curious

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?

If it's not intended for them to race there next May, why would they have a date in the draft calendar?

The other issue is sourcing the grade of silica sand required isn't it? They were thinking they may have to ship it from Oz but eventually sourced some in Northland I think. What about the South Island? That will be expensive if there is none closer. Especially, given it needs to be topped up every 3 years and fully replaced every 7 or so as I understand it. As some have noted, disposal is also a problem. Seems to create a significant ongoing expense at a time when there is already way insufficient sustainable revenue.

All probably a bit late from what I hear they have taken another option to preserve the assets for the community. Anyone confirm?

Foxton members would say the same I'd say. As the CS said, Avondale $200m+ of assets. RACE, what, $5m+ of debt and that guaranteed by the insolvent RITA. I wonder what their lenders are thinking.

Who said they were not looking at options?

That's totally the right of the AJC to determine. The committee are accountable to the members and they determine the way forward. What would be the point of meeting with those other clubs given their licences have been taken away. The only point would be if they had licences and wanted to negotiate where they would race those dates. The proposed legislation is aimed at taking away the rights of the club (and others) to determine the use of their own assets, actually to take them away altogether. That is not what the Messara report recommended.