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Another meeting bites the dust.


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9 minutes ago, Mark D said:

Track redone, approved and tested by current administration who have done the same thing a number of times over the past decade but they are still in their jobs.

Why didn't they run a set of barrier trials there for Gods sake, New Zealand's only living brain donors, Petone!

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Been outta the racing loop today.

Came in off the farm spraying thistles to see on TV, jockeys  and suits wandering round looking at the track ...

Then I heard the steward talking about why it was called off ...

Then I saw a replay of a field of horses coming round the turn and at least one slipping ...

Talk about deja vu all over again.  I could have even "sung along" with the steward's wee piece to camera.  It was all eerily predictable and familiar ....

What a bloody shambles. 

 

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Hi , new poster here , problem as usual and has been for a long time , tracks are watered just enough to maintain some give on top and look good , never enough to get moisture down deep where the real concussion occurs . So you end up with the hard pan underneath . Bright side could cut Otaki track up and sell as ready lawn .

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35 minutes ago, CrossCodes said:

The sooner they close  some of these tracks down for good the better!

Yes perhaps - but remember that abandonments have not just been at the smaller country tracks - they have been happening at major venues as well.

It might be logical to assume when tracks are closed down, that concentrating resources & expertise (which was previously spread thinly across the motu) will put an end to these debacles.

But I'm not so sure the industry leaders even recognise what expertise is - or understand what resources are needed.  So I believe that until the governance issues are sorted out once and for all - this closing tracks juggernaut will not prove to be the silver bullet it's touted to be ...

J. 

 

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26 minutes ago, Poisoned Dwarf said:

we got serious problems in NZ racing and nobody gives a damn. Look at those bloody Tongans, still laughing and happy even if their team got whipped by Aussie, but one thing is sure, non of those bloody Tongans has had the " horse racing ownership experience." Then they wouldn't be so jovial and funloving !

Just seen news article that said 40 Tongans were brawling, pool of blood in the street! So not all happy

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