What's the Hawera Track going to look like tomorrow? Yesterday a dust bowl!

[Chief Stipe]

 

[Chief Stipe]

Been pissing down since early morning.  Already over 25mm.  Forecast 80 - to 120mm!!

[Robalan]

There will probably be even more holes in the track for horses to slip on than there was on Friday

[Forbury]

Wet track sounds awesome as down south is pathetic all favs fields.i will be studying tonight tomorrow the fields for hawera.i will post any thing good at odds I can find I hope.please join in before the first.

[Brodie]

What about the state of the “Crossing” on the first day?

An absolute shocker, they went up and then down!

How can course attendants do such an abysmal job of something so simple?

[Robalan]

I don't know how so many owners, and especially trainers, could be so desperate to race a horse on a track like that

[Forbury]

I cannot find any double price winners at all.lucky there is 10k first fours every race so I didn't waste my time:).I hope they race in the mud as I looked at weather it's awful wind and rain.light drivers have a advantage.

[Forbury]

6 hours ago, Robalan said:

I don't know how so many owners, and especially trainers, could be so desperate to race a horse on a track like that

It's great they are racing there again.its not the owners trainers fault they dished up a pathetic surface.with all this rain and wind it will be a fun day if they race.i hope they race and most important everyone gets around safely.with so many poor horses racing there is some class runners that stand out in form compared to others.i thought all would be happy back racing on grass in the north after the dumb idiots got rid off it 

[Chief Stipe]

Hawera Abandoned due to Heavy Rain.....bad luck to those who saved their horses on the first day!  😉

[mikeynz]

One wonders if the Westport races would go on in the same scenario, bearing in mind there are no gallops there these days.

Edited February 5, 2022 by mikeynz

[Chief Stipe]

12 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

One wonders if the Westport races would go on in the same scenario, bearing in mind there are no gallops there these days.

The next Gallops meeting at Hawera is not until 27th April 2022.  If they had bothered to irrigate Hawera over the summer to keep the grass growing they wouldn't have had a problem.  But irrigation costs.