curious

That's pretty much how Levin jumpouts got going. Needs to happen here in Canterbury too. If Rangiora had their own set of 8 gates. Could easily be done but given the CJC controls the Rangiora clubs, hard to figure how you could make it happen.

They don't. It's on loan to them. They control the 7/12 TB share but can't sell it without agreement from Harness.

Because the CJC don't own the land.

6 noms for a 50k open 2200 at Wingatui on boxing day

No. Recovering from injury (heel) for a year.

Chris Johnson, David Walsh, Lance O'Sullivan, Noel Harris, David Peake, Bill Skelton and Michael Coleman

Going a step further, assuming NZTR won't be moved on the SI as one region thing, then couldn't the programming committee do that? So, for example we have 2 feature meetings scheduled in Otago/Southland within 10 days at the moment. If they moved one of those to Canterbury, say to Timaru, perhaps upgrading the Timaru Cup meeting, then all horses in the region would have day trip access to a feature meeting within that period, instead of the large Canterbury horse numbers having none for two months. It is also still an easy day trip for the likes of Wingatui based horses.

If that's the case, then it is perhaps not the programming at issue but their definition of regions that needs reconsidering. The south should maybe divided in 2. Essentially, Canterbury/Westland and Otago/Southland. I can't think of anywhere in the CD or the North where a horse within those regions can't go to the races within the region on a day trip. Back when I was training down here -20 years ago, for a trip from Canterbury to Invercargill, we would go on the Thursday to give the horses a day to recover and loosen up before racing on the Saturday. That's probably a luxury with costs these days but I don't see with today's costs that you could consider a track not reachable in a day trip to be in the same region.

I think had it been batteries, they wouldn't still have worked once plugged back in, or for the rest of the day.

The disconnect has been there for two decades, though then the TA were not interested in advocating for change and they've done nothing since. My only hope is that Entain will somehow persuade NZTR to fix it so that they can get more competitive betting races, fuller fields, more revenue etc. Trainers are angry because they are probably losing owners who may have to pay 2 months training before there is a suitable race for their horse and they then may not get a start.

The inventory is there, many going round in circles for 2 months because there's no suitable race for them.

And feature meetings in Canterbury between cup week and the end of January? I sometimes think the programming committee just sits down, Has a couple of drinks and says we'll just do the same as what we did last year, then all go home.

Might be all that's required.

The way I read it, the first thing they are going to do is ensure reliability of the clipons so they can continue to be re-used. It seems the gates were tested and working at the start before loading and again after the false start when plugged back in. That suggests the power connection was loosened during the loading process. It seems making sure somehow that the connection is secure and protected adequately might solve the problem.

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/6113/royal-ascot-ruled-out-star-sprint-mare-imperatriz-aussie-campaign-outlined-2024/

Punters Promise, a self-imposed new minimum win limit imposed by the TAB themselves, means any customer betting on their TAB account is allowed to win a minimum of $2000 in a single fixed odds win bet on any New Zealand horse or dog race. This is locked into the Entain deal.

Not if they are competitive betting races they won't

We were definitely overdue for a new Imperatriz thread.

I've been on about this before. Don't see why they shouldn't be there the same day. And the video quality is horrendous when we do get it.

I think the issue in Newmarket's headpost was not being able to withdraw to a card.

7.1 Open Races Open races are open to all horses except two-year-olds. The top weight will determine the spread of the weights, down to the required minimum. For any transferred horses from another race that then creates a larger rating spread after declaration of weights than 15 points, the top weighted horse of 60kg and /or 62kg will remain unchanged. The top weighted horse is required to carry 60kg for Black Type races. Non Black Type races. Horses rated 88 or lower will carry 60.0kg. A gradual weight increase of 0.5kg will apply for horses rated 89-91. Male horses rated 92 or higher and female horses rated 96 or higher 62.0kg at the time of declaration.

I wonder what that was about. It's not like Lisa. Something must have wound her up.

And it's bs that it is different in Oz. Racing Victoria (RV) reminds trainers and permitted veterinarians of their obligations under the provisions of AR 254 which prohibits the use of injections of any type to a thoroughbred racehorse within one clear day of a race. By way of example, if a horse is racing on Saturday, the last time that the horse may be injected is midnight on the Thursday prior to the race. The horse must not be injected on the Friday or at any time on the Saturday prior to running in the race. Participants are again reminded that for the purpose of this rule injection includes but is not limited to the insertion of a needle into a horse.

What? I doubt any other trainer would not understand what "one clear day" means. One Clear Day (in force from 7 September 2020) The amendments now prohibit anybody from giving a horse anything other than food and water anytime during the day before the day of a race. A substance may only be given to a horse on the day before a race with the written consent of a Stipendiary Steward or an Investigator and only if the horse needed it solely for welfare reasons

Maybe meant to refer to this? https://racingintegrityboard.org.nz/decisions/non-raceday-inquiry-mark-walker/