They are a complete waste of time. Have been for years. They won't answer any questions with any hard data. You may get a free beer and a sausage roll but otherwise you'd be better off staying home and having a snooze on the couch.
He's the CEO. He would only need to have rocked up for trackwork anywhere in the country for one morning to know the answer to that question. It's insane.
No. It apparently doesn't make sense to race there anymore. Just send 180 horses round at the trials this week and probably similar in a couple of weeks time. I wonder where all those horses will actually race.
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.
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.
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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.