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53 minutes ago, Harewood said:

Didnt know they were around in the 60s and 70s when truckloads of horses were going to the US of A 

Purdon  name been around for years  Murray and Doug  purdon  trained in Canterbury would have to be worst trainers in country and Owen not far behind as for horses sold to usa in 60s and 70s there was a hell of lot more horses around then and more trainers

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55 minutes ago, Harewood said:

Didnt know they were around in the 60s and 70s when truckloads of horses were going to the US of A 

The first I noticed was in the early 80's when loads of horses went to the u.s, but those voids were quickly filled and we seemed to have a never ending supply of intermediate Pacers and trotters, Auckland used to have really strong full fields, but now the fields are the poorest I can remember, on the pacing side at least.

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4 minutes ago, hunterthepunter said:

Purdon  name been around for years  Murray and Doug  purdon  trained in Canterbury would have to be worst trainers in country and Owen not far behind as for horses sold to usa in 60s and 70s there was a hell of lot more horses around then and more trainers

I realise that. I have been around for a while. What I am saying is that there were a lot of horses sold in the early years when the All Stars were not around. Nothing has changed except probably there are not as many sold now as before. So how has the All Stars got to blame for the exodus of horses overseas when itsbeeen going on for decades.

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6 minutes ago, Flagship uberalles said:

The first I noticed was in the early 80's when loads of horses went to the u.s, but those voids were quickly filled and we seemed to have a never ending supply of intermediate Pacers and trotters, Auckland used to have really strong full fields, but now the fields are the poorest I can remember, on the pacing side at least.

Correct however it was earlier then the  80s, Remember Young Quin, Cardigan Bay, Robin Dundee. Cloudy Bay to name a few top liners that went over in the early years. Where the pacers have gone now ??? Can only be put down to less breeding numbers, part time farmers getting older and out of the game, younger owner trainers not as many about. Cannot blame the All Stars as they rarely venture north except on premier nights and the small fields are week in week out. Maybe when House starts up there the fileds will be bigger as he will have 2 or 3 ex south islanders in each race. Can the SI  racing sustain the exodus north?

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34 minutes ago, Harewood said:

Correct however it was earlier then the  80s, Remember Young Quin, Cardigan Bay, Robin Dundee. Cloudy Bay to name a few top liners that went over in the early years. Where the pacers have gone now ??? Can only be put down to less breeding numbers, part time farmers getting older and out of the game, younger owner trainers not as many about. Cannot blame the All Stars as they rarely venture north except on premier nights and the small fields are week in week out. Maybe when House starts up there the fileds will be bigger as he will have 2 or 3 ex south islanders in each race. Can the SI  racing sustain the exodus north?

Judging by the big fields down south I think they can soak it up, it just makes me want to cry when you look at the state of open class racing in the north and you see the likes of scicario win his first big race for new Aussie connections the south Australia cup at the weekend..... what is the last dangling carrot left to keep good horses here ? Obviously not the stake increases at Alex park on a Friday night.

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12 hours ago, JJ Flash said:

What is the relevance of your 2 points about real estate and Vets to this  discussion?

 

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Is it not obvious that having a vet as his partner would be an asset.  Personally I think his  strike rate has improved in recent years because of that. That does not  in any way infer there is anything illegal going on. 

One thing I do know is some vets will help improve a horses performance. I have seen it ,if using a good vet wasn't an integral part of some stables success, why do they spend so much money on them?

Having NZ"s best driver on is another obvious asset

 

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7 hours ago, the galah said:

 

Is it not obvious that having a vet as his partner would be an asset.  Personally I think his  strike rate has improved in recent years because of that. That does not  in any way infer there is anything illegal going on. 

One thing I do know is some vets will help improve a horses performance. I have seen it ,if using a good vet wasn't an integral part of some stables success, why do they spend so much money on them?

Having NZ"s best driver on is another obvious asset

 

I see where your coming from but not sure that's what hunter was inferring although one never knows with some of his posts. As for the vet improvement influence there's a chap out Rangiora way with a vet in close proximity whose strike rate is not flash in any respect

Some vets are obviously better than others but in Canterbury a lot use the same one so who gets any advantage out of that.

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3 hours ago, JJ Flash said:

I see where your coming from but not sure that's what hunter was inferring although one never knows with some of his posts. As for the vet improvement influence there's a chap out Rangiora way with a vet in close proximity whose strike rate is not flash in any respect

Some vets are obviously better than others but in Canterbury a lot use the same one so who gets any advantage out of that.

As to the vet out rangiora way,i used her once to treat a horse that had started coughing . I was just an owner trainer who did not use vets because of the cost. She was very reasonably priced and stated when treating the horse that '"Her pre race treatment wont help them run fast like some other vets pre race treatment might,I'm just treating what the problem may be",or words to that effect." I thought her very good.

I know what you mean about  lots using the same vets in Canterbury. My impression was you got what you paid for,deep pockets were  an advantage, and preferred clients existed for the highest profile vet. Then there was another higher profile vet who is now based elsewhere who treated all his clients the same.That's just my take on some vets..

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3 minutes ago, the galah said:

As to the vet out rangiora way,i used her once to treat a horse that had started coughing . I was just an owner trainer who did not use vets because of the cost. She was very reasonably priced and stated when treating the horse that '"Her pre race treatment wont help them run fast like some other vets pre race treatment might,I'm just treating what the problem may be",or words to that effect." I thought her very good.

I know what you mean about  lots using the same vets in Canterbury. My impression was you got what you paid for,deep pockets were  an advantage, and preferred clients existed for the highest profile vet. That's just my take on vets..

I have used all of the major Christchurch and surrounds  Vets  over the years with different trainers. They are all good as long as you use the experienced partners IMHO. Also i find them much cheaper than Waikato ones.

Remember one young vet looked over a potentially high priced yearling at sales one day for his client. He saw me an hour or so later just before it was due to go up on another matter but mentioned  about the well bred yearling he had vetted earlier. I said " shame about the club foot" Never seen a guys face drop so quick and run as fast as he did. Always have a laugh when i see him

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