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It probably won't really matter anyway. There's obviously no-one left at the TAB who knows the difference.

I don't think you are. I didn't say that did I? I think the $20m the industry has to find for them would likely be better spent on existing tracks at this point.

If you take Riccarton as an example (correct me if I'm wrong Pitty) but I think they've been running about 27 meetings a year there on the grass and my understanding is that the committee feels that has the grass course pretty maxed out. If they go to 40 meetings there, then you'd think that might mean say 15 of them on the AW, mostly over winter. I guess there's also the possibility that some meetings could be run using both courses as is common in the US between dirt and turf.

Yes, I imagine they'll be used mainly in the winter.

No! There are 6 AWT meetings scheduled for the AW at Cambridge next season. Add maybe 1 or 2 transfers. Most Riccarton meetings will be on the turf. Perhaps a similar half a dozen on the AW.

I know a lot of people still operating at level 3 and working from home if possible is a level 2 recommendation anyway isn't it?

Wouldn't this be a good time to pilot no whip or much restricted whip use racing?

Except a scatter gun is more accurate and more focused.

And even in a Greenfields project???

I'm trying to think where any drainage would drain to? Same at Awapuni. It's already a swamp in a hole and the track experts here have already proven that it's not easy to get water to run uphill.

They can even transmit cobalt from sharing water troughs between species.

Who do you mean by 'they'?

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