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    Tapu got a reaction from We're Doomed in Owners muscle up with OIA requests   
    In his letter the Minister demanded RITA:
    * Make best use of the $3.5m Crown contribution to the cost of industry change – ensuring that this funding ‘buys change’ rather than underwrites business as usual activities.
    * Improve customer service while improving operational efficiencies.
    * Provide for temporary management of residual functions, if necessary, after the formation of RITA’s successor organisation and the devolution of the intended functions to the codes.
    * Avoid any further deterioration in the RITA balance sheet and put steps in place for improvement.
    * Embed a customer service ethos that invests efforts into keeping promises, being realistic in making promises, and delivering on target.
    The letter also said RITA must complete the work started by the Ministerial Advisory Committee.
    It should:
    * Prepare a devolution of racing functions to the racing codes.
    * Continue assessment whether TAB betting operations should be outsourced to a third party – including exploring the extent to which joint venture and other arrangements with betting, broadcasting and gaming operators can provide the organisation with cost-effective access to up-to-date skills, knowledge and technologies.
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    Tapu got a reaction from We're Doomed in Owners muscle up with OIA requests   
    Ministers instructions to RITA
    The Minister instructed RITA should ensure as much money as possible goes to additional prizemoney – not racing industry overheads by:
    * Maintaining the current level of overall funding to the codes as a baseline.
    * Minimising transitional costs for the industry and government.
    * Looking for efficiency gains in operations without compromising organisational capability and ensure the transfer of functions to the codes does not result in an overall increase in cost to the industry.
    * Progress the doubling of returns to owners as a key component of the cycle of revitalisation in the Massara Report.
    Critically, RITA was to have provided written and non-financial reports to the Minister for Racing and his department not later than four weeks after the end of each quarter.
    “I may alter this frequency depending on RITA’s performance and risks,” Peter said.
    “In addition, there is a ‘no surprises’ expectation, under which RITA is required to inform my office and the department of any material matter that arises and respond promptly to information requests.”
    Questions sent in under the Official Information Act by the federation seek, among other things, to discover whether the above instructions have been carried out.
    Under the Act answers must be provided within 20 working days but extensions can be sought if producing a large quantity of information unreasonably interferes with the operations of the agency.
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    Tapu got a reaction from meomy in Thoroughbred Breeding books, photos (can you help)   
    NZTBA have a library 
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    Tapu got a reaction from TBL in Thoroughbred Breeding books, photos (can you help)   
    NZTBA have a library 
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    Tapu got a reaction from Leggy in HANDICAPPING POLICY   
    They should be running R60 races for 1 win horses instead of them competing against 5 win horses who have dropped back in the grades and then get an apprentice up.  Very unfair and it happens all the time & looks deliberate in cases.  This is why there is congestion and it the 1 win horses who cannot get a start and get put into emergency B! B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 & so on until their owners get sick of paying bills for nothing angive the game away.  Why can’t the handicappers see this glaring fact?  This is where we haemorrhage horses and disillusioned owners from and meantime the higher grades race with minimal fields and make money.
     
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    Tapu got a reaction from dock leaf in HANDICAPPING POLICY   
    They should be running R60 races for 1 win horses instead of them competing against 5 win horses who have dropped back in the grades and then get an apprentice up.  Very unfair and it happens all the time & looks deliberate in cases.  This is why there is congestion and it the 1 win horses who cannot get a start and get put into emergency B! B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 & so on until their owners get sick of paying bills for nothing angive the game away.  Why can’t the handicappers see this glaring fact?  This is where we haemorrhage horses and disillusioned owners from and meantime the higher grades race with minimal fields and make money.
     
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    Tapu got a reaction from Slim Dusty in Another Wingatui trainer passes   
    Shaun was getting Jaggard back and kept asking if I knew anyone who would like to stand him anywhere.  Very well performed stallion with great lines (double of Vain among them)
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    Tapu got a reaction from puha in HANDICAPPING POLICY   
    They should be running R60 races for 1 win horses instead of them competing against 5 win horses who have dropped back in the grades and then get an apprentice up.  Very unfair and it happens all the time & looks deliberate in cases.  This is why there is congestion and it the 1 win horses who cannot get a start and get put into emergency B! B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 & so on until their owners get sick of paying bills for nothing angive the game away.  Why can’t the handicappers see this glaring fact?  This is where we haemorrhage horses and disillusioned owners from and meantime the higher grades race with minimal fields and make money.
     
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    Tapu got a reaction from Huey in HANDICAPPING POLICY   
    They should be running R60 races for 1 win horses instead of them competing against 5 win horses who have dropped back in the grades and then get an apprentice up.  Very unfair and it happens all the time & looks deliberate in cases.  This is why there is congestion and it the 1 win horses who cannot get a start and get put into emergency B! B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 & so on until their owners get sick of paying bills for nothing angive the game away.  Why can’t the handicappers see this glaring fact?  This is where we haemorrhage horses and disillusioned owners from and meantime the higher grades race with minimal fields and make money.
     
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    Tapu got a reaction from chelseacol in Another Wingatui trainer passes   
    So sad, Shaun was a fountain knowledge and had contacts all over the world.  He lived for breeding & I will miss his weekly calls immensely.  He knew it all without a computer and could go back years with such clarity.  His favourite line he spoke of was Paper Money as being so important and he is showing up in many good horses today.  He was so generous sharing his knowledge with any other breeder who had a passion for pedigrees.  There will be many on this site with whom he regularly rang for a chat.
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    Tapu got a reaction from Fartoomuch in Another Wingatui trainer passes   
    So sad, Shaun was a fountain knowledge and had contacts all over the world.  He lived for breeding & I will miss his weekly calls immensely.  He knew it all without a computer and could go back years with such clarity.  His favourite line he spoke of was Paper Money as being so important and he is showing up in many good horses today.  He was so generous sharing his knowledge with any other breeder who had a passion for pedigrees.  There will be many on this site with whom he regularly rang for a chat.
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    Tapu got a reaction from Breeder in Duelled mare looking for a Danehill free stallion   
    Vespa
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    Tapu got a reaction from barryb in Go Winnie   
    They won’t because they won’t go without any things they regard as normal, to save.  They want it handed to them on a plate.
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    Tapu got a reaction from elbow in Go Winnie   
    They won’t because they won’t go without any things they regard as normal, to save.  They want it handed to them on a plate.
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    Tapu got a reaction from gary1 in Go Winnie   
    They won’t because they won’t go without any things they regard as normal, to save.  They want it handed to them on a plate.
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    Tapu got a reaction from Los Lobos in $10k min from 1 March   
    Can't get a start in a maiden or R65 as it is.  Some horses get balloted out more than 4 times so owners stop trying it and walk away.  Then there is a 5 win R67 who loses, drops back and beats a 1 win horse.  Need to be R60 1 win horse race..
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    Tapu got a reaction from army in $10k min from 1 March   
    Can't get a start in a maiden or R65 as it is.  Some horses get balloted out more than 4 times so owners stop trying it and walk away.  Then there is a 5 win R67 who loses, drops back and beats a 1 win horse.  Need to be R60 1 win horse race..
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    Tapu got a reaction from cherry_bomb in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from Lynne Corbett in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from elbow in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from biff in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from vanturk1 in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from richie in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from the shue25 in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.
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    Tapu got a reaction from Cubes in Explain   
    Explain spent her later years here at Hedwood thoroughbreds in West Melton with Kay & Marie Hood.  She had a Painted Black first,  then when Alan was down (one of Aide Memoires co-breeders, we were going to see him (PB)and I asked him to swing by and look at Remind on the way.  He was very much more her type but had a couple of things that I liked in the match and a couple that Alan liked so off she went to stud.  Bella was foaled and brought up here in West Melton, before going north to the co-breeders to be broken in and race.  We kept   Explain and she foaled a very nice Coats Choice Colt for Hedwood who was unweaned when she succumbed to anaphylactic shock from being stung by bees.  We lost two of our mares this way as neighbour had a beekeeper put hives on boundary unknown to us until we saw swarms of bees on horses water troughs.  Bees need water so asked them to supply their bees with it themselves, but too late for Expain & Emerge.  Bella was always a lovely type and very much The same type as her mother.  She was 20 on foaling Aide Memoire and 22 for her last foal who is in Auckland after being sold at Si sale.  Nice natured and lovely to handle she was very much a boss mare in the Broodmare paddock.  The other mares allowed her orphan to mix with them and their foals.  It was sad she didn't leave us another filly.  Who said old mares don't produce.  Explain has and made all her breeders and syndicate owners very proud.  First G1 for us all as breeders and for her sire. Remind who stands at long Acres Stud at Darfield.  Another SI stallion kept the flag flying today when Natuzzi won the G2 at Elleslie, Coats Choice is his sire.