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  1. Firstly Dogzstar1 I hope your brother makes a full recovery mate. That's a real worry for you. Been there with my late Mum and Dad with strokes and it reminds us all that our health is our wealth. Congratulations to the top 3 placegetters in a close and entertaining competition. Well-deserved and Thanks so much to Scooby and Ponderosa (The Cartwrights would be so proud of your efforts as the comp was a real 'bonanza'). But seriously Pondy that is a massive day of calculations and Scooby I like the different formats you come up with as they really add to the variety of it all and keep us on our toes. I like the dividend format in particular but it's a great comp and a great mix either way. Wipe your nose, go to the top of the class and take a bow the both of you. Kind regards. HS.
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  2. if this is correct surely you sheep shearers will lobby, protest and eventually overturn such a heinous decision. what will be left if the PC brigade get their way? if the board is "woke " rissole them , vote in those that realise you have something very very special, once it;s gone it's gone..
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  3. look on the bright side The money will be going to prop up all the clubs in NZ yeah right
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  4. Us Kiwis were distraught recently when only 4 x horses nominated for a Group 1 race.....a 2 yr old race which eventually had 8 starters [from memory] for $200k. On Saturday ,ONLY 7 horses chased $4.35mill in the 2000m race ....including one visiting Pom. Plus 3 x other races saw 9 and 10 horses chasing $1.09 mill. A 2yr old sprint , the 3 yr old Oaks , and a 3 yr old 1200m. NZ races also criticised when the full advertised stake not paid out. Well the $4.35m race saw $3.92 mill paid out while about $980k paid out on $1.09 mill stake. Then there was the track which was expected to be GOOD after a mainly fine week. Apparently it was heavily watered the day prior ,the expected drying never occured and they raced on an OFF track. They raced on a soft/slow track....and Makybe Diva was nowhere to be seen. As I type these facts ,Perth have just equalised with the Phoenix ........I thought after the Breakers whipped Brisbane , the Worriers crushed St Georges ,that it was gonna be a beautiful weekend. And NZ cricket in the final with NO Aussie .And Lydia Ko too !
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  5. rdytdy

    Jacinda Ardern

    Dear Comrade Jacinda Cui bono - to whose advantage is this happening? Amy Brooke Getty Images There she goes, New Zealand’s Wonder Woman, striking a model’s pose on the cover of yet another women’s magazine, Thrive, dedicated to the wellness mantras Ardern herself spouts. Its subtitle – ‘Care’ – tells us ‘How Jacinda looks after herself (and us)’, the article gushing about the cup of tea Clarke Gayford, the father of her daughter, brings her every morning; how he makes her breakfast if she is in a rush; sends her nice little texts and is always thinking about her. A revelation in its portrayal of an apparently messianic ego, waited upon by her family, our saintly leader feels ‘such a responsibility to look after everyone that I sometimes wonder how it will feel when I know people are generally safe. I think it will be the closest thing that you could feel almost in a maternalistic way. I feel like (sic) it is my job to look after people’. Well, no, Jacinda, it isn’t. And in light of the mess your first-term Labour coalition made of governing this country – regarded as one of the most incompetent governments New Zealand has suffered under in recent history – it is strange you seem unaware that it was largely Covid-19, with your almost daily exposure on our government-reliant, left-wing media, which returned you for another disastrous term. For things are getting worse. As Steve Rotherham reports, some industrial plants are reportedly restricting output as electricity and gas prices surge. Commercial customers seeking new contracts face 75 per cent price hikes. The current rise in prices has New Zealand Steel, in spite of strong demand, now forced to limit production as gas supply shrinks, and electricity prices rise. New Zealand Steel Energy Manager, Alan Eyes, says today’s energy prices are unsustainable, as does the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill, running at about 40 to 60 per cent of capacity in March, now shutting down for several days at a time. Power prices are unsustainable, not just for these companies, but for the wider New Zealand economy. Others affected by tight gas supply and high electricity prices have mothballed production. Whakatane Mill will close its doors in June. In all cases, jobs and export income are being lost. Ah, but around $250 million was spent on the America’s Cup, taken from taxpayers’ pockets – with more promised in future by the mother of the nation. Close to $1 million was spent by Tourism New Zealand on Rod Stewart, singing for America Cup fans, telling Clarke Gayford how gorgeous your smile is. That’s all right then. But what about your government’s shocking oil and gas ban unfolding exactly as officials predicted with exploration plummeting, coal use skyrocketing (the Huntly power station is having to import more coal) and domestic power costs due to rise? Since 2018, 88,000 square kilometres of exploration permits have been relinquished and the Energy and Resources Minister, Megan Woods, is asking for reports on whether New Zealand will soon need to import liquefied natural gas, given that the 100,000 square kilometres permitted for exploration has plummeted to less than 20,000. Outside Taranaki, no exploration is happening any longer. This is what you legislated for, isn’t it? However, banning further exploration has meant New Zealand burned 800,000 tons of coal for electricity generation last year – four times the amount burnt before Labour was in government. It will all soon filter through to retail prices, your oil and gas ban turning out exactly as predicted. New Zealand has lost energy security. Families – the elderly – will pay more for electricity – all because you needed something to say at the UN climate summit in 2018? Only the necessary constraints of a single page prevent detailing other highly damaging moves your government has made against the economic, social and mental health outcomes for this country. In spite of all your promises of providing housing, your government’s record is lamentable, prices sky-high. We are now mourning our children who came home, but plan to leave for where they have more chance of being able to afford their own homes. Communist-backed Chinese money is still interfering in the housing market, with reportedly 40,000 ‘ghost houses’, many owned by Chinese, lying empty on Auckland’s North Shore alone. But then do you have an affinity with communist Chinese interests? Isn’t the question legitimate, given your refusal to align New Zealand with our important Australian neighbour and other democracies in making a stand against this tyrannical regime? After all, your mentor, left-wing former Prime Minister Helen Clark, over-saw demolishing the combat wing of our Air Force, and allowed tours by high-ranking military Chinese representatives. Your government, in short, has been big on talk, useless on delivery – except for socially destructive legislation favouring the killing fields of abortion and euthanasia and pushing for legalising cannabis usage. New Zealand’s mental health crisis has increased, although you made mental health a central election issue in 2017. We have the highest rate of youth suicide in the developed world, with homelessness, poverty, and substance abuse contributing – as does probably your constant promotion of national divisiveness and separatism under the guise of ‘diversity’. While Denmark, for example, is cracking down on ‘parallel societies’, you are promoting them. You have handed millions of dollars to an activist part-Maori hierarchy who do not represent most even part-Maori New Zealanders – while knowing well the unfairness of preferential racial funding undermines our hope of ‘We Are One People’ or, as Jamaica’s national motto has it, ‘Out Of Many, One People’. I have long thought you simply historically uninformed, incompetent, manipulative and massively egotistical. However, I have come to the reluctant conclusion you are very much part of the enemy within, that movement seeking to destroy a country by forcing separatism and divisiveneness on a cohesive people. Apparently, Comrade Jacinda (an address you formerly favoured) you may well be a communist. After all, communism’s aim is to undermine a country by stealth. Quite obviously you do not want our country to be unified. The spectre of New Zealand now having a communist leader seems to be materialising.
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  6. A chance for me to catch up on the action of the past few days. Newmarket's three day Craven Meeting took place on decent ground - Good for the first fays but quickening to Good to Firm for the final day. On the opening day, Charlie Appleby and Godolphin had a convincing 1-2 in the listed Feilden over 1800m. HIGHLAND AVENUE beat SECRET PROTECTOR with the two six lengths clear of the others. HIGHLAND AVENUE is 16/1 for the 2000 Guineas but is also in the Dante and the Irish Derby. SECRET PROTECTOR is 50/1 for the Guineas. The most impressive performance of the day came in a 1400m maiden with a six length romp by the beautifully bred MUTASAABEQ, a son of Invincible Spirit out of Ghannati who won the 1000 Guineas in 2009. 1600m should be no problem - he's not in the English 2000 Guineas but could perhaps go to Ireland at the end of May. Onto Wednesday and in a difficult week for the Queen, her 2020 Windsor Castle winner TACTICAL won the 1400m European Free Handicap. TACTICAL was eleventh in last year's Dewhurst and that race is starting to look stronger by the day. Whether he's a viable Guineas option I'm less certain - the trainer is going to run but I just wonder if the Jersey might be the better option. SACRED won the Group 3 Nell Gwyn over 1400m for the Haggas yard but I thought both the second, SAFFRON BEACH and the third, LOVE IS YOU, both ran strong 1000 Guineas Trials. The former is 14/1 for the 1000 Guineas and 33/1 for the Oaks and the latter looks a interesting price. The Earl of Sefton for the older horses over 1800m saw Frankie Dettori have his first turf ride of the new season for the new John & Thady Gosden team on GLOBAL GIANT but the horse ran far too free and was last of the four runners behind MY OBERON who, despite being the outsider, did this well and earned a 6/1 quote for the Lockinge in a month for which PALACE PIER is 13/8 favourite. The final day took place on quicker ground with a keen breeze. Last year's Abernant Stakes and July Cup winner OXTED turned up for this year's renewal of the former and was backed into 8/13. However, it all looked a bit laboured and he went down by a length to SUMMERGHAND who finally broke into Group company after a string of strong runs in strong handicaps including last year's Stewards Cup at Goodwood. The Craven for the 3-y-o colts over the 2000 Guineas course and distance saw another 1-2 for Godolphin with MASTER OF THE SEAS outgunning LA BAROSSA close home and the two were again nicely clear of the rest. The time wasn't exciting though and I'm not sure the 10/1 quote for the winner is that tempting. MASAR took a similar route and ended up winning the Derby and I'm not saying either the winner or second aren't decent animals but are they Guineas class on quick ground? I was very taken with a 3-y-o filly called BELLOSA, a home bred for Sir Edward Loder who owned the dam, Poole Belle, who was a sprint handicapper for Henry Candy. The sire, Awtaad, is in his second season and, not to be too unkind, the first season was nothing special. This filly was on debut and she sluiced up by seven lengths. Perhaps she beat nothing - time will tell - and she has no fancy entries but it was a taking start. Yesterday, the normal Saturday racing in the UK was curtailed for Prince Philip's funeral but it was normal service in every sense in Ireland with Ryan Moore free to travel to The Curragh and he rode a 4-timer for Aidan O'Brien who has once again started as the dominant force in Irish racing. The winners included BROOME, who scrambled home in the Alleged from THUNDERING NIGHT, LANCASTER HOUSE, who looked back to his best when winning the Gladness for a second occasion and two maiden winners of whom I suspect we will be hearing a lot more. The first Irish juvenile race over 1200m went to GLOUNTHAUNE, a son of Kodiac out of an unraced Nayef mare. He could be anything and I imagine the Coventry is somewhere on the radar. WORDSWORTH had chased home stablemate HIGH DEFINITION on his debut and sole run last year but won this 21-runner 2000m maiden well enough. He's bred to get every inch of 2400m and has a quote of 16/1 for the Derby at Epsom. I wonder if Aidan will consider Chester or Lingfield as a possible Trial race. That's how it is at this time of year - all full of dreams and speculation.
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  7. And crucially jumps racing are generally very poor races at attracting punting and even fewer people attend to watch. The past 2 x Northerns have attracted dismal crowds ....the 2018 race was held at TeAroha and no one cut their wrists. LOL funniest cop out ever maybe whoever these blokes are that discussed some of their exciting plans with you might like to pick up the phone and call those that promote the warrnambool carnival and work out why aussies can sell out the meetings, book out every hotel and motel within cooee of the bool and send turnover through the roof ??? its called promoting a unique feature . what a joke of a decision if this comes to be, IMHO whoever is marketing racing in NZ is doing a dud job.
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  8. Yesterday’s version was the best yet. Please repeat it. If I could possibly improve it, I would request a little bit more space between the races that were coming so thick and fast in the middle part that I didn’t know whether I was Liz or Lionel I repeat though, this was the best format seen so far, perfect in fact.
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  9. Wonder how long this has been in the pipeline.Makes the sale of Paeroa even worse imo.
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  10. Pure Steel

    On a positive note

    Hey that is excellent the Chief Stipe has been around the track in quite a few races then. So many of the stewards are trying to 'make decisions ' after a controversial race that have never been in one. ****And after Years and Years of making decisions upon viewing race after race after race , What a top-notch Expert he must be. !!! A couple of high profile ones were 2009 Awesome Armbro (distant last) taking on the leader Auckland Reactor , (while his stable-mate Changeover sat 1-1) and of course the McGrath on Star Commander 'drifting ' aside for stable-mate Sheriff to win 2018. and no doubt countless other dubious happenings ??? All drivers naturally claim Total innocence as always. So is great to get some experienced people deciding in these matters. Not the easiest job at all.
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  11. Great concept. How can you improve on perfection. Congratulations to all winners.
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  12. Just means governments part with more taxpayer money to buy ‘boosters’ They’ve gone to far there’s no going back, most dangerous and expensive exercise ever undertaken and nobody in our Medical fraternity challenging any part of it... Who’s heads will roll when the dust settles ?
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  13. Reported today that "New variants ESCAPING THE VACCINE" which translated means Vaccines ineffective as evidenced by the old goat Biden staggering around in a mask after being fully vaccinated. Wake up people, you are being conned with Fauci and his cohort driving the false narrative.
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  14. JJ Flash

    Good Day for NZTAB?

    Great racing at Randwick yesterday and the 3 fancied runners from NZ all got beat. The winner is NZTAB who would have been on a real hiding if any or all of them won given Multis and All Ups etc. What surprised me most was how they were prepared to offer generous odds on all of them. Its easy to bag them and many do on here but they showed some real nuts yesterday IMHO
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  15. We complain about 3 or 4 stable runners in a race but Tassie Trots trump us. In r4 at Launceston today Ben Yole trained 8 of the 12 runners and trained the First 4. In r6 Ben Yole trained 9 of the 11 runners , Mark Yole trained 1 runner and Sally S trained the other. Sally's horse went up in search of the lead in early stages ,was somehow stuck 3 wide in open and will sleep well tonight. Ben Yole again trained the First 4 !
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  16. stodge

    The Hill gone forever.

    I'd love to know how "much" it costs to run the Grand National course at Aintree. It is used for, I think, 5 races per year - the Becher, the Sefton, the Foxhunters, the Topham and the National itself. There used, many moons ago, to be a race run over a single lap of the course (half a National I suppose) but that went the way of the dodo and English Rugby supremacy. The "fences" are dismantled for most of the year and just left as frames but it's a huge area to look after. The Mildmay track gets more use and occupies much less ground near the stands - if you took away all the land north of the Melling Road you'd have left four Grand National fences (13, 14, The Chair and the water) but the main chase, hurdle tracks and stands would be fine. For non-National course race days, the Melling Road isn't even closed (there's something similar at Epsom with the 1000m sprint track which crosses a public road). In the 1970s, when the meeting was in dire financial trouble, there was talk of selling the land and moving the National to a new venue but it wouldn't be the same. If you move the race it becomes a different race - the question of why jumps racing is so weak and seemingly unpopular in NZ is a different one. Up here, it was the only game in town before the coming of All-Weather racing from November to March. You seem able to stage winter Flat racing on grass even in June, July and August.
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  18. So close but no cigar Thanks for the comp and the generous prizes.
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  19. LJ I was looking for an early arvo bet before I headed to rugby....saw your comp pick and had an EW wager on Chase. Set me up for the day. Thanks!
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  20. Great comp Scooby...the different scoring options over the two weeks made it much more interesting and everyone still had a hope after week one. I backed a few of those roughies today, particularly Nettoyer my Donny pick last week, but left the buggers out in the comp....such is racing..... Congrats to the winners, top effort today and to Pondy for his magnificent scoring effort. Look forward to the next one.....
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  21. What a day! Win lose or draw its always a fun comp and the different formats just add plenty of interest.Finally got my foot in the till and now I have a few sleepless nights trying to get a good result for such a generous prize.Thank you so much and good luck to the other winners with their picks.
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  22. Yes for sure it been a great experience I'm really enjoying these comps, and I'm sure everyone are as well and again must thank you and your scoring team for running these comps . Just unfortunate "Chase" couldn't have got going a bit earlier I would of still donated all the funds back to the comps . Thanks for an enjoyable Sat afternoon. John Shannon
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  23. Harry Thomson-Jones will, for me, be always associated with the brilliant AL BAHATHRI who had the misfortune of being in the same generation as OH SO SHARP who beat her by a short head in the 1985 1000 Guineas with another excellent filly, BELLA COLORA, back in third. That was a vintage crop of fillies. Just before that, he had trained AT TALAQ who was fourth in the Derby when SECRETO beat EL GRAN SENOR. Obviously, AT TALAQ went on to much bigger and better things in the mid-80s including a Melbourne Cup in 1986. Back to more recent events and we have the final declarations through for Sunday's card at Newbury which features three Group 3 races. Nine go in the John Porter for the older horses over 2400m - it looks a weak field if I'm being honest. AL AASY looked good on a couple of occasions last summer but flopped behind MOGUL at Goodwood. A lot of these did their running on soft ground and it may be this quicker surface will change things round quite a bit. A big field of 17 for the Fred Darling over 1400m. ALCOHOL FREE brings the class form having won the Cheveley Park last autumn - her trainer, Andrew Balding, is convinced she'll stay another 200m and she 's the obvious place to start. UMM KULTHUM was less than a length down in third and is 12/1 - her stamina is also suspect but she looks value against the favourite. All weather winners WILD IRIS and ZAAJIRAH could be anything but come from top stables - Ryan Moore is on a big outsider in LIBERATED LADY and that might be a tip in itself at 25/1. It's one of those races which you think should be playing in but there's just too many imponderables as you don't know how the fillies have progressed mentally and physically through the winter. 12 go in the Greenham for the 3-y-o colts over 1400m and this looks a decent race. CHINDIT is overnight favourite and if you can ignore his Dewhurst run he brings some serious form to the race. I thought he bounced off quick ground last summer and Sunday's conditions could be ideal. ALKUMAIT won the Mill Reef and was last in the Dewhurst while NANDO PERRADO was a shock winner of the Coventry before finishing second in the Morny. I wouldn't rule out THE LIR JET who won the Norfolk and mixed it with some very good juveniles ending up in the Breeders Cup Turf Juvenile where he wasn't disgraced. I think we'll learn a lot from Sunday's action.
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  24. Trackside is necessary for racing. TAB is not. With new technology, banking products etc, clubs can run their own betting completely bypassing the TAB and the myriad of parasitic bookmakers feeding off racing. Prior to the 1950's there was no TAB. Racing still existed. The mobile phone with the ability of scanning documents or recognizing its owners voice means bets can be placed into a pool without any TAB involvement. TAB and NZTR duplicate services such as results, fields etc. All a punter would need is NZTR info. Dump the TAB and the army of directors, managers, consultants, chairmen etc.
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  25. NZTAB is now solely about the gambling side of things and operates Trackside. Under new Racing Act the codes run their own business and receive funding from new Racing NZ board which is 1 member from each code and 2 independents The TAB give out funds earned to the new board for them to decide who gets what in terms of funds. Racing calendar is decided by Codes who then pass it to NZTAB for approval given they can only handle so many meets at a time in terms of logistics Hope this helps
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  26. 100 1

    Jacinda Ardern

    Looks to me under the new laws,the Govt, along with the fake news propaganda, need to be held accountable, for instilling fear in the population by locking them down and using a fake PCR test (proven) to enforce their actions. They just made their own noose. Crimes against humanity.
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  27. Gruff

    Jacinda Ardern

    So what? Plenty of ‘COVID’ cases here, well they actually aren’t ‘COVID ‘ cases they are SARS Cov 2 cases and nobodies dropping dead..... HIV cases aplenty and where’s the AIDS .... don’t get the jab please the Racecafe ‘family (feud) is small enough as it is ... I saw that way overrated Mike G Baker get an award for puppetting the WHO the other day wearing a fabric mask which was deemed worthless by most experts in the World and banned by France Look at any event on TV and see people breaking protocols on using masks, if your foolish enough to wear them at least do it right
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  28. frankie

    The Hill gone forever.

    It seems the famous Hill at Ellerslie is to be sold. Funny that there was no mention of this in the ARC's April newsletter. The word in the top part of town, where ARC directors can be found, is that the decision has already been made. Two reasons have surfaced, firstly the Club is simply greedy and bugger the history of the Hill, and secondly the Board is getting more and more woke and increasingly concerned about jump racing not being as P C as it was.
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  29. Ohokaman

    The Hill gone forever.

    That’s the problem Pogo....nobody is.....
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  30. No new entrants today. No picks received from BAZ(NZ) or Racing Jimmy thus far..
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