Joe Bloggs

All it takes is vision, and you're only limited by your budget and imagination.......one is/was missing sadly.

Hence a world class plough, sand and cinders.....

Why didn't Mills explore the Morphetville model and have an inside track to take the pressure off their main track? They could have put in a Strathayr and laid world class plough, sand and cinders training tracks....... Randwick did, so too Newcastle.......why was there no consultation with management at these iconic centres? These guys would starve to death if they had to run their own business's, that requires thinking outside the square sometimes, way beyond Mills and the rocket scientists at Petone, a new broom required, maybe sell Riccarton and move, at least it would create a legacy for people like Pitman Jnr, and other young people hoping there will be a racing industry for them to ply their trade in.

If NZTR had of listened to those who knew instead of those that didn't they would have laid Strathayr and had so much money left over for better stakes at the bottom end to encourage people to stay in racing and not sell...... We have so many great racks here, [OZ] strathayr bloody brilliant, we still lose race meetings on those tracks when we get wild weather, and torrential rain, but there are no slipping issues and the jocks and trainers love this surface. As there is NO accountability in NZ, especially where racing is concerned as it's the best boys club on Gods earth, wouldn't it be lovely to find out how these AWT got to be the go to's...? and who won the tendering ? under freedom of information that should be readily available. Who were the actual decision makers? and why the fuck was Strathayr not the obvious answer?.........it beggars belief, and brings into question who had what to gain as it certainly wasn't the grass roots, solid industry participants that get up every morning and give their all for the game they love.

You have to hand it to Mills, hide like a rhino, the only way to remove this bloke would be an elephant gun......[tongue in cheek] he might take that comment literally and call out the poaching patrol.

Can I mow your lawn? NM charges to do that.......it's in his D&A.

Jesus, I'm there, direct flight from the Goldie too, I'll bring a sack of prawns and mangos.....oh, MAF might be onto me, a strange smelling carry on bag.......but I'll be with you in spirit next year.

Flogging horses has been the root of the problem, address the problem, then the problem is solved, the fucking punters have got nothing to bet on? .........you're right in a way, the majority have given up, that's why Purcell, Saundry, Ballsup or whatever his name was all got away with blue murder, cos they couldn't believe the apathy. We sell to HK too, but the majority don't as the stakes and gambling here is so strong, over there its a basket case, except for the emerging ATC and their 'gun' track and huge prize money lift, it has to start somewhere, otherwise CD and SI will just be bottom feeders cos Petone doesn't give a tuppeny cuss about them......get off your collective arses and make change, why should the select few hold the mainbrace back? ........just saying, cos I do give a cuss.....

Race the buggers, fix NZ overnight, stop selling FFS, it's as plain as the nose on your face.......the talent is leaving, save the fucking talent.

Then you missed the point, without Asia?....that's the whole point, and the ultimate price to pay.

I don't get invited into committee rooms anymore, believe it or not it happened once, or more than once, but not now, old farts in okanui's and thongs with knock off sunglass are poison.........but if I see Saundry anywhere on a racecourse here, I'll give him your regards and an ear bashing from me.........Saundry sadly was NZ 's loss and Australia's gain the day he lobbed over there, of course it's now reversed, so you got your revenge.

Hands up those that identified plenty of fuckwits at this sale?........especially from Asia. Without Asia NZ racing goes tit's up, OK, I recognise that, and, the Asians with the Kiwi dollar going down the gurgler feel they get bang for their buck, however the prices some of these people shell out are just mind boggling. True this sale has produced some exemplary results for the Asian buyers, but those are not the norm, far from it, the Cartel must be wringing their hands with glee, oh goody, off you go, off to fresh fields like South Korea and Malaysia, racing royalty that lot.. Don't get me wrong, I love Korea, have great Korean fiends and think Seoul rocks, but not their racing thanks, Malaysia is where some burnt out Singapore stables send their lovely old charges that are as burnt out as they are to meet their inevitable fate......seen a racebook/card for Selangor recently? Do yourself a favour and get one, you might be surprised to see one well known identity that whisks their burn outs up there so as they don't have the responsibility of a bullet, so in the wash up, the NZ Stud book is diminished by the exodus to Asia, it does no favours to a pedigree to see SING wins, KL wins, Macau wins, Korea wins, only HK has any credence and that is going south also. At least the Remuera car parks are holding their esteem, Coles New World will do good business, Ponsonby and Parnell, all good there, and down in the Kato many Range Rovers will be upgraded shortly, thanks to our/your Asian friends with big wallets but small brains........ Bring on the baseball bats, Chief will be choking on his Latte, I'm a big boy Chief I can take it, do your best......

Is there not an amateur race for him to finish on? The owner could ride him and then off into the sunset, dine out on that.

Free booze in Foxvegas tonight?

Yes I think so TC, I rode Kartika in a jackpot race at Marton, I thought she could win, I was told to ride her quiet, very quiet if you get my meaning, coming back to scale someone threw a mince pie at me, was it you? I was only 17 FFS.......I'm mentally scarred to this day, NM will attest to that.

What a doozy of a ride, out of the text book, nursed the horse beautifully up that straight as well, apprentices take note.....oh, why don't all of them take note, outside gate, got across without pushing, rated in front, didn't flay the horse and knew where the post was, Pam's great work was rewarded with a ride to match........gotta luv that.

Bloody good onya Pam......and Curious, big pats on the back.....

Holy Moly, 130-1.........the place to be tonight.......

Agree, Tina C could have made a killing here, she'd own a block of flats by now, maybe 3, but it's the lifestyle she loves apparently, ahh. there had to be someone......

Chief, as I stated somewhere on this site sometime ago, we [Mrs Bloggs and I] owned and operated a safari and travel company in Africa, we are used to animal death, raw and vicious, we did NOT support hunting safari's with guns, we did with Cameras.......we witnessed some huge obese Americans rejoice when shooting a defenceless big cat, and numerous Gemsbok, and believe a few All Blacks were guilty of that low act also, the correlation is such that anyone IMO that perpetrates pain and anguish to an animal with the purpose of killing it is a low life, a bottom feeder. The slaughter house is home to some very ordinary humans, and I use that term loosely.....humans, not all, it takes a special type to slit an animals throat even after stunning, and where the line is drawn is at our lovely horses. Not all horses can be re-homed, those that are vicious, unridable, carrying long term and painful injuries etc, need to be euthanised humanely, but anyone that condones a slaughterhouse death for our noble steeds is a C--T......and I stand by what I say. I think below your arrogant persona Chief there must be a decent bloke trying to escape, if I can lend a hand I have a cake and a file....meet you on the outside mate.

Richard Freedman famously once said ''they are monkeys, pull their ears and they squeal''......I wonder what Twitter would say to that now?

I don't excuse the strategic headline.......this was written by a person that is maybe known to a lot of you.......it relates to the racing industries dirty little secret, or not so secret as Laura will do what it takes [God bless her] to stop the carnage. Until racing unites to create good positive outcomes for our four legged friends when their racing lives come to an end, then the industry needs to be prepared for the outcry. Racing HQ takes a lot of money from the prize money disbursements however it is NOT going to the correct people, it's not doing it's fucking job.....that money, Australia boasts huge prize money, in some cases ludicrous money, it needs to be cut and better grants to sanctioned and accredited organisations so they can do whats needed in their re-homing programs. Am I angry, you betcha booties I am, so I'm sharing this story, I urge any of you with a conscience to do same and I thank you in advance. ===================================================================================================================== Laura Cheshire What a gelatishow. Thankfully one that worked out well for the horse. On Friday afternoon a horse came up on the Laidley (Q/land) sales page. He was Brave Nick. This horse was last raced in mid October, and since then had a tendon injury. Upon speaking to one of his jockeys who described him as one of the nicest horses she’s ridden, then speaking to his trainer who wasn’t even aware he’d been sent to the sales, we can see there is a problem here. This horse was sent home for a spell and his owner decided that instead of putting the effort into rehabbing an injury, she would send him to a sale yard pen instead. Apparently thinking he would just find a nice home. I spoke with the owner and said while this can happen, it’s not a likely outcome. So many horses sent to sale that are in the pens get sent to slaughter. Horses with injuries have an even lesser chance of getting a save. The owner agreed to pull him out of the sale and surrender to us at SAHA. Then the sale manager rang me and said no. The horse must go through. Weird as I’m pretty sure an an owner owns a horse up until sale? But I may be wrong. Thankfully a young girl on my Facebook met up with me at the sales and we talked about him. She decided to bid on him and said she was capable of rehabbing his leg. I literally drove in with a friend and a float to pick him up as he was meant to be pulled out of the sale. I think it is beyond ridiculous that we should PAY to take a broken down horse when there are so many free surrenders waiting for help. And here lies the problem. Firstly, isn’t there a rule that an owner has to make two attempts to rehome a horse before it goes to a public sale or slaughter. Or is it on the trainer? How does it work though if the trainer sends a horse home to spell and the owner decides to just sale yard it? Owners aren’t licenced. So they don’t get fined. Yet a trainer cannot govern an owner to not send a horse to sale or slaughter. So WHAT is the solution. I’ll tell you. (This won’t fix the problem with owners wiping their hands of horses. This is a bigger problem that I still don’t know how to tackle.) We need more money from the welfare fund put into helping these horses. More money used to rehab the broken down. Or at worst give them a kinder ending than a slaughterhouse kill pen. Trust me when I say it’s not the same as ‘putting one to sleep.’ It’s strange people refer to it as the same. A horse walks through a chute into a kill pen. Or kill box. Same same. They get (if they’re lucky and it hits the right spot) a captive bolt to the head to put them out. Then they get their throat slit to bleed them out. This makes their meat taste nicer. (Apparently) For the overseas buyers that have horse meat in their diets. The issue is a captive bolt is used to render the horse unconscious. Unfortunately when they move their head as horses often do, the bolt doesn’t work like it should. It seems from prior videos seen, that this isn’t really worried about and the horse will have its throat slit anyway. I mean, it dies right. The end result that they’re after. And this is what matters at their end. Horse welfare doesn’t rate highly in a slaughterhouse. There is also the issue of the next horse and the next horse and the many after that on the day that have the smell of blood and death thick in the air. Anyone who knows horses knows how quickly they pick up on things. So many of these horses don’t want to walk through the chute towards the smell of death. Sadly this is where they can get hit with pipe or an electric cow prod to get them moving. This makes me sick. Forced to walk to their death, going against every part of their being telling them not to. What a disgrace. With so many anti racing groups pushing to end things all together, we need to do the best we can to keep our horses out of kill pens. The money is in the industry. Why can’t it get used every year to help more of these horses that are falling through the cracks. We have around 50 Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds currently in care at our rescue. Plus the rest which are other breeds or part breeds. Racing bred horses still outweigh everything else in our numbers. We are flat fitting anymore horses in. We don’t have the funds and we don’t have the manpower. We don’t have the funds to PAY more staff. But we need to bring on more staff to manage the number of horses we have and to get them fit to rehome. We need help. These horses need help. And I think the racing industry needs to stand up and remember who the main player in this game is. The horses. I’m thankful someone came in and gave this horse a save. But without exposure of him this may not have happened. I wring my hands so often when sales are on. It gives me anxiety to know more of our horses are being thrown away. Houston, we still have a problem. And we need to keep pushing to get it fixed as best we can. Welcome to share.

Can I just add one more thing......all it takes is ONE person with a will, ONE........the rest will fall into place.

In the clear light of day and with a nights sleep I hope there is a resolution to yesterdays debacle and a new era arises from the ashes, I hope, I'm not confident. The various social media outlets inc this one went into overdrive did they not? Surely Petone can't escape this one, within those outlets were many great contributions alongside the scathing criticisms and if Sharrock has any credibility he will listen. I feel very sorry for those that went out to Riccarton yesterday, the paying customer and the racing participant, a day in their lives they shall not recover, except for the lucky few who captured prize money from the completed races the rest will think about that day for ages. Come Monday the track will not resemble the colourful sight we witnessed yesterday, the Marquee's and the crowd looked amazing on tele, even from km3000 away, a grand sight, something that encourages a new band of race enthusiast one would hope, CJC will lose financially and the reverberations from that will be felt down the road. Out of casualties spring surprises, in this instance I just hope it is for the better, a kick up the arse from the local policeman used to foster better behaviour from us kids, lets hope this is racings ''kick up the arse'' and we see a new day...... Just saying......and hoping.

Flat tyre?