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I'm surprised no-one made mention of this on Trackside. Yesterday at New Plymouth there were 3 starters from the same family: Run Like Boo - out of Sequel (O'Reilly/Freequent) who is a full sister to Freequence Just Ask Me - out of Often (O'Reilly/Freequent) who is a full sister to Freequence Miss Dixie - out of Phoebe Snow (No Excuse Needed/Freequence) All 3 starters were winners Of course Freequence is the dam of I Do and Iggy Pop

So knowing that we are entering an environment of animal welfare and health and safety, why would you create a track that requires horses to be accelerating as they are going around bends? Two things come to mind....means that results could be biased in respect of barrier draws and issues of injury arising at a time when we need to be creating a safer environment as the animal rights people's voices become louder. I've watched so much synthetic track racing that I've seen it all. Turning tracks during acceleration doesn't help these causes. In respect of horse numbers it could be said that it is true that we currently probably don't have too much pressure on field sizes because the horse numbers have been gutted and the powers that be have ignored this fact because from where I am sitting, there is a concerted political effort to curtail it at best, and rub t out at worst. But despite saying this, betting increases when the distances of races increase where the populous of a specific grade of horse are racing against each other and there are at least 20 runners, with the optimum being when there are at least 24 runners. When this happens, betting sky rockets. By building a 14 horse capacity racecourse you have simply ruled yourself out of reaching that sort of potential. At the very worst the tracks circumference should enable starts to occur at 2400m points where there is a long lead up to the first bend. Staying races are the future despite the current trends as they give owners and horses more options. We have had this completely ignored in this country and the staying program in Australia is now appreciably better than in NZ....go figure that. Why would anyone do this when these tracks should be Greenfield developments for the future?

Great training and driving performance

The track is superb, horses win from anywhere in the running, horses that have never been on it before win on it, great addition to NZ Racing.

She's bloody brilliant Amazing Dream, bloused em all again came off Copy's back and boom! the mighty mare rules!!!! woohoo!!! Copy tried hard but twas not to be, the omens were great when Tommy Lincoln strolled home earlier in the night, the American Dealer stuck to his work and rolled em in the Derby Krug 3rd, then came the big one and boy oh boy did it deliver, Amazing Dream LOL oh how lethal she is, congrats to all her connections.....I'm fricken lovin it yussss!!!! Cheers Iraklis

Chris....this isn't a case of whether a particular horse goes on the track or not. Some will, some won't. What's at stake here is the potential for the future. How many times have you driven along a road which has taken forever to build, where you've said to yourself, "for fucks sake why didn't they build this bigger for the future?" Maybe I'm just wired that way and many of you don't say that to yourselves but in this instance I look at these racetracks and question the thought behind limiting the number of runners to sub optimal numbers, having the inability to start 2400m races at the optimal position on the track because the run up to any bend is too short, ensuring that the barrier draw isn't producing an effect of bias and finally, the real wolf in sheep's clothes, that it might be construed that the track may be harmful to the horse. Don't you see this or am I really in la la land? Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety but to my mind these are basic basic issues.

Some interesting times ahead More misinformation will begin to turn the Brainwashed Vaccine set like Idolmite against the more well informed ‘Covid Vaccine’ hesitant. This excert is from Phillip Hill who is one of those responsible for NZs ‘Covid ‘ response... remember the early Phase Vaccine effiacy trials behind Biontechs vaccine were carried out by Pfizer and released to the media without peer review and has been now claimed by the highly vaccinated Israel as only 64% efficious we should be very careful to choose the right vaccine, so as not to precipitate conditions that promote the emergence of new virus variants. A vaccine that has relatively low protection against infection, and/or has relatively low protection against disease, should be avoided if a vaccine that protects better against infection and disease is available, even if it is more expensive . One concern is that some vaccines may not protect well against infection, but rather protect more against the development of disease. It is possible that this would promote chronic infection and more rapid mutations, fast-tracking the adaptability of the virus RIGGED: CDC stops counting vaccine deaths to blame all covid... dreddymd.com/2021/07/22/cdc-stops-counting-vaccine-deaths...

Do Trackside staff do train spotting?

Im not going to cover this ground again Hokes, you are a bit slow on the uptake and you seem to have no investigative ability and to think once upon a time you may have been that tool in the Shed

$61 opening price , think closing was $31.

Football women get beaten 6 1 and one of the players on the news said they did well defensively in patches,really,who the hell did they beat to qualify or did they win a raffle or something?

Each to their own opinion, be a strange old world if we all agreed on everything.

Yep, real bright boy. Problem is there are a lot of them out there……. Despite his struggle with the virus, Mr Harmon still said he would reject being jabbed, saying his religious faith would protect him. Prior to his death, had joked about the pandemic and vaccines, sharing memes saying he trusted the Bible over top US disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/21/health/delta-variant-covid-19-explainer/index.html

Does anyone know if they have got the $600,000 back yet?

Close to 600m 14 horse fields

Hey Lee mate, Blair must of been laughin his ass off turnin in, he knew he had em all soon as as I saw her on Copy's back, over rover!!!! Cheers Iraklis

Michael Are the tracks that you are building going to have straights that are longer than 600m? How many horses are going to be able to race against each other?

Once again clean up time. Biggest surprise was the odds.

Another moron who knew better…… A California man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines on social media has died after a month-long battle with the virus. Stephen Harmon, a member of the Hillsong megachurch, had been a vocal opponent of vaccines, making a series of jokes about not having the vaccine. "Got 99 problems but a vax ain't one," the 34-year-old tweeted to his 7,000 followers in June. He was treated for pneumonia and Covid-19 in a hospital outside Los Angeles, where he died on Wednesday. In the days leading up to his death, Mr Harmon documented his fight to stay alive, posting pictures of himself in his hospital bed. "Please pray y'all, they really want to intubate me and put me on a ventilator," he said. In his final tweet on Wednesday, Mr Harmon said he had decided to go under intubation. "Don't know when I'll wake up, please pray," he wrote. Despite his struggle with the virus, Mr Harmon still said he would reject being jabbed, saying his religious faith would protect him. Why is the US falling behind with its vaccinations? Twitter suspends US congresswoman over Covid posts Prior to his death, had joked about the pandemic and vaccines, sharing memes saying he trusted the Bible over top US disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci. Hillsong founder Brian Houston confirmed news of his death in a tweet on Thursday.

I did wonder Chris if it would suit some horses more than others. Any reports of horses not handling the surface that you know of ?

Do we laugh? Do we cry? Nah, as usual we were just building up for next season!!

Adayar looked pretty good….the first horse to win the Derby / King George double since Galileo.

So the 44 and 47 yr old Australians who died after the astra zeneca potion were for the ‘greater good ‘ ...what a load of Bullshit, the Vaccine isnt even effective to 60% for f$&ksake .. I wonder what their friends and Family think about it

This is going to be a fun Olympics - USA womens soccer team claim after their 3-0 loss that they are boycotting scoring goals to highlight racial inequality. The good news is the Kiwi girls can now look forward to a nil all draw against USA when they meet! Professional sport ain't sport any more folks, it's all politics. If you want sport, you can't beat watching the kids play, before they get to high school. I guess I will just spend the next fortnight watching reruns of Bonanza on Jones channel.

I would be careful posting on here without knowing some Background Hokes, we know this Dubious Flu can kill just like many others in Circulation What about the Dead Morons who Chose to Vaccinate The Major Difference between the two is the therapeutics proven to work with the ‘Virus’, were they used on this Deceased Know all ? Who knows what happens to you after the vaccine we are not even half way with that experiment

It was a sad day in the 80's when I heard Tracey Khan (Ron's Niece) & Tracey Reddaway (Keith's Daughter) from Matamata were killed at the bottom of the Kaimai's on the way home from Poverty Bay races. It was not so many weekends beforehand I'd met the pair at a social gathering at Ron Khans Fieldhouse Park. I can't remember the year exactly...mid to late 1980's? I was a young teen at the time they were older possibly around 18? I was in charge of the music and still remember the girls requesting songs and dancing. Particularly Tracey Khan dancing to Madonna's song Holiday. Former jockey Don Margison was Tracey's partner at the time from memory? Teenage memories aye!