curious

Interesting. Since it's still only Monday where I am.

Please note this meeting will be run as a closed door meeting, essential workers only. Lot of good the NZTR directive obviously did.

Might have been a good spot to move the Wairarapa meeting to though we are experiencing extraordinarily high water table levels lately as we do every 5 years or so and that means drainage is not what it commonly is.

Surely not. Foxton trials Tuesday. Should be all good.

Yeahh sorry. Didn't mean to make it sound like it was attributed to you. Bosma obviously doesn't have a clue.

Yeahh right. Tui ad.

When I rang them last year they said they expected to have the contract finalised in September with construction underway in January. Haven't seen or heard a dickey bird since.

At least they took up that suggestion. Good morning, The Tauherenikau track was inspected this morning at around 10am by the RIB and Club representatives. The track had received approximately 50mm of rain through to Sunday morning with more significant rain to come during Sunday. There is currently some surface water on the track and inconsistencies with the surface. In the interests of safety the decision has been made to not run this race-meeting tomorrow. Further information will follow. Allan Pollitt Bureau Team Leader New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing

Good morning, The Tauherenikau track was inspected this morning at around 10am by the RIB and Club representatives. The track had received approximately 50mm of rain through to Sunday morning with more significant rain to come during Sunday. There is currently some surface water on the track and inconsistencies with the surface. In the interests of safety the decision has been made to not run this race-meeting tomorrow. Further information will follow. Allan Pollitt Bureau Team Leader New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing

Yes would make more sense to me to inspect tomorrow morning before those horses leave and then if all ok first thing raceday.

They've moved from the human population to the horse population?

Don't think accessibility to the human population is a big factor. Covid aside, most of New Zealand is accessible to that population. Proximity to the horse population is what will more likely generate competitive racing and thus wagering revenue to cover stakes funding.

Not ideal but don't see how it is justifiable or sustainable for the overall good of NZ harness racing.

Really? Don't think so.

I see this on another channel. Hope that puts a rocket under them. The Members Council have serious concerns about Owners being blocked from attending Racing. These have been communicated to Bruce Sharrock COO of NZTR. Sharrock's position is that Owners should be able to attend and view their horses races.

It's obviously rocket science to them. Revenue is directly related to number of runners. They do stuff like programme an open 1600 which draws 4 noms and they then delete. Meanwhile, they eliminate 10 horses from say an R65 1600. Regular direct contact with all trainers in the catchment would avoid this and surely more than pay for itself.

They could just contact trainers to do that couldn't they? They should be doing it anyway before setting the programming.

You can't book anything until you have a runner accepted I don't think.

It beats me if most are animal/horse lovers as you would assume. What makes you say he is a recidivist offender?

OK. So, we are talking about cobalt, not iron and I think you mean 6000 mcgs, not mgs?

But there is iron in all feeds, even in grass and water. That may sustain normal levels. What are you talking about with a 6000mg read out? Of what? And what does that have to do with hemoplex?

What's wrong with hemoplex? Has only a minimal amount of iron in it and is a mix of vitamins, minerals and amino acids all found in most feed mixes. Does have a trace of cobalt but probably not enough to trigger the threshold at recommended doses.

Totally agree. Unfortunately rehoming is not necessarily a good option from an animal welfare standpoint. As you say, considerable due diligence is necessary and sometimes a bullet is a kinder option.

Rides all her own work and works full time aside from training (very successfully) half a dozen horses. Where have these young people gone in NZ racing?

At red light, they do have to exclude those without vaccine passports at any events. That is the law. They can still hold the events with the 100 person limit among other things.