Agent
    I thought it said well performing clubs. How do those metropolitan clubs qualify?
  8. Special Agent
    He wouldn't be allowed on Trackside, would he.
  9. Special Agent
    I'm not so sure on your assessment of cheats. I think you should firstly look at the reasons for not trying. Blinkers aren't always for cheats. Bull prodders are no longer supposed to be used. Pharmaceutical assistance is the choice of the trainer and I think they would use whatever horse they were running. I still maintain cheats are made, not born. Maybe the handler needs a bull prodder used on them because they don't know what they are doing.
  10. Special Agent
    Maybe TAB For Ever needs to be stuffed and taken straight to the pool room.
  11. Special Agent
    I've seen a few come back with whip welts across the flanks but, you'd expect better from the likes of James McDonald. These other jurisdictions have ideas we could tag onto, especially with regards to whip penalties. Stripping the owner is definitely one way to stop overuse of the whip. When you think about it, if someone is going to cheat in one way like hitting a horse too much when they know the rules, chances are they will cheat in other ways like carving up a field causing a 5 horse pile up, or providing a urine test for another rider.
  12. Special Agent
    Oh now you've done it Gamma. Here come all the "I remember when" comments. Laura Tunnell was pretty spectacular in the Great Northern hurdles.
  13. Special Agent
    Cheats are made aren't they, not born?
  14. Special Agent
    You have a lot to say for someone who admits they know nothing.
  15. Special Agent
    Because Messara did not write the report!!
  16. Special Agent
    The sad part is the Jockeys' Assn agreed wholeheartedly with the original whip rules, then moaned. Even stopping the whipping action interferes with the horse's momentum. Cheating definitely occurs when the money is on, and the money is up. A slap on the wrist won't stop it.
  17. Special Agent
    Not many.
  18. Special Agent
    I guess that is how you become more proficient at anything, by erring less. However, some people never learn by their mistakes.
  19. Special Agent
    I have no problem with Jamie Kah's riding. I'd say she's riding for top stables because she is winning and she's winning because she is riding for the top stables.
  20. Special Agent
    I wasn't saying that, merely pointing out it is an easier ride when the trainer has done their job right.
  21. Special Agent
    Granted, it helps when they are trained properly.
  22. Special Agent
    Amazing!! I bet there were queues for the toilets that day.
  23. Special Agent
    But people going to a country meeting are not arrogant enough to not allow for bumper to bumper traffic. The meetings I recall being that way a while back were Kumara, Motukarara and Thames.
  24. Special Agent
    Let's keep all the valuable real estate as racecourses and sell all the clubs which operate out of small towns. Today highlights another pitfall of racing in major centres, traffic!! No doubt the Stipes will demand scratchings going by the directives of how long horses should be on a float/truck, you know the ones that stipulate how much water you have to give your horse and how many times you have to scrub it's bucket out.
  25. Special Agent
    It must be the wrong time of the morning as I saw the headline and thought it was about the falling foal crop, which I think is a far more serious problem facing the racing industry. I think crop is quite an outdated word for the whip. We could go on forever talking about non use of the whip. I still maintain a whip used correctly is an aid rather than a punishment. Still used in bondage and I doubt many die from whip use there, the odd heart attack which couldn't totally be attributed to the use of a whip.
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