Te Akau Weekend Update Again it has been a full on week at Te Akau Stud. The week started with our owner’s day at the Racing Stables at Matamata and our daughter Julia-Rose has made a YouTube video of our owner’s day that I thought you would enjoy viewing below. We intended to do a lot more of this in the future as it was such a success and we have had so many emails from owners telling us how much they enjoyed it and we are looking forward to the next one! What a disaster it was at Otaki today. It is wrong on so many levels when a really big meeting is abandoned because of unsafe track conditions. This is the third cancelation in a month and its just not good enough. I think NZTR need to go public and tell us exactly what the overall track supervisor of New Zealand racing is doing. As far as I am concerned before these premier meetings take place the overall track supervisor should be attending each course and go through the preparations that are taking place with the local course manager to discuss issues like irrigation so that they can insure that these cancelations don’t happen again. I believe that the overall track supervisor is paid big money and we want to know what his job description actually is, we never see him interviewed on television to tell all the owners and the punters what is happening with each course. This is just not good enough and action has to be taken. In our stables case, we have two horses that tripped south which involved sending two staff down with them, which is a huge expense for the owners as we need overnight accommodation etc as well the jockeys as they have to travel down for just a half a day of riding. It is very unsatisfactory and is high time that someone is accountable for this. The worst part is that these Group 3 races lead into Group 2 races in the next month and those Group 2 races lead into the Group 1 races. If you have planned to start a horse today it is very difficult to get back on the right leg. Read the rest of the story here: bit.ly/1ptQCEI Watch the youtube video here: https://youtube/watch?v=4JQ27i3hJ8g
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 04:44:43 +0000
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