Rotorua postponed until Friday

[Pete Lane]

 

Meeting News

Rotorua Meeting Postponed Until Friday

 

A heavy rain warning (Metservice) has been issued for Rotorua and surrounding regions for tomorrow, 3 December.

As such, and after support from the Club and RIB, an early decision has been made to postpone the meeting to Friday 5 December.

All scratchings have been re-instated.

The meeting will no longer be a twilight meeting with an estimated new Race 1 time of 1pm.

This decision has been approved by the TAB NZ Dates Committee.

[Pete Lane]

Words fail me.

Meetings are now abandoned because of a heavy rain warning.

Unbelievable.

[nomates]

Why not xfer it to the Cambridge synthetic , it's exact purpose .

Gun shy to the extreme .

[Zakhu]

40 minutes ago, Pete Lane said:

Words fail me.

Meetings are now abandoned because of a heavy rain warning.

Unbelievable.

What do you want to happen, abandoned after 1 or 2 races due to heavy rain? At least they are being slightly knowledgeable. 

[Pete Lane]

27 minutes ago, Zakhu said:

What do you want to happen, abandoned after 1 or 2 races due to heavy rain? At least they are being slightly knowledgeable. 

Yeah I guess so.

The amount of times these weather catastrophes turn into very little is amazing.

Funny, I don't recall the Metservice causing postponements many times when I was a young lad - admittedly ancient history.

[nomates]

50 minutes ago, Pete Lane said:

Yeah I guess so.

The amount of times these weather catastrophes turn into very little is amazing.

Funny, I don't recall the Metservice causing postponements many times when I was a young lad - admittedly ancient history.

Met service cover their arses at every possibility now after coping an earful for not giving people enough warning from other bad weather events .

If nothing happens , no harm done .

Saying that they can get it wrong most days and still turn up and have a crack the next , my kind of job . 

[Farnarkler]

Jesus Van der Hum would be pissed off.

[Pottsie]

The weather that we are getting in the Naki now and forecast for rest of day would think New Plymouth tomorrow could be borderline.

[We're Doomed]

2 hours ago, Pottsie said:

The weather that we are getting in the Naki now and forecast for rest of day would think New Plymouth tomorrow could be borderline.

Surely not, they just got handed an extra $52,000 last week because they are such an important club.

[Blue]

6 hours ago, Pottsie said:

The weather that we are getting in the Naki now and forecast for rest of day would think New Plymouth tomorrow could be borderline.

So has it now moved northwards to Rotorua? Northland was also forecast to get rain and possible thunderstorms too. I can tell you this morning we have had three, no, no, it's actually four drops of "rain" and it's now clear skies and hot enough to get sunburnt.

[Michael Roustoby]

It was a good decision.

Nothing worse than meetings being abandoned when everyone is there especially when the forecast tells us it's going to be unsafe (lightning/thunder and horses don't mix well)

The day before is perfect. Horses can still work on the morning,wasting jockeys don't go to bed dry and hungry for no reason and everyone knows where they stand.

The weather in the South Waikato is currently very suspicious looking.

Why risk running the races today when Friday is available and the forecast is much better?

Rosehill on Saturday moved to Sunday because of a forecast of 41 degrees Saturday and 28 Sunday.

If you got told there's a chance you could get shot at the supermarket on Wednesday but you'll be safe on Friday you'd postpone your groceries.

Fair play to NZTR they did the right thing 

[BUCKY]

36 minutes ago, Michael Roustoby said:

It was a good decision.

Nothing worse than meetings being abandoned when everyone is there especially when the forecast tells us it's going to be unsafe (lightning/thunder and horses don't mix well)

The day before is perfect. Horses can still work on the morning,wasting jockeys don't go to bed dry and hungry for no reason and everyone knows where they stand.

The weather in the South Waikato is currently very suspicious looking.

Why risk running the races today when Friday is available and the forecast is much better?

Rosehill on Saturday moved to Sunday because of a forecast of 41 degrees Saturday and 28 Sunday.

If you got told there's a chance you could get shot at the supermarket on Wednesday but you'll be safe on Friday you'd postpone your groceries.

Fair play to NZTR they did the right thing 

Tremendous thunderstorm in Matamata right now, and its moved Eastwards-towards Rotovegas-during the day.

[Crow]

20 hours ago, nomates said:

Why not xfer it to the Cambridge synthetic , it's exact purpose .

Gun shy to the extreme .

Sorry bit slow on the uptake Synthetic racing is for synthetic racing and turf racing is for turf racing.  You nominate for one or the other and its not be a changeover for any reason.

[Farnarkler]

6 minutes ago, Crow said:

Sorry bit slow on the uptake Synthetic racing is for synthetic racing and turf racing is for turf racing.  You nominate for one or the other and its not be a changeover for any reason.

Obviously..........best we tell the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast that.

[Crow]

Just now, Farnarkler said:

Obviously..........best we tell the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast that.

Write them a letter then

[Farnarkler]

Well it's you making the rules.........they're waiting for your call.

[Crow]

10 minutes ago, Farnarkler said:

Well it's you making the rules.........they're waiting for your call.

No if you own or train a horse you expect it to race on the surface provide at nomination time. Either turf or synthetic not change around to suit the weather. Best you sit on your keyboard and let common sense pass you by.

[Ripples]

1 hour ago, Michael Roustoby said:

It was a good decision.

Nothing worse than meetings being abandoned when everyone is there especially when the forecast tells us it's going to be unsafe (lightning/thunder and horses don't mix well)

The day before is perfect. Horses can still work on the morning,wasting jockeys don't go to bed dry and hungry for no reason and everyone knows where they stand.

The weather in the South Waikato is currently very suspicious looking.

Why risk running the races today when Friday is available and the forecast is much better?

Rosehill on Saturday moved to Sunday because of a forecast of 41 degrees Saturday and 28 Sunday.

If you got told there's a chance you could get shot at the supermarket on Wednesday but you'll be safe on Friday you'd postpone your groceries.

Fair play to NZTR they did the right thing 

Well said Michael, its good to get common sense from a horseman, it appears NZTR can't win, don't postpone and abandon on raceday with all the inconvenience (and cost). Rotorua has had heavy rain this morning with another 60 to 90  mls forcast this arvo .   Fine weather forcast Thursday and Friday. Absolute no brainer other than to postpone

[Farnarkler]

42 minutes ago, Crow said:

No if you own or train a horse you expect it to race on the surface provide at nomination time. Either turf or synthetic not change around to suit the weather. Best you sit on your keyboard and let common sense pass you by.

Thanks for that, have you ever heard of scratching? it's called a choice, some owners might welcome that, you think?

[Lord Wilf]

6 minutes ago, Farnarkler said:

Thanks for that, have you ever heard of scratching? it's called a choice, some owners might welcome that, you think?

Agree. We were told repeatedly that was one of the main reasons for the synthetic tracks.

[Alf Riston]

3 hours ago, Michael Roustoby said:

It was a good decision.

Nothing worse than meetings being abandoned when everyone is there especially when the forecast tells us it's going to be unsafe (lightning/thunder and horses don't mix well)

The day before is perfect. Horses can still work on the morning,wasting jockeys don't go to bed dry and hungry for no reason and everyone knows where they stand.

The weather in the South Waikato is currently very suspicious looking.

Why risk running the races today when Friday is available and the forecast is much better?

Rosehill on Saturday moved to Sunday because of a forecast of 41 degrees Saturday and 28 Sunday.

If you got told there's a chance you could get shot at the supermarket on Wednesday but you'll be safe on Friday you'd postpone your groceries.

Fair play to NZTR they did the right thing 

I mostly agree it's the right decision - the ony thing that I did ponder is that Rotorua usually stands up to rain pretty well (pumice). Rotorua and Ruakaka are possibly 2 tracks likely to provide safe going but as with the Metservice, erring on the side of caution is less likely to blow up in their faces. 

[BUCKY]

1 hour ago, Alf Riston said:

I mostly agree it's the right decision - the ony thing that I did ponder is that Rotorua usually stands up to rain pretty well (pumice). Rotorua and Ruakaka are possibly 2 tracks likely to provide safe going but as with the Metservice, erring on the side of caution is less likely to blow up in their faces. 

As I said above we are-still-having a tremendous electrical storm, not far from Rotovegas, so it is not just the actual rain but lightening strikes which are hazardous. Golf tournaments get postponed if there is any lightening around. I'm usually critical of the stipes, usually they deserve it, but on this occasion I'm going for the safety of the horses and riders.

[We're Doomed]

4 hours ago, Crow said:

Sorry bit slow on the uptake Synthetic racing is for synthetic racing and turf racing is for turf racing.  You nominate for one or the other and its not be a changeover for any reason.

When AWTs were originally proposed the justification was that they would help reduce abandonments. People assumed that meant rain affected meetings could be transferred to the AWTs when necessary. It eventually transpired that what they meant was that meetings already scheduled for AWTs would be less likely to be abandoned, but rain affected grass tracks would continue to be abandoned at the same rate as previously.

[We're Doomed]

3 hours ago, Crow said:

No if you own or train a horse you expect it to race on the surface provide at nomination time. Either turf or synthetic not change around to suit the weather. Best you sit on your keyboard and let common sense pass you by.

That certainly wasn't the case with the transferred Riccarton meeting last Autumn when numerous feature races including a listed 2yo race were transferred to the AWT at the last moment.

[We're Doomed]

4 hours ago, Crow said:

Sorry bit slow on the uptake Synthetic racing is for synthetic racing and turf racing is for turf racing.  You nominate for one or the other and its not be a changeover for any reason.

Do you have any thoughts on the situation this week in Canty where an AWT meeting suddenly pops up in the middle of summer? One lone AWT meeting in a 7 month period. Surely you don't think these are AWT specialists who have been kept in work especially for this one off meeting?