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Having worked a night shift in New Plymouth till 5am this morning I can assure you it bucketed down for hours

I think Our Maizcay finished second to Ballroom Babe in 1994

This article from NY Breaking (Australia) states that the male in the picture is "close friend & roommate, Jacob Bidell." If you check out his Linkedin profile it states that he is Jamie Kah's Media Relations Manager (Aug 2019-present). He's also a greyhound trainer & has TB racing in his background as well. My point is....Call me old-fashioned but surely someone acting in a PR role with half a brain wouldn't knowingly allow their client to be photographed in a position that is potentially detrimental to their career if it gets out? He seems to be quite comfortable posing with her and he remains sitting next to her while she prepares the lines. At the very least this must be damaging to his professional reputation (maybe his career) as well as calling her suitability as a licence holder into question. If I was in Jamie's position I think I'd be looking for a new MRM who might be better able to advise her & not to apparently condone the 'white powder action' we see in the photo. Perhaps separating personal relationships from professional ones might be beneficial for her future career. Fake news? Sure it could be but I'm guessing we haven't heard the last of this. Mainstream racing media will be keen to keep this one alive for as long as they can. Home Australia Jamie Kah appears to rack up a line of white powder in shock photo Jamie Kah Appears To Rack Up A Line Of White Powder In Shock Photo AUSTRALIA By William LAST UPDATED JUN 23, 2023 Share Footage of horse racing champion Jamie Kah appearing to collect a line of white powder has circulated on social media just a day after she announced her return to the sport. Kah, 27, announced on Thursday that she was back in the saddle and preparing to return to racing three months after a horrific fall that resulted in a hospital stay for a brain hemorrhage and amnesia. However, just a day later, damning race-industry photos are circulating on WhatsApp that appear to show Kah picking up a line of a white substance. In one of the images, she can be seen in a gray robe with manicured white nails and her hand on her cheek as she smiles at the camera. Racing champion Jamie Kah is pictured appearing to make a line of white fabric An image circulating on WhatsApp that resembles Kah’s right hand distributing a heap of white powder The amazing development comes just a day after she announced her racing return News Corp reports that Kah is pictured with close friend and roommate Jacob Biddell, who is a greyhound trainer. He pouts for the photo in a ribbed cream turtleneck. Another girl draws peace signs with her hands, holding a gray board on a marble kitchen table. The second photo appears to show Kah’s hand – with the same manicured nails and gray sweater – using a plastic card to split a mound of white powder onto the plate seen in the first image. There is also a bag of white powder and a vape next to the board on the same marble countertop. Kah has yet to comment on news of the photos being published, and race insiders have told the Herald Sun she was unaware she was being photographed lining up the white substance. Daily Mail Australia has contacted Kah’s management for comment. Kah, a nine-time Group 1 winner, and fellow hoop champion Craig Williams were involved in a sickening race fall earlier this year that left her fighting for life. Kah was rushed to hospital after the nauseating fall in March, which left her with a brain injury. She had to remain in an induced coma for several days to allow her brain to rest before undergoing a long rehabilitation program and finally being released from the hospital. Kah said her partner, fellow hoops champion Ben Melham, told her her eyesight was so bad after the accident that she ran into walls She was taken to hospital in critical condition after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage, broken wrist and broken foot following the fall at the Sires Produce Stakes at Flemington on 11 March. Kah was kept in an induced coma for nearly a week to rest her brain, and returned to her farm on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula after a significant period in hospital. “The main injury was a hemorrhage in the brain. I was in a coma for about five days,” she said in an interview with Channel 7 after she left the hospital to go home. “I broke my wrist, which I only found out long after the fall. And my foot was broken, and I think my nose. But that wasn’t really relevant compared to the brain injury. “When I fell I was told I couldn’t breathe for about 20 seconds or maybe more… I was put into an induced coma and then I couldn’t wake up because of the drugs I was on, I just kept sleeping.” It took ages for me to wake up. “I whined about my wrist at Epworth (hospital) and then they X-rayed again. They said, “Your right wrist, it’s broken!”. So yes, I found out long after that my hand was broken because the focus was on straightening my head.” Kah, pictured with the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning trophy earlier in February It’s safe to say that her brain went through some very serious trauma. Kah doesn’t remember the fall, or even being at the track that day – much of the month after the incident is indeed a “blur” for the world’s top female jockey. She can’t remember which hospital she was taken to by ambulance after the fall – the Royal Melbourne, where she was from March 11 to 20 – or the first few days after being transferred to Epworth. Shockingly, Kah revealed that the injury to her brain was so extensive that she thought it was nearly 10 years ago when she began her stunning rise to stardom in her home state of Adelaide. “I woke up in Epworth thinking I was 18 years old and I was living in Adelaide again,” she said. ‘I kept saying my address, that was my old home address in Adelaide. I remembered that, but they told me it was wrong, but I couldn’t remember where I lived.’

Are the 100 sites around NZ viable without pokies? I reckon an awfully lot of them are only clinging on due to the pokie revenue, so if I am correct, wouldn't it be best to decide how many (if any) retail sites remain viable when the pokie era is gone before spending the $4m at all? Sounds like a great way to squander up to $4m to me. Will Entain even see a nationwide retail network as important at all? Will we even have one in 2-5 years time? Perhaps a couple of glossy outlets in main centres might be seen as important, though I'm not even sure about that. Use the facial recognition technology (or similar) in those remaining premises if it is really necessary. If I were an agent or a staff member employed by an agent I'd be dusting off my CV quick pronto. Even those working in the branch network must be nervous - a lot can change in two years. Many a promise has been broken by employers (or a way to work around it found).

Maybe, 3 gallops meetings mean we don't have time for shopping & chocolates? Such a shame said with tongue firmly in my cheek. Only problem is we don't have the horse/jockey population to support this on a regular basis <bugger>

What do people think? Assuming this goes ahead, what percentage of the $650m do people think will return to being spent on the NZ TAB markets? Personally, I don't see this as being the saviour of NZ racing. Call me a pessimist if you wish. I'll be rapt to be proved wrong for the sake of our industry.

For the sake of the publication's future, I hope they are able to deliver their product with more accurate/up-to-date information (e.g. On where it can be purchased) and it is imperative that the fields and the other details that inform punters are correct every time. If purchasers are using Raceform as a betting guide (as the name suggests), they may well become gun shy quite quickly if too many errors happen too often. This would obviously be detrimental to future sales. However, if you are purchasing for the other content, then you might be a little more forgiving. I wish Raceform well. Although, I am comfortable using online sources only for my information I respect the fact that others still prefer a hard copy publication & are willing to pay for it. However, I wonder whether a publication such as this is financially sustainable in the medium-long term.

Just had a quick look at where you can buy this publication. Found a couple of glaring inaccuracies immediately. If you live in Waitara your local retailer is listed in the Manawatu/Wanganui section so, you'll probably think you can't buy Raceform at all in your town. If you live in New Plymouth, I wouldn't try to buy a copy from the New Plymouth TAB @ The Richmond Centre because this branch closed quite some time ago. Just another example of how unprofessional things are in our game, be those things big or small.

They managed to hold jumpouts at Levin today as well

Looks like a lovely 3yro type for you & the other well-known owners. Who is the lucky trainer?

Personally, I have no issue with a commentator saying these or similar words when a horse is running in a race where the owner or a part-owner has recently passed away. The horse winning would just be an extra lovely touch.

A few thoughts... The starting staff on racedays are there to load horses safely, not to educate them. That's one of the reasons we have jumpouts & trials. Barrier staff on those occasions may well put the final touches on young horses getting their barrier education, but they shouldn't be expected to educate from the start either. Stipes shouldn't be issuing barrier certs until they are confident that a horse is educated enough and mature enough to cope with the starting gate procedure on raceday. A decent breaker or a trainer who is a real horseman/woman usually produces horses that are willing to load & jump out of the stalls at their debut. In my time, I also found that having a stable old-timer or retired horse or two who know all the ropes can be useful when you are only educating one or two babies at a time at the barriers.

They shouldn't be going to trials or races until they are happy to be loaded & to stand in the stalls. The outfit where the majority of the horses I have owned a share in taught them from day one on driving reins to walk through the barriers, then to stand in them for a period of time (a longer period each day). We had three open wooden barriers near the trotting track that were used to educate horses. They repeated this process once they graduated to being ridden. Once they were bullet proof doing this, they went to the real stalls learning to stand in them, to walk out, then jump when the gates opened. They were also taught to stand still when there was lots of yelling & banging & crashing around them. In a couple of decades, I only remember one horse from this stable being reluctant to load at the races on a regular basis (but always did so quite quickly & was never dirty about it) & one occasion when a feisty little mare refused to go in at the first time of asking (just digging her toes in & having a pig root). She then loaded willingly & won the Group 1 race The starter & barrier attendants were always happy to see horses from this fairly large stable at the jumpouts, trials or races as they could be loaded in any order & behaved well. Educate horses properly & you'll rarely have problems on raceday.

RIP, ol' mate. I will always fondly remember our times in the judge's box at the Foxton trials - you as judge, me as timekeeper. We had a lot of fun. He also did some jewellery shopping for me in Asia during his time there. He was always willing to help people. Stu was a larger-than-life character who will be missed by many in the racing fraternity. Condolences to Stu's family

Ignorance abounds! Watching Trackside and hearing Triscay mispronounced several times as 'Tri scay' made my BP rise more than a few points. The lack of historical knowledge was glaringly apparent yesterday afternoon.