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Great news.

Yes. It's a handicapping stuff up but I agree with Pike and the JCA as to the ruling. Interesting that the JCA could find no official programme for the race!

Awesome vision.

There is provision in the rules for the overweight situation, not for changing an incorrect carded weight I don't think.

How could they do anything else? Money had been bet on those horses at the carded weights.

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I certainly wouldn't consider anything short of 2400 to be a staying race. I don't think it is elsewhere?

Where did you see that? I'd have thought the point of vertidraining is to improve soil structure, fertiliser uptake, root development etc over upcoming months?

No idea. And obviously, they would only do it Friday anyway if soil moisture content is appropriate for it to be effective wouldn't they? Not sure why they would even mention it if it's part of regular track maintenance especially in the context of announcing a trial date. They don't usually say things like "track will be mowed to 4" on Saturday".

Don't know. Just says it was for Rangiora.

I think verti-draining is a pragmatic annual or maybe bi-annual turf management process to support soil structure, root development, drainage and aeration, and this seems to have been pre-scheduled in that vein, not a reaction to current events.

How the hell could that happen. You've got starters, starters' assistants, stipes and jockeys and no-one noticed? Shouldn't those races be annulled?

What would that rate? About a Good 3?

Maybe. When did the rain fall? The idea is to pull the pin BEFORE horses start slipping isn't it?

If it doesn't work for racing here, could you just take the fibre off (if it hasn't already blown away in a nor'wester) and use it for motor racing or something?

That's what used to happen and for the most part still does in Oz. Certainly on the dairy farm next door to me. They also raced on those tracks at times their climate and soil structure etc. was most likely suited to.

No the purpose of deep aeration is to get the necessary root structure developed as you say. And their application needs to be horizontal to the direction of the compaction traffic not just drive them round the track half a dozen times.

Yes I mentioned that earlier. They were there whomever owns the galloping strip. Don't have much problem with ones on the outside. Just the inside ones seem a bit odd when trialling horses pulling up usually move toward the centre of the track approaching the crossing anyway.

This was a Foxton trained horse. May have had nothing to do with it and perhaps they use the traffic cones there now but I've never seen them on the gallop tracks. They always used white marker pegs and that was what they were using the last couple of times I was there in recent weeks and I've ridden quite a few gallops on that track in the last 20 years. If it was regrassed, why not just move the rail out? It was already out 3m wasn't it?

No idea. Not so bad on the outside strip in the straight but many horses would not have seen them before.

I don't know who it was riding the horse that caused the injury but I also feel for them. Hard to not be thinking would've/could've/should've done something different. Also hard to dodge a flying rolling object on a speeding horse. I hope it wasn't and don't know but I don't think the cones on the inside of the track from the finishline are a good or safe idea. That's why they have moveable rail.

What a FUp.