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Long Holiday weekends may be welcome for many people but not at the Rolleston stable of All Stars.

It means long working hours long racedays after major hopple mornings, a big hike in overheads and this weekend at least, a lack of sleep.

“New Zealand seems to plan for public holiday racedays but we find them a mixed blessing at best” Natalie noted

‘We hit the ground running this morning to work over 40 horses before we started thinking about raceday and all the preparation that goes with that.

Holiday costs affect us a lot and it is hard to get by on less staff when we have so much going on”

But wait, it gets worse. All Stars send 6 horses north to Auckland on Sunday morning, Spankem, Chase Auckland, Enhance Your Calm, Turn It Up and Sweet on Me an Amazing Dream.

At 3 am

‘We will be up at 1 am to feed them and set them up for the trip. Natalie said . And Mark notes that that is not the end of it.

“We do the boxes and get the feeds ready then we might get back to bed. It makes for long days and you have to put in those sort of hours. Its not easy”

The mere hours also do not take into account the professional stress of driving top horses in top races. In itself that demands a lot of time”

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5 minutes ago, hunterthepunter said:

feel sorry for young girl knocked over in the paddock by a horse and they just left her laying there until all the horses were got in from the paddocks and not one person looked to see if she was ok 

Geez when did that happen? Pretty awful

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1 hour ago, hunterthepunter said:

feel sorry for young girl knocked over in the paddock by a horse and they just left her laying there until all the horses were got in from the paddocks and not one person looked to see if she was ok 

If you were there why didn't you go and help her

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16 hours ago, hunterthepunter said:

should cut there numbers back and give other owners a chance 

They have, Mark Purdon may drive Monty Python on Frid night at the park.

FOR US

Yay, thanks All Stars.

Bang on guys .

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4 hours ago, Happy Sunrise said:

Sounds like the whole stable needs supplements so they can maintain their high standards.

Probably all need their bloods replaced as they do with their horses!

It works for the horses so worth a go?

I feel for  the stable having to be up so early and then plundering all the stake money in the big races!

Perhaps they need to up their training fees so high that it is not worth having a horse in the stable?

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Wow, anyone would think that all other people that work in the  in the stables start at 9 am  and finish at 2 pm. Nearly made me feel sorry for them .

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On 24/04/2019 at 12:19 PM, globederby12 said:

They have, Mark Purdon may drive Monty Python on Frid night at the park.

FOR US

Yay, thanks All Stars.

Bang on guys .

how many owners are in your syndicate of your two horses globe??

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On 24/04/2019 at 9:31 AM, hunterthepunter said:

a mate of mine was there and rushed to help and is not a worker for them

Did he have a big coat on, glasses and a wig AND have a stopwatch 

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