mark lowe

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@TTARacing the biggest parallel is in the CEO's. For much of their tenure they were successful, respected (nearly revered) and this led to their Board's letting them run their organisations without any real limits to their authority. Ego soon overwhelmed talent.

A very good parallel view here comparing Qantas to Racing - Almost a mirror image of each other when you think about it - A complete loss of trust and a reset definitely needed. ttrausnz.com.au/edition/2026-0…

Great story @7NewsSydney .. thanks Andrew! Free to air news coverage of our big carnivals is so good to see! Never underestimate how racing fans love this content on TV news.. 👏❤️🐎 🎥 📺 👍👍

@CaroSearcc @7NewsSydney Fantastic! We need racing to become mainstream on tv sports segments again.

@allovertheform Personally, I am happy to have the saturday meeting "çompromised" with these races. They bring new faces to the race day and there is simply nothing better than watching owners and stable staff of the winners enjoying the metro experience.

Let’s stop pretending this is a tough conversation. It isn’t. It’s overdue. Saturday racing in Sydney is supposed to be the pinnacle. It’s the shop window. The best horses, the sharpest stables, the riders at the peak of their powers. That’s what people tune in for, that’s what punters invest in, and that’s what the industry trades its reputation on. So why are we still handing out participation ribbons in the middle of it? Highway and Midway races had a purpose when they were introduced. They were designed to give smaller stables exposure, to create pathways, to spread opportunity. Fine. Noble, even. But somewhere along the way, “pathway” quietly became “entitlement,” and now we’re treating Saturday metropolitan racing like it owes these races a slot. It doesn’t. And before anyone jumps in with the defence it is only two races out of ten, that somehow it is harmless, that it is just a small slice of the program that misses the point entirely. Saturday is not about majority rules. It is about standard. You do not protect the integrity of a premier product eight races out of ten and then look the other way for the other two. Winning in the city is supposed to mean something. It’s supposed to be earned, not allocated. The moment you carve out protected lanes for certain classes of participants, you dilute the very thing that makes city racing valuable merit under pressure. If you want to win on a Saturday in Sydney, you should have to beat proper town hall company. No shortcuts. No separate divisions. No soft landing. You line up, you measure up, or you don’t. That’s the deal. Because here’s the reality punters won’t say quietly anymore these races break the rhythm of a Saturday card. They lower the standard, they muddy form lines, and they inject inconsistency into what should be a premium betting product. Two races is all it takes to disrupt flow, confidence, and form. And quality matters. Not just for perception, but for turnover, integrity, and long term growth. You don’t build a flagship product by compromising it, even briefly, to tick a participation box. There are plenty of places in the calendar for Highway and Midway races to exist and thrive. Midweek programs. Provincial showcases. Feature support cards. Build them up, give them identity, give them space to breathe. But Saturday in Sydney That’s sacred ground. This isn’t harsh. It’s honest. Privilege, not a right. That’s what a city win should be. And right now, we’ve blurred that line to the point where it barely exists. Scrap the Highway. Scrap the Midway. Restore the standard. If you want to win in the city, earn your way in and beat the best. That’s how it should be. That’s how it used to be. And that’s how it needs to be again.

@sydneyswans And Paddy McCartin right there as well.

Still coming out to support the boys at training 💪

@7horseracing @ThoroughbredPk racing needs more geniune characters like Gratz. Bravo!

Imagine if we get these scenes on Saturday 😍 Gratz Vella is a Canberra racing icon, and he has Black Opal winner Music Time in the Golden Slipper on Saturday! Here's hoping we see the great man dancing the night away after the big race 🧡 @ThoroughbredPk

@TTARacing And now John O'Shea banned for 4 months. cant help but think that is part retribution for being frank in the Rosehill Sale inquiry as well.

Great to see the NSW racing media finally getting serious in the race to the bottom. They must be so proud of how easily they are manipulated by others and how eager they are to have zero journalistic integrity.

@daveystan1 @Gallop1ngGuru @SkyRacingAU Is Dubai Honour definitely starting? If so, it will be his to lose.

Next Saturday’s Tancred Stakes market likely to be affected after this Saturday, with the following highly unlikely to run according to @Gallop1ngGuru Sir Delius Aeliana Birdman Buckaroo Campaldino Light Infantry Man Trinity college Unlikely Off Temp @SkyRacingAU

@Nic_Ashman Well said Nic.

How can anyone think this is an appropriate way to treat a Hall Of Fame trainer. Gai deserves a lot better. Show some respect.

@MayneReport He openly admits that the raise allowed the company to resolve liquidity and insolvency issues which then would have contributed to the stocks re-rating. All the more reason the raise should have included retail investors.

Whoever bought the $34m EQ Resources placement at 5c on December 5 ran by Euroz and Canaccord is today sitting on stock worth around $250m with the shares at 36c. Watch this lame answer at today’s EGM as to why the 2500 retail holders weren’t offered a 30k SPP at 5c as well?

@Contemplator24 @great_martis Would crash the banks and therefore also heavily impact Super funds and plenty of Australian’s retirements plans.

@great_martis If we end up with mortgage rates of 10% in Australia, the entire housing market will implode and the economy will collapse. Guaranteed.

Who's ready for 10% mortgage rates? Australia leading the way.

@peteposiadis @warbrohi @sydneyswans Hey Peter before you call people “clowns” and “stupid” it might pay to learn how to spell. “Raining 🌧️🌧️ premiers”. 😉

@warbrohi @sydneyswans Depleted raining premiers you clown 😅😅. That dud didn't do shit against a skeleton back line. Enjoy his services 🍻

How about that! 😤

@mint0111111 @professorpunts Generally it is not that much more. GST $1K, vetting, bloodstock agent, race series fees, transport generally between $10-$20K depending on trainer. $50K seems a lot but if you are purchasing now you have two months of spelling and poss breaking costs to add so another $7K

@professorpunts Same as every horse you buy into it’s always 40-50k more

Not sure if I have this right. Lot 490 at MM was purchased by Gollan Racing for 10k.. yet 10% shares are being sold for $6129. So 100% of the horse is being valued at 61k (inc of vetting, insurance and race series)

@racing_nsw Surely after the Supreme Court ruled against RNSW the sensible, equitable and financially prudent thing to do would be to sit down and mediate the issues for the betterment of the industry. Or is it just an overwhelming need to win regardless of the cost and impact??

Racing NSW to Appeal Supreme Court Decision Impacting Funding of NSW Race Clubs - tinyurl.com/5yfefk6s

@T_J_Carroll @PhilGould15 No pissing contest here Tim. Just stating facts with the sole purpose of hilighting that even the most 'esteemed" experts in any endeavour are subject to corrruption at worst, greed at best.

You want to have a pissing competition about what science has got right and wrong over the years? Seriously Mark, you are kidding ( your using a device to send a message on a SM platform with world wide reach that wouldn’t be remotely possible without science- there’s got to be some irony in that ) You take sick your dog to your mechanic. Hell, he may even be able to help, who knows. But I’ll continue to take my sick dog to my vet and my sick car to my mechanics. I reckon both my car and dog will end up in better shape than yours.

Firstly, you assume I use Ai to write my opinions. I don’t. I certainly use Ai for a lot of things, including research. Anyone who is not using Ai, or learning the benefits of Ai technology, is missing out. Ai will have greater influence on our future than anything previously created throughout history. I read up a lot about climate stuff. I don’t profess to be an expert. But neither are those who abuse me for my opinion. For what is worth, here’s my explanation. The basic philosophy of climate change is the Earth has a heat-trapping blanket of air around it. Climate change activists claim that burning fuel like petrol, coal and gas, are making that blanket thicker. A thicker blanket means the planet gets warmer. They argue that man-made CO2 creates a warmer planet, which causes more severe climate events. The climate argument is that the longer we keep thickening the blanket, the harder it becomes to fix. That’s the theory.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ They exaggerate the speed at which this will be a factor. The vast majority of catastrophic predictions over the past 50 years have simply not occurred. Not even close. My own children, smart kids, all now in their 20s, educated in Australian schools, were at one time completely convinced, (and panicking), that the planet would end within a decade unless man stop producing CO2. They would get very upset with me, because I would say that this is not going to happen, certainly not in such a ridiculously short time frame they were fearing. Younger people have been educated to think this way. People are making a fortune, governments are being elected, purely on the fear-mongering premise that humans are changing the climate and the planet is in jeopardy. Fact - CO2 makes up less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. Human produced CO2 is only a fraction of that small number. Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming a drop of ink for changing the colour of your swimming pool. The Sun drives our climate far more powerfully than any gas. Exposure to the Sun warms oceans. Warmer oceans release CO2 naturally. Therefore, CO2 may well be a consequence of warming, not the cause. History backs this up. Earth had warming and cooling cycles long before humans existed. More CO2 actually makes for a healthier planet. Plants grow faster. Forests and crops thrive. This is happening now. It’s been proven. A slightly warmer, CO2 rich planet, makes for a healthier planet. Humans think in terms of human survival, rather than accepting the planet has always changed, adapted, and renewed across its 4.5 billion year history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Human existence is in jeopardy in the longer term. Not the health of the planet. The planet will survive much longer than the human race. It will not be global warming that kills the human race. The human race will self destruct long before any climate event removes them. Human philosophy for changing the climate, is actually leading to economic harm and quality of life deterioration. The costs are greater than the proposed cures. They want to dedicate trillions of dollars and cripple our energy systems chasing Net Zero - a target with no scientific guarantee it will change the climate one degree. The idea that human industrial policy can influence global temperature, is arguably as arrogant as the belief that humans are powerful enough to destroy the planet in the first place. I’m all for reducing pollution, cleaning up our environment, protecting our water supplies. That’s common sense. I’m against the economic and social damage we are inflicting on ourselves through ridiculous energy policies, which will have zero effect on the climate in the long run. That’s my opinion. It seems to upset climate change believers. I don’t care. Not for one minute do I think my opinion matters, or that it will change anything. But I do think the world thinking is slowly turning back the other way. I’m hoping so, anyway.

@T_J_Carroll @PhilGould15 The government of the day used these reports to ban all regulation of these financial instruments based on these 'esteemed experts' many of which were getting paid huge money by the financial institutions as speaking fees, consultants or Board roles. How did that work out?

@T_J_Carroll @PhilGould15 Many 'esteeemed' financial scientists (Economic professors and academics) wrote numerous papers in support of not regulating the financial markets in relations to Collatorised Debt Obligations and other synthetic financial instruments in the early 2000's. 1/2

@davepband Gold! 👏👏👏

AI simply must be stopped 🤣

@TMFScottP It is a really good list but a bit meaningless unless you are prepared to put some budget figures against each initiative.

The first thing is the objective: Structural balance and debt reduction. There's no point doing anything else until/unless the Budget is sustainable. "We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations." - Warren Buffett. 2/n

Jim Chalmers has a chance to really strike a blow at the upcoming Federal Budget. I was recently asked by a follower what changes I'd make. I don't have a perfect answer, but my draft list is below, and I'd love your thoughts in general, so I can improve it. Here goes: 1/n

@TTARacing @showaheart We really are in trouble as an industry when we are looking to the government to fix problems! But I do understand what you are saying

@showaheart This is the whole stupidity of it all - RacingNSW has to now pay their legal fees + ATC Legal Fees and that all comes out of industry money. It’s basically the industry self harming because there is an uncontrolled regulator in charge. The government can’t let this continue.

Anybody seen any mainstream racing journalists today - They all seem to have disappeared after the biggest decision in NSW racing in the last 23 years. Weird hey!