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After a nice day in Auckland today - even saw some afternoon sunshine - I can report a rather large electrical storm has been rolling through the area (I'm not very far from Alexandra Park in a straight line) since 11.30pm tonight. It's now about 12.15am. Rain hasn't actually hit where i live yet, but if the rainfall is relative to the spectacular light show and the rumble of the thunder, then it's gunna pour down. It may just be the bank manager looking for the ATC treasurer, and if it is, he's NOT happy 🤣 Let's just hope it clears so they can race later on tonight 👍 -
What would Marie Leicester say I wonde? -
Well I will be interested to see how trainers and owners react to having their lesser ability horses having to compete against much higher rated horses . I'm like you , don't bet on them , find them boring and uninspiring . My understanding is that many trainers won't race their horses on them , for many tho it is used as a port of last resort for some horses . -
The use of the word "interesting" - in both cases - is an interesting choice of words 🤣 I've had just one bet on an AWT, since they started, and that after it was tipped out on some racing show. I think it was actually in a multi, but I don't want to go there 🤣 It was successful however, but with generally small fields and uninspiring racing I'm yet to get excited by AWTs since watching a few meetings early on. Am I right that some trainers just don't run their charges on AWTs at all?
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By Bruces650mill · Posted
Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. Half way there. The recommendation is in play, just need to get it across the line. https://selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/2a903d46-cdfa-4727-a67a-08dd7c7e7d71 -
You'd have to be blind to not see that Timaru is a better track than both Riccarton and Ashburton. -
What I find interesting going into the new season of A/W racing is that at both Cambridge and Awapuni are going to be taking open entry nominations over the 4 distances run at each course . Is this an admission that field sizes have been poor and so now they will just make fields up to maximum numbers regardless of ratings , so we could have R75s running against R55 horses , or even mdns taking on winning horses , some winners of multiple races . But Riccarton is still running races by Ratings , is that simply because they have reduced grass track opportunities in the SI ? The NI situation will be an interesting watch .
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I can put it this way. Based on their initial predictions I wouldn't be here typing this response now, and I don't intend going anywhere soon so I can't complain too much. But it's one of those "untreatable" ones, where they can actually give you various treatments but eventually each one fails and they move on to something else. But eventually they run out, so I guess the hope is that I keep reacting well to each one and that each one lasts as long as possible. Basically - so they say - each time the cancer returns it is more aggressive and each successive medication supposedly lasts for a lesser period of time. I'm currently on the third one, although side effects meant I didn't last long on the second drug. The current third one seems pretty decent, so fingers crossed it sees out 2025!! At least I got to see Leap To Fame in the flesh. I'd love to go to ChCh to see his proposed return in November, but every month is like a year these days so I can't plan that far ahead right now 🤣
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By racingoutsider · Posted
I won't complain. I won a race at that meeting a bit over a year ago. Though we might have stuffed the horse in the process. -
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I see England has the finals nights of All Weather tracks tonight. Newcastle 1st race$NZ200,000, Next for 4, $NZ300,00, Last 2 $350,000. No shying away from synthetic tracks there. Big fields. And Lingfield all races $NZ100,000. Are Tapeta tracks the answer? And what would it cost to convert NZ synthetic to that? -
Looking through tomorrow night, Addington & Alexandra Park, the race cards are BOTH split roughly half each between TS1 & TS2. What a pain. Thanks Easter 🤣
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Ah, so I'm not going completely crazy then 🤣 This last 3 years have been taken up more with cancer treatments than keeping up with payout structures, so maybe l missed that change. From the above examples it appears 54%-55% may be about the average winning percentage now.
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It use to be until a couple of years ago clubs distributed stakes at their own discretion. Now it has been standardised. Exceptions are for the likes of slot races & sales series races. I think at one stage some clubs, Addington for example use to do 65%, 20%, 10% & 5%. & no money for 5th or worse. That changed many years ago especially because of the trend to pay something to all starters.
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By We're Doomed · Posted
Rather uniquely the Yaldhurst AWT season included December. -
By We're Doomed · Posted
Absolute and total arrogance. They persuaded Messara to say Timaru wasn't needed and should be closed down. Now they are too arrogant to even consider they might have got it wrong. Timaru is a crucial track to the SI, being so central. It is just over 4.5 hours from Timaru to Invercargill, and 2 hours to Christchurch. Timaru is also one of the few tracks that hasn't had housing built all around it. And with jumps racing gone for good there is plenty of room to reconfigure the track if necessary. The first thing I would do is build a 1,400m chute. Close to 40 winners trained in and around Timaru so far this season. Timaru should be having money spent on it not be closed down. -
As for J Dunn driving against his own stable runner; it just proves how dodgy harness racing is. Of course, officially, in R & J Dunn, the J doesn't stand for John 🤣
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YO U WERENT IMPRESSED WITH HES CLASSIC AT PUKEKOHE HOKES? HAD NO RIGHT TO WIN AND ULTIMATELY MOODLEY FOUND A WAY AT THE EXPENSE OF GEORGE SIMON R1 AT 9S ...RACE 4 MAZINO DROPPED OUT EARLY AGAINST THE FAVOURED STABLEMATE AT PUKE RESULTING IN DEFEAT, AT 12S REPRESENTS GREAT VALUE....THE TRACK STATE WILL BE INTERESTING...TAKE THE 108-1 MULTI.. -
By racingoutsider · Posted
What AWT season? We still have no report on the track status and safety issues and more trainers and owners that I have spoken to recently are not willing to run on it. That said, I understand the recent work on it has finally restored it to a decent state for training.
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