All the Best Awapuni!

[Wingman]

1 minute ago, Special Agent said:

Management should take the wrap for rushing back to race day.

You can't blame this on trainers, jockeys or people of the past.

Yes but which Manager. NZTR? RACE? Fat chance. "We will review our processes, take learnings from this unfortunate experience and going forward ensure best practice is our ultimate goal". 

[Special Agent]

3 minutes ago, Wingman said:

We cannot answer the Why? however it is also the reason the track managers cannot be held to blame. Move the rail out and get on with it is not the track managers decision.

Why would a Track Manager not decide to move the rail?  What is the Track Manager paid to do?  Manage the track I would have thought.

Management of a racing club and racecourse includes CEO, Committee, Racing Manager and Track Manager.

I think the buck stops with one of those.

[Wingman]

3 minutes ago, Special Agent said:

Why would a Track Manager not decide to move the rail?  What is the Track Manager paid to do?  Manage the track I would have thought.

Management of a racing club and racecourse includes CEO, Committee, Racing Manager and Track Manager.

I think the buck stops with one of those.

I gave you a bouquet on a post of yours the other day, now with the degree of naivety you are displaying consider yourself now receiving a brickbat. Smack yourself with it to your hearts content.

FACT. There was a problem area 3 metres out around the final bend area so to avoid that the rail went out to 6m. 

The track manager moves the rail after consultation but it is done at at the high levels of management at RACE and NZTR. The track Manager does not dictate in the final decision as to race or not. 

[Special Agent]

Job title needs reviewing then.  Doesn't need manager attached.

[Murray Fish]

9 hours ago, Special Agent said:

10 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

 

As someone eluded to earlier not many are putting their hand up to be interviewed.

yip, and perhaps especially so if Engrish be your 2nd or 3rd language!

[Chief Stipe]

53 minutes ago, Special Agent said:

Management of a racing club and racecourse includes CEO, Committee, Racing Manager and Track Manager.

I think the buck stops with one of those.

So you are looking for a scapegoat?

Someone to blame

Just like you've found Bryce Mildon at Hastings to blame based on the advice amd misinformation from who knows.

So you find these scapegoats and their heads are rolled.

Then what?  What are you going to do at Hastings?  What are you going to do at Awapuni that hasn't already been done?  If you are going to employ someone else who are they?

[Wingman]

33 minutes ago, Special Agent said:

Job title needs reviewing then.  Doesn't need manager attached.

Call them track superintendents' shall we? and all going forward, using best practices, will be just super. 

[Freda]

12 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

Might be too late by then.

They don't seem keen to speak out for some reason.  I'm not sure their Association has any nerve or desire to rock the boat even behind the scenes.

The T.A is funded by NZTR.   Hardly surprising those few who have independent thought, wish to bite the hand that feeds it.

The majority, as alluded to by Wingman, are flat out trying to juggle a lack of track riders, paying bills, and keeping owners happy.

Taking a political stance is simply beyond many, time- and resources-wise.