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You'd have to be blind to not see that Timaru is a better track than both Riccarton and Ashburton. 

Some of ours are good, some not quite there yet.  Not much of worth in what they say to help you make a quid, but you can't have no shows to watch and nothing in between races.  Exceptions are Bruce Sherwin (what can't this guy do?) and Leith Innes (occasionally).

1944 Sleepy Fox and Joe Williamson 8.0
1945 Sleepy Fox and Ian Galvin 9.5
1946 Sleepy Fox and Jack Winder 10.2
1947 Sleepy Fox and Jack Winder 9.13
1941 Kindergarten and Larry Wiggins 9.11
1942 Kindergarten and AE Ellis 10.3
1978 Silver Wraith and Peter Johnson. Only a 3yo and ran 1.34.0. I was there!
1980 Silver Nymph and Warwick Robinson- full sister to Silver Wraith.

You'd have to be blind to not see that Timaru is a better track than both Riccarton and Ashburton. 

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere.
Half way there. The recommendation is in play, just need to get it across the line. 
https://selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/2a903d46-cdfa-4727-a67a-08dd7c7e7d71
 
 

 
 
 

You'd have to be blind to not see that Timaru is a better track than both Riccarton and Ashburton. 

You'd have to be blind to not see that Timaru is a better track than both Riccarton and Ashburton. 

What AWT season? We still have no report on the track status and safety issues and more trainers and owners that I have spoken to recently are not willing to run on it. That said, I understand the recent work on it has finally restored it to a decent state for training.

I'm amazed Ashburton has survived this long. Largely by running 10 horse races. They were happy to hammer Ashburton just to get them through to the AWT season.

Of course. You can't hammer tracks and that's what centralisation has caused.
 

Absolute and total arrogance. They persuaded Messara to say Timaru wasn't needed and should be closed down. Now they are too arrogant to even consider they might have got it wrong.
Timaru is a crucial track to the SI, being so central. It is just over 4.5 hours from Timaru to Invercargill, and 2 hours to Christchurch. Timaru is also one of the few tracks that hasn't had housing built all around it. And with jumps racing gone for good there is plenty of room to reconfigure the track if necessary. The first thing I would do is build a 1,400m chute.
Close to 40 winners trained in and around Timaru so far this season.
Timaru should be having money spent on it not be closed down.
 

I think they have elocution lessons once a week, on Chewsday.

Well he does masticate his words eh?

No problems hearing or understanding him.  Try this fun test https://www.bayaudiology.co.nz/online-hearing-test
 

Bruce Sherwin is the best in the country...Luke Radich was good too but not PC enough for this crew.

Not sticking up for him or saying he's a good or bad presenter.  Just saying if you can't hear or understand him you might have a hearing issue.

Not sticking up for him or saying he's a good or bad presenter.  Just saying if you can't hear or understand him you might have a hearing issue.

Iconic race funding in addition to the Group race minimums will be paid to races of national
significance, as per the table in Section 3. Funding for some of the races in this category have been
increased further as a result of the introduction of the Summer of Racing initiative.

Pretty average comment.

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It's the most iconic week in NZ Racing for sure.  Won't be quite the same once the Greyhound Cup goes.  I just can't agree about the Couplands Mile being iconic.  Not a bad race for a Group 3, but not iconic.  Maybe one day, but not so far.

Page 13 of the Policy Funding document.

Won races worth about $7m yesterday I think. And hardly gets a mention in mainstream NZ media. Meanwhile a car racer who finishes about 17th most times gets unbelievable media exposure in NZ.

1.60 x 2.05 x 1.65 does not equal 3.8