Riccarton 1000 Guineas Day - Soft 6 and no rain for 7 days?!

[Chief Stipe]

Is the water table high at Riccarton?

[curious]

It was a Soft 7 yesterday. I imagine they will be irrigating again in the next day or 2, or it will be concrete. Last summer they typically took it back to a H8 at the beginning of the week. Right way to do it imo.

[Chief Stipe]

44 minutes ago, curious said:

It was a Soft 7 yesterday. I imagine they will be irrigating again in the next day or 2, or it will be concrete. Last summer they typically took it back to a H8 at the beginning of the week. Right way to do it imo.

Well they havent done it this week.  The report says nothing about irrigating this week or have I missed something?

[curious]

1 minute ago, Chief Stipe said:

Well they havent done it this week.  The report says nothing about irrigating this week or have I missed something?

On the weekend I'd say.

[Chief Stipe]

1 hour ago, curious said:

On the weekend I'd say.

Wouldn't they have to put that in the report?

[curious]

8 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Wouldn't they have to put that in the report?

The CJC puts what ever they want in their track reports, even if that doesn't match the penetrometer readings.

But on this, no. The track information report only requires notification of "IRRIGATION IN THE LAST 24HRS: mm"

Edited yesterday at 04:07 AM by curious

[curious]

Consequently, if they irrigate today or tonight, they don't have to report that on Friday morning.

[Newmarket]

Its supposed to be 30 degrees down here tomorrow… with northwest winds. With no rain forecast, surely track will be good, hope they dont stuff around with the sprinklers too much

[Chief Stipe]

13 hours ago, curious said:

The CJC puts what ever they want in their track reports, even if that doesn't match the penetrometer readings.

But on this, no. The track information report only requires notification of "IRRIGATION IN THE LAST 24HRS: mm"

If they don't have to report the irrigation amounts why bother reporting the rainfall?    

[curious]

15 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

If they don't have to report the irrigation amounts why bother reporting the rainfall?    

Rainfall is the same. They are only required to report the previous 24 hours at the time of the report but with rainfall they are also supposed to report the last 7 days' total.

[Chief Stipe]

8 minutes ago, curious said:

Rainfall is the same. They are only required to report the previous 24 hours at the time of the report but with rainfall they are also supposed to report the last 7 days' total.

So they report what God told @Huey to send down but not what they do themselves.  No wonder it is pointless trying to correlate moisture readings.  Yet aren't they required to run a water budget?  Of course if they aren't then there is no way of managing the track to be optimum.

[curious]

4 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

So they report what God told @Huey to send down but not what they do themselves.  No wonder it is pointless trying to correlate moisture readings.  Yet aren't they required to run a water budget?  Of course if they aren't then there is no way of managing the track to be optimum.

Some tracks report everything well beyond requirements, often with additional reports, say on a Thursday for a Saturday meeting. Others like the CJC seem to be a law unto themselves, and their track reports are late more often than not.

[curious]

https://nztr.co.nz/sites/nztrindustry/files/2023-05/July2022_RaceMeetingTrackInformation.pdf

[curious]

Just to prove me wrong:

Thursday Afternoon

Weather: Fine

Track: Soft 5

Moisture Meter: 39%

Rail: True

Rain: No Rain Last 24 Hours | No Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: 10M Tonight (Thursday)

Weather and Track updated at 4.16pm Thursday 6 November

[Chief Stipe]

4 minutes ago, curious said:

Just to prove me wrong:

Thursday Afternoon

Weather: Fine

Track: Soft 5

Moisture Meter: 39%

Rail: True

Rain: No Rain Last 24 Hours | No Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: 10M Tonight (Thursday)

Weather and Track updated at 4.16pm Thursday 6 November

10M of irrigation?  Will the track recover from a H20? 

[curious]

35 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

10M of irrigation?  Will the track recover from a H20? 

With evaporation rates probably in the 5-7mm range, I'd guess they will be pretty spot on with a G4 by race time perhaps improving to a G3 later in the day.

[Chief Stipe]

42 minutes ago, curious said:

With evaporation rates probably in the 5-7mm range, I'd guess they will be pretty spot on with a G4 by race time perhaps improving to a G3 later in the day.

10M means what?

[curious]

10mms I assume.