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  1. RV disqualifies horses ridden by star apprentice Wiremu Pinn Posted by: JustHorseRacing at 3:42pm on 29/6/2023 Posted in: Horse Racing News Horses ridden by apprentice Wiremu Pinn have been disqualified due to a miscommunication between Racing Victoria (RV) and New Zealand authorities. The incorrect claim allocation for Pinn led to an inquiry by RV stewards, resulting in the disqualification of the horses he rode. Initially, Pinn was claiming 3kg, but after an audit of his wins in New Zealand, it was reduced to 2kg. Stewards received conflicting information regarding the calculation of his claim, prompting an investigation. Last Tuesday, connections of the 29 horses ridden by Pinn were issued a show-cause notice as RV intensified its inquiry. Out of these 29 starters, Pinn achieved five wins, with 25 of them securing prizemoney for the connections. In light of the situation, the stewards made the decision to disqualify the 29 horses ridden by Pinn in Victorian races between May 27, 2023, and June 12, 2023, stating that other horses in those races were disadvantaged due to the incorrect claim. According to Racing Victoria, under AR 274, when a starter is disqualified from a race, the placings are amended, and the prizemoney is awarded as if the disqualified horse had not participated. Consequently, RV will pay the owners, trainers, and jockeys of the horses that finished behind the disqualified horse the balance of any prizemoney owed based on the amended placings in the next payment cycle. After considering the findings of the stewards’ inquiry and the basis of their decision, the RV Board decided not to demand the repayment of any prizemoney from the owners, trainer, or jockey Pinn for the 29 disqualified horses. This decision took into account the circumstances surrounding the miscalculation of Pinn’s claim, which was not attributed to him or the owners and trainers who acted in good faith when booking Pinn for the races in question. The RV Board acknowledged that the error was unintentional and expressed apologies on behalf of RV to all parties affected by this unique situation. RV disclosed in its statement how the error in Pinn’s claim came about. When Pinn requested to transfer his services from New Zealand to Victoria, RV licensing officials asked their counterparts at New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) for a list of eligible wins to calculate Pinn’s Australian claim. However, the imprecise wording of the request led to a misunderstanding by NZTR officials, who provided what they believed to be the requested list of wins in good faith. RV licensing officials accepted this list as a complete representation of the desired results, leading to the allocation of a 3kg claim for Pinn. Racing Victoria assured that a review of the relevant systems and processes will be conducted to prevent similar errors in the future.
  2. I still believe transferring to Avondale would have been the better option as I stated earlier before going to the poly and the resultant number of starters on Saturday would be testament to that. Not only is Avondake a right handed track the same as Tauranga It would have also allowed the F&M Classic to have been run. Winter grass gallopers going to a firm poly surface just didn't suit if they don't cop the poly. Perhaps as some have suggested it may have been done as a test case to see what would happen. I don't know, but but the number of starters in the finish suggests it didn't work. Turnover fiqures would be very interesting. On course alone would have seen a huge reduction as there was hardly anyone there. Did the transfer favour proven poly runners as evidenced by continuing poly results. Monza a perfect example just yesterday. 22 career starts now for five wins. Six starts here on the poly for those five wins and a close second. Anyway, food for thought, just looking at the 7 winners there on Saturday all had previous poly track form. R1 Chattahoochee - Trialed there 4 times for a win and two seconds. R2 Electric Time - Had two starts there including the start prior and a trial placing. R3 Canny Man - One run there which was a trial win. R4 Iroquois Falls - Again one run there being an easy trial win. R5 Caledonie - Had had three trials with the latest an easy win. R6 Windspeed - One start there for a close fifth as well as winning both trials there. R7 Cleese - One start there for a win.
  3. When acceptances were taken for Tauranga it was a given the track would be heavy there and trainers accepted with their horses in full knowledge of this. Transferring to the poly track created a very different scenario entirely hence why 37 scratchings ocurred from the original 81 runners. This decimated the fields and I would think that a few more would have seen the poly meeting scrapped altogether. I would have thought perhaps a more suitable solution would have been a transfer to Avondale thereby allowing the heavy grass gallopers a chance to race there instead resulting in fields with larger numbers. It would have also allowed the stakes Tauranga Classic to have been run instead of sending it all the way down to Hastings next week.
  4. Transferred frrom the grass to the synthetic. Full fields were 81 runners. With current scratchings to date we are down to 45. Of those 45 there are 32 that have never raced on the synthetic. Of the 13 others only 1 has won on the synthetic and two others have placed. .
  5. RU BRADAR (D Montes de Oca) - Shifted in at the start crowding TELEKINETIC which lost ground. Rider relaxed his ride for a short distance passing the 50 metres. D Montes de Oca was dislodged from his mount on pulling up and attended to by St John Paramedics and treated for cramping, being cleared to fulfil his remaining riding engagements. Stewards enquired into the reason the rider relaxed his ride passing the 50 metres and after taking evidence from D Montes de Oca, other riders and the Senior Paramedic, stewards accepted D Montes de Oca’s explanation.
  6. Team Wealleans Tauranga Classic Following consultation with affected trainers and the Pattern Committee the Team Wealleans Tauranga Classic (Listed WFA F&M) which was scheduled for Saturday 24 June will now be run at Hastings on Saturday, 1st July. Nominations for this race close at 12 noon Tuesday 27 June with the NRB. Given the significance of this day to the club, NZTR would like to acknowledge the proactivity of the Tauranga Racing Club especially GM Louise Dean and Track Manager Craig Settle. with regards the decision not to race at Tauranga.
  7. He evidently got cramp and after the line couldn't steer and actually parted company with the horse.
  8. I doubt very many of them will want to race on the synthetic.
  9. I posted this on RC in February 2020. Seems relevant to bring to the fore again in this thread. he Sprinters. Speed To Burn by John Costello from DB Racing Annual 1975-76. Think of crack sprinters and you usually think of Ellerslie's Railway Handicap or Trentham's Telegraph. Flying fast track speedsters, streaking over 1200m in less than 1:10, breaking 1:23 for 1400m. Certainly two of the 1975-76 season's outstanding sprint performances fell into this category - Blue Blood's phenomenal 1:07.5 in the 1200m Telegraph Handicap and Mop's 1:22.1 in the 1400m Thibenzole Sprint at Te Rapa. Yet to me, the most remarkable sprint race of the season was a 1200m event run at Avondale for the modest stake of $4000 and a time of 1:17.5, just ten seconds slower the Blue Blood recorded in the Telegraph. That race was the rather inappropriately named Long Handicap at the Avondale July meeting and the two fine sprinters who lifted from mediocrity to high drama were Oranmore and Shifnal Chief. Oranmore, a nuggety little speedster who loved to go to the front and run his rivals into the ground; Shifnal Chief, one of our very best sprinter-milers of the last decade, inclined to get back in 1200m scurries but able to turn on a blistering last 200m. Both of them at this stage were well up in the weights. And both, though ridden by apprentices to get some weight relief, were still conceding big weight advantages to their rivals. The word "blistering" would be relative this July day. The track was too heavy to allow fast times. Under such conditions, a horse which can gallop through the deep footing at 13 to the furlong is going fast - and one which can run the last 200m in 12 is finishing brilliantly. Shifnal Chief's class, on top of the ground or in the heaviest going, had been well established before the 1975-76 season opened. He boasted a string of wins in the wet, a Railway Handicap under top weight and from an outside draw on a fast track. Oranmore had been a speedy two-year old in the 1974-75 season, his four wins including the ARC Welcome Stakes and the 75th Avondale Stakes. In the latter race he beat the highly regarded filly named Tudor Light. A three-year old Oranmore didn't waste much time showing that he could pit his speed and determination against the older sprinters and hold his own. By the time the Avondale winter meeting came around he had notched six metropolitan sprint wins, three at Avondale and the rest at Ellerslie. And he had shown, too that despite his lack of size he could carry weight. At the Auckland winter meeting he'd recorded two sprint sprint placings with Tony Williams riding him at his full book weight of 61.5 kg and 62kg. In the President's Handicap on the opening day of the Avondale winter meeting Oranmore was weighted at 61.5kg. Owner-trainer Jim Doran put apprentice Ken Mathews up to get 2.5kgs off his back. Back even with 59 the chunky little speedster's task looked difficult. For among his rivals was that great sprinter Shifnal Chief, right back to peak form. "The Chief" had resumed from a summer spell at Te Rapa in May and finished third behind Good Gift and Regal Tan under 62kg. Taupiri owner-trainers Ian and Jim Cameron realised that in his coming winter campaign their star would need to take advantage of apprentice allowances where he could, So, although the maximum top weight of 59kg at Rotorua on May 29 was already inviting enough, the Cameron's engaged Takanini apprentice Ray Mathers to take the mount. With his weight reduced to 56kg by the allowance Shifnal Chief looked a shot's eye, and he was. Mathers, having his first ride on "The Chief" and conscious that he could get more rides on the classy black if he acquitted himself well, had him well positioned all the way. With Shifnal Chief, that's all you had to do. He did the rest, outfinishing his opposition comfortably. The Cameron's were happy with young mathers' showing and he had the mount again when Shifnal Chief lined up next, on the final day of the Auckland winter meeting. No maximum top weight here and in the the 1400m Visitors' Handicap. Shifnal Chief was handicapped at 63.5kg and even with Mathers aboard he still had to lump 60.5kg, the equivalent of 9.7 under the old scale. From soon after the home turn it was a two horse race, Shifnal Chief and Cornelius, himself a grand wet-weather sprinter with 4.5kg lass than the topweight and the services of wily veteran Grenville Hughes opposed to the youthful and inexperienced Mathers. But young Mathers did his part and Shifnal Chief, like the high-class horse he is, did his part and more. Nether horse giving an inch, both shifting ground a bit under the tremendous pressure, they slogged it out to the line. And Shifnal Chief was just too good, getting there by half a head. It was a measure of their superiority that the third horse, Regal Tan was seven lengths away. An even more crushing display of superiority was still to come. But first Shifnal Chief had to clash with Oranmore on the first day of the Avondale winter meeting. This time "the Chief" had 65.5kg reduced by Mather's allowance to 62.5kg. He had to concede 3.5kg to the front running Oranmore and it seemed likely that he would have to concede him a fair start as well from the top of the straight. Though it is a big, roomy track with a long straight, Avondale seems to favour front runners. Whether or not the first part of the run home is slightly downhill, the leader on the turn often seems able to shoot to a handy break in the first 100m of the run home, and very often it is a winning break. Oranmore, who hugs the rail like a mechanical hare, is well suited to such tactics and, having won already four races on the track, had proved himself well suited to Avondale. He sped straight to the front in the President's Handicap. Sabre Prince, who had looked on the way back to form and was himself something of an Avondale specialist, tried to keep the pressure on him making the top bend. But once they straightened Oranmore shrugged him off and shot to a commanding lead in no time. Meanwhile Shifnal Chief had got snookered on the rails well back in the field. By the time he got clear he was giving Oranmore an impossible start and he did well to grab second in the last 40 odd metres. So the stage was set for another clash between Oranmore and Shifnal Chief in the Long Handicap on the second day. Both had risen further in the weights. Shifnal Chief was handicapped at 66kg and would carry 63kg with Mather's allowance; Oranmore handicapped at 64kg would drop to 61.5kg with Mathew's allowance. At that level in the weights it hardly seemed a match race. Though the others were not in the same class they were receiving such big weight advantages, even with the weight allowances, that it seemed one might come up with a run good enough to overturn the topweights. Just the same, a match race it was. The Cameron's, philosophical though they were about their first day defeat, had one instruction for Ray Mather; to have Shifnal Chief handier than he had been on the first day. For the rider of a horse like Oranmore there was no need for instructions, unless it was the classical old simplification: Go to the front and stay there. So away went the field and away to the front, with that remarkable early acceleration of his, streaked Oranmore. Sabre Prince had even less chance of footing it with him this time; Shifnal Chief, as per instructions, was keeping handier in about third place but he was well astern of the flying pacemaker. And when Oranmore turned the corner and set sail for the judge, he widened his gap in dramatic fashion. From being two or three lengths clear of his nearest rival he was seven or eight lengths out in what seemed the space of barely fifty metres. The task of Shifnal Chief in closing that gap, though he was in the clear to challenge from the top of the straight, looked well nigh impossible. But horsemen don't use a very large vocabulary to their charges and evidently the Camerons had never taught Shifnal Chief the meaning of the word "impossible.' He set out to bridge the gap and, though Oranmore was still galloping freely in front, he gradually closed it stride by stride. Fifty metres out Shifnal Chief closed with Oranmore and it seemed he would storm past him. But then Oranmore showed his own brand of class. As "The Chief" came alongside he pulled out something extra and the two grand sprinters flashed across the line locked together. It was anybody's guess who had won. I've become a rather better judge of the Avondale angle since the days when the camera gave the December Plate there to Gay Sovereign after I'd thought she finished a close third. I though Shifnal Chief had just got up and the camera confirmed it - Shifnal Chief by a nose. If Oranmore had won the honours it would have been just as richly deserved and I've heard few horses get a warmer reception than those two when they returned to scale. The final measure of the quality of their performances, of their superiority over the rest came with the official margins - a nose between Shifnal Chief and Oranmore, an incredible eighteen lengths to the third horse Battle Fury. Just a run of the mill sprint at Avondale, only a modest $4000 at stake. But what a memorable thriller that race was!
  10. Just a throw at the stumps for odds Rev. The Mighty Spar with Kuru up probably should be winning all things being equal but you never ever know in a jumping race as a lot of things can go wrong. .
  11. Stewards act on Pinn claim | RACING.COM
  12. 5 rides for Billy at Mornington today.
  13. Yes, flew over last Wednesday. Back for Pukekohe on the 21st.
  14. What a ride in the last by Billy
  15. She is over there at present.
  16. Billy is certainly making the most of his opportunities over the ditch. All going well I would say it will be permanent move.
  17. Pinn scores first Saturday wins | RACING.COM Hoping he ride a treble there today.
  18. Given there were 115 horses still to race on Thursday the abandoned race-meeting has been re-scheduled for Tuesday 30 May. The programme remains the same with new nominations required. These nominations will close with the NRB on Friday 26 May at 12 noon and withdrawals will be Saturday at 10am. The rail at Hastings has been moved into the true position and the track has or will be verti-drained. As a consequence the Foxton trials have been brought forward to Monday 29 May with nominations closing at midday on Friday 26 May at 12 noon.
  19. R.I.P Nigel Landers A real colourful character. A book would have made a great read.
  20. Pinn signs off with Awapuni four-timer | NZ Racing News
  21. Well Nomates you will have to follow Wiremu Pinn in Victoria as he crosses the ditch for a stint. So good luck to him over there. Leaves on a high after riding four winners at Awapuni yesterday.