curious

Rode her first ever winner for us 2 years ago just before moving to Mark's. A real dedicated star and no doubt Shelley Houston has been a great mentor. Definitely well deserves to be here if not win it.

Probably because 150+ trialists will generate a lot more revenue than an industry race day.

At least they are now living at an appropriate address.

Well I appreciate it's across all 3 codes, so the fact that not too many names ring a bell for me is not surprising.

How much time and money did they just spend on the Te Aroha track. Now it needs deep drainage work to make it suitable for winter racing? What a f&^K up.

Who What is he doing then?

Overseas? Do you mean from the NI to the SI?

Maybe the programming is causing there to be less and less available horses as opportunities for them become more and more limited and owners give up?

Looks like they are now having to move northern meetings to the CD because all the tracks up there are either stuffed or overused. Probably need to think about trialling your 3yo at Foxton?

Te Aroha Update & Venue/Date Changes Following the transfer of the Sunday 7 July raceday, further testing of the Te Aroha track has identified the need for work to be completed at a deeper level into the profile, to ensure water is draining efficiently. The remedial work intends to assist the functionality of the surface to reach a level expected for winter racing. A result of this work means that the scheduled Sunday 28 July raceday will be transferred, with racing due to commence at Te Aroha on Sunday 1 September. The raceday on 28 July featuring two jumps races, will now be held at Waverley, with a revised program to be confirmed. The scheduled Waverley meeting to be held on Wednesday 31 July will now be a Racing Tauranga meeting with a revised program to be confirmed.

Don't think either are included. I see they've woken up there though.

Hopefully, they are not a Good 3 again on the figure 8.

I'm also missing the withdrawal day track conditions for Trentham which are supposed to be provided by the club before 8.30. Ruakaka was there at 8.15 but still nothing from Trentham. Have they all slept in?

I missed it too. It's in the July programme book that just came out as an Avondale meeting. I can't find any notice of the change?

180 is a pretty good number for a trial day isn't it?

And in 1961, my nemesis on another site, Nerula, won it and the Paliamentary and the Winter Oats. Now it's a 40k race with 5 noms. What the hell happened? Dunray won the Wellington Steeplechase that year.

Only 83 noms for Trentham by way of comparison.

The much despised Avondale, eh.

Same reasons stewards gave when requesting a 10 year total disqualification. Still might happen in effect. Assuming he serves a further 2 years disqualification starting now, he still will have to show he's a fit and proper person to hold a licence after that.

DTC still registered with about 60k in the bank.

As of the June 10 Rangiora Racecourse Track-Users Meeting: Gates have been fully commissioned and are now being readied for painting. That is primarily an initiative of North Canterbury trainers who will do most of the further work to make them happen. That's fine, but there are no trials scheduled south of Ashburton for the next 3 months and I note that the trials schedule for Cambridge tomorrow have been cancelled again due to lack of entries.

And that's for horses leading into the main spring grass racing period! It is nonsensical. But you should be thankful, The SI has one grass trial meeting, Ashburton on 13/08, through the end of August, and one in September, Ashburton again, 17/09.

The Magistrates' Court 2022 decision was a criminal charge for animal abuse. Different thing than these charges under the rules of racing, though the panel appears to have allowed for that fine to further mitigate the current penalty.

Option 2 can't apply imo. He was not disqualified or operating under disqualification conditions after his disqualification ended and he was pre-training.