mikeynz

Strange as it one of the driest parts of the country runs a race meeting and what happens a few days earlier,it pisses down,seems to happen often at Napier when having a major cricket match,we can't control nature,we have to live alongside.

Does that mean free bear,gee if that was the case they would be queuing up,how about the mutton pies,or have they replaced with those vegan ones that taste like shit coz they probably are shit.

And we have all been going on about racing at one or two venues in winter more because of the better track condition but it is still winter and always on the cards(bad weather),the nominations were good but the fields just average,maybe a lot were thinking dry track and left dissapointed,unlike the track in Christchurch though Oamaru will get a long spell after August which probably makes a difference.

There is a lot of negativity here sometimes but there is a lot in all facets in life nowadays,so many clever fuckers making a fuck up of everything,where is it gunna end? 100 million not enough for the government donation to the Americas Cup,really and that just for hosting

It does seem a lot stakewise for very small fields,I guess those turning up won't need to push their horses too hard to pick up some good coin,in a way they gain,the industry loses,every big race just about struggles for numbers these days,sad but true. The national meeting in Riccarton will be interesting ,if all the runners come from the north and with the emphasis on racing where the horse population is,jumping wise be hard to justify keeping it going. In some ways I think Riccarton and Addington are having a bit too much influence over other clubs.

Looks like they are gunna be on a heavy track at Oamaru too, it does happen, it is winter remember, nominations are good,maybe trainers just assume it's gunna be a good track, not at this stage anyway.kind of unfortunate ,when did they last race there?

Oamaru,friday,industry meeting be interesting to see how numbers stack up,yet sunday there is no gallop meeting,sundays in winter can be pretty drab affairs, agood day to sit home watch racing,fridays ain't that bad but a lot of people do actually have to work,a lot less on sundays work but maybe a slight improvement in the quality of the racing,maybe a open handicap race as the main race or are they going to miss racing on a good track and plough through a bog next week at Riccarton instead,interesting scenarios.

Alexy must be getting near retirement too,I think hes up to about 326 now

Phone app for cricket last was stopping and starting,dont know if the problem was at my end or somewhere else but once again reiterates the fact that technology is still airyfairy lots of times,radio is usually reliable unless you run out if battery or back over it or something😂and they say it's free online but those internet provider charges can mount up over time.

3 days racing at Riccarton in August must take a lot out of the track,maybe a feature day or two saturdays at Washdyke both makes Timaru more viable and eases the load on Ricarton,our climate is simply not as favourable as aussie,even Ashburton have a couple of feature days Trentham is a bit of a problem child course these days,logic would suggest if they want to cut down travelling then with the AWT in Cambridge negates the need for Ruakaka,yet they race fortnightly in winter which actually is easing the workload of another track,Ellerslie is having a good spell for a month or two,I guess you can say it's a horses for courses issue,having said that why are a lot of these courses no longer standing up as well as they once did.

Does anybody believe it will ever return,or is it gone for good.

I see Devlins not on zb again this weekend,hard to believe hes on holiday doing part time hours,maybe hes gone. Senz on the app are running the same stream that the tab have at this stage but the cricket was on the phone app only,coudnt find it on the pc but its a work in progress,a lot of new apps dont work on older devices it seems.

Senz through the app are now broadcasting live cricket from England,I guess when the radio starts it will be there too,I suspect this new setup is gunna be good and that is from a racing view as well.

One positive is the trotting club use the grass track a bit,in some small way i was a little surprised that Waikouiti race club didn't move to Oamaru,its more in their geographical area,the racing club does have one good day in July but the other 2 meetings are pretty average events at best.

You mentioned spectators,what are they,are they a endangered species or something?

Have you seen the blind man farting prank on you tube? As this is a racing forum I will call it a day on the humour and try and act like a fully mature grown adult,which sometimes is a struggle,sometimes I just can't be bothered with humour all the time. im just fluffing around here waiting for the serious business of Coranation street coming up on tv1 soon

Well I personally wouldn't want my bum pinched,if someone pinched it and didn't bring it back it would negate my ability to fart to a standard few can match,it's taken a long time of fine tuning to get this good,amd when I'm in top form few people can come near me,probably don't want to anyway.😋

I don't care if you think I'm in fantasy land or whatever, bum pinching seems pathetic. On a more positive note regarding turnover third biggest day of the season,well you would think it would have been,the better the product the more the public buy into it,I would say Westport would be fourth,Boxing Day,I may be wrong but another example of people buying into it, purely because it's at a festive time.

Who started this bum pinching phenomenon,pretty pathetic actually. Just to add you actually see a persons true character when under the influence,I don't know what it's got to do with anything but just making a point.

Sometimes in the past when Wingatui is too wet Oamaru has been a good second option.

Is the racing club going to still keep going there.i mentioned on another thread they seem to get dicked around all the time with their racedays.

Just to add,Sunday's are actually a good day in winter,simply not much happening at this time of year,Addington race every week so why not the gallops join in,there are 2 Sundays next winter with no gallop meetings,why Oamaru don't get the June one which would be next week seems odd.

Oamaru and Timaru dates seem to be all over the place,why can't there be some consistency?........Lots of other sports usually have a settled timetable,but racing is tinkering all the time,Oamaru do have one big day,Washdyke have industry days only,that doesn't help their cause for staying racing,strange thing here though is you have the best track with the poorer horses yet Riccarton has the best horses with the poorer track,surely there is a better way,why for some reason do Oamaru race on a Thursday in June and Riccarton race on the Saturday yet the Sunday before has nothing,why not race AWT on the Thursday,basically having 2 day meeting,at Riccarton,some of these clubs are getting the run around. I actually think that all the winter grass racing from Queens birthday till after the National meeting in the south should be at the weekend,race midweek only on the. AWT.

Mostly good numbers for Washdyke Sunday and at this stage a slow track yet Matamata,New Plymouth and Wellington have heavy tracks,just been doing some research of past stats and about 80 percent of the time day 1 at Riccarton in August is a heavy track,yet Oamaru and Washdyke have slow or dead and in some cases a good track racing same time of year.