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  1. curious
    Nic Yuen?
  2. curious
    BELLO MIO (H Hassman) - When questioned regarding performance, rider advised that the gelding never travelled well and was disappointing.
  3. curious
    Did you consider the horse might not have been good enough? What did you have it priced at? I had it at $12 and unbackable by a long shot.
  4. curious
    I take it you backed it?
  5. curious
    Geez give her a break. Te Akau are mentoring her. She's had 44 raceday rides and a <10% strike rate this season. Tidy and promising rider for mine and a lovely and respectful young woman to boot.
  6. curious
    I mean, wouldn't you just plough it back up, sift out the rocks, add an appropriate amount of organic matter and reseed it?
  7. curious
    I get that, but why, if you are laying a new track, would you not include what you think would be a good mix of organic matter in the initial soil mix instead of mixing in rocks with it, then saying it will take years for the organic matter from the decaying grass clippings to filter into the mix? Nothing they have done makes any sense to me.
  8. curious
    That would be interesting to know. Do you MF?
  9. curious
    Well it will surely be spring before any seeding is required anyway won't it, by the time they get all the re-cambering work done?
  10. curious
    Yes, though if it were me and it is partially reseeded after the re-cambering, I's be waiting until the end of spring for the additional root development before using it.
  11. curious
    No I agree. That was obviously to do with the "compaction" or lack of proper root development.
  12. curious
    The latter is likely true but it was on the Wednesday which is right-handed day at Rangiora, so they would have probably had to get special permission to gallop left-handed.
  13. curious
    Jmo but I think it's only the bends into and out of the turn that need re-modelling which is what they are doing. The latter bend is virtually a right angle with no camber probably as bad or worse than the Ellerslie turn into the straight that @Chief Stipe has mentioned on more than one occasion.
  14. curious
    Actually, a Riccarton trainer taking horses to Trentham last week wasn't allowed to use the grass there for a final gallop at all. Had to bring them out to Rangiora for that.
  15. curious
    Agree. Foxton certainly used to and Rangiora does weekly, though the CJC don't seem to have any reverse work days at any speed.
  16. curious
    I think they are referring to the bend exiting the home straight at the 1600 and the bend entering the back straight at the 1400. Those have always been the main problem areas with the camber since the home turn was fixed.
  17. curious
    Yes. That sounds sensible. Why it wasn't done in the first place when it has been mooted for 20 years, is hard to fathom.
  18. curious
    Waipukurau Jockey Club_2025 05 21_18 50 44_1_676.mp4
  19. curious
    Sorry it was the whole house committee sitting, not the final reading.
  20. curious
    Bugger all. They still lose money and industry level racedays in winter would only worsen that.
  21. curious
    I agree, though I wonder if the likes of Trentham and Hastings would not be better off sold for the land value and new tracks built on lower cost land or another nearby track redeveloped, especially in the Trentham case where there is no horse activity other than racedays and something closer to the horse population would make more sense. The whole place needs a bulldozer. Mind you, so does Hastings.
  22. curious
    Core horse activity or sources of revenue other than holding racedays as you said earlier?
  23. curious
    Did the RIA amendment Act pass its third reading last night? That would be another 100m in racing's kitty which might help if NZTR apply their share to sorting infrastructure.
  24. curious
    Alison J. Northrop, Jaime H. Martin, Danielle Holt, Sarah J. Hobbs, Operational temperatures of all-weather thoroughbred racetracks influence surface functional properties, Biosystems Engineering, Volume 193, 2020, Pages 37-45, ISSN 1537-5110,
  25. curious
    The first bit was legislation wasn't it? Too long ago to remember what clubs were for or against that, but as I recall it was contentious. The latter bit I think is something that at least some clubs and other industry participants remain opposed to.
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