RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.

Dissident

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  1. Just an early heads up for anyone interested, David Seymour is booked to hold public meetings at Matamata (daytime) and Te Rapa (evening) Racecourses on August 3rd. Events should be up on the ACT party website soon. Aiming to do a Cambridge meeting on a separate trip later in the campaign.
  2. Yeah, deja vu much. Things aren't going well and there's just resounding silence.
  3. I saw Winston Peters was at Karaka, but nice to see an ACT MP visit too:
  4. Yes. I only have a small share and to be honest don't expect a ticket. If you have a large syndicate you could rotate the 10 or so tickets through the members so a different 10 get them each time, and they could pass on a ticket if they weren't going? Only issue would be if the horse goes well and gets to a feature race and everyone would of course want to be there.
  5. I agree. In my opinion it's the government involvement/regulations on how to run the TAB which inevitably create a top heavy high cost paper based operation run almost entirely by people clueless as to which end of a horse is what. Let alone what a fetlock is. From someone who worked there and hands on in the industry. ACT used to have a good racing policy on its website about transferring the operation more back to the industry...but it's not up there currently.
  6. Yes, horrible situation, I really hope they get them out/treated and all recover. The mare I have a little share in went as 1 of 7 today
  7. Well done to Black Kirrama and Gruff! Thank you very much for running this
  8. Yes, really hope they are all ok, very stressful times
  9. Agreed. Didn't mind the quiz as a 1 off but the painting and buzz challenge are just poor. Feels like it's just there as fluff content for the sake of having something. Rather see more behind the scenes stories directly related to racing/trainers/studs. E.g. Savabeel just turned 21, would have been a good opportunity to do a piece on him/his progeny
  10. Yes, I also tried and it said incorrect account number
  11. Terrible news, so very sad to hear this. Thinking of his family and friends.
  12. Could be something to do with odds of success purely for gambling purposes. I was told once by a savvy punter Aussie greyhounds are an easier way to try and turn a profit...good pools, and of course greyhounds have the smaller fields. Can't say it worked for me but then personally I'd rather bet on gallops any day.
  13. Wow how amazing is that. That would quickly change some sport horse peoples reluctance to take on an ex-racehorse.
  14. Exactly. More about the dire state our health system is in, despite all that time to prepare.
  15. Unfortunately I think that is already how many view it. Most trainers in NZ have to accept anything half decent won't be staying here, for obvious reasons.
  16. Oh no, my favourite female NZ jockey . But good on her, the move makes a lot of sense and I wish her all the best!
  17. From Racingnews.co.nz This week’s Waikato race meetings look likely to go ahead without leading jockey Opie Bosson after changes to the Auckland-Waikato border area have locked him in. Bosson was set to have an outstanding book of rides at Saturday’s Te Rapa raceday, among them multiple Group One winner Avantage in the Gr.2 Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate (1200m) and Group One-placed I Wish I Win in the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m). But he has discovered that his home south of Pukekawa is regarded as being in Auckland for COVID-19 lockdown purposes – meaning he can’t leave the area without a special exemption. “I found out last night. In other lockdowns the checkpoints have been further north and I’ve been able to ride in Waikato,” Bosson said. “It’s very frustrating. I pay my rates in Waikato, I’m halfway between Pukekohe and Hamilton. I thought the whole way through that I’ve been Waikato-based.” Bosson said he’d been working very hard at keeping his weight down leading into the meeting and was set to ride at 57.5kg at Te Rapa. Among his options are flying to Australia, where his services would likely be in demand, especially given the suspensions handed out to leading Melbourne jockeys including Jamie Kah, Mark Zahra and Ben Melham after they attended an illegal party last week – though he would need a period in quarantine. “I’ve actually had a few offers to go over to Australia, but we’ll see what happens here over the next day,” he said. He has spoken to his local Member of Parliament, Port Waikato National MP Andrew Bayly, to see if there’s anything he can do to get an exemption to ride in Waikato, and said he’d make a decision on his next course of action in the next day or two. Bosson said he’d had his first COVID-19 vaccination. He also had a test last week which has since proved negative. Other Auckland-based jockeys, including Leith Innes, Andrew Calder and Masa Hashizume, are facing the same problem, though for most their situation is not as unexpected given their locations well within the Auckland boundaries. Chief Stipendary Steward John Oatham confirmed the only way the jockeys could ride in the area was with a government exemption. “From our experience last time when Auckland was in different levels, I don’t think it’s likely one would be granted. It’s not something we have discretion over,” he said. Oatham said he wasn’t sure exactly when the boundary changed, as there had been a change last year between two Auckland-only lockdowns that impacted two stewards based in Pokeno, which was moved into the Auckland area between the two. “I’m not sure if it’s changed this time, but there is a map we’ve been given that has an address finder on it and when you type in Opie’s address he is definitely in the Auckland region,” he said. Oatham said it’s not just jockeys impacted, as the stipendary steward resources will be stretched as well, as five stewards stretched across the three racing codes who are based in the Auckland area will not be available in what is a congested schedule. “In the Waikato region currently we’ve got three thoroughbred staff, so that basically means with thoroughbred racing events on the next eight days, they’re going to have to be working every day,” he said. “We’ve got one harness meeting and only one harness staff member in Waikato, so one of our galloping team is going to have to assist them, plus with some remote help viewing whatever footage they can at home. “Also, at Level 3 you’re really restricted to your own or a neighbouring region, and the Central Districts region is causing some headaches because we don’t have a lot of staff there.”
  18. Yeah I gave up on nz tab for that and use racenet.com.au free black book which is simple and is reliable(can also add comments)
  19. I hope they are also investigating the betting activity around the 2 horses. Surely if this was intentionally done by an outsider taking advantage of no security that would be the motive, placing a bet on a "sure thing". They wouldn't care if the horse tested positive later since the bet would have already paid out. A possibility to rule in or out?
  20. Exactly. Good horses traditionally get turned out to avoid breaking them on heavy 10s, and start getting brought back in about July. Only trouble is then half of them couldn't get a good enough surface to gallop on often enough in their prep to even make it to their target races, eg Spring Carnival in Oz. This opens up the options for prep and conditioning considerably amongst other benefits. It won't magically solve all the problems but it's a great start. Well done to CJC for a successful first race day.
  21. Sounds about right given they are google not microsoft based
  22. Weird indeed. Could really have done with the grandstand being included with the track. Just a side note on the dismantling-I was told in 2017 the estimate for dismantling the public grandstand at Trentham was over 1 million back then...would be more now. Expensive business it seems, tearing stuff down.