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Drop the irrigation ?  No irrigation better/deeper root structures  

We did for decades when we had no irrigation no problems!! 
now in the last 10-15 years all we do is listen to overcharging suits (Turf Consultants) who have to justify their salaries by coming up with stupid ideas and miracle machines that cost thousands , most of these suits wouldn't even mow their own lawns 

over watering
Awapuni was a  joke on Saturday
They tried so hard to degrade NZ racing and did a fantastic job of it.

I remember when I was 6/7 ? seeing the smoke/haze in the evenings while playing at the beach , this is nothing new . Watching the news last night you could see the firemen standing ankle deep in litter/bark/leaves which has been allowed to build up , the greens have much to answer for .
AND THIS , you can forget about the climate con , these guys are going to be convicts .
" Police arrested 183 people for lighting bushfires across Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in the past few months. NSW police data shows 183 people have been charged or cautioned for bushfire-related offences since November 8, and 24 arrested for deliberately starting bushfires."
Makes you wonder about the fires in the Hawkes Bay .
 

From what we are watching in the US now, Trump is definitely ahead of the game and should be home free from here. I can only imagine the deals that are being done in Washington now, as most of the prominent players are compromised in some way, either through the Ukraine corruption or via Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has now cut off almost all Democrat funding channels/rorts which is really pissing them off, and when they announce voter I/D for the next election to stop the vote rigging, the Dems will go mental to a new level as that is their only hope of getting him out.
From what we are seeing in Iraq with him able to pick off the Islamic radicals with surgical precision and no leaks, he obviously has all CIA assets back on his side. Trump is telling/warning Iran via Twitter, that he knows for a fact they are hiding military/nuclear assets in or close to cultural sites, and if they move against the US he will take them out regardless. He is throwing the ball squarely back into Iran's court, and this time the powerful CIA assets and intel are working for USA national (pro Trump) interests.
The corrupt US politicians that put these deals in place and are complicit up to their eyeballs, are wriggling like fish out of water as they are not getting prior intel and their network is being gutted (Ukraine crap is next). They have no idea what is happening (no inside knowledge) and only have the media outlets still helping them to try and talk their way out of trouble but the horse has bolted and no one believes the media now as too many reliable independent sources via Twitter and You Tube are spilling the beans. The ring leaders include Burr, Warner, Pelosi, Schiff, Brennan, Biden, Obama, Clinton and Valerie Jarrett. Those and others like McCain, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio etc have been rorting the US taxpayer for years and the day of reckoning is close as their misdeeds are all known now. The Mueller probe, and the impeachment hearings simply let Trump know who the inside moles were, and they have been cleared out since to reduce the leaks. If indictments don't come in due course, we will know that Trump is also complicit, as he is holding enough info (we have seen it all through various sources) to put all these guys away.
I can't wait for the movie, but it is unlikely to come out of Hollywood!

This is NOT the First Time That Australian Smoke Has Reached NZ
By Suze
 
Australian bushfires are seasonal and as predictable as the sun rising in the east given favourable climatic conditions. The bushfire season in New South Wales and South Australia peaks in summer and autumn, meaning the worst may be yet to come.
Periods of drought create the perfect environment for fires whipped into uncontrollable fiery maelstroms by strong southeast to northeast winds, fires started by arson or dry lightning strike.
The 2019-2020 Australian bushfires have so far, destroyed more bush and wildlife than previous fires but killed fewer people. MSM and the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology blame this year’s catastrophic fires on climate change, but rural landowners disagree. They blame the Greens’ influence on government policy restricting the cutting of wide fire breaks around homes and forbidding the removal of a buildup of flammable undergrowth in the bush.
According to the Greens, dead trees are a valuable animal habitat not to be disturbed. One hopes the Greens are sufficiently disturbed by the estimated half a million dead animals in the current fires as a result of their “environmentally friendly” policies. The Aborigines are much better at protecting wildlife and restricting bushfires than the Greens because they “used fire for many thousands of years to ‘care for country’. The fires were a tool that encouraged the growth and extent of grasslands to enhance hunting, reduced levels of fuel, and kept vegetation from becoming dense and hard to walk through.”
Suitable conditions mean more of Australia is alight in the 2019-2020 fire season. As at 5 January 2020 an estimated 6.3 million hectares are destroyed with over 2,500 buildings (including over 1,300 houses), and 25 people have died with a further six missing in the state of Victoria. Thankfully fewer lives are lost to date than in previous fires but much more bush and wildlife is being destroyed.
Some notable Australian bushfires:
 
1853 ‘Black Thursday’ on 6 February saw bushfires burn 5 million hectares across Victoria with temperatures of 47 °C (117 °F) recorded at 11am in Melbourne. Twelve human lives were lost, along with one million sheep, thousands of cattle and countless native animals. 1891 ‘Red Tuesday’ in February 1891 in South Gippsland saw about 260,000 hectares burnt, 12 people dead and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. 1926 ‘Black Sunday’ on 14 February saw 60 lives lost and over a 1,000 buildings destroyed. 1932 Major fires occurred in many districts across Victoria throughout the summer. Large areas of state forest in Gippsland were burned and nine lives were lost. 1939 ‘Black Friday’ 13 bushfires in Victoria burned 2 million hectares of land, 71 people dead, 1,300 homes and 3,700 buildings destroyed after a strong northerly wind hit the state causing several of the fires to combine into one massive front. The summer of 1938–39 had been hot and dry and by early January fires were burning in a number of locations across the state (just like this year). 1942-1944 was marked by a series of major bushfires following severe drought conditions in the state of Victoria in Australia. The summer of 1943–44 was the driest summer ever recorded in Melbourne until 2002 with just 46 millimetres or 1.81 inches falling, a third of the long-term average. Between 22 December 1943 and 15 February 1944, burnt an estimated one million ha, 51 people were killed, 700 injured, and 650 buildings were destroyed across the state. Many personnel who would have been normally available for fire fighting duties had been posted overseas and to remote areas of Australia during World War I. 1966-1967 Australian fires resulted in 62 fatalities, 900 injured, 7,000 left homeless with 4,286 buildings lost. 2008-2009 was one of the most fatal seasons. The Black Saturday fires on 7 February at numerous locations in Victoria resulting in 173 fatalities, 2,056 houses lost and 239,637 hectares (592,160 acres) burned.   Last week the South Island was shrouded in smoke from the Australian fires and on Sunday mid-afternoon Auckland had an eerie “cloud” cover which darkened the day – a very small taste of our Aussie neighbour’s darkness. The uninformed dialled 111 and MSM surmised on the concept of an apocalypse. They were momentarily distracted from their current favourite doom and gloom subject of the Don’s desire to start world war three.
On TV1 News at Six on Sunday night, Laura James said, “There seems to be no record of smoke from fires in Australia reaching New Zealand before,” despite Stuff reporting in March that Smoke from Australian bush fires had reached New Zealand.
 
Only a short time ago March 2019 Stuff reported that smoke had reached NZ. A BFD reader, after being suitably unimpressed by the MSM claim that this was the first instance of Australian bushfire smoke shrouding New Zealand, researched Papers Past.
Thanks to our reader we can enlighten the MSM and tell them to put this in their pipe and smoke it – this year’s Australian bushfire smoke covering New Zealand is not a New Zealand first and nor is it an example of worsening climate change. This clipping from the infamous 1939 fires confirms a similar occurrence.
Australian bushfires were reported in New Zealand regional newspapers as far back as 1894. You can access these articles by clicking on this link, this link and this link.
Our BFD reader captured New Zealand articles recording Australian heatwaves, some occurring over a century ago. The temperature in Eucla, New South Wales was 122 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 degrees Celsius, on December 18, 1912. But Australia’s highest maximum temperature was recorded in South Australia as 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) at Oodnadatta on 2 January 1960.
So much for global warming.
 
 

So in race 6 at Tauranga yesterday Soft Hearted the winner knocks down the 4th horse costing it at least 3 lengths.
It (Mersey Beat) fly's home to get within 1 length of the winner.
Where is the protest? Crickets
Time for the Bunker system
https://loveracing.nz/Common/SystemTemplates/Modal/Video.aspx?v=http%3a%2f%2fwww.racingreplays.co.nz%2fmedia%2f202001%2fTAUR-R06-020120.mp4&i=%2fCommon%2fImage.ashx%3fw%3d565%26h%3d314%26a%3d1%26o%3d1%26z%3d1%26bg%3deeeeee%26p%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.racingreplays.co.nz%2fmedia%2f202001%2fTAUR-R06-020120.jpg&r=Race 6 - BULK LINES LIMITED 1600&rs=1
A Calder (SOFT HEARTED) – Defended a charge of reckless riding in that he angled and rode his mount SOFT HEARTED inwards when not sufficiently clear of MERSEY BEAT and CAUGHT THE EYE which were both checked near the 275 metres. After viewing films along with hearing submissions and evidence the Judicial Committee amended the charge to one of careless riding which they found to be proven. Following penalty submissions A Calder was suspended from the conclusion of racing on Saturday 4 January until the conclusion of racing on Friday 24 January, 15 riding days.
 
Time to review the interference rules to cover the Ellerslie debacle.
Also things like if the winner knocks me down just after the start and cost me 3len and I get beaten a head what are the ramifications?
Why is protests confined to the straight?  illogical

I used to be a fan of John Key before I woke up.
Q said record all resignations.
Steps down from PM  a week after Trump is elected. Donated to the Clinton Foundation.
Is a mate of Obama
Did he leak intel to DNC/Hillary Obama to help with the Trump coup?
NZ is the only 5 eyes country where people with a security clearance can log on and view intel....hence the visits?
 
 
 
 
 

Former US Attorney and Rep. John Ratcliffe has confirmed he has seen the documents that indicate that Comey and Brennan were running a spy campaign against Trump officials before the opening of Crossfire Hurricane.  
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey stated under oath in March 2017 that the FBI investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal began in July 2016.  
The pieces of the coup to undermine the Constitution of the United States of America are coming undone.  Evidence from various sources now confirms that Obama’s CIA, DOJ and FBI illegally spied on the Trump team starting in 2015 and then built a coup to prevent him from winning the election and later remove him from office! 

It was Dec the 9th 
I am not in charge of the plan 
The IG Report officially showed the illegal spying and the plan to overthrow Trump
Can't help you are too ignorant to read it. The senate trials will reveal the corruption in Ukraine + more
As I have told you before you need to change your news source as the one you are using was part of the corrupt plot.
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/09/785213175/read-doj-inspector-generals-report-on-the-russia-investigation
 
 

Biden will pull out of the race when he is exposed in the Ukraine corruption at the senate trials in January.

This must be the same UN pact that cindy the grim reaper (next time she puts on the head gear have a look)  signed and Winston ignored .
President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of “treason” in a letter signed by 11 generals, an admiral and colonel. 
penned by General Antione Martinez, warns that Macron’s signing of the U.N. Global Migration Pact strips France of its sovereignty and provides a legitimate reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt.”
Voiceofeurope.com reports: The highly decorated military co-signees assert that the beleaguered Macron is “guilty of a denial of democracy or treason against the nation” for signing the migration pact without putting it to the people.
 “The French state is late in coming to realize the impossibility of integrating too many people, in addition to totally different cultures, who have regrouped in the last forty years in areas that no longer submit to the laws of the Republic,” the letter advises, also saying that mass immigration is erasing France’s “civilizational landmarks”.
Can you imagine what will happen here when the UN sends us a hundred thousand refugees a year and we have signed away our rites to stop it .

I think that it has settled a bit, but with rain on the day it seems to rear its head again.
The drainage there is good, and the new track manager and his staff know the track well.
 
 

Chris,  has the excess of sand become a blessing in disguise?
Seems perfect of late now it has settled down.
Almost have a Ruakaka in the Waikato now?
46mm of rain overnight and a D4

Heavy 10?     Time someone told them it is now Summer 

1.24.6 in the second over 1400, track state out by 2 maybe 3 points surely 

New Conservatives
They tweeted the above

New Conservative@NewConservNZ  · Dec 5, 2019   Don't believe the Doomers.

Imagine the legacy of baseless fear they will be remembered for.

NC will pull NZ out of the Paris Climate Accord, rescind the Carbon Zero bill and scrap the ETS.#LetsFixThis #nzpolhttps://www.newconservative.org.nz/environment-policy …

At least there's one NZ political party that is sane and not controlled by the deep state.