Firstpastthepost09 2 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 4 meetings in 8 months chop chop Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBigStuff 398 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 Weather patterns are changing. we need tracks that can take rain Los Lobos 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firstpastthepost09 2 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 4 meeting in 8 months I think it's time to look at the course manger just think of the palm trees he cut down and burnt which could have earnt the Te Aroha jockey club and excess of $5000 a tree if he had taken a little bit of time and a looked out of a basic square Gruff and Los Lobos 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruff 2,807 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 42 minutes ago, MrBigStuff said: Weather patterns are changing. we need tracks that can take rain Weathers weather,I can remember many quag tracks and less abandonments... what's really changed? Councils are pushing filter socked nova coil for irrigation and everyone's going to end up with flooded basements,who knows how they irrigate racecourses but something stinks and it ain't critters socks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
We're Doomed 4,874 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 11 hours ago, Party Poker said: just another reason for calling for an all weather track - sorry - they must be deaf where they make these decisions. If there was an all weather track in the Waikato surely it would be a Pakenham type thing based at Matamata. I can't imagine it would be used for hosting group 1 racing. Patiti 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryb 2,064 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 I think even an all weather track meeting would be off with the amount of rain, fair bloody pissing down for the last few hours. Been a long time since we have had this much rain. We're Doomed, MS26 and Pam Robson 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
army 156 Report post Posted April 4, 2017 4 hours ago, Firstpastthepost09 said: 4 meeting in 8 months I think it's time to look at the course manger just think of the palm trees he cut down and burnt which could have earnt the Te Aroha jockey club and excess of $5000 a tree if he had taken a little bit of time and a looked out of a basic square Tree were not worth that. Was investigated and they are the wrong sort of palms Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus 440 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 Te Rapa the best track in the north? Have you heard of Ruakaka? Why not race there instead of the puggy quagmire that Te Rapa will be even after a couple of days of drying out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryb 2,064 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 7 minutes ago, weasel57 said: Te Rapa the best track in the north? Have you heard of Ruakaka? Why not race there instead of the puggy quagmire that Te Rapa will be even after a couple of days of drying out! Te Rapa's a sand track now Weasel, it will be a slow 9 by Saturday. No one wants to race at Ruakaka, need a farking mortgage for transport to take a horse up to race there from the Waikato. army 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
We're Doomed 4,874 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 9 minutes ago, weasel57 said: Te Rapa the best track in the north? Have you heard of Ruakaka? Why not race there instead of the puggy quagmire that Te Rapa will be even after a couple of days of drying out! I must admit, I honestly can't remember the last time I had a bet a Ruakaka, not my sort of track at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue 1,099 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 Ruakaka has great drainage going for it but not much else.As BarryB says, costly to get to plus though it doesn't get wet it can chop out pretty badly with a lot of racing and, because of it's sandy base, is pretty slow to recover. Certainly no 'one size fits all'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBigStuff 398 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 9 minutes ago, Blue said: Ruakaka has great drainage going for it but not much else.As BarryB says, costly to get to plus though it doesn't get wet it can chop out pretty badly with a lot of racing and, because of it's sandy base, is pretty slow to recover. Certainly no 'one size fits all'. What about that waste of industry money on making the track wider for all of what? They can't even race on it because it was a f##k up. Good use of the industry's money. would have been better spent somewhere else IMO army 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue 1,099 Report post Posted April 6, 2017 Was a crusade by and for one party. There was never going to be an influx of trainers moving there. The odd one takes a horse or two up for a month or so in winter but that's about all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby3051 10,977 Report post Posted April 7, 2017 Who was the farking genius that programmed two WFA races for females on the same day... total stupidity. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen 3,226 Report post Posted April 7, 2017 10 minutes ago, scooby3051 said: Who was the farking genius that programmed two WFA races for females on the same day... total stupidity. you omitted the part about both being Group races Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whyisit 232 Report post Posted April 7, 2017 1 hour ago, scooby3051 said: Who was the farking genius that programmed two WFA races for females on the same day... total stupidity. No farking genius Scoobs one race was programmed for today. barryb 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle 35 Report post Posted April 7, 2017 What chance the meeting scheduled for 21st April at Te Aroha going ahead ? Seems unlikely it can be rectified in the short term. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...