curious Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 What's this about? NZTR & TAB NZ are discussing logistical issues regarding conducting meetings this week, Note: Thursday's racing venue (ex Tauherenikau) is TBC at this stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 Thursday racing 7th October now at Awapuni. Nominations close at 2pm (extended) with the NRB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 I presume this is because there are more facilities and people at Awapuni, as while horses can be moved, staff cannot move out of the Hamilton, Raglan, and some northern Waikato areas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 Not what I heard but this is the given reason. Good morning, As an impact of Covid restrictions contributing to a shortage of TAB resources, the Central region race meeting this Thursday 7th October will now be held at Awapuni (previously Tauherenikau). Nominations will close at the new time of 2pm today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 What did you hear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 That no-one wanted to race there given the state of the track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 Sounds a bit like the mass scratching problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 The 14th October meeting has been moved from Awapuni to Tauherenikau as a result of Covid restrictions impacting TAB resources over the next few weeks. In effect, it is a straight swap of Thursday race meetings (Oct 7th & 14th) between the two venues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Trader Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 So people do want to race there now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 3 hours ago, London Trader said: So people do want to race there now? Or the TAB will have resources next week that they don't have this week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Trader Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 So who doesn't want to race there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardigras Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 11 minutes ago, London Trader said: So who doesn't want to race there? Who knows, that wasn't made as a statement, rather potential hearsay. It was inferred as a possible reason for transferring the original meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 10 hours ago, London Trader said: So who doesn't want to race there? Now the TAB seems to have martialled the resources to conduct a meeting there, I guess if we wait till next week we'll see who wants to race there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloke Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 I am a member at Tauherenikau. I received a newsletter saying that they had carried out extensive work on the track over several months and early this week they galloped horses in the presence of Stipes who have reported that the track is in good condition to race. The reasons for the transfer of meetings was given as TAB logistical nothing to do with the track. The main reason for horses not starting at this time of year is slow to heavy tracks when there are summer horses coming back in who do not handle the ground. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 10/6/2021 at 5:40 AM, curious said: Now the TAB seems to have martialled the resources to conduct a meeting there, I guess if we wait till next week we'll see who wants to race there. It seems like less than 50 horses are willing to go around there today. So, maybe some don't want to race there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloke Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 They didn't want to race there because of the heavy track. They nominated with the intention of racing there even though the track was slow with very heavy rain predicted and which came on Wednesday. I live on Lower Hutt and the weather was appalling and given that the Wairarapa probably cops a southerly as bad if not worse than over the hill, then it is no surprise that were many scratchings. Look at other meetings that have had bad weather leading up and the multiple scratchings with some clubs only having three horse races. If you have the evidence to the contrary Curious stump and tell us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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