curious

Or a small stable for that matter.

Do you mean mat on top from mowing debris?

Looks pretty good. What are the holes in the photos? Of course, the question is, would you risk one on it with a bit of rain about, at racing speeds, changing ground etc., especially with the reported injuries from Karaka night?

Sharrock thinks you should go on there and be positive about your horse's chance so that the person in the pub with a tenner in his hand says they sound confident and put on 20. Of course, if he understood wagering, he'd know if the person loses 20 on that bet, it's 20 they won't risk later. Pretty much no impact on turnover/ revenue.

If the foot comes right he likely will. He's back riding a bit of work isn't he?

She's maybe a bit busy at the time they want to talk to her with obligations to owners and maybe the horses?

No switch over to the Crusaders' game.

Yeahh, I heard they took the Crusaders for a quiet run round the Riccarton poly yesterday to exercise the advantages.

Must have been an effective report then since we still don't.

Why can't I get those articles to embed?

Or which ones she thinks we should get rid of.

https://www.racingnews.co.nz/te-akau-climbing-trc-ladder/

We'll find out next week.

Do the All Blacks train on synthetic?

Are you taking the piss? There is no comparison between the beach and the poly as a galloping surface.

We don't have enough grass tracks that aren't completely stuffed?

Might be getting a bit off topic but no. That's not what I said. 3 months with no Feature meeting in Canterbury- Westland. It's nuts. Doesn't have to be at Riccarton. If NZTR don't sort the programming issues, they've no hope of helping Entain achieve wagering targets. They have to programme races in line with demand. Have a look at this week. Riccarton has a 30k 75 1400 with 20 acceptances, 6 balloted out. The equivalent feature race at Otaki has 10 runners. Likewise the R65 mile and sprint have 11 and 9 runners respectively whereas the equivalent 18k R65 1400 at Riccarton on Friday has 2 balloted out in each race after splitting it. As I said it's nuts if they want to develop wagering revenue. Stakes need to be aligned with available horses. The Riccarton races will generate way more revenue than the Otaki ones.

Where are the feature meetings in Canterbury/West Coast during that period post Cup week? I must have missed them.

Doesn't make any sense at all and it's no good talking to Sharrock about it. He needs to talk to the Pattern committee if he has an issue. It's nothing to do with NZTR otherwise. The Southland Guineas was under alert for its listed status because of weak fields, but that was lifted in 2023 because its rating was well above listed status for that renewal - 99.75 (cf. benchmark 98). The benchmark rating for a G3 is 103. It would need to achieve that for a few renewals to be upgraded. I doubt it will reach that level let alone listed status from this year's running. He's either ignorant or dreaming and a journalist of Searle's standing and longevity should have pointed that out to him and in the article imo.

He basically said the same thing about wagering. That's the TAB's job.

I had bets on the day and tried to get on during the outage but ended up placing that bet on betfair. It was my only winner on the day and the price was 25% better so it worked out well but would have annoyed me if I hadn't got on. The issue made me check my account details though and there is a box which was unticked - "Can we contact you". Don't know whether that is the problem. See what happens now I've ticked it. Still shouldn't have stopped them crediting a bb though. Just wouldn't have been able to let me know.

I don't think so but I'm only going by what Sharrock briefly said. In the next breath he said he was not an IT person and tried to stay as far away from it as possible. So, make of that what you want.

Don't know about the data centre but according to Sharrock they are bringing essentially their Oz platform, including for the phone app.

Keeping them and not making the best use of them when they can fill a dire need is probably worse.