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How so? They are the facts and there are similar figures for yonks even though the above is a one week example.

It's not the quality of the fields either. It's the competitiveness of them that makes them attractive to punters and on decent fair tracks.

Greymouth +4.61% per starter. Awapuni (on a Saturday) -2.13%. Te Aroha (weekday) -10.25%. Rotorua (weekday) -12.33%. What is going on here? There's a problem and they seem to continue to try to escalate it.

Kumara +5.52% per starter.

Reefton turnover +23% per starter. Ellerslie -2.45%. Says it all really. In any other business, where would you be deploying your assets?

Nope. Might make it more attractive to many who won't now participate.

Haven't seen trainers working together to prevent tarriffs on imported racing or exported betting for that matter.

Haven't been able to for decades. You have to realise they are in competition with each other for sales and business. Asking them to work together is like asking Noel Leeming and Harvey Norman to work together, or McDonalds and Burger King. Maybe on some things ...

Can't speak for him but I'm in favour of the latter option which would probably suit the likes of CWJ too.

Best to sort the rules. Those that are there have to be enforced of course, not have the penalties circumnavigated by power and persuasion let alone giving the penalised options as to when they take the penalty. IMO, no whips at all or not to be used with hands off reins. Use some leadership here.

I don't think you need to be an accountant to distinguish between space for 2000 and space for 6000 people. They hug the outside fence at Kumara because they want to be out there as close as possible to the action and the excitement, not occasionally peering down from some air-conditioned box in a white elephant of a stand.

She's got a better chance than I have though it looks like I'll have a full licence in due course, even though I'll only have one horse in work. The only CPD I've done in recent years is picking up shit, walking down to the back paddock to feed one and saddling the odd one up at the races. I'm looking forward to them explicating in some form what this CPD requirement is going to look like and who is going to teach it as Freda notes above.

To be fair to Ellerslie, I used to love going up for the NY day and day after meeting and often took friends or acquaintances that were new to racing some of whom became co-owners. They were exciting racedays but nothing really like that now. If I were doing it all again I'd take them to the coast. I got another horse after 8 years out with the main aim being a couple of trips away to the likes of Marlborough or Wairoa etc. The coast is all that's left of those fun circuits now so hopefully next year I can make it. That will be somewhat up to Freda though.

And they certainly wouldn't have wanted to be hiding inside if they did.

They were hopeless. Now worse than that day by day.

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I'd call it stupidity. A bit more than an anomaly. Because of that we contemplated bringing mine back up here after cup week for a couple of months where there was a reasonable range of opportunities for him. For various reasons we decided against it, instead traipsing all round the SI to run in 12k races. It makes no sense if they want to set programming so they have consistent competitive wagering that attracts wagering interest and builds revenue. Nor, if they want to make the game more financially feasible for owners and trainers.

The above says she's been in racing for 4 years. CWJ for 40+ in which time he has ridden close on 2500 winners. However, the judiciary have to enforce the rules and this is quite an important one and Chris admitted he breached the rule and he is not stupid. Without the benefit of the head on, it's hard to tell and I may be biased in this case but as far as I can see he has only struck the horse once with his hands off the reins. Slaps on the shoulder hands on reins do not count as strikes for the consecutive strikes rule as per the Rules. Just have to wait to see the evidence I suggest though not that much can be done about it now anyway.

Too sensible.

Totally agree.

Unfortunately, there is no head on in the replay of that race to see where the infractions occurred and especially with left-handers like CWJ it's pretty hard to tell much from the side ons. To make matters worse it seems to take them weeks to get the stewards vision up which is presumably the video the stewards review prior to making those charges - e.g., still none from the 21/12 meeting at Ashburton which is a fat lot of good now, even though the note there says usually 3-4 days and I don't see why it should need to take that long with today's technology. From what I can see in this case it appears that CWJ only applied one back-hander with his hands off the reins a stride or two before the post, though he admitted the charge so presumably must have infringed.

Why? Surely if we are going to have tiered racing there should be opportunities for horses racing in the feature+ tier most weeks?

Yeahh spotted that later! Was working on hearsay when I first reported.

Jmo JB but he relaxed beautifully. There was no pace and he had to go when he did. That's what good judges of pace do. There was nowhere else but 3 wide and he was a nostril short of good enough to do it that way. And the winning rider had to cop a charge of overuse of the stick to beat him even then. Top ride in my book.