Yes but no matter the circumstances he’ll always find a way to talk about a Cole dog or say how he talked to Brendon about the dog. If a non Cole dog wins he’ll say something like oh this and that, they need the run or some BS
Like Palliser said he’ll come up with 100 different situations.
I can’t remember vividly but I remember when Thrilling billy or a Ferguson dog was nominated to race but he was already with Mayhounds for retirement. I think the same has been done with Margaux who was nominated to run today if it went ahead but it’s already with Mayhounds.
I don’t think there’s enough dogs to have a distance race every week. Highly unlikely to get a full field and the quality won’t be great. You may find some can’t run out the distance either
I think when an Australian trainer travels over it makes it more interesting as dogs are bred for the longer distances. It’s hard for NZ dogs because there isn’t a lot of distance races and dogs are not bred to run long distances, it’s more like a try and see how they go. At least there were two full fields
It’s sad to the Auckland trainers but there are more trainers out of Auckland hence why they chose to run at Waikato. They are planning on doing a small/mini meeting for the Auckland trainers
I know what your saying but.... he sends his casts off up north and that makes it non profitable to these trainers as they win like once a month. Halley mullane is a pure example of racing these casts off.
I think teams don’t need big numbers of dogs because then they focus only on the good ones. As long as small trainers keep racing then the fields will be filled.
I’m just waiting for Walsh’s 6 litters to hit the track which will be exciting.
I believe people leave the industry because of Cole as it’s no longer profitable when racing against him. Cole/Ahern never used to have those numbers of dogs 3y ago.
I think events like this can easily be avoided! I also think this should stay up so people can read this and understand how this happened and to stop this happening as it’s not really shaming anyone.