Unhinged

Totally agree, love the drone footage especially at Kaikoura heading into the last bend.

Cheers , weather looks great now , we did try and make it a twilight meeting when we were planning it but they needed the tote gear back earlier, bugga

Each to their own, but personally I very seldom bet at Motukarara because of the crossing. Clearly we are in a minority as both Motukarara and Methven punch well above their weight when in comes to GBR and the return to our industry, as you will be aware any weekday meeting is on a hiding to nothing but Methven has produced turnovers over a million with great GBR over the last 3 years. As for race patterns with the rating system and a good programmer racing like with like why would horse's come from last.

Yip Wednesday, starting just after twelve.

Yeah people just can't stand racing at Methven , how about you put your name up and we have a decent conversation or is it like above where you know everything already.

Slow news day for the fly I'd be picking.

Personally I think southland definitely draw the short straw, it must be incredibly hard to attract new owners down there when a high percentage of their racedays are weekdays when their owners are working. With a large percentage of owners money is secondary being there and yelling at your horse is the draw , well it is ror me.

Outside Laver time 1.51.9 after the race I said to John Dunn bugga we get round in that time and as a mare don't get recognized as winning time he replied don't worry she'll do it again. She did indeed but in Australia going 1.50.1 then unfortunately finished as a racehorse in a freak paddock accident preparing to run in the Grins .

Our industry survives on passionate volunteers, we are a business but if the people we employ don't have the same passion we are in a world of hurt. Next time your at a racetrack take a look around and see how many of the employee's are then when their not on the clock.

Totally agree with the rewards program for regular attendees. Problem with opening up glass fronted stand is cost. It's open Fridays for members and not very well patronized. I have already suggested opening it up to the public on Sundays for members and public, definitely something that needs to be revisited.

Totally agree , we need more grass track racing if that generates the best income and at the moment it certainly does

Being a race day steward at Addington and a committee member of Methven I'd say I have a foot in both camps along with racing horses and now breeding them.As we all know you simply couldn't rely on racing on the grass in winter so we don't. The simple facts are for Addington to be economic it needs to be used 60 / 70 times a year . It would be the best winter track with the best undercover Stables with the biggest population of horse's nearby . If you look at the GBR's over the Sunday Raceday's and the turnovers with the limited number of horse's racing at this time of year you would find it very hard to justify going anywhere else. Yes I love being part of Methven but if you can't see that we need Addington you haven't got the whole industry at heart.

The golden rule , The man with the gold rules. That's the beauty of a slot race I suppose and the reason why New Zealand's slot race should not be funded by hrnz they are a invitation only race and clearly restricted to whomever the slot holders choose.

Just put up a reel ,1 minute video , not sure if it's the phone or Facebook that let's me do a up to 1 minute highlights reel but can put their pipe music on that, see what you think.

The Samsung phone I use does have some background music I can put on for nothing but it's pretty average. I'm not sure on the rules around putting anything mainstream on there , will have to find out , if anyone else knows drop a comment.

Free win explained, every horse's first win is penalty free you simplify move out of non win rating

The Unhinged one is always looking for a new angle but pretty time short, if you have any leads on a good yarn throw me a text 027 328 2206. As for HRNZ not at least linking their story's to my interviews makes no sense but on the positive side my Facebook site is getting a bigger following by the week . The top post seems to be the Saturday beach report , two week's ago the video hit 23,000 views.

Well that's a surprise, fingers crossed it's the start of more to come, as you know I don't get paid and don't want to for anything I do for harness Racing, I just love it like you guys . Emotion is the key to selling our sport today Johnny Turner interviewed Graham Sinnamon after his horse won today if you get a chance go to Southern Harness Racing on face book and watch it .

Hopefully for the industry a bumper crowd and big figures, if it's not a holiday down south don't be disappointed my prediction they have been thrown another bad date.

I've kept very quiet in the hope something will change but unfortunately we keep going down the same path and think we are traveling alright we clearly aren't. For some bizarre reason we look at last year's figures and see we are doing the same and think it's alright. Lookout when I start getting vocal, it's getting very close hopefully not to late.i have built up a large following for a good reason.

Kerry O'Reilly is in charge but before we go any further here's a few things to think about, we have one part time worker all the rest of the property including the farm is done by volunteers , Methven is very close to the alps very different weather patterns to the plains , this meeting is very late in the season we definitely wouldn't want to run a meeting any later in the season , we had alot of rain over the last week. To be racing at all is a credit to the hard working team looking after the track that being said we are always looking for more help so if you think you know more about track preparation than Kerry and Ricky feel free to give me call. Thank you in advance Nigel 027 328 2206

Go to HRNZ website Click on official information then click About Hrnz then click Race day performances then down load the file

Meeting figures are available on the hrnz website they are probably a week behind and not as detailed as the individual clubs get but at least they are on their i will see if I can put up how you get to them.

You won't get any argument on that one.