Cobba

Hope so

Wonder what the cost of the sky tower usage is? Seems to be tons of money to throw around but I am getting a bit worried where it's being thrown. Lot's of back slapping going on the last few days. Apologies for being a negative Nelly and sincerely hope my concern is not warranted..

Hastings & Ruakaka are high cost travel alternatives & certainly no guarantees those tracks will fit for racing either

Hardly a surprise but terrible for the owners & workers …. Was it ever considered (like yesterday or Friday) to transfer to the AWT with the Tauranga track condition & weather forecast?

$1,500 ???? Going by past positive swabs $1500 appears a very light penalty.

“Good for the Punter and that's who we want to embrace and hold onto! “ What is mostly forgotten is if there are no owners there will be no need for punters.

There has been a "plan" available for 2 years but no one wants to follow it. The "strong & competent leadership" part is a huge problem but Winston keeps pointing the mob in the direction of the "plan" but none of the sheep will lead the rest to run & jump through the gateway.

Better hope for some huge turnover on the greyhounds this month.

So 100's of horses have arrived back at stables today & the blacksmiths are flat out shoeing them all. Send those bills to the owners. Then we hear from RITA tomorrow or whenever they choose to share their information with us, that we are racing for $5000. There will doubtless be a long & loud outcry from the trainers but .... I can already hear them saying "the horses are here now & we've got all the staff back so we might as well just carry on." RITA has nicely called the bluff of all of them. Had the horses stayed in their paddocks this week it would have made little difference to the trainers bottom line for the week but saved the owners a few hundy per horse & there was some ammo on the side of owners & trainers. But na. The trainers all want the advantage of returning to work earliest to get racing soonest. Bad move. Pike has copped plenty at times as the President of the Trainers Assoc. but when he has a strategy in place, any support out there? No. Not even from the trainers that have been so out spoken previously that we need to strike. Was now not the perfect time to withhold the product? Stake levels might not have been able to be challenged right now because the income dried up due to Coronavirus but the very least we might have got some traction on holding RITA & other racing administrations to account over their excessive staff numbers & salaries & various other expenditure. Well played RITA.

“listed” not lusted ;-)

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/transport-and-infrastructure/tab/mp Select committee members are lusted on this link with lots of other info. Video links .....

The FB page has now been edited. Was slanderous or bordering on it I think.

https://www.facebook.com/Own-A-Race-Horse-Friends-170804877106076/ Have a read of that. On a public Facebook page.

She looks to be progressing through the grades nicely. Had a couple of goes at Group races. No joy yet but she still seems to be progressing. Trainers usually get flack for being over ambitious :-)

Which races would you have sent/send her to?