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Rowley. We generally get more horses from Waikato to our meetings than NP anyway because they dont like track. We are also an hour closer to Central District training tracks such as Awapuni, Wanganui, Foxton, Levin, etc. Makes absolutely no sense. As I just said to Reefton they are using population as an excuse but that is crap as well because as mentioned we are lot closer to Palmy, etc. Certainly not the case with Coast so dont know what they base that on. Kumara has no accomodation, night life, track (is shit), etc

Hi Reefton. Having been born & bred in Reefton (parents, grandparents, etc, etc are still in Reefton Cemetary) and been on Westland RC committee I am fully aware of what you are saying. In our case they are using population as an excuse but that doesn't even apply in the Coasts case. In fact many moons ago when I was Secretary of Reefton RFC I think that the rugby club had a share in the racecourse facilities. Is that still the case? I know the Trotting club still has approx 33% share here so not sure how they get around that. Think there is plenty of fighting to come yet.

Hi there from the Capital of Taranaki Racing - Hawera. What good fields for tomorrow. Think there was supposed to be only 8 races but had to expand to 9 and then 3 or 4 of these have still got horses balloted out and rest are almost capacity. Bit like that great track New Plymouth - OOps sorry thats right they generally only get 7 races with 7 or 8 horses in each. So lets close down Hawera shall we and spend plenty on doing up New Plymouth. One problem with that of course is that they dont currently own a track and not even sure if they have renegotiated a new lease even. I know NP council were talking about not renewing it. Anyway as for Hawera. Track yesterday would have been a good 3 but after some overnight rain and few showers today has been downgraded to Dead 4. Bit more rain predicted tonight but dont think it will be much and fairly windy so will dry out quite quickly therefore expect a Daed 4 or 5 by tomorrow with no track bias. Will update in morning if I get chance. Off to Calcutta shortly. Good punting all.

Why do the AB selectors insist in having 4 fullbacks in their team and only 1 specialist 1st 5 (an ex Fullback)? We have the world's best FB on the wing. Probably the 2nd best FB in the world at 1st 5. The 3rd best FB in NZ at FB and Damian McKenzie, an impact player in the reserves while we only have BB at 1st 5 with an average Super Rugby 1st 5 in the reserves (D Mac). What happens when BB goes down injured in the first 5 mins. Would hate to see DMac carrying the can for a full gane in a World Cup 1/4 or semi?

Very good field, top crowd, top ride, top horse. Who is the commentator?