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https://loveracing.nz/Common/SystemTemplates/Modal/Video.aspx?v=http%3a%2f%2fwww.racingreplays.co.nz%2fmedia%2f202011%2fCBRY-R07-141120.mp4&i=%2fCommon%2fImage.ashx%3fw%3d565%26h%3d314%26a%3d1%26o%3d1%26z%3d1%26bg%3deeeeee%26p%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.racingreplays.co.nz%2fmedia%2f202011%2fCBRY-R07-141120.jpg&r=Race 7 - NZB RTR SALE 18-19 NOV PREMIER&rs=1
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It seems the flaw in the system is the starter who didn't reset the gate electrics. Either that or they should be automatically reset. However that may create a risk of them being triggered accidentally so it seems sensible to have a 2 step process. A bit like having a double layer of password protection for more confidential files. Though I don't think encryption would be a good idea here.
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Track - Riccarton Park-Canterbury JC | Saturday 14 November
curious replied to Chief Stipe's topic in Galloping Chat
How do I get a share in one of them racing pigeons? just bought a house and it only cost me twice what I thought it was worth so looking for some place to spend the left over cash. -
Track - Riccarton Park-Canterbury JC | Saturday 14 November
curious replied to Chief Stipe's topic in Galloping Chat
They should be using these or similar like in the UK but the total lack of investment in track infrastructure here for decades is causing the problem. -
Track - Riccarton Park-Canterbury JC | Saturday 14 November
curious replied to Chief Stipe's topic in Galloping Chat
Because of antique irrigation systems that don't provide even application or application levels that run off to the inside of any camber? -
True. You are never going to eliminate catastrophic injury. We try to mitigate them with various health and safety measures though. They have lowered the speed limit on country roads round here from 100km to 80km. They haven't banned cars and driving.
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$1.3m seems like a small price to pay when we are talking about even a single incident in a $5m race. And if you watch that video above you will see that portable scanners are now available and in use.
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We don't know if he was scanned do we? We don't yet know whether damaged or weak bone structure caused or contributed to that specific injury. I've not seen though any indication that he was scanned. If so, it would have been as a private activity.
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If you don't like that summary I can send you 20 odd papers to read.
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Watch/ listen to this.
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Yes. I get your point. It would probably depend how affordably that could be done if it is mass numbers of horses. But a bit of creative thinking (I know that's not common in this game!) would surely make it affordable for most. Maybe NZTR could buy a portable CT scanner and employ a technician to move it round the country and operate it? Then send to their vet for review? If it could be done for a couple of hundred bucks, I'd probably do it anyway.
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I don't agree. I think that bone scanning all horses before their first start each season would make a difference. Whether that should be MRI, CT or scintigraphic I'll leave to the experts. Maybe any of the above. You have to think about that cost in light of the cost to the industry of the catastrophic injuries which in the worst case could be to shut it down completely.
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Relentless indeed. Talking with a couple of key players in the last week they seem to have little hope that we will have thorougbred racing in NZ as we know it in 2 or 3 years.
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Getting people to the races hardly seems a high priority to me from a business perspective. We need to get horses to the races and punters betting on them in the first instance don't we?
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where have you been?
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Any update on Rosie and has the investigation been completed and/or reported?
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That too on non-gallop days.
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No. God does that for me every night as long as I say my prayers. The ultimate maintenance cost free AWT. And you could gallop 15 together along side one another as you can see. It also has facilities for cooling off tendons and ligaments immediately after the gallop.
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Love my one!
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If bone and soft tissue is conditioned to working round bends by working and galloping round bends, doesn't that mitigate the risk of injury when racing around bends though? Part of the issue here is that horses are presented for racing that don't have that conditioning whether it be for track surfaces or bends, that will increase the likelihood of injury when they meet those bends and surfaces under race conditions?
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I suppose if you were serious about preventing catastrophic race day injury you could require that all horses have one before they can race.
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The other less catastrophic issue is that if young horses (or indeed older horses in their first preps) are trained primarily on AWTs then raced or galloped on firmish grass tracks, 90% of them will go shin sore.
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I don't think so. That's too short a training period for bone to adapt or de-adapt as I understand it.
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Quite agree with Lee. In fact I posted this on another channel recently: I wonder where they got that figure? The 6 months I mean. Seems a bit of an odd request. Wouldn't requiring bone imaging, say CT scans, before they are cleared to race be a better and more pragmatic option?
