Eureka - Menangle to host worlds richest harness race

[trish]

Captain Rav trial at Menangle this morning ?
No replay up yet.

[Messenger]

The replay is up now

https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...23#MEQ23082301

Hard to know what to make of it - just a hit out I think

Not asked to do much. The leaders came home in 54 so it is hard to expect the Captain to take ground

[Messenger]

Excellent article written by Harnesslink Media . Written yesterday about Eureka.

Was that this article Trish?

https://harnesslink.com/australia/la...ain-ravishing/

[Messenger]

“It’s disappointing and anything but ideal,” Taiba said. “He’s never done that before, but all I can put it down to is that he felt too fresh after six months away from the races.

“It’s not the trial we went there to have. If there’s any positive to come out of it, he was clocked to run his last half in 53.7sec.”

https://www.harness.org.au/media-roo...?news_id=62109

[trish]

Was that this article Trish?

https://harnesslink.com/australia/la...ain-ravishing/

No Kev. I read it yesterday & could not find it today , so I looked in their look it up symbol thingie & put in Eureka Uniting Harness racing Australia? Get your hand off it. I remembered that.

[Showgrounds]

This is the article you are looking for. And it should be read and absorbed by everybody involved in the industry as it begs the question what the role of Harness Racing Australia is. Why has it taken on being a promoter of a single race partly funded by levees imposed on stallion owners and breeders?

https://harnesslink.com/new-zealand/...r-hand-off-it/

There is no author of the article mentioned other than Harnesslink. Well done to the author, whoever they are. They have pointed a spray gun at the elephant in the room and sprayed it fluorescent pink.

[Messenger]

Thanks Trevor - I didn't think to look for an article on an Australian race in 'NZ News'

The article makes a lot of sense

This point is disgusting and alarming:

“Registration (of a stallion) may be suspended or cancelled if the applicant or other persons connected with the horse engage in conduct that is detrimental or damaging to the industry or disparaging of HRA, its members, executive and staff.”

Stallion owners and anybody connected to them have been effectively muzzled.

My only quibble would be painting NZ as the only party interested in becoming stronger through unity (when commenting on NZ breds exclusion) in regard to NZ walking away from the Interdom

[Showgrounds]

The article is on the Aus news as well but, with both, you have to scroll down three pages to find it.

[Showgrounds]

I'd love to see what would happen to the Australian breeding industry if, for example, Alabar based all of its stallions in NZ. And, although it is a lazy bureaucracy that lacks courage, what actions would the ACCC take if a restraint of trade complaint were made. Especially when the bullying threat not to register stallions owned by HRA's dissenters.

[Messenger]

The emergencies are, in no order: Don Hugo, Naturally Gifted, Heza Son Of Agun and Tims A Trooper.

Don Hugo has only won prizemoney of $88k and like Naturally Gifted has never broken 1.53