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  1. curious
    What's that?
  2. curious
    Well, I'll just say that I've looked after 100s of horses with viruses around the world, and never known a vet anywhere recommend an injectable treatment for a virus. As a trainer, I guess that means I shouldn't be in business.
  3. curious
    Why would that be? trade secrets? Surely effective treatment of sick horses is something that should be shared? Especially if there's an effective injectable treatment for viruses. Simple question. You brought it up and I have no idea why it would take an encyclopedia to answer the question.
  4. curious
    Read again. The figures are for 5 years.
  5. curious
    I think using 110,000 starters as a sample rather than 15000 is hardly cherry picking.
  6. curious
    Because it's been deemed unacceptable by the public and the government.
  7. curious
    I think you'll find the public perception wrt dogs used as pets and dogs used for entertainment and commercial purposes is not the same. So it's apples and oranges.
  8. curious
    And they've altered it significantly in Victoria. “Last financial year’s 43 fatalities represented 0.039 per cent of the 110,422 starters in Victorian greyhound racing, down from 69 (0.068 per cent) in 2019-20. “With over 110,000 starters in about 15,000 races in Victoria annually, fatalities and serious injuries in racing are rare.”
  9. curious
    If that's the case, then it's a lost cause. Maybe, but if that perception is wrong, the industry has done nothing to change it. Horse racing is headed down the same track imo.
  10. curious
    Fatality rates and public perception particularly.
  11. curious
    Really? Isn't it a decade of warnings and inaction from the industry that has done that?
  12. curious
    You mean a low WBC count? It can also be high with viral infections. That hasn't really answered my question though with respect to an injectable treatment for a virus. What treatment?
  13. curious
    Yes. If I'm there to track that but I'm not routinely. Maybe when someone convinces me that horses that shorten are more likely to win than those that drift. More likely than the chance the market gives them that is.
  14. curious
    I'd trust my own assessment ahead of the market. That's how I find value in the first place. One successful punter I know bets more if a horse drifts because the value becomes better.
  15. curious
    And I'm curious to know what injectable treatments there are for a virus?
  16. curious
    Yes, the Levin Classic has been down graded to G2. The 1000 Guineas is on a warning but only an alert for the 2000 at this stage. The Manawatu Sires had its warning removed last season.
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  19. curious
    It could be. You still have to have some criteria for pricing the race so that you can know whether the available odds exceed the horse's chance. Not that I would use those above, nor can see how to adjust my pricing based on them and Tommo has been reluctant to share how to do that.
  20. curious
    Well, I get speed maps, but don't really know how to use them in pricing a race, so don't. I don't use weight in my ratings so can't help with weight ratings. You could calculate kinetic energy ratings easily enough provided you knew the weight of the horse, which you don't in Australia/NZ. He didn't really have much chance to explain any of these things. It seemed he was really just being rushed through the list of 11 without expanding on any detail.
  21. curious
    It seems a bit odd if that is the case. The square patch was already well browned off when the news was announced and it appears the damaged area extends beyond that in places.
  22. curious
    Sorry TC. Can't help. I got lost at #1.
  23. curious
    And after Trauma won. "Did they rate it's chances after the nice trial?" "I don't know". Has she been getting lessons from Dummy on handling the inane media questions?
  24. curious
    A nice run with a spray boom and round up or similar instead of weedkiller or fertiliser?
  25. curious
    Do you think it's actually any easier to win a mdn or rating band race in the SI or is that a myth?
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