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I'm curious what makes you think it has a leader bias? If it does, so what? That should be evident to owners, trainers and punters? Why would it be a problem if it's just the nature of that track?

That may be true on a month by month or annual interim basis but Tim Mills originally said estimates were 55-60,000 per year for the AWT maintenance but he was clear that excluded amortising the cost of the prospective complete relaying at the 12 year point, which might perhaps add another 100k per year.

That should do it. I'm curious to know whether numbers training have increased at either Cambridge or Riccarton subsequent the addition of the AWTs. Any info on that for Riccarton Freda? Or Cambridge anyone? I can see that Riccarton now probably does need 600 in work to bring their training operation into the black, especially with the additional costs of maintaining the AWT. But as noted, where the heck would the extra 400 come from?

Must be a mistake. Increases for the period of 3 April until 26 August 2022: Feature Days – Open - $32,500 to $35,000 R74 - $27,500 to $30,000 3&4YO - $25,000 to $30,000 R65, MAAT, 2YO - $22,500 to $30,000 Maiden - $10,000 to $15,000 https://loveracing.nz/News/36862/NZTRBoardsgrowthplanlauncheswithstakesincreasesandinfrastructureboost.aspx

Up 4% on what?

I don't recall him ever riding at Waverley but I could be wrong.

I wonder how many cigars it took him to get to 86?

How do you mean? Works for me.

They were to pay for the track including adjustment to existing thoroughbred training tracks. It was to be a straight GH track.

In this case the greyhounds were to convert an existing unused building for that purpose at their expense.

From discussions I have been involved with about adding a greyhound track to a thoroughbred facility, the funding would come from the greyhound club and/or GRNZ.

I think the benefits of that, if there are some, should be pretty immediate.

I can't work out why there are such long delays in this becoming available. It seems to me if it is available instantly on raceday that it should be able to be posted the next day at least if not immediately. It often takes weeks to appear, by which time it is rather too late to be of much use.

It does service a large provincial area for racing purposes, so why not?

Huey, I don't think it was ever thought that the AWTs would increase wagering revenue. As far as I can see, the objective was twofold. Firstly, to provide an excellent year round training facility in each region and secondly to take the pressure off the diminishing number of grass tracks over winter. They seem to be doing that. As Freda says, they are unlikely to significantly increase or decrease wagering revenue overall. Mostly done with free money to the industry, I don't really see the problem. Like any surface, heavy or firm grass or AWT, they will suit some horses more than others and even that will likely vary given that the moisture content clearly affects the speed of the surface quite significantly. From a punting perspective, I don't really see much difference. I've certainly done a lot better on AWTs over the last year than on grass but the n for that assessment is limited.

Fair decision, lenient penalty as was pointed out. You can't have this behaviour going on if you want the perception of the integrity of the industry. Needs to be deterred strongly and that may not be enough to do it. Rules are rules.

What do you see that makes it seem cruel Huey?

I saw you tried to put up a song with this KitK? The song should probably be this. We gave him a new stable name of Styx when I got him - after this.

A fantastic job by an awesome team and a really neat but totally enigmatic character of a horse. That said, I'm pretty sure the riders he dropped in recent weeks concur and would have been cheering him on today.

I see they updated it at 8.54 am!

True but a staggering number of 7 horses went round at the Cambridge jumps trials on Monday.

With nominations for all races closing at 9am this morning, would you not think that someone could have got out of bed and posted updated weather and track conditions by now?

So did I. That Act abolished the RIU and established the RIB in its place.

It was dissolved by Winston's Act.