Gore...wtf?

[curious]

How can a horse slip on a Heavy 8?

[Freda]

Hard to fathom.

Whatever the reason,  the horse certainly lost it's footing.

Didn't seem to be in a position to clip heels either.

[Chief Stipe]

25 minutes ago, Freda said:

Hard to fathom.

Whatever the reason,  the horse certainly lost it's footing.

Didn't seem to be in a position to clip heels either.

Did it fall?

[curious]

No. Which horse was it? I can't even see it.

[Thomass]

36 minutes ago, Freda said:

Hard to fathom.

Whatever the reason,  the horse certainly lost it's footing.

Didn't seem to be in a position to clip heels either.

Isnt the 800M area where Farmer Joe has his moonshine stashed?

When Newsboy and Mickey Havoc went on their 'Gay Gore' tour and proceeded to scoff at the giant trout, little did they know 20 years later, on the Gay Gore re-union 'apology to Gore' tour

...they'd nearly lose heir manhoods to a group of angry Bogan locals who cornered them at the moonshine stash 

 

 

[Muzza]

34 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Did it fall?

A horse did fall in race two but the races were abandoned after a slip in race three, on a different part of the track.

[mikeynz]

55 mills of rain yesty for Gore after a few days of none and being warm that would make grass as greasy as a butchers diddle, a heavy 8 may have been a exaggeration, not much you can do I guess, Wingatuis heavy as at yesty but gee what a battle racing thoughrabreds in Southland  only 4 days before Xmas.

 

[Newmarket]

Another joke… 

So safe to run first 3 races…. but deemed unsafe for racing after???

What am I missing 

[Doomed]

I think it went from good to heavy in about two days. Bloody tough on the poor Southern trainers and jockeys. They get hardly any opportunities. I think all the ballots had to scratch out of several races. I had a look this morning and noticed hardly any scratchings from horses safely in the fields, which was amazing considering they accepted on a good track and were prepared to race on a heavy track.

Compare that with Te Rapa yesterday. 10 scratchings and 7 starters in a maiden race on a track that was perfectly ok. I think there's a Taranaki meeting next week with average field sizes of about 6. There is a real imbalance in opportunities. Today doesn't help.

[Freda]

3 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

Did it fall?

All but

[Freda]

3 hours ago, curious said:

No. Which horse was it? I can't even see it.

Sanderson ( Rohan Mudhoo)

[Freda]

Just now, Freda said:

Sanderson ( Rohan Mudhoo)

Ffs ..Vanderdonk

[mikeynz]

44 minutes ago, Doomed said:

I think it went from good to heavy in about two days. Bloody tough on the poor Southern trainers and jockeys. They get hardly any opportunities. I think all the ballots had to scratch out of several races. I had a look this morning and noticed hardly any scratchings from horses safely in the fields, which was amazing considering they accepted on a good track and were prepared to race on a heavy track.

Compare that with Te Rapa yesterday. 10 scratchings and 7 starters in a maiden race on a track that was perfectly ok. I think there's a Taranaki meeting next week with average field sizes of about 6. There is a real imbalance in opportunities. Today doesn't help.

Year after year, Taranaki not once but twice race between Xmas and New Years, nothing changes, very small fields, this year they take Hawkes Bay day and Wanganui take Taranakis, would make sense to run dual meetings, as they do at New Year, the real issue with Hawkes Bay though is closing all the other tracks in the East Coast area means there is no alternative, even compounde by the fact that the East Coast has no tracks in commission at present.

[curious]

5 minutes ago, Freda said:

Ffs ..Vanderdonk

That fell in Race 2 but the meeting was abandoned because of a horse slipping near the 800 in race 3 wasn't it. That's what I can't see.

[curious]

No stipes report yet but it looked to me like Vanderdonk clipped heels when Hot Shot shifted out in front of it insufficiently clear.