Same old, same old yet again

[Chief Stipe]

15 minutes ago, mardigras said:

But to give credit, they still race on their various surfaces 3 - 4 times and how many tracks in NZ in winter can achieve that?

Yes the difference though is environmental.  Their rainy season is also their summer and their best growing conditions.  Grass doesn't grow all that well during a wet, cold and windy winter in NZ.

[mardigras]

1 minute ago, Chief Stipe said:

Yes the difference though is environmental.  Their rainy season is also their summer and their best growing conditions.  Grass doesn't grow all that well during a wet, cold and windy winter in NZ.

Don't disagree, but then like many major tracks, they undergo proper refurbishments - something that doesn't happen here.

[Chief Stipe]

21 minutes ago, mardigras said:

Don't disagree, but then like many major tracks, they undergo proper refurbishments - something that doesn't happen here.

Correct and they manage both tracks as support systems for each other.  On another thread there is a third on its way.

[hesi]

We are probably all meaning well, but to a large extent we are not experts

I dug this up from the NZ Herald, 21 Dec 2016, you would have thought this guy would know, was there ever any recommendations that came out of this.

Last Saturday's abandonment of Awapuni's $100,000 Manawatu Cup day, later reinstated as a postponement until Sunday, has cranked up awareness of repeating problems and at 10am today a meeting has been called to examine the causative factors leading to the problem. At that meeting will be trainers, jockeys, club representatives, Integrity Unit representatives, racing stewards and the special guest will be one of the world experts on track maintenance, John Jeffs. He was the longtime track curator at Sydney's Rosehill course before moving to the same position in Hong Kong.

Edited June 13, 2018 by hesi

[Portfolio]

Be interesting to see if meetings go ahead today?