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Hiyas 1. Matamata R8: 3-7 2. Otaki R7: 8-9 3. Caulfield R3: 2-5 4. Caulfield R4: 1-11 5. Caulfield R5: 9-10 6. Caulfield R6: 7-10 7. Caulfield R8: 4-6 8. Caulfield R9: 11-15 .. BB Go Lemmy!! 9. Rosehill R5: 3-10 10. Rosehill R6: 11-13 .. BB 11. Rosehill R7: 5-6 12. Rosehill R8: 1-2 Thanks John Let's go Rough Habitmeisters!

It wouldn't have mattered and is all a storm in a tea cup. Maher should pull his head in. Makram was finishing too well and ran the fastest 1400m of the day on course.

Hi there E5: 7-10 E6: 5-15 E7: 1-18 F2: 4-13 F3: 1-2 F5: 2-5 .. BB F6: 2-7 F7: 1-2 F9: 2 .. BB R7: 1 R8: 3-9 R9: 2-12 Thanks John Let's go Rough Habiteers

Hi there TR4: 3-4 TR6: 7-9 TR7: 2-7 .. BB TR8: 11-12 Ra2: 6-8 Ra6: 2-6 Ra7: 4-6 Ca4: 1-4 Ca6: 1-4 Ca7: 1-7 Ca8: 4-15 .. BB Ca9: 1-7 Thanks John All the best to you Kloppite, and let's go Habituals

NP Race 7 can I put 3-11 in for Von Cettes please.

Hi there W5: 8-12 W7: 2-7 W9: 2-9 NP4: 3-8 NP6: 1-16 NP7: 3-8 R5: 6-7 R6: 4-10 R7: 1-2 .. BB R8: 2-7 C7: 5-13 .. BB C8: 1-7 Thanks John All the best to you BK! ... let's go Rough Habitants!

Absolutely agree. I can remember them running at Trentham and the mud was loose and horses were sinking into it. It was pointless tramping back as there was nothing to stamp back in and we just ended up getting our gumboots stuck.

Hi there E1: 1-8 E2: 7-9 E3: 5-14 E4: 1-3 E5: 5-12 E6: 10-12 R1: 2-6 R2: 2-8 .. BB R3: 4-7 R7: 6-12 V9: 8-11 V10: 5-8 .. BB Thanks John All the best to you Gee! and let's go Rough Habitants!

That's understandable and as per normal for a Strath track installation, but I thought we were looking at 2025 summer onwards planning?

Isn't the point of having a Strathayr track, to provide a constant racing surface year round? If that's the case why isn't there more emphasis being placed on retaining racing interest over the winter months? This is all focussed on such a small period of time over a racing year. They won't be hosting jumping races at Ellerslie, not sure why, as they managed to do it for many successful years at Moonee Valley on the Strathayr, however I digress, so whilst they are splashing the cash around in the name of getting nz racing interest up, why don't they make is sustainable, and host some more 1800-2800 races with decent stakes, for the winter horses and stayers. It would allow the stayers to have a longer season after the cups, or start their campaigns earlier, whilst also hanging on to some of the fly by nighter racing enthusiasts that were snagged over Summer and it would also motivate owners, syndicates and breeders to re-look at winter/stayer breeding. It may also attract some of the Aussie horses, or Japanese and UK horses to stop off on their way to the Melbourne Carnival and be a bit of competition for, or a lead into, the Geelong Cup for example.

I think something that the powers that be didn't figure into their calculations is that we currently have an aging population, that aging population were and are the backbone of New Zealand racing. By closing down so many of the tracks, they no longer take their children, and their grandchildren to local meetings, they don't want to go to some hyped up metro meeting with no seating, drunken teenagers, vacuous rooms, and they certainly don't want to go to a track where every room is some corporate event and the best rooms are taken and not left for members and regular patrons. The changing of betting to mainly online was also a disaster, phone betting was pretty much their way forward, not a lot of the aging population use laptops or computers, so again, tracks are taken away and if they aren't able to get to a local TAB that are also diminishing, what do they do? It's almost as if racing in New Zealand has ignored their majority market and the market that will bring future patrons to racing ie. their children, grandchildren. Why do you think rest homes etc. took off in the last 10 years... it's to meet a market.

Hi all T4: 1-16 T5: 1-5 T8: 6-13 T9: 3-7 T10: 2-7 G9: 8-12 .. BB R2: 12-13 R3: 6-8 R7: 4-7 F7: 3-4 F8: 5-19 F9: 2-10 .. BB Thanks very much John Cheers Scooby, hope your girl runs safe and well for you all today! All the best to you FoxMerts and .... Let's go Rough Habitants!!

Amazing isn't it, how events unfold, got injured so was withdrawn from the Trentham Yearling Sales and Haubie picked him up in a private sale I can remember when McGinty jumped a fence at Telfords to get closer to an old hack mare that was walking past on Ararino Street There was no doubt he liked the ladies

A Rosie Myers special

If Miss Jools has anything to do with the TAB after that post, then why do you even think that they are capable of leadership or even having any impetus in what happens at the TAB?

It can be, I agree. They need to just cut ties, and give decent, open, honest opinions, but for now what they do give is something that the punter may enjoy that perhaps doesn't have huge knowledge but is avid

If Tommo is still reading this, he'll remember that after a Kelt meeting in HB, when me, the mothership and himself and his dad, and Luke and Stu (who'd wandered up after Trackside coverage had ended) were in the members stand after the last race, with a few others watching the Aussie racing.. Fields of Omagh won .. group favourite, what an enjoyable evening, just great discussions, knowledge and enjoying others that love racing.

Mick has a lot of knowledge, as does Luke, and Emily loves to present and keep things ticking over and I agree, it works really well. Mick I've got a lot of time for, lovely guy and when he was with trackside at harness meetings, he was approachable, said hello to all the patrons walking past and engaged with the kids, just stellar.

Yes it's not often you get that happen, but I guess if the horse shied or skipped I can see it eventuating. A painful injury and sadly so difficult with horses as limiting movement is so tough on them.

He'll have his day at some stage. He's a nice looking gelding.

Thanks Miss Jools, but all you needed to say was courtesy of HRNZ. Whether you like it or not, a post on a website should still be referenced if the entire post was sourced from somewhere else. You are still legally liable if plagiarising. I've already read the article on HRNZ because harness racing is a big part of my life and it concerns me very much.

I know that as an academic, I may notice this more than most... but ethically.. if you are going to copy and paste from another site like HRNZ, you should quote/reference them. Unless you are the reporter Adam Hamilton. It's the right thing to do, otherwise it's plagiarism.

Me too... even when I see it scheduled on Sky Movies I well up

For those that may not have watched this... it's a good go It will take nearly two hours from your life but it's worth it

In that situation I don't think they cared. I've heard George get emotional over finishes, I've heard Keith Haub get emotional over finishes, I've heard Johnny Tapp get emotional, Greg Miles even ... it's part of it and it is what makes it real. If you want to be so clinical all the time then it's just not human. I understand what you are saying John, but I just don't agree in this instance, sorry