curious

No NZ Cup market though.

Huh?

Yes. Thanks. All in markets now up on the TAB too.

Btw, I see the TAB still have Riccarton listed as H10 even though it was upgraded to H9 this morning at 9am.

Both guineas markets gone now but still can't find the noms anywhere.

I'd say too bad. It is a cost of racing and needs to be attended to or there will be no racing. Exactly. That's what Freda was saying in her earlier post. Promotion to the public of the welfare measures being taken is paramount. That what greyhounds failed to do. The surveys confirm it. The public wanted them banned but at the same time said they knew little about it or standard practices in the industry.

I send my mother 3 or 4 a year. She's going well at age 96, so I reckon I'll keep eating them.

On sale! Love them. https://www.couplands.co.nz/product/iced-fruit-cake-1-8kg-in-gift-tin/

Exactly. And that's exactly what the hounds failed to do during 2 decades of warnings. The thrust of Beck's blog is about the muzzling of constituent voices, not about welfare per se. Attempts to muzzle these voices on welfare concerns is exactly what I have experienced along with many others in recent times. Also, exactly my point in my open letter response to the RIB open letter. Another attempt to shut down instead of listen to critical voices. In the mean time, public perception of racing continues to become more and more negative. Becks never said that she wanted racing or other equestrian pursuits to be shut down. She said they will be if public perception continues to go in the current direction. Whether or not her approach is the best way forward with that or not, I don't know, but it absolutely HAS to happen, and sooner rather than later. Other racing jurisdictions like Hong Kong and the BHA recognise and acknowledge this and are taking action. Here a token welfare department. Talking to a re-homer today I echo what Freda said. Owners and trainers sending horses to re-homers when they are knowingly unsuitable is just not good enough. Everyone has to take responsibility here.

Still odd that the noms aren't available anywhere as far as I can see, ove 24 hours after they closed. That's the NZCup as well and the Group 3 Mile on the middle day whatever that is now called.

That's odd too. I still have a pre-nom market for the 2000.

What is a "dress rehearsal" in this context? Exactly what happens many mornings at tracks around the country?

And how exactly are they "out of context" when they are at the finishing stages of a race?

I think you'll find that most agree that it needs to be sorted, even some that aren't very compliant.

Seems to me you are the one promoting some kind of conspiracy theory in this thread though I'm not quite clear exactly what it is. Anyway, I'm off to the races to watch a few horses get beaten up and hoping I don't have to beat a naughty one myself.

What is?

That's a good post of hers. What did she say about Argon?

Seems a bit odd. The TAB are still taking bets on the pre-nom Guineas markets.

Anyone seen these? They closed at 4pm yesterday.

Didn't know you frequented HQ?

By my calculations, if you remove the 2 extra FY25 meetings, that represents an increase of 13.3% YOY turnover. Extrapolating from that and applying the same increase to say $400m GBR, assuming margins remain stable, that would mean an annual increase of about $50m GBR. Of course, not all of that is due to the online monopoly. Some has come from CPI, increased marketing etc., but even if it were, it is still only about 1/2 the predicted recapture at this stage.

Here ya go @mikeynz

It's off topic but of course chlorine is toxic. Whatever happened in Havelock North, the people of Rangiora, including the council resisted it to the bitter end. Been good for bottled water and house filtration sales though. And yes, I know you are an industrial chemist.

Pretty sure she did that in the interview. As I said, only those who listen will hear.

So, now post where Becks actually said that, if it's her you are going after, not Garner's interpretation in his intro which she probably didn't even hear.