curious

Gotit. Ta. Seems like we have a serious problem Houston.

Where did she come from? Just looking at the MPI regs, if she were quarantined on arrival it would only be if she came from a country where the below are present. I also don't see any requirement to test for piro during that quarantine? Or post-arrival? (3)When equids are to be imported into New Zealand from countries where the diseases listed below are considered present,the duration and type of PAQ is stated in brackets: a)Equine infectious anaemia (EIA) if considered by MPI as moderately to highly prevalent in the country of export (minimum 7 day PAQ) b)Equine influenza (minimum 14 day PAQ) c)Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (minimum 7 day PAQ) d)Surra (minimum 30 day PAQ protected from insect vectors) https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/36951-equids-import-health-standard

Ok. Thanks. That's even worse then.

2 false positives? Don't think there's any quarantine on arrival. Never used to be. And this is a year aafter import as I understand it so, 3 false negatives prior to import now 2 false positives a year later? Seems a bit of a stretch to me.

No. But it seems a fairly extensive investigation will be necessary to rule out both the above possibilities.

Or ... that NZ has a piroplasmosis vector which has never been tested before, though that would mean that the disease was already here unbeknown to anyone. I note that there can be non-equine hosts including dogs.

Most of it seems to be hitting the fan.

I kind of like the vineyard myself. Beats the landscaping in the centre of most courses I've been to.

Or put in a special irrigation system for them like they do at the CJC!

Same with Gisborne in the Poverty Bay region. Don't get it. Gisborne– Venue with 1 race meeting in 2017/18. Fair location. No training.Retains racing in the Gisborne region. Requires general facility improvements.Leased.

Nothing to sell. It's leased. From the Messara report: Te Teko– Venue with 2 race meetings in 2017/18. Fair location. No training.Early season trial centre. Helps to retain racing in the Bay of Plenty. Requiresgeneral facility improvements and landscaping. Leased.

I reckon 125 races equates to about 16 meetings. So I guess it's think of a number and double it. I also note that the reported costs to NZTR of those abandonments was as below. Abandoned meeting costs 296,405

I think there's been some creative reporting going on which as I have said were part of the fraudulent figures presented to cabinet to get the bailout funding including the $20m for the AWTs. 23 meetings affected somehow converted to 32 abandoned. From the FY2018 annual report: ABANDONMENTS While there were less races lost than in the previous season, abandonments continued to be a problem.A total of 125 races were lost, through nine full abandon-ments and nine partial abandonments. Five other meet-ings were affected by weather or track conditions but were completed in full after being transferred to another date.Thirteen meetings had been fully abandoned in the pre-vious season but the number of races lost in 2017-18 was only eight less than the previous year. It was only the third time in the past 15 years that more than 100 races were lost in a single season

They've already been found useless. The jury is still out on negligent but from here it looks probable.

I thought the CJC were selling that to pay for the AWT?

A very tired old conference centre now to boot.

He was previously CEO of RACE and earlier a stud manager, the ill-fated Blandford Lodge.

It says it's David Jewell, formerly at NZTR.

The surprising thing to me is that they've scheduled 6 meetings on the Cambridge one before it is even complete let alone tested in NZ winter conditions. One fatality and they'll have the animal welfare activists all over them.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12333111

Remember running into a syndicate out for dinner celebrating one night after a Riccarton meeting. Horse went ordinary they said. They had a syndicate policy of celebrating when they got beat not when they won. More parties that way!

Always a long trip home if they don't go any good!

Rangiora to Invercargill?

It has 6 meetings scheduled for 20/21. https://loveracing.nz/OnHorseFiles/LoveRacing/Articles/2020/Revised 20_21 Racing Calendar MEDIA RELEASE.pdf

The cobalt bloke?