BitofaLegend

Are we surprised? Grnz has been run very poorly for years. Its only a matter of time before it all catches up. What infuriates me the most is that grnz has had 10+ years to fix the problems in the industry and has still made nearly no progress on it. If anything, the industry has gone backwards

This post wasnt meant as an attack at anyone. I think he was hard done by aswell and made a scapegoat.

Now this isnt an attack at anyone but i think the case against Danny Laing needs to be looked at because the rules around this subject are very poorly worded. If you read the rules, every licensed person in greyhounds punting is breaking the rules of racing

So shes admitting greyhounds are racing on unsafe tracks? What a farce lol. The wording here is terrible but not surprising at all

While most can agree he can be shady. Hes done good for the industry aswell. My understanding is Manawatu is currently the best run club in the country for example. That would be his doing

Again, the way the rules are written, the trainer takes responsibility regardless of contamination in greyhound racing.

Got what she deserved penalty wise... The people who pressed the original charges were clearly incompetent but its more in line with other cases. As i said previously, the way grnz rules read, the source of contamination is irrelevant to the actual charges riu are presenting.

Over my time in the industry, ive probably had 100+ broken hocks and other serious injuries and every dog ive saved has lived a happy retirement regardless of the seriousness of the injury. Ive even had a few dogs get amputations where the injury was going to be to difficult to operate on. Every dog is savable and every dog can live a happy post retirement. From my own experience, if a dog is in constant pain 1 or 2 yrs after the operation, that usually comes down to a poor rehabilitation phase (This isnt me saying the trainer did a bad job or yourselfs. Some dogs are simply very difficult to rehabilitate due to the nature of them).

I think the dog would rather get the injury fixed and live a long retired life.

Why are trainers still putting dogs down with career ending injuries when grnz will now pay to fix then? I see another dog got put down last night for a fractured hock

She was the only one tested. Not her partner... also the source of contamination is never considered when delivering the sentence. Its always the substance in the dogs system

Check stipes report today for an update id say

Obviously no one likes to see any dog get injured on a track. But the facts still are he made a mockery of the rules to get this dog into the race. If that is not karma, idk what is

He didnt seem to happy about the dog itself getting injured. He says its sad to see Facts still stand regardless. 3 dogs were scratched from the race with no injuries to those dogs at all to get this one in. The dog would have been sound most likely if this did not happen. Ive been in a similar position in the past and it sucks It is sad a dog got injured and no one likes to see that just like no one likes to see people making a mockery of the rules like in this instance

Didn't safe just pick up an article written in the spinoff though? As for wanganui, I was there a Friday night a few weeks ago and the track looked terrible than

I've heard one of the northern tracks might be in trouble but that's it. If it's TRUE that one of the northern tracks will close. I see no future for any northern trainers. My understanding is that Aucklands lease doesnt have long left and with the future zoning that's in place, they probably would get 10-15 more years after the current lease expires. This would leave racing up north as an uncertainty if Auckland was the sole track. However, Cambridge struggles to fill fields most of the time whereas Auckland gets 12 races on a pretty consistent basis. If Auckland closed, the majority of the dogs up north most likely would not be able to race locally and as we know, the CD and the southern region have too many dogs as it is. The other issue I see with closing Auckland is the fact greyhound racing in NZ loses the possibility of exposing the industry to a large proportion of NZ as Auckland has over 1/4 of the countries population (not that the club does a great job at trying to get people and businesses based in Auckland involved) Racing has enough uncertainty around it as it is. Closing tracks just adds to that uncertainty because who would take the risk with less tracks and options to race a dog at?

I doubt they could go very long without anything coming in and their overheads still going out

Guess there will be no racing for the next 4 weeks starting tomorrow as the way I see it, racing is most certainly NOT an essential service or utility. Surely the strain this will put on some of the bigger trainers will be huge. Imagine having 2 or 300 plus dogs and pups

Idk why greyhound racing would be exempt when other industries are not. Itd be stupid for grnz to ignore ministry expectations. Especially if someone did get this illness at the track. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen

How will this rule affect race days here? I know measures have been taken in Australia to limit the public and owners at race meetings with only personnel that have to be there allowed on course. Why has grnz failed to advise anyone here? Starting immediately, my industry has started forcing us to work from home with no office contact and I know of several other big companies and industries taking similar precautions. Why are grnz always behind the curb?

She tried to a play a numbers game with castoffs and not race all her dogs.

Doesnt the CD have too many dogs though?

It is only a normal gastro virus. That'd be a huge overreaction. Ive never seen anyone call for borders to be shut before

Yes

5 winners and 3 fastest second with the other 2 seconds on the bench. Not having a time would make u the slowest 2nd I guess. At least the stewards have a proper rule regarding this issue now instead of them all waving a magic wand like in the past or just ignore the rule. I'd say the 2 chosen probably deserve to be their. I do agree with aquaman though. Why not just rerun the race or rehold it on monday