Pam Robson

That is a seriously bad idea if there happened to be a frost like the last two days.

One young trainer is even considering heading to the CD to get a grass race. Good for her..but most don't have her resources. And as a business decision, unsustainable.

Wendy Cooper is always approachable and helpful...but generally, as far as policy goes, I'd have to say the S.I is seen as a liability. Love to be corrected on that opinion.

And as well, I think there was some involvement from the same quarter with the extra maiden on the poly next week. Again, good work. But the poly solution doesn't suit everyone, and the continuing lack of grass opportunities [ esp trials] locally is a real bone of contention. Trainers don't care? they care all right...but most have had the shit kicked out of them for so long I think they've just given up.

I think you will find that a trainer [ who chooses not to announce his/her input ] has been instrumental in achieving that change.

I think so.

Absolutely.. Have a good one, Dave!

Oops.

Rock and a hard place, I guess. Trials make money, so to turn them down is pretty counterproductive for a cash-strapped club.

Rock and a hard place, I guess. Trials make money, so to turn them down is pretty counterproductive for a cash-strapped club.

Thank you, RJR. Well thought out and makes absolute sense to me [ for what that's worth! ]

I can't pretend to have a great knowledge of Aus racing from personal experience....but it doesn't seem that they close down tracks willy- nilly just to suit some agenda. Someone may correct me but it does appear that they value and maintain their Provincial and Country tracks. Even the bush tracks get their day in the sun and often with huge local support. You're right that the variety of tracks here fornerly created a difference as well as sparing others from overuse.

Same. I love the jumpers, but with all due respect to the horses and their handlers, their efforts bear little resemblance to those wonderful horses of yesteryear.

Wonder if he's had a look at the programmes......

My thoughts exactly

I note this advisory group was instigated by Winston and Birnie as advisors to TAB NZ. Not NZTR, not HRNZ. Which [ to me ] indicates how irrelevant the code bodies are seen to be.

Hope its not the same lot who oversee turf track renovations.

Oops....just re read thread

By Lonesome Dude x Cold Shoulder from memory

Galloped with his head on one side, under the pump too far out. The ultimate correction presumably not an option! But for a horse of lesser value....

Gee, that was woeful for a horse of his ability.

You're not alone. And not a whimper from those most affected....if there is a cunning plan for the future, let's see it.

You're right about that, your last sentence. Okay, you make valid points [ I still don't agree but never mind..! ] if you cast your mind back before 2003, when club delegates made up the NZRC instead of the ever-increasing corporate body it has become - would you think the administrative system is better now, than it was then? As we were told it was going to be?

Afraid so, it seems.

I disagree. To 'become affiliated' means to be subsumed into the whole, IMO. Far better to retain independence. The T.A is funded - or partially at least - by NZTR and on the whole, apart from the regular, albeit tame, communications, seem to have little clout or influence. A meeting between T.A and NZTR was held recently, to express concern with the run of track fiascos. Only five years too late but still....and where is the news release about that, from either body?