curious

They'll need a slick new irrigation system to be able to water it evenly in the summer nor'wests. How much will that cost and is that factored in?

And the surface will blow away in the nor' wester if they don't keep it damp. You may end up with some mulching your garden Freda.

Thanks I see it there now under the 3 dot drop down.

Don't see how you could freehold something you don't own?

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/local/1878/0029/latest/whole.html

Have we lost the edit function or is it just me?

Oops.... I meant to add that they'll be lucky if that aannual estimate covers much more than the irrigation costs.

That's consistent with the figures I've seen for maintenance in the US. The likes of Cambridge with several hundred horses using daily it may be more like every 4-5 years for full replacement and top ups are required in between. You also have the cost of daily manual removal of any manure on the surface. I'm bicking Tim's figure is probably 10% or less of the actual maintenance cost. Be interesting to know how that was arrived at.

Seems to have recovered.

My forum display has gone wanky and now includes snippets of posts under each header. I've tried to figure out how to reset it to headers only as it was but can't figure out how to do so. Help please Chief or someone. '

Just give up Thommo. The ineptidude is systemic. No hope of fixing it now.

They are only about $15m short based on what RITA/TABNZ have promised. Hopefully, they have that much left over from what they didn't have to pay out last year. Otherwise you are right. We can only hope that the tooth fairy is in a generous mode.

Anyone know where they are getting the money from especially to match the total stakes to last year as they said they would?

Yep. A right F up.

Nobody seems willing or able to tell us. NZTR says ask RITA/TABNZ. They won't tell. Can't find out if there'll be enough money for blue ribbons by the end of the year.

I think you'll find those are pre-race ear covers, not hoods but never mind.

Magic. We have a few of those water walkers here too and I think it's not just the horses having fun!

Something like this? Or similar to the UK system?

Dunno. I've tried everything I can think of but I'm obviously not up the task.

Open Entry Races and R74 Races Notwithstanding NZTR’s intention to introduce a R74 grade from 19 September it is important to clarify some of the misconceptions around the ‘Open Entry races’ that have been programmed since the resumption of racing post the COVID-19 Lockdown earlier this year. · Since the return to racing, significantly more horses have been given the opportunity to run than would have been the case if the orthodox rating bands had been applied. In the 16 meetings to the end of the 4th weekend in August 2019 there were 1388 total starters while in the 14 meetings to the end of the 4th weekend this year there have been 1837 starters (obviously a lot more races run this season so far). · Turnovers have been particularly strong due to the races being attractive to betting. This is a critical necessity as racing relaunched itself post Lockdown. Regardless of where they have been placed in the race-day order they have clearly out-performed other races with similar field sizes in terms of turnover. Turnover is imperative to maintaining stakes at the levels we currently have. For example the last four races from Matamata on 22 August were: R88 (Opn Entry) = $247k, R90 (Opn Entry) = $281k, R65 = $197k, R86 (Opn Entry) = $277k. Turnover per starter is $6,114 higher for these races, which is 51% superior than Maiden and Rating 65 races at Feature meetings. Horses have won from all places in handicap including from “out of the handicap.” The most recent examples were last weekend where a R68 horse (Times Ticking) won a R95 race at Awapuni while at Matamata a R71 (New York Jazz) horse won a R90 race and a R73 horse (Pursued) won a R86 race. These winners were re-rated 8pts, 6pts and 5pts

That's a big ask.

https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfoSearch.aspx?q=china white&s=Retired&g=All&r=undefined&t=Name#horse

$19 actually. A cup of coffee a week.

Remember riding at a point to point at Waimate back in the day. Crowd would have been bigger than most CJC ones these days and no betting.