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They will not be taking the chance of dropping back (and not come off the fence) with the best horse in the race. Even last night when he did not need to win, they said pre-race that he was not going to take the sit on Don Hugo's back if DH led. If he cannot lead he has 2 ways to get off the fence - either beat Rakero Rebel out (unlikely but she would be more than happy to race on his back) or fill the gap his stablemate Tim can leave behind Rakero if she burns out. This seems more likely and safer as there is serious speed off the front so beating out Rakero does not guarantee he will get off the fence

You had better let the HRV CEO know then as he stated at the March 17 Roadshow he started with "the 26 clubs model is broken" You can watch it here https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/articles/watch-hrv-roadshows-tour-stops-in-at-melton-entertainment-park/ I see you are using harness.org's track list. A dozen on your list have not seen a horse this decade much less a meeting I agree about not shutting down tracks in country areas where harness is as strong as the gallops if not stronger eg Stawell You have to look after your grassroots but we desperately need something to reignite Vic after decades of mismanagement. With Bernard Saundry back as Chairman maybe being part of the Moonee Valley redevelopment might happen. Will it be the spark we need - who knows but Melton has not worked as a Metro base. Honestly with the virtually non existent media coverage we get in Vic, I would seriously bet that 90% of the population (most of which all live in Melbourne) do not even know that harness racing still exists. I would say forget about having a metro track But you cannot ignore 5 million people unless you want to be nothing more than a hobby sport I am derailing the topic of this thread so enough from me

I have not read this whole thread but noticed Pure Steel talking about Vic having 50 clubs - we have Half that AND with the fight to survive, rationalization has meant that just a few clubs get a weekly meeting and a few others get a monthly. The most common race is now the $4k race, once it was the $7k. $4k races were brought in nearly a decade ago because whe had a black hole to fix - now they are the most commonly programmed race. NSW, WA and QLD are now a mile in front of Vic although QLD is pretty dependent on one influential owner. Vic does not have assets - participants only found out a couple of years ago that any sale of Melton and its extra land goes to the government due to a change in legislation in 2019. HRV have been told that after this year they have to stand on their own with no help from the government. The government have bailed out HRV to the value of about half the worth of the Melton assets purely to stop the industry going under - they did not have to but they have 'pretended' like we had equity in the asset when they did not have. About a year ago there was a massive outcry when it was discovered by the 99% of the industry that knew nothing about the 2019 statutory body legislation But you hear nothing now - Vic is wounded and bleeding and will be lucky to survive. They have been making cuts left, right and centre including a 3rd lot of redundancies happening at the end of this month

Where is the help people? LOL Able to access replays now and although he has a lot of Stand Starts and some outside mobile draws I see that he came out of No.1 in the FFA and showed no speed https://harness.hrnz.co.nz/gws/ws/r/infohorsews/wsd06x?Arg=hrnzg-Ptype&Arg=RaceVideo&Arg=hrnzg-RacehdrID&Arg=5E4E89B9-CAFF-4848-B933-A3A1D4D72389&Arg=hrnzg-rSite&Arg=TRUE

Yes, working again - I did contact them so maybe it was an easy fix

No, still not working

I would research this myself but Horse Enquiry is not working. Does Republican Party have much gate speed?

Thanks Dynamite. Yes there is a problem. I just tried clicking on a horse from the Results and once again no details And like you said - no replays There must have been something more than a change of colour scheme as I cannot remember ever having a problem with the HRNZ page before

Has anybody else had a problem using Infohorse to do a Horse Enquiry?

LOL She is doing track interviews at Melton for TrotsVision tonight

OK Thanks folks

So, how is Brittany going over there folks?

All the Australian industry knows so it is hard to believe that you guys do not. Ned has probably said enough

It was the run of the night. Although the Elitloppet is over the mile, they say it is for tough horses - Muscle Mountain would have been a deserving rep for NZ

The Aussie site will not give you the trainer for NZ starts Just go to HRNZ and when you do the horse search Click where it says 'Race Starts (last 10)' and it will then list ALL the horses starts (give it a couple of seconds as the site can be slow) You will see he was trained by Paul Court except for his last 3 before going to Oz, when he was trained by Bob Butt