curious

and be doing a piaffe

And completely out of business for this girl yet we allow worse every day in racing with nothing evidently being done about it here.

Yep. It seemed to come right about 7am.

They've already done that haven't they?

This has logged me out this morning and won't let me log in. Also, it brings up no fields or pricing for today. Anyone else having trouble?

Following the running of this race riders expressed concern regarding the track. Stewards along with Club Officials and riders inspected the track in particular the area near the 500 metres where DANZINO had blundered and fallen with the decision being made to abandon the meeting due to the track being unsafe.

Rotorua again. How can a horse slip on a heavy 10?

And trainers could refuse to supply horses for that.

This is a spot where industrial action could work. Senior riders could refuse to ride race morning track gallops for clubs until the industry has an assurance that their opinion on the track condition will be given full weight in the assessment of the track condition.

Another curious thing about the AWT strategy here is that they shut them down for half the year when they could provide a forgiving summer surface for the pool of horses that are suited to them. I note in the UK, they are about to start their mid-summer racing league series with half those events to be staged on synthetic tracks under lights.

It does seem rather pie in the sky stuff, especially when they don't even have a functional venue for that carnival yet. I agree that I think I've long since seen the greatest summers in NZ racing history.

Oh bugger. Duplicated your post I see. Feel free to delete.

What say did they have in the matter? I see we have another NZTR roadshow with Balcombe and Sharrock coming up. It will be interesting to see what concerns are raised there by the peasants.

I never heard of that before as a reason to abandon a meeting. It was clearly not unsafe or slippery like meetings they commenced and then abandoned or in at least one case continued recently including Ellerslie. Whether they got more rain on the day or not (which they didn't), it was never going to become unsafe. At this stage, there seems to be no good reason in relation to the track condition to abandon the meeting at considerable cost to participants.

Taranaki Racing Club upset at abandonment of major meeting Glenn McLean July 23, 2024, • 05:00am Former Opunake Cup winner Justaskme was denied a chance of racing on his home track on Saturday. (File photo) LISA BURD / Stuff Taranaki Racing officials are bemoaning a lack of communication that led to what they believe was the premature abandonment of its most popular winter meeting of the year. The meeting, which was to feature the $100,000 listed Opunake Cup, was abandoned after stewards inspected the New Plymouth Raceway track early on Saturday morning and believed it was too water logged for the meeting to go ahead. The stewards’ decision was at odds with Taranaki Racing chief executive Anna Duncan and the club’s board who felt the call was made too early given the significance of the meeting. “If you look at last year, this was the biggest winter race meeting in the country, so there will be significant losses,” she said. “It’s extremely disappointing and frustrating and we will be following through with this because communication is key and we don’t feel there was enough of it.” ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with Stuff ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with Stuff Senior jockey Lisa Allpress rode the track on Saturday morning and thought it was suitable. (File photo) Andy Jackson/Stuff Duncan said senior jockey Lisa Allpress had galloped a horse on the track before the stewards’ inspection and found there were no issues. “She felt it was a good winter track. The stewards then walked the track and made their decision with limited consultation.” New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing’s chief operating officer Darin Balcombe told Love Racing the decision to abandon the meeting was also made over concerns that the track was too deep to race on. “The prudent call was to call the meeting off at that stage for horse and rider welfare, and the high possibility of visibility issues through the day,” he said. “There is no greater drain on the industry than sending horses to the races and then everyone having to pack up and go home without a race. It costs a lot of money for the connections and for the industry, as we pay compensation to all of those connections. “The good thing was that the decisions were made very early prior to anyone leaving home that hadn’t gone the night before, which was the best situation for us.” Balcombe’s view was not shared by Duncan who also pointed to the fact the weather improved dramatically from late morning. ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with Stuff ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with Stuff Taranaki Racing chief executive Anna Duncan believed the meeting should have gone ahead. (File photo) VANESSA LAURIE / Stuff “In my opinion, I think we should have raced and I have the support of the [Taranaki Racing] board with that,” Duncan said. “There is a cost involved if we have to call the meeting off after one or two races but we just felt it’s winter racing and you don’t get any slipping because the ground is heavy.” She said the club was yet to add up just how much the abandonment had cost it and the situation was made worse because it could not hold the rescheduled meeting, at Hāwera on Tuesday, because of a prior booking at its venue. Duncan also felt for a number of race day sponsors, corporate table holders and supporters who could not make it to Hāwera because it was a weekday. The abandonment also put paid to the club’s annual punters’ competition which had drawn record numbers. “It would have been a huge day for our locals and the coastal Taranaki community,” Duncan said. - Taranaki Daily News

Can't you read? It was your remark "Foxton...trials centre also , apparently refused to upgrade facilities so self inflicted status." that I said was BS. I tried a google but I only see reports of flooding at Foxton Beach and in the area of the Moutoa flood gate catchment. Nothing near the racecourse, except in relation to blocked storm drains. I agree that drainage of the course itself is affected by the water table at times.

It's all a bit of a mystery. Ltd. would seem to imply a limited liability company which you'd expect would be registered with the companies' office. A mysterious entity.

Wouldn't they have to be a registered co to get that?

You mean that it is a subsidiary of NZTR?

It's the owners that should be speaking up and taking action. They don't have the risks of doing so that trainers might. However, the statutory collective for them is totally useless and probably has about 10% of current owners in their membership. Not that they seem to be doing anything about that, so they actually have a voice.

Are they a subsidiary of NZTR or what? They don't seem to be registered with the company's nor incorporated societies?

Yep invested more today with the bookies than on training fees this week.

The handler's voice could do that couldn't it? Would that be illegal?

Oh for Pete's sake.

They don't have a usable racecourse either.