Guerin Report - Matt Ballesty

[hesi]

Update on Avondale, Waikato Greenfields, Hastings, Awapuni and Trentham

 

[Chief Stipe]

Well as some of us with eyes wide open have been saying for some time the Champagne Turf is more like a flat bottle of Lion Red opened a week ago.

[Freda]

Sad but true. 

[curious]

1 hour ago, Chief Stipe said:

Well as some of us with eyes wide open have been saying for some time the Champagne Turf is more like a flat bottle of Lion Red opened a week ago.

That's true, though the track itself isn't too bad imo.

[Huey]

Guerin is such a patsy, it's that simple clubs just up & sell for the betterment of the industry.  

 

[curious]

6 minutes ago, Huey said:

Guerin is such a patsy, it's that simple clubs just up & sell for the betterment of the industry.  

 

Couldn't agree more. He tells Ballesty what he wants to hear and gets that. No hard questions from the other side of the argument or exploring the detail of what Ballesty raised. Not really a lot of use to anybody, least of all the industry as a whole.

Edited 20 hours ago by curious

[Huey]

Foal crop will never recover, once they starting chopping the provincial clubs at the knees it was the beginning of the end. I know so many people who like myself will likely never breed another.

[Chief Stipe]

10 hours ago, curious said:

That's true, though the track itself isn't too bad imo.

Really?  Based on what?  The rock hard shute?  The inconsistent irrigation?  Variable footing all round.

[curious]

7 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

Really?  Based on what?  The rock hard shute?  The inconsistent irrigation?  Variable footing all round.

Don't you think those issues could at least be mitigated with a new contemporary irrigation system (though let's see if they've managed to get that right at Riccarton or not), and an appropriate aeration and renovation programme?

[Chief Stipe]

55 minutes ago, curious said:

Don't you think those issues could at least be mitigated with a new contemporary irrigation system (though let's see if they've managed to get that right at Riccarton or not), and an appropriate aeration and renovation programme?

They don't even have enough money to fix the electronic timing.  No doubt the soil structure is stuffed as well.

[curious]

42 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

They don't even have enough money to fix the electronic timing.  No doubt the soil structure is stuffed as well.

Yet they have the money to keep the now G2 Thorndon Mile stake at $500,000!