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Its mad, I went to The bank today to purchase a couple of hundred in Thai Bart for when we stop over in Bangkok on the way to Europe. The bank wanted identification in case I was money laundering.

Its tied into anti money laundering legislation which has been in force for many years. It covers the TAB, Banks and other entities that deal with large sums of cash. However when you consider the vast sums that have remmitted into the country to purchase property etc. it hard to believe that the majority of this is not money laundering.

I agree, if it is not broken don't fix it, leave Cup Week alone. Look what happened to the Auckland Cup when that "Flash Harry", Weaver, managed to screw it up.

Barry you wil be pleased to know that Tauherenikau has been upgrading its buildings in recent years as it has turned around financially from significant deficits to large surpluses. Tauherenikau's New Year's meeting on 2 January attracted a crowd of 12k. In my biased opinion it is the most beautiful course in the country.

In fact when Cullen left office as Minister Of Finance the country had stuff all debt and $20Billion in the Cullen fund. English sold assets so as to return a budget suplus which of course is like selling the crown jewels to pay for the groceries.

He did well in the first 3 years adopting a pratical approach to the GFC. Someone like Ruth Richardson would have sent the economy spiralling with her slash and burn tactics. However, Key did what a lot of you Tories blame Labour for and that was borrowing lots of coin. In his second term he became the village clown going on chat shows talking crap and pulling girls' hair. Then he lost what was going to be his legacy, the Flag debacle and was a poor loser, so resigned. Now he has been shown to be a fool over the David Hisco affair by not providing full disclosure of what Hisco was up to. Funny that two of his useless cronies in the photo are Nathan Clown and Hekia

So did Peter Vela put pressure on NZTR to the fund $500k for The Magic Millions or was it other members of The Auckland Racing club who are on the NZTR Board? Or is it a requirement for those NZTR Board Members to declare a conflict in interest and stand down from discussion and voting on matters relating to the Magic Millions funding?

I see that she is now up to 85 rides without a win

Gee that dress! It's right up there with Naomi Lange's cardigan

Wasn't Falau in his younger days a piss head and rooter? So now he has found god everything is fine but should some others be rooters and piss heads they are off to hell. Makes sense.

Really? She has had 57 rides since her last win.

Almost all of the 7pm shows going way back to Holmes have been fronted by wankers and sure its PC crap. Problem for Leo is that there are current and prospective customers watching the show who would consider him to be stupid so he has probably lost these as customers.

Let's not forget the objective was to close tracks, sell them and pocket the cash to fund the big "Bludging Clubs" .

Ok I will accept your word. Good to see that you love all races.

OK Water Boy, declare that you are not anti Muslim and you do not share the views of the alt right?

He is anti Muslim. I fiind his comments on this forum disgraceful.

We have just had 50 killed by someone who shares your views Water Boy.

No chance of it being run at Avondale, Auckland has taken their races ie. The Avondale Cup and Concorde etc. The Board of NZTR are mugs for handing out $500k to a race that pulls horses away from group races.

That is fine so why do they need the $500k for the Magic Millions?

On Waitangi Day Tauherenikau did not have the large crowd it would normally expect due to poor weather. They also only had a 7 race card but their on course turnover was only slightly less than Waikato's Group One Day which had 8 races So who are the "bludgers"?

Agreed re the bludging bigger clubs Reefton. We have a large club Auckland which has a war chest of funds due to selling property but yet NZ Racing provides them with $500k to be wasted on two races which are basically sweep stakes. The night in question appears to be one where everyone goes to get pissed so why not NZ Racing chuck them $50k instead, save $450k then allow everyone on the night to have a decent piss up.?

Why would pulling out of Race be bad? Race was a bloody disaster and they are still suffering from the poor decisions of people like Fokerd and Co. Tauherenikau has gone alone and they are thriving.

My favourite was the standardbred Colossal Dick which was by Dick Adios out of Colossal Queen. I recall reading a Turf Digest form guide as follows: " Pulled hard at rear, shot around field, then faded quickly" ?

Many of our problems are due to that clown Nathan Guy. He knew nothing about racing and Key took the piss by appointing him as Racing Minister. Guy then appointed National Party Hack Glenda Hughes as Chairman who also knew stuff all about Racing. She appointed John Allen as CEO Of The Racing Board and he freely admits that he knew nothing as well about racing. In between we had Bonkin Bayless who left a trail of destruction I have very little time for Winston but I look forward to him rubbing out Hughes and Allen

We are talking The Tron, has to be AC/DC "Thunder Struck"