upandcoming 5 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 It looks like the meeting on Saturday has been moved Te Aroha. One best winter tracks is now one of the worse Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseacol 2,488 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 Weird on a number of levels including the key point you make. For those horses who prefer one direction of running this is an interesting development. Mind you I suppose if Ellerslie was functioning it would've been run right handed to start with Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contentious 597 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 Has anyone else noticed that the industry is bouncing from one iceberg to another constantly? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crustyngrizzly 1,700 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 17 minutes ago, Contentious said: Has anyone else noticed that the industry is bouncing from one iceberg to another constantly? Thank god that climate change, that goes by the name of Winston is just about upon us. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubellini 3,993 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 Te Rapa track was sand carpeted to a depth well in excess of what it should have been-50mm. Total incompetence. Expect the Great Northern meeting on September 9 to be transferred to Te Aroha as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie one 177 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 Watch the Cd horses scratch. Wrong way round for them. Dam shame these tracks that were all sand slit seem to be falling to bits. Now they wana put an all weather track in and they have already proven to be massive failures in Aussie. Wake up and smell the scammers nztr Belinda, chelseacol and hedley 1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huey 2,037 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 It's just proving how well centralisation works! hedley 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
army 156 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 8 hours ago, gubellini said: Te Rapa track was sand carpeted to a depth well in excess of what it should have been-50mm. Total incompetence. Expect the Great Northern meeting on September 9 to be transferred to Te Aroha as well. Yes the Great Northern is going to be at Te Aroha Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseacol 2,488 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 11 hours ago, army said: Yes the Great Northern is going to be at Te Aroha Mmm so our one which we are looking at the Great Northern with has only had one start right handed (Hokitika !!) I think - not sure how that effects the preparation... just a total shambles all the way round isn't it. (and I do see the irony that it should have been at Ellerslie right handed in the first place) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubellini 3,993 Report post Posted August 24, 2018 Col the problem with NZ Racing is that the grotesquely paid Administrators don’t know what the left hand or right hand are doing. I have a share in a horse who may resume on Great Northern Day Sunday fortnight. Fortunately he goes ok both left or right handed. Others are not so fortunate especially CD horses. chelseacol and Huey 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby3051 10,863 Report post Posted August 25, 2018 So who is responsible for the debacle at Te Rapa. one of the best winter tracks now unable to be raced on... and nothing said, thats the problem nobody carries the can nobody gets their arse kicked... pretty piss poor. How many tracks have they totally screwed up now... wont be many left soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy86 2,704 Report post Posted August 25, 2018 Rutherford was trying to set the pitch up to take some spin and then some bloody horses came galloping along! tasman man 11 and Huey 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puha 2,177 Report post Posted August 25, 2018 Pretty ironic that all those preaching centralisation etc it’s a country club run by volunteers that’s come to the rescue of two so called big clubs with fully payed staff and CEO s. army, chelseacol, Huey and 3 others 6 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waikeria 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2018 12 hours ago, scooby3051 said: So who is responsible for the debacle at Te Rapa. one of the best winter tracks now unable to be raced on... and nothing said, thats the problem nobody carries the can nobody gets their arse kicked... pretty piss poor. How many tracks have they totally screwed up now... wont be many left soon. Unfortunately Leigh the outcome of this debacle is very costly to the industry. As you say it was one of the best winter tracks in the country until this mistake. It happens too frequently and I guess it highlights how fickle our industry is. I only hope they learn from this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huey 2,037 Report post Posted August 25, 2018 1 hour ago, waikeria said: Unfortunately Leigh the outcome of this debacle is very costly to the industry. As you say it was one of the best winter tracks in the country until this mistake. It happens too frequently and I guess it highlights how fickle our industry is. I only hope they learn from this. Should be easy to find, someone is in charge aren't they? We're Doomed 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
