curious

To hose her down or your fence?

I tend to agree with that. The young ones are there punting. The BGP crowd is a good example. They went for the punting first and the party after. My memorable days at Cup week were centered on a boot party, not the horses per se. Pity we can't still have those too but times have changed. It's fair to say that the after events primarily benefit the clubs, not racing at large, but it's one way of getting new generations involved and many I've run into are punting in between, even if only rocking up on carnival days. As someone said, that approach seems to be working in Oz.

10mms I assume.

With evaporation rates probably in the 5-7mm range, I'd guess they will be pretty spot on with a G4 by race time perhaps improving to a G3 later in the day.

Just to prove me wrong: Thursday Afternoon Weather: Fine Track: Soft 5 Moisture Meter: 39% Rail: True Rain: No Rain Last 24 Hours | No Rain Last 7 Days Irrigation: 10M Tonight (Thursday) Weather and Track updated at 4.16pm Thursday 6 November

I think you'll find @sarge that the $100m is for the cost of the proceedings, not any subsequent fine and that has already been expensed.

https://nztr.co.nz/sites/nztrindustry/files/2023-05/July2022_RaceMeetingTrackInformation.pdf

Some tracks report everything well beyond requirements, often with additional reports, say on a Thursday for a Saturday meeting. Others like the CJC seem to be a law unto themselves, and their track reports are late more often than not.

Rainfall is the same. They are only required to report the previous 24 hours at the time of the report but with rainfall they are also supposed to report the last 7 days' total.

It's no longer up to AUSTRAC is it? It's up to the court to decide that now since the mediation has failed.

Consequently, if they irrigate today or tonight, they don't have to report that on Friday morning.

The CJC puts what ever they want in their track reports, even if that doesn't match the penetrometer readings. But on this, no. The track information report only requires notification of "IRRIGATION IN THE LAST 24HRS: mm"

Half to him': Melham's unique deal with husband Ben Talintyre After winning the Melbourne Cup Jamie Melham may regret promising half the prizemoney to her husband and fellow jockey Ben in the lead-up to the great race. “Ben loves the name,” Melham said about her Melbourne Cup mount Half Yours. Jamie Melham pictured with her husband Ben Melham. (Photo by Jay Town/Racing Photos via Getty Images) “Now we’re married, half (prizemoney) goes to him and half goes to me.

On the weekend I'd say.

Hmmm...