Joe Bloggs

You legend......do you need crowd funding?

I was about to say, you should be on the committee, the P or VP, even, but then again, with the state of play at the mo why bother, what a shit fight, it reflects badly on all concerned, no wonder racing is where it is, how did it come to this, has the world changed so much? I'll remember Levin from it's halcyon days, huge crowds, wonderful horses and jocks/trainers and even better horses........

I've never been on a committee Chief, not of a Race Club anyway, over here a licensed trained wouldn't get on a committee, conflict of interest and all that, but as to Levin, well, at one stage a few years ago, 3-4 actually, I had 4 in work with one trainer, the Missus and I that is, so I reckon I got to hear and see a few machinations with that track.......with a tweak or three, it would get my vote to stay, even though our last two aren't at that track Levin has it's place big time, but money talks, and unless they branch stack to increase the voting membership it'll go the same way as many others....sadly.

''Max, I thought you made sure Bernard was on the plane, belted down, securely fastened and the plane heading west......don't tell me they've refuelled with E10 by mistake and he's coming back''....please Max, NO, make it all go away.....

VE didn't please the trainer with her gallop leading into the Rothschild apparently, so the debut de France is on hold for a wee while.

I thought about being a stand up, but became a jockey, trainer......come to think of it, whats the difference?

The Petone Gold Cup, Gr1 WFA Purse ; just short of the full quid. Tawdry Saundry, R58, Sharrocks Dreaming, R58 ,Oathams Loathsome, R58, McCrutchisonfire, R58, and the only filly in the field Slender Glenda Of Dubious Gender R58......... Race Abandoned Gender inequality and questionable handicapping, The ratings are far too generous.

I'm based on the Gold Coast Special Agent Maxwell Smart, with 200,000 other expat disenchanted Kiwi's, Sun Surf and Sex, I'm guessing another 200, 000 will be here shortly, sadly the Missus [an Aussie] has given our last two remaining race neddies to a very good CD trainer to condition them, ascertain their future and in all probability fly them out of there ASAP....any sign at all they can pick their feet up, gonski's...... and not to Asia either, even 1000km from Brizvegas on red dirt arenas they race for more moula than NZ, except for the jolly rogers up north, with Ronny from Remuera and Poppy from Ponsonby looking forward to bubbles and canapés at Royal Ellerslie shortly, fields made up from the gaited and feted Wankato trainers salivating at racing on a state of the art surface with their Asia rejects [failed the vet] and quadruped wannabes looking to reward their patient [sucker] owners three sheets to the wind up in the members cheering themselves horse [not hoarse] while retired trading room types admire their taught, lithe derriere's [boys and girls] before retiring to the committee room for a debrief........a ramble, yeah, you bet, been up all night watching the green and gold collect a swathe of gold medals.......too tired to have a punt......FFS.....

Sorry, you're dreaming, if you believe that, you need help........as I said in an earlier post, Apathy will win over, as it's done for a decade or more, the strong got stronger and the weak got weaker.......it's a gone burger NZ racing, fucking disgusting pardon my French, but that's the only way to describe it........it was financially and emotionally raped and pillaged by self interest mercenaries, the only way to fix it, the ONLY way is a Royal Commission, and being NZ that will never happen.....and aint that fucking sad!!! no apology......

The fields will always be decimated on the Sunny Coast as another race meeting is just around the corner and owners would rather wait, not risk their charges on that goat track, in NZ it's the desperate that race as you don't have the luxury of constant race meetings, it boils down to the needy and the greedy.....simple. Injuries will follow, no doubt on that, so many pull up short, some from respiratory noise?? as reported by the jocks, my mate has just lost his horse for a long period to arterial fibrillation after running on the Ballarat surface........and his was a good horse with no previous/priors.....just one of hundreds over the past decade with Geelong and Toowoomba before that. A good read on www.letsgohorseracing.com as it nails it........

Give yourself an uppercut, stop making sense, it's bloody irritating......

Wouldn't have happened if someone was held to account.......no accountability, no good governance and most importantly, no transparency. There should have been root and branch reform years ago, but life was too good for a few, and now it's too late. The invited and anointed Aussies got rich ,as did the useless Pom, the Hoi Poloi got poorer, emotionally and financially, what a fucking tragedy.

And to think there are people/owners out there paying training fees? Petone might just be a tad nervous now, the rumblings are getting louder and it's not an earthquake, just discontent, then again if Discontent and Apathy was a horse race in NZ, my money would be on Apathy to win by panels......except for a few brave souls on here not afraid to let it rip, it's where it is simply because of apathy, and that's shameful in itself......so we reap what we sow.

Why would you bother to become an owner in the CD? Hope to buggery it's a long smooth spring/summer, I bet the folk at IRT and NZB are rubbing their hands with glee, lots of new clients booking their Oz sojourn........

You can sum up NZTR with three letters, just three...........N F I

Do you really need Bernie Huey, I reckon you're taking the piss........Bernie's got cracked ribs mate, he laughed that much when he boarded the plane they heard them go bang back in economy, poor bugger was in agony flying back to MEL......the hostie asked did he need pain killers, Bernie was heard to remark......nah, just let me look at my bank book again, #painaway

Absolutely Doomed, no argument from me, I live a stones throw from the track, I know the feedback once they learned it was going to the AWT........more frowns than clowns, and let me tell you, there's lot of clowns in this industry, mostly wearing suits.

I too it you knew it was transferred, sorry, I should never assume anything, period.

I'm not making sense? why ask me then? The secretary of the trainers association Cameron Partington does his best when meetings are cancelled here, he tries really hard, he's pretty good at his job, unlike some, trainers hate the track, owners tend to believe what their trainers tell them, and so they should, in many cases the acc fees are waived, especially when it goes up onto the joke, sorry AWT.......SFA want to run on it, some do, mostly attrition trainers, ........I back the trainers who snub the thing, it has it's place in the UK.......the feedback from many who have one here, not great, the newbie going in here at the Goldie will attract gazillions, NOT......the night racing under lights will be interesting, the bar/restaurant/night club with go off big time, cos it's the Goldie, the tote will be deserted.....IMO.....

Well they were silent, compliant? nah, voted with their feet, yep, you betcha.........hence the result, only way these tools will learn, RQ has been a basket case since Joh, nothings changed, Petone is a mirror image.

I'm a damn sight luckier than most as I got to see the best ever, well in my opinion anyway, Hondo, Paleface, Koala King, Gamma, Pure Steel, Markovina, and Young Quinn, I strapped Cardi, and got to drive Paleface home from Picken Oval to Bill Wilkins stables in Croydon Park in 73....Billy had Bangaroo Flex at the time, how fucking lucky was I? I wont die a millionaire but you can't put value on what I've seen......

It's so sad NM, that's what you and I and a few more on here would do, but not RQ.......they are as gormless as NZTR......and they had a mortgage on the gold medal up until now!

To those AWT sycophants todays decimated fields at the Sunshine Coast should be a warning, have you ever seen so many scratchings? Most QLD trainers have voted with their feet and with their Owners backing. Many industry participants left school prior to or just after SC accreditation, however, I bet there's a plethora of tertiary degrees/diplomas etc within the suited brigade at HQ..... Therefore with such brains trust why does common sense not resonate and prosper? I'd back the rank and file at the coalface to win a ''who wants to be a millionaire'' over the office animals anyday........do you not think after so many transferred meetings to the AWT the multitude of scratchings that ensue would spark alarm bells and hence urgent consultation with the trainers? The meeting today will be run at a huge loss to the industry, no each way betting, the exotic pools at non sustainable levels and win/place a ducks bum.......the corporates must be shaking their heads, and on-course bookies will do SFA business today, gorgeous day that is here...... If NZ doesn't learn soon, and it wont with dunderheads like Sharrock and no hopers that trod the path before him creating a pathway to disaster then racing is well and truly rooted.... We'll never go under here due to the gambling culture, in 4 weeks when the carnivals start the pools will go through the roof, even during recession here the gambling thrives, it's the nature of the beast, as the good ship [canoe] Aotearoa sinks slowly into the financial abyss, as it surely will if China ever decide to go elsewhere for their milk products, the first industry to go will be the racing and breeding capers........the money squandered on AWT without picking up the phone to call race clubs here to ask as to why they pulled up their AWT will never be seen again, gone, pissed up against the wall, and for what? Today, and if these nut jobs decide to do this again will be financial disaster to all other than the needy and the greedy..... Not good for man and beast, the winners....the vets.......and the transport companies and of course the very few jocks with rides today, although that's questionable as it's such a great day many will be out fishing or surfing, the snapper are running and who doesn't like oven baked fresh snapper? Just Saying.....

That wouldn't work here in QLD, they view the AWT as ''The Panacea''.......then turn a blind eye when the fields are decimated by scratchings, they've excelled themselves with the Gold Coast yesterday going to the synthetic up at the Sunny Coast on Monday.......it'll happen again, no-one has worked it out, except of course the punters......

What's the bet the committee rooms will be 'state of the art'' with menu's to suit? I would also wager, there will be an entourage every Sat plying the Welly/Dorkland route.........no risk, all suited up, Petone Style......ye haaa.