Abandonments are so common now

[scooby3051]

Why do you insist on making everything to be about identities?

Because you are being dishonest and you do not tell anyone you have many different profiles...I know you need to try to generate traffic.. 

[bloke]

45 minutes ago, scooby3051 said:

It only appeared after a horse stepped in it.

This is the second time in recent years that a meeting has been called off because of a hole in the track. The previous occasion the hole was around the 600m mark and this time about the 500.

 The track side road entrance runs adjacent to this area, and I am speculating here but could there be vandalism? Both of these issues have been on the Masterton race day

 

[Crow]

5 hours ago, Canterbury Man said:

Last year there was $4.9m allocated.  To quote the NZTR 2024 Annual Report - Only $200k was capex - the rest went on AWT maintenance and the Awapuni Upgrade.  The previous four years the fund averaged $1m per annum - no where near enough.

It's a renovation fund not a reconstruction fund so why do you think it's not enough for work on racing surface.

[Gruff]

i have walked Pukekohe pre race during Winter and was surprised to see how bad the surface looked at the end of the back straight and by how sharp that corner actually was compared to how it viewed on TV.....ITS THE NATURE OF ALL TURF SURFACES AND THE RESOURCES CERTAIN CLUBS HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSAL....All the money is going into traffic management and security so there is no money for the real neccessities these days...".look it T8 ,your going to be late"... Health and Safety is the biggestand most expensive  handbrake we have ever seen in this Country

[Canterbury Man]

2 hours ago, Crow said:

It's a renovation fund not a reconstruction fund so why do you think it's not enough for work on racing surface.

That's not correct.  It's essentially both. In the annual accounts it is coded Infrastructure Expenditure. 

Quote:  "NZTR track infrastructure spend is the amount that NZTR is directly spending on supporting Clubs to improve and maintain their tracks to support track sustainability long-term.  This is an output measure as NZTR controls its budget and expenditure.  The expenditure excluded amounts spent directly by Clubs on their tracks and infrastructure."

So in 2024 from the accounts.

Track management $187k (AWT maintenance)

Track improvements $79k

Awapuni construction $4.4m.

There was another $546k allocated to Track and surface maintenance programme.

$10.5m is in the Infrastructure Reserve account but that only seems to keep growing.

[barryb]

11 hours ago, Canterbury Man said:

Don't you think it's a bit weird that a rabbit digs a deep hole in the middle of a track?  Especially when there would have been a lot of activity on the track during the week.

No, I have seen plenty of Rabbits there over the yrs. What activity are you referring to?  No one trains there now do they?  & besides Rabbits are mostly active at dusk when there wouldn’t be anyone near there.

[scooby3051]

2 hours ago, barryb said:

No, I have seen plenty of Rabbits there over the yrs. What activity are you referring to?  No one trains there now do they?  & besides Rabbits are mostly active at dusk when there wouldn’t be anyone near there.

Come on Barry you are making sense...poor old Dougie wont like that...and his shadow who loves to visit here Saloon Girl will no doubt chirp up too...cant help himself...Leo had him really spot on...

[tripple alliance]

19 hours ago, Insider said:

And here was me singing the praises of the young lady caretaker after the previous meeting. 

It is my honest opinion that the people in charge of setting the criteria on how a track is to be presented on a race day, have put in place a policy that is not realistically achievable, particularly when considering our weather patterns. 

 

 

ex MEETING NEWS 

It reads like whoever manages this track did nothing wrong and actually it's impossible to get wrong when relying on mother nature to do it's thing .

 

Race Day

Weather: Fine

Track: Soft 6

Moisture Meter: 51%

Rail: True

Rain: No Rain Last 24 Hours | 13mm Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: N/A

Weather and Track updated at 6.49am Sunday 23 March

 

Saturday Afternoon

Weather: Fine

Track: Soft 6

Moisture Meter: 50.6%

Rail: True

Rain: No Rain Last 24 Hours | 14.5mm Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: N/A

Weather and Track updated at 4.22pm Saturday 22 March

 

Saturday Morning

Weather: Fine

Track: Soft 6

Moisture Meter: 51.1%

Rail: True

Rain: No Rain Last 24 Hours | 14.5mm Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: N/A

Weather and Track updated at 9.00am Saturday 22 March

 

Thursday Morning

Weather: Overcast

Track: Soft 7

Moisture Meter: 53.8%

Rail: True

Rain: 4.5mm Rain Last 24 Hours | 12.5mm Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: N/A

Weather and Track updated at 9.56am Thursday 20 March

 

Withdrawal Morning

Weather: Drizzling

Track: Soft 6

Moisture Meter: 52%

Rail: True

Rain: 7mm Rain Last 24 Hours | 8.5mm Rain Last 7 Days

Irrigation: N/A

Weather and Track updated at 8.27am Wednesday 19 Marc

[mr_gee]

like a  aussie    farrier  told me we  use  wrong type of nails in our   shoeing  

[Crow]

12 hours ago, Canterbury Man said:

That's not correct.  It's essentially both. In the annual accounts it is coded Infrastructure Expenditure. 

Quote:  "NZTR track infrastructure spend is the amount that NZTR is directly spending on supporting Clubs to improve and maintain their tracks to support track sustainability long-term.  This is an output measure as NZTR controls its budget and expenditure.  The expenditure excluded amounts spent directly by Clubs on their tracks and infrastructure."

So in 2024 from the accounts.

Track management $187k (AWT maintenance)

Track improvements $79k

Awapuni construction $4.4m.

There was another $546k allocated to Track and surface maintenance programme.

$10.5m is in the Infrastructure Reserve account but that only seems to keep growing.

Obviously, you didn't read first comment submitted as it was to maintenance not reconstruction or infrastructure jobs, so read context before being know all

[Canterbury Man]

16 minutes ago, Crow said:

Obviously, you didn't read first comment submitted as it was to maintenance not reconstruction or infrastructure jobs, so read context before being know all

I stand corrected if you can point me to where in the annual accounts the expenditure you refer to is listed.nztr-annual-report-2024.pdf

 

[Crow]

19 hours ago, Canterbury Man said:

I stand corrected if you can point me to where in the annual accounts the expenditure you refer to is listed.nztr-annual-report-2024.pdf

 

You still fail to get the concept of the comment to which I replied too. You are the one trying to show where in the report it is funded.

[scooby3051]

56 minutes ago, Crow said:

You still fail to get the concept of the comment to which I replied too. You are the one trying to show where in the report it is funded.

I would not waste time trying to debate him...he is a stirrer nothing more.

[rdytdy]

Taupo trials abandoned today. Horse slipped in Heat 2 

[We're Doomed]

36 minutes ago, rdytdy said:

Taupo trials abandoned today. Horse slipped in Heat 2 

We are quickly becoming a laughing stock. 

Still, massive stakes on offer so all good. We are going to see the depressing sight again on Saturday of massive stakes at Trentham and multiple group races in front of about 23 spectators.

[nomates]

THERE IS NO CRISIS !!!!!

NZTR theme song is Bobby Mcferron's "Don't Worry , Be Happy !".

[scooby3051]

1 hour ago, rdytdy said:

Taupo trials abandoned today. Horse slipped in Heat 2 

Geez now the trials cant even make it through the day...

[scooby3051]

And they now have had to transfer Woodville to Hawera as Woodville is at risk of being too firm...what an absolute joke, one of the best tracks around and sadly needed, why the hell they never put irrigation in there is beyond me...morons running the asylum unfortunately, but yet their costs to run the train wreck just grow and grow...hopeless and fast losing fait any semblance of a future.

[gubellini]

Races/Trials- horse slips.Meeting abandoned. Report called for. Nothing changes.

[blackcaviar56]

We aren't quickly becoming the laughing stock we have been saying this on here for at least the last 18months

Nothing has changed these people are only accountable to themselves so nothings going to change. 

And as long as there pay's going in on pay day there cruising.

[Canterbury Man]

1 hour ago, scooby3051 said:

one of the best tracks around and sadly needed, why the hell they never put irrigation in there is beyond me

As I said earlier - a lack of investment in the right infrastructure.  Chickens roosting.

[dmg]

So heat one is up at Taupo trials no issues why isn't heat two up so we can see the slip?

[dmg]

1 hour ago, scooby3051 said:

Geez now the trials cant even make it through the day...

why dont they put heat two Up?owners want to see why it was cancelled 

 

[dmg]

was up but taken down as slip was really bad apparently

[nomates]

1 hour ago, scooby3051 said:

And they now have had to transfer Woodville to Hawera as Woodville is at risk of being too firm...what an absolute joke, one of the best tracks around and sadly needed, why the hell they never put irrigation in there is beyond me...morons running the asylum unfortunately, but yet their costs to run the train wreck just grow and grow...hopeless and fast losing fait any semblance of a future.

I remember , as yourself and many others will , when Woodville had a 2 day meeting at the beginning of January every year , used to be their cup meeting .

So what's changed ????