Joe Bloggs

Do you agree that we, the industry, should be funding Vela's folly to the tune of half a million dollars? Do you understand how many maiden races this could fund to keep grass roots people in the game? I guarantee the bulk of the industry, the real people, are against funding this closed race series......run a Vox Populi there would be no surprises.

I'm saddened to raise this again Chief, however, those low Bastards from the Chinese mainland masquerading as human beings storm Jimmy Lai's offices this morning and arrest him for colluding with foreign powers. The end is nigh for that little Island, and horse racing will go. There will be a civil war there, bloodshed like we've not seen for a long time and Taiwan will go next. Pty those Pacific Islands that sold out to the Chinese overlords, keep an eye out for the navy vessels visiting close to NZ shortly, maybe on reflection David Lange shouldn't have pissed off the yanks, cos boy you're going to need them shortly. It will hit the fan, however if you're a true socialist you've nothing to fear, just learn how to work a wok, and smile whilst choking.

Now a consensus and an environmental report would have been nice, were any of you trainers consulted Freda? or was it foisted on you? As Riccarton is a cricket pitch in summer doing untold damage to horses legs and feet, why the hell wasn't a strathayr put in.......they are the ants pants and very forgiving on the animal. They work summer and winter.....same old pink stale males making decisions beyond them.

Let's face it, without your girls NZ racing would collapse in a screaming heap, how many industries could or would say that? It's a fact, and it would be great if some of the 'girls' or retired 'girls' were offered retainers by NZTR to run a schools education program to encourage more girls into the industry? The fellas are getting bigger and heavier, the ladies might just be the salvation.

Midweek horses would go through to open class out there, at 5k to the winner, 6 races from winning a maiden, doesn't sound like much, but 30k plus a strong bookies ring, and what price the experience? Believe it or not, they run 1-9 and 1-22's out there and on the sand mostly, and jocks fly up from the Sunny Coast and beyond.......what options, amazing, and when the COVID is a memory the best boot parties on the planet.

Maybe the boys need a 'weight allowance' Chief, the reverse of France?

I agree, tiered stakes are a joke, only a utopia could offer that. I'm talking the impossible, however, until all at Petone are gone and fresh blood, young, old, whatever, whomever, as long as they have a passion and knowledge of our industry they should find a home in the western locale of Jackson St. Who gets to choose the 'new staff' I don't know as the selection process of Jackson, Allen, and especially the women who proudly announced at her inauguration ceremony we all witnessed,.....'' I just went in today and opened a TAB account'' led many of us to the obvious conclusion that we were doomed. Molloy's intellect is beyond question, he could have been the switch/light......but he is the Rodney Dangerfield of racing, excuse my French, but what a fkn waste, he could have contributed so much, he knew/knows the oxygen thieves, the imposters and to find intellect, passion and business acumen alongside racing ring craft is nigh on impossible, that's why we are where we are. There are some that must be trying hard, but they need direction, the TAB will need another handout, sooner rather than later, it wont be long until the public wake up, an investigative journalist will sniff what's coming and there will be trouble, big trouble. The cartel will be ok, they are solvent, their futures defined by happenings past, NZ needs the Te Akau Sharks, the Melody Belles, as racings credibility is shrinking, and financially it is doomed unless there is massive upheaval. I mooted this more than 10 years ago, I was laughed at, the Ostrich's heads were buried so far in the sand, or in their wallets, they didn't want to know or didn't understand, and as you all know, ignorance is not an excuse in the eyes of the law or fiduciary duty. Pain is natures warning, be it physical or financial, take heed, and remember prevention is far better than cure....oldies, but goodies.

He's a Joker not an Ace........

Thank you Noodlum, you at least get it.......ATA doesn't, if you are happy with being diddled like that then you deserve one another, how bloody insulting, as I said, I'll take my bat and ball and bugger off, racing Saturday for what, 5k even less when trainer and jock percentage go and not to mention the travel costs....you have to be joking......if you've got a Saturday class horse, send it over.

I might not have been as succinct as I would have liked Freda, the only reason our horses are still in NZ is the advertised stake is almost as good as here in QLD at 22.5K......that's SAT stake money on the Goldie........so, imagine the surprise and disgust to see some poor buggers that accepted now racing for half that........if they had prior knowledge and accepted those terms, then poor fool them. That wreaks of desperation and I feel sorry for them.......mine, if that happens to ours in the coming weeks, the direction will be, head north to runway 1 Mangere, and take off for Oz, the sunshine, the good tracks and if they are hopeless they can race at bush bush tracks for the same as R65 at Awapuni Sat........10k.

Forgive me, it's only 6-30am here and pouring, however, I see Hawera or the brains trust scheduled a R65 1400 and it's now split with a 22k payday for one div and a 10k for the other........ Surely if you have nommed expecting to race for 22 and find you're racing for 10 you can scr without penalty? I know we are in trying times but this is just bending the owner/trainer over a fence isn't it?

Thank you for being 'up front' re the potential for horse injuries etc.......I wonder how many others will do that. We went though the same 30+ years ago when they dropped the wood chip track in at Flemington, no bugger wanted it, it was a loose shitty surface foisted on us by a stupid ill informed committee and subsequently many lost good horses, tendons, splint fractures and a plethora of slab fractures. Bart and CS were shouting the loudest, as the grass tracks were disgusting due to overload, history repeats, you will witness that, and the owner and trainer lose......ahh, aint life grand,

I'm sorry to say though, if the RIU/JCA think the personal abuse will stop, I think they are sadly mistaken.....if history repeats that is. My learned bedfellow, the blonde assassin, informs me, you can actually say anything you like about anyone, but you must be prepared to prove it in court when challenged. If challenged. Defamation is a character assassination, you can't use profanity to prove a point, you just have to prove the point, the law in NZ maybe different to here. I get called a silly cnt all the time, I'm silly, and that could be proved, I lost a million dollar company in Sth Africa, by trusting someone who turned out to be a cnt, but me? I'm no cnt! Although a certain trainer thinks I am......

Thank you Chief, it'a all about 'relevance', and reading it in it's entirety I'm inclined to Agee with your comments re this.

Yes, I'm guilty of assumption......I should know better.

Now here's a conundrum, If LM thinks he is maligned, and was confronted by a 'kangaroo court' he could sue through civil means for defamation. Not being allowed to use the truth as a defence leaves me somewhat dumbfounded. It breaks and confronts the very meaning of civil liberties. As the defendant in a brought action, civil liberty defines your right to legal representation, otherwise the prosecutor becomes judge and jury, which under Westminster law, is totally illegal. Having a missus that was a legal secretary to an eminent legal eagle is a big help.......thanks Honey.

Are you pooing your pants?

He's making written apologies on RC........call the paramedics!

They were spruiking 20mil + in savings, but the race fields revenue was a joke from day1, so that revenue stream will never eventuate, surely the truth has to come out, sooner rather than later I hope.

So does that mean from tomorrow they are trading as insolvent? their forward projections are fairytales, again, so who can trust a thing they say, if it all goes tits up again, the GOV rushes to their rescue? Hells bells, someone should go to jail if it does, it's a house of cards, what price honesty? as long as you can protect that wonderful salary package eh? for as long as it takes, and whatever it takes!

Thank you Basil.

There are plenty over here that have been fined and warned off, they were owners mostly, so no pay fine, no racecourse attendance! for perpetuity in most cases.

The Lap Dog's master slandered Freda, it was out there for all to see, the lap dog didn't remove the post, Freda being the person she is, laughed it off, she could have taken the bloke to the cleaners,.........

Classic!

I can guess.