Re: [racebase] Fw: Ellerslie - final day weather report

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Gil   Lets be fair here. There are enough of them on trackside trying to "Push Aussie Racing". Telling us when we have a good horse that it reminds them of some Aussie nag. And the crap on Trackside when quoting a price of 7 to 3, We don't have "True" bookmakers in this country, ( just plastic ones ) and god forbid we ever do. No, I'm not anti Australia, but we have a unique identity in the racing world----LET TRY AND KEEP IT. As for your comments re 3200m races, I find it unbelievable you could even think that. They are part of our racing heritage and should be preserved.  Don't compare us to Australia---we are not, we are New Zealand, be proud of it. And don't counter this with, "It will be better for racing", because that is just rubbish. I have enough trouble coming to grips with the 10 race card ( 6 Maiden fields ) that we are confronted with now, a thing that never used to happen. And you are concerned with 3200m races in this country  ?????? Yes, it is a good move to shift the Great Northerns, so long as you don't want them abolished as well  ( because Aussie have no equivalent with their pony sized obstacles ) I am sick and tired of people "Knocking" our racing here, and if racing is better over the Tasman, well, Airfare and housing are not prohibitive in mini America. Anyway, season greetings to you Gil and good punting in 2005   Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Gilbert Dymock To: racebase@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [racebase] Fw: Ellerslie - final day weather report   ----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Franklyn To: RaceBase Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:35 AM Subject: [racebase] Fw: Ellerslie - final day weather report   I wrote:   > major changes are occuring at Ellerslie.   Bugger, I misspelt 'occurring'. Hopefully, Gil didn't notice :-o   Regards   Neil       #### Damn, I didn't notice. Worse on the words front — stumped, I left my Kropotkin crossword lying about with some five or six answers filled in . . . and my wife picked it up and managed six or seven herself. I must be slipping.   More important things . . . I'd like to see the Auckland Cup dropped altogether. Two-mile all-aged handicaps are a nineteenth century invention that served racing well in this part of the world for a good hundred years or so but have surely had their day. And for NZ to run three of them is ridiculous. Each of the mainland Australian states has just the one and I'm fairly sure that only Victoria has it as their centrepiece. Let Wellington have that feature in this country.   I'm ambivalent about the Derby move. There's real skill required of a trainer to have a three-year-old ready to run 2400m in late December. Running the race in March will allow more lead-up racing and will probably result in more pronounced favourites and more of them winning . . . although I suppose there hasn't been a more pronounced favourite than Cheval De Troy for many a year.    Good to see the Great Northerns moved. The chase has been dropping off in quality alarmingly over the past decade or so.   As for the housing . . . what are they thinking?   Gil   [The original message turned up on my computer with my bit missing . . . this is how it's supposed to look.]  Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/racebase/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.