Crossings

[Dalboy]

It looks like grass track racing is here to stay, unfortunately it is going to take a fatality or serious injury with the current grass crossings. It really sums up the professionalism of harness racing, living with there heads in the sand. The game is a joke with no welfare to drivers or horses, there is still no action to race fixing, drugs and cheats. Last one out, turn off the lights..

[47South]

Well they are galloping tracks If they are such a problem get HRNZ to build or buy a couple of specialized grass tracks for trotting pacing only 

 

[We're Doomed]

1 hour ago, 47South said:

Well they are galloping tracks If they are such a problem get HRNZ to build or buy a couple of specialized grass tracks for trotting pacing only 

 

Or perhaps build some All Weather tracks, that would be an innovation.

[Dalboy]

You are right, they are galloping tracks. Were else in the world do harness race professionally on grass tracks? We are living in the Dark Ages!!

[Pure Steel]

22 hours ago, Dalboy said:

. The game is a joke with no welfare to drivers or horses, there is still no action to race fixing, drugs and cheats. Last one out, turn off the lights..

There are strict rules in play in the rules of harness racing for the benefit of the participants. Whip rules have been adjusted and penalties given when breached as a 'improvement' to horse welfare debateably , just like at the thoroughbreds.

Blair Orange did time recently for the sake of a few beers? stewards were on to it ok? and McGrath (8 years) Alford and M Kerr , sure to be known to many, as they have been caught and penalised for illegal activities. So the No Action does NOT seem correct. Probably the Racing and greyhound codes in more disarray than the great lot of Harness people in NZ .