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  • AceVAceV    181 posts
    frenc11 said:

    Please get it right Perth racing, you can't afford any more stuff ups

    Actually, yes they can seeing as they have no accountability.

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  • frenc11frenc11    102 posts
    I think another opening day debacle will cause some heads to roll

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  • RIORIO    14,902 posts

    you'd expect that Frenchy, but if my head was one to role I'd be suing them for unfair dismissal as it is a practice that has happened previously and no one lost their jobs over it!!!! Unless there was an agreed performance contract...nothing will change.

    I actually think that Yovich has been appointed as the protector of the RWWA asset known as CITY RACING...which may accidentally claim a few scalps along the way at PRacing

    Cut the riddle speak out. If heads will role I reckon it will be done as a result of Yovich finding a better way to manage the assets for all of WA Racing....He is too old, and too experienced to go in there as a caretaker of Perth Racing. But with PR running worse that a 5cylinder 202 in a HQ, I reckon he will sit back and clean them up one by one , when he has identified people to take on the roles that need to be changed....All IMO............

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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,495 posts
    they would know a few weeks before the scheduled opening if the track will be OK.

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  • spinkingspinking    4,002 posts

    If the talking heads at PR read these posts as some of them clearly do. Why don't they come on here and either debunck what this post is about or have the balls to come out and say we may have a problem.I know the later would be highly unlikely , I might go and ask some industry people ie (jocks & trainers) what there take on it is and see if they have reason to be concerned

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  • RIORIO    14,902 posts

    HOLD THE PRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I just got a report through from an old contact that there is nothing to worry about.


    The track has been effected by an ACT OF GOD. The parrots ate all the grass seed. And not to be concerned about the lack of grass at the moment as they are confident that there will be an ACT OF GOD. Which will fill in all the bare patches with thick, lush and long grass in the next few weeks.

    So all's good. They told me if it worked this year, then they'd use the same tactic on the Belmont grandstand in the off season.

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  • DamienWyerDamienWyer    7,991 posts
    http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/the-west-australian-sacks-senior-journalists-as-profits-share-price-tumble-20160802-gqje2h.html

    I'm told at least one racing writer has jumped.

    In unrelated news, but referred to earlier in this thread, Thursday's media conference with champagne bubbly to celebrate the world first event, has been postponed a week.

    Can we assume that everyone has to practice their lines and smiles for the camera's and they are just not convincing enough yet?

    LOL

  • paraleticparaletic    3,750 posts
    What exactly are the going to announce?
  • frenc11frenc11    102 posts
    RIO said:

    you'd expect that Frenchy, but if my head was one to role I'd be suing them for unfair dismissal as it is a practice that has happened previously and no one lost their jobs over it!!!! Unless there was an agreed performance contract...nothing will change.

    I actually think that Yovich has been appointed as the protector of the RWWA asset known as CITY RACING...which may accidentally claim a few scalps along the way at PRacing

    Cut the riddle speak out. If heads will role I reckon it will be done as a result of Yovich finding a better way to manage the assets for all of WA Racing....He is too old, and too experienced to go in there as a caretaker of Perth Racing. But with PR running worse that a 5cylinder 202 in a HQ, I reckon he will sit back and clean them up one by one , when he has identified people to take on the roles that need to be changed....All IMO............


    i hope he sorts out some of the current problems at perth racing, i miss the big crowds of years gone by

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  • RIORIO    14,902 posts
    me too frenchy, me too.......

    I never thought I'd think this but the sooner RWWA step up to the plate and take over direct management of racing infrastructure on the 2 tracks in the city the better the industry will be....and the easier it will be for PR to manage the club for the benefit of the members and not get confused with trying to be promoting the industry....

    I'm not sure it can actually be done...but I'm starting to think it'd be abetter situation that what we have now..RWWA paying PR to do it (like the vision and trials up to recently) and them not doing it properly and RWWA feeling the financial loss.....by losing prime races or total meetings.

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  • paraleticparaletic    3,750 posts
    Hold the press and your PR bashing! There is a new joke in town - greyhounds wa!
  • RIORIO    14,902 posts
    not sure what your on about para, but they have been a rabble for many years
  • thefalconthefalcon    20,495 posts
    whats wrong with WA puppies?
  • H-BOMBERH-BOMBER    10,567 posts
    Abandoned

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  • sintisinti    109 posts
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  • RIORIO    14,902 posts
    hahahahaha...not too hard hey Sinti!!!!
    :-bd ;))

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  • RIORIO    14,902 posts
    What is that old chestnut????....The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. With the Ascot track in the background, i reckon it still rings true..


    8-X
  • KkkKkk    15 posts
    The latest update on the ascot track is,, mr wacca is apparently going to ,,,wait for it,,,over sow the kikuyu with ryegrass,this coming Monday ,,,maybe PUNTA can frame a market on what date the track will be actually available to race on?

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  • spinkingspinking    4,002 posts

    Speaking to a track worker yesterday he has his reservations about it being ready

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  • BobbyDavisBobbyDavis    916 posts
    Kkk said:

    The latest update on the ascot track is,, mr wacca is apparently going to ,,,wait for it,,,over sow the kikuyu with ryegrass,this coming Monday ,,,maybe PUNTA can frame a market on what date the track will be actually available to race on?



    I've got concerns about this due to the ryegrass having a slippery leaf. Sure it looks good and acts as a good "filler" but if there is any moisture or too much Ryegrass it can be a dangerous combination with a horse I'd have thought

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  • RIORIO    14,902 posts

    agree Bobby from my limited experience.....And you don't have to talk to too many people who attend the track regularly, to hear that they have no confidence it will be ready....or safe, even if declared ready!!!!

    Think the green paint would have been better than more rye grass personally

  • spinkingspinking    4,002 posts

    Ryegrass can provide green winter lawn overseeded on on warm season grasses that go dorment in winter..Ryegrass acts as a erosion barrier , while the permanent lawn develops, it also provides a almost instant green covering. This green coverage is usually the main purpose for its planting. Unfourtunatly ryegrass has a shallow root system so I think most of us will know what happens to it when 500kg plus animals start running on it

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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,495 posts
    surely the curator knows that....

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  • spinkingspinking    4,002 posts
    You would think so. Might have the colour equation right dont know about the cover side of it though if the above i read about this grass is right
  • SnakadaktalSnakadaktal    29 posts
    everything is just swimmingly at Ascot, the plan is coming together

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  • KkkKkk    15 posts
    Looks like a over agisted cow paddock in dardnanup

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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,495 posts
    ffs get a bloke over from vic. or nsw....pronto!!!
  • KkkKkk    15 posts
    I think the cow has already bolted,,

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  • FastmoneyFastmoney    4,912 posts

    ffs get a bloke over from vic. or nsw....pronto!!!

    Not sure anyone from Vic or NSW could handle 50 meetings a year on a turf track.




  • Piston_BrokePiston_Broke    2,047 posts
    they haven't had any trouble at Morphetville or Doomben this season. Singapore race more than 50 times a season, no problem there either

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