curious

nahhh I wont tell if you don't

I make it 18/1 now 81/1 NZ TAB. My first bet in NZ this year!

It's probably a good idea to give up on helping him get through kindy.

How the hell can the TAB and NZTR have entirely different times posted for this race?

oh that's on the NZTR site .... TAB says Winners Time: 48.38 Anyone's guess .... they are trying to attract punters.

46.25 it says

It seems they are having the reverse effect and he's gone from primary remedial classes back to kindy level if he now can not distinguish between fitness and performance measures.

Interesting they've gone with a PoC tax alone, with a 70/30 split to govt/racing. I wonder if that and a similar 50 year TAB lease would work here with the TAB sale providing the infrastructure funding? They've obviously done some homework on this but there was no mention of that in JM's report when you'd think it could have or should have informed it wouldn't you?

Is that why you had to top up the betting account/s this week?

His arse is already so red from the spanking he's got that if he touches it on the princess she'll melt, and that will require a very large repair patch.

I agree. It looks like being an all-time or at least recent all-time quality field.

I can easily assess the unsuitable distance. That's a key criterion that I think mardigras also uses but in the UK and US horses are rarely run over unsuitable distances like here. Have no hope of assessing thousands of runs for the luck factor. No problem with those who choose to do that and do so successfully.

No. I can't observe, especially if I'm not in the same country. I can only assess whether an individual horse's performance is approaching its peak ability or not. Does that help?

Oh and you are a bit early for Del Mar. Next meeting doesn't start till November 9.

OK. So you don't have a clue as to how to assess fitness? Any ideas? I'm picking it has nought to do with blinkers on, claimers on heavy or down in class. I think it's probably beyond your remedial status.

Maybe if you go back to kindy you'll be able to pass remedial primary school maths and reading and then advance to understanding how to punt?

Thommo will be able to do that better once he gets the Levin jumpout videos if he can figure out which horse is which. Of course there are no numbers, no colours, no declared riders to assist that even if it did provide valuable information. Shows how desperate he must be.

Don't think so. Think mardigras has said and believes that assessment of fitness is critical as do I.

Not all over a blow up princess like you. Do you think I should get one?

Evidently the remedial classes are still not working. Must have failed them again.

Oh....lol. I thought you meant the posts on this thread. No. Put your specs on. There's a wire boundary fence with a single strand electric on the other side. And a broken post which I'm hoping to replace tomorrow.

Sorry you've lost me wally. A gap between the posts?

And it was redone and resown 12 months ago after originally being sown four years prior. There'll also be no compaction layer. Despite 300 cows tramping round in there every couple of weeks year round, maybe monthly in winter. Definitely no sand slits... lol! No underground drainage systems either. A few moisture monitors that control the big low pressure down draft pivots that apply the irrigation evenly in almost any weather or wind conditions conditions. Like I said, we have hundreds who know how to do it. But to do so, you have to shut down for 12 -24 months and you need backup tracks for racing while that happens as we used to have. That's why this couple own a 1300 acre dairy farm milking 900 cows year round on grass. And a couple of others as well. As I said, it's not rocket science and we have the expertise and the tracks.

This is the paddock I'll see out my kitchen window when I wake up in the morning, sip my long black and the dawn breaks. A mow (or maybe better a graze and mow) and a roll and I'd say it would provide excellent, safe, fair and even footing in almost any weather conditions. We are blessed in NZ with 100s of gals and guys that know how to do this. They have to or they'll starve. If I take a spade out there and show you the depth and mass of the root structure, you'll know that there won't be any slipping or clods flying up. It's not rocket science. You can't leave tracks unattended for 20 or 30 years. (Correction Freda - I don't think I ever said 20 years - 7-10 max maybe?).