The son of Air Force Blue has a comfort level with the turf at Santa Anita having run 16 of his career 22 starts there with a record of 5-2-1. Overall, Air Force Red is 6-3-1 from 22 starts with earnings of $639,074.View the full article

Tenma, racing under the Chu's Baoma Corp. banner, gives the couple a chance at possible Oaks glory in May when she enters the starting gate for the Feb. 2 Las Virgenes Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park.View the full article

I don't think it's the tracks that hold the liquor licence - it's whatever the entity running the show on the day can obtain for the occasion  

Definitely raced there but probably stopped for the same reason as others .... Cambridge and Auckland wanting to race at their own tracks after the amalgamations occurred.

The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and the Jockeys' Guild agreed to a new scale of mount fees for jockeys who ride at New York Racing Association tracks, which will take effect Feb. 1.View the full article

Tyler Gaffalione was a clear winner Jan. 25 with three stakes victories, including two graded, on the blockbuster Pegasus World Cup (G1) 13-race program. The panel of racing experts voted Gaffalione Jockey of the Week for Jan. 20-26.View the full article

Yes very strong result by SOS. Left strong types. Early days but he may become the go to sire to kick off a mare.

Have you seen how many Liquor Licenses have been objected to in Auckland? They have also reduced the number of hours liquor is available for sale at Supermarkets - no liquor sales after 9pm.   Remember there's been "spin" to promote Zero Alcohol by a group of University associates in the last 2-3 years... Alcohol is not Alcohol if it's Zero Alcohol.   It shows how much The Prohibitionists have been in control of our Governments as "Advisors" creating a Lop-sided society.  

Tree Reduction? Don't they get it people like to congregate under the trees and have a picnic at the races? We are mortified with what's happening at Trentham  Yet another Racecourse decimated. Do they know anything about Grandstands these people? Have they not woken up to the New Stand at Ellerslie and rough shod work there and it's still covered in part in plastic? Don't break what's not broken.

NZ is lagging way behind with ensuring AI legislation, read the UK and European AI legislation for advanced knowledge. It's always needed Human Agents and is a legal requirements.   We had a scan in PPNZ of Artificial intelligence some time ago and there was serious concerns as to using it as far back as the 1950's - 1960's. It's a group of Computer boffins / Science Society tied in with Marvin Minsky, Donald  Michie and the 1950's descendents who have imposed AI on to us as they were pushing this s+#& up hill back then. Michie's daughter who is a "psychologist / Behavior Scientist" and overseeing "The Human Behavior Project" has been funded in the majority by IBM since the 1970's to the tune of around £90 million across the course of her career. She's always harping on about "Machine Learning" and one has to question if she's merely lining Bank Of Michie - yes they go back in history, with her spin. Donald used to travel between the UK and USA as did a number of New Zealand "academics" tied in with computers.  It pays to see who is operating in the background with there Agendas.

A pile of Hyperbole. I can just see the Committee Room after Cup Day. The idiots downing Gin and Tonics and slapping each other on the back saying how well they have done

If they are reading this, sign me up to take all the AI efforts as a starter, quality check and humanise them -would cost 5/8ths of FA and make a big difference 🙂

It was hilarious following their comments on the well-publicised 4-horse race at Ellerslie two Saturday's back. They were completely rewritten during the week - maybe after comments here on RC, who knows? - so they obviously have access to more than one source? Or maybe they got a human in to rewrite that one?  Like most, l don't rely on their comments either, but as l only casually follow the sport, never watching mid-week racing outside of the Melbourne Cup etc, this all equates to a lot of Saturday racing - outside of the Premier-type meetings - l don't have a bet on as I'm largely unfamiliar with the horses. Once in a blue moon l might watch a preview show, but there are so many of them - if you include local and Australian, gallops and harness - I'd never stay awake long enough to take it all in 🤣. Therefore the sort of comments they post, largely just expanding out their own data that is available to everybody anyway, adds nothing. and that's annoying. They don't deserve our support. It doesn't take long to work out their comments are 95% rubbish. 

Lily had a shocker on Brynderwyn. Had no hope from back there but they did run 1.22 so perhaps not wet enough. He will keep. Coulthard another with not much luck either.

I confess I didn’t but the 1986 Japan Cup form takes me back to the days before the emergence of Japan as a racing superpower. A British 1-2 with JUPITER ISLAND ridden by Pat Eddery held off ALLEZ MILORD ridden by Greville Starkey. Eddery and Starkey were two of a golden period of UK and Irish riders in the 1980s but both gone as are Walter Swinburn and Lester Piggott. Of that period, only Willie Carson and the American Steve Cauthen are still with us - in a way it marked the transition between the traditional jockeys of old and the athletes and media savvy riders of today such as Dettori and currently the likes of William Buick, Oisin Murphy and Tom Marquand.  

A few thoughts on the Waverley action which ended up on a Good 3 and it certainly looked nice summer ground. PROCHESTER came from last to first and was just too good in the opener, having run in Listed company last time. Further should help and he relished the quicker turf. DRAMATIC MISS landed the odds in the second - she didn’t impress me but will no doubt come on for the run. The other two fancied fillies both shaped with a lot of promise - TURN IT UP missed the kick as she did at Otaki and was last early before running home well for third but I was left thinking she’d not progressed much from that first run. MISS FIREBALL was well fancied but looked green and got caught up in the scrimmaging in the straight as the winner came through. She’s certainly one for the notebook. JUST CHARLIE needed all of Lily Sutherland’s persuasion to get home in the fifth. The traditional Kiwi mid race slowdown probably didn’t help but what a versatile horse with wins from 1600m to 3000m and fourth in the New Zealand Cup last November. Could he win an Auckland Cup ? Another good day at the office for Mr Grylls who booted home a treble.

A liquor license is easily obtained.. 

Pretty sure this happens to idle accounts as my wife seems to get them every few weeks

I certainly don't rely upon it at all Liz - more a causal glance when I'm looking at times and statistics in case there is a snippet of useful information that I wasn't aware of...... AI frustrates me as I see it in most cases as a corporate cost cutter at the cost of human jobs, and more importantly 'human interaction; which is being continually driven out of our lives. It's stealing a valuable quality of life like a theif in the night.... The younger generations are the one's I feel for most 🥹 What fuels me to comment on Entains useage of it is they claim to be a tech savvy, Customer experience driven company yet their application of AI is the worst I have seen by quite a stretch. Quality control in the delivery of it's product to the customer seriously lacking here.....

I look at it this way. They want us to take them seriously, but obviously they don't take us seriously. They treat us with contempt whilst expecting us to interact on their terms. They've obviously noticed my recent lack of interest as l've recently been offered a deposit bonus, the first for some time. 'Twas a common thing when Entain first took over, but l haven't seen one in awhile.