caramello

with great atmosphere, and great people, they go all out to make you feel welcome, even when travelling up the night before, they open up the bar and have light snacks too. I think the committee members must talk to everyone there. High standards that other clubs should follow.

agree with sheriff, supplementary income. its the only way alot of people survive in this game, unless as you say, have a large capital base to begin with. When its good it good, but when its tough its ruddy tough. When even the ones with numbers are struggly and people who have to been training for many years and giving up, makes you think.

Lisa, there is no one more deserving than you, you can have a big glass of Sav now

on moroneys up north, yet another running 2nd in another R65 only got 2 points, all R 65 races all on saturday meetings.

can never work out the rating system, have a horse that was on 65, raced on saturday ran 2nd is now on 68, yet she has only had 4 starts and only won 1 race. Now she has to skip the rating 65 grade, and go up to rating 75 races. is this right, i thought they didnt go up a grade until they won another race. Poor girl is penalised for running honest races

done and dusted

but it is not caused by dandelion, it is cause by the catsear plant - unless you know the difference you would call the plant dandelion. Catsear has lots of little flower head and longer stems, with bigger leaves, where as dandelion has only 1 large flower head per stem and smaller leaves and shorter stem. We have had horses get it before, the only thing you can do is keep them calm, relaxed, and put them in the big lush paddock to help flush out the toxins, a toxic binder can also help, but because it temporary deadens the nerve endings in the back legs, the more wound up the horse gets the worse the symptoms. Quickest way to determine if its catsear poisoning, is the try and back them up. they will snatch up the hind legs, usually both, or in some causes can't back up at all. We have had horses with this before, all have recovered some longer than other, as a general rule if they dont recover within 2 years then the chance of full recovery at slim. worst thing to do is confine them, the grass helps flush it out. best way to get rid of catsear is to pull it out. It most potent in the summer when there is bugger all grass (sand country is the worst, usually around the same time as facial excema dangers.) and a big downpour of rain, will cause a fungus to grow on the plant. that is what does the damage. we have sprayed for years for catsear and it always come back, since we have been pulling the plants out, we are getting less and less, to a point that we dont have to worry about it now. We have been about 10 yrs without incident.

i just budget well and dont charge the earth. ive had 2 wins in the last month from my very small team so i must be looking after them enough. do alot myself and have no hidden costs. tell me why do trainers in the north charge from 50-90 per day and south island charge 38-55 and they still race for mostly the same stake and daily costs wouldnt be that diffrent?? I'll think you will find that farriers are cheaper in the S/I along with horse feed, which is usually bought up from the S/I, to the N/I, hence the price of feed is dearer up here, the furrther up the island the more the feed must cost i expect. Most Grain & Oaten Chaff come from the S/I.

barlow are the most genuine people in racing, and we wish them all the best in their ventures up north. From the French Family

I totally agree with you puha, there is a fair few trainers out there that have supplementary incomes, As there is not much change left at the end of the day from training horses.

2 wins, 1 2nd from 3 starts, nice

guys will check now

is there a website that i can listen to a race in newcastle without having to subscribe? Those races are not on the NZ tab site, so i gather they won't be on trackside?

isn't the jumps jockey who was based at palmy for a while is it?