What a pity...as if he needs the money...

It’s a pity there are fools who believe that it’s all about the money.

Good point,,,,,well made!

100%

Well said everyone.. + the fact that he invests a hell of a lot into racing, and deserves every success he has. Where would the quality of Perth racing be if Mr Peters wasn’t breeding so many good horses. Adds a lot of interest when his horses come over too. I don’t understand negativity towards someone like Bob Peters, it has to be jealousy.

I’ve been told multiple times by multiple people that Winx didn’t travel overseas because the prize money here is so good and it was easy pickings for her.
So obviously lots of people think it is all about the money

Oh, back on your favourite bandwagon! Her owners and Chris Waller know the answer to this predicament that has bugged you for years .....but with only a really little flip you could also ask why Enable, Crystal Ocean, Roaring Lion, Stradivarius, Order of St George, and many many other top Euros from that era didn't race in Australia for $5m Cox Plates, $4m QE Stakes, $2m Mckinnons not to mention $7m Melbourne Cups if it was only about $$. And also Japan's richest races.

As fanatic race follower it is more about seeing the best compete than it is about money to Bob Peters. The shut downs over one case seems an over reaction.

More the pity is we wont have the best horses over to race and bet on

I’m so sick of the tall poppy harvesters.
My Kudos for Mr Peters is he’s breeding and keeping his group class racehorses in Australia and not selling them to Hong Kong

Hahaha..Funny..funny...Very very funny...

Chip on your shoulder or just plain jealousy, he puts a heap of his own money into WA racing and imbeciles like you can't handle that?

The likes of McGowan, Palaszczuk and the leader of the peoples republic, Chairman Dan couldn’t run a bath. Close an entire city for one positive COVID outbreak. Not only puts a cloud over the campaigns of these horses but affects some 2 million people’s lives due to 1 positive case. Talk about an over reaction.

The precedent been set. Sniffle shutdowns will be coming. You can't give up this kind of power. No more worries, 'they' are looking out for us. Sooner we realize 'they' know best, the better we will sleep, locked in our homes.

Roy000

Absolutely spot on. And the saddest part of it is how willing (or even keen) most of the populace are to hand over their freedoms to our masters. All those poor buggers who gave their lives in war just so this generation could give up on itself.

mug

Why, because he has a different opinion to yours and you're never wrong, is that it

Didn't realise racenet was a forum for all of Australia's best epidemiologists. State leaders should refer to here before making health decisions moving forward. Would be a great shame not to see peters horses come to the east though

Really even the WHO urges decision makers NOT TO ENFORCE LOCKDOWNS to deal with COVID, to which top Australian Epidemiologists do you refer

Spot on. Lockdowns affect everyone and have proven to impact more people by governments imposing them. Victoria being a prime example of that with many businesses and lives lost due to the incompetence of the Victorian Government. Only way to stop this is by way of vaccine in the meantime the best advice from Medical Experts across the world is having proper contact tracing, good sanitising, confinement, social distancing and 14 days quarantine for those infected or coming in from overseas / infected areas. Saying what McGowan said in that lockdowns are needed to “crush” this virus are simply made on political grounds, misleading and hurtful to the majority who are free of infection.

Not just Australia but the world. It’s merely political grandstanding to say “we need to crush this virus”, by way of of lockdowns. There are far better and proven methods to prevent the spread of viruses and keep the economy moving which lockdowns simply don’t do. Even then these are only preventative measures. Only way to stop or crush a virus is by way of a vaccine.

So point me to a country that hasn’t imposed lockdowns that is managing COVID successfully without them

Surely its OK to remind people that barcode tracing and well organised contact tracing do exist and are proven to deliver fantastic results. But let's face it - one premier knows the winning formula for his upcoming re-election, one expects the nation to pick up her lockdown tab, and the other? ....where do you start.....if he can remember anything it's that he doesn't trust technology.

Another owner doing the training.

And a very good one.

No, but he does do all the race programming

Stop your whinging, Victoria had a nine month lockdown and a lot of people lost their jobs and had there life affected.

And the sick part is that Dandemic Andrews has so far kept his job after his negligence killed 800 plus.
Yet for a few gold watches, heads roll at Australia post.
I agree with Manawapoi...those state premiers are the lowest of the low.

The vast majority of the "800 plus" deaths in VIC were in aged care facilities, which are the responsibility of the Federal Government.

What to do..Safety comes first...😁😀😃☺️😆😄

Absolute joke of a lock down,our pollies are all tossers as for u Stone Burke you're the biggest one of all.

To all the tossers who commented here...look at a few facts, YES...he has been successful but the only person who benefits is him...there is NO involvement with anyone else...no syndicates, no joint ownership NOTHING. He has monopolized the Perth racing industry for years and shared that success with a few trainers and one jockey, Pike....he has scooped the cream of all the major Perth races many many times, 2020 Railway Stakes again, 2020 Kingston Town again...the Perth Cup almost again for the 10th time...he rarely if ever supports the WA breeding industry preferring to go to ES based sires...ask the Perth trainers and owners...I have shares in horses all based in the ES....why because that's where there's a even playing field...there's not one in Perth.

So Brad, people can get on here and make party political statements and propagate mistruths and straight out lies about the serious subject of public safety surrounding COVID-19, but others have their replies/posts censored and not displayed when they present facts to debunk the garbage being peddled by some?

Could you please ask contributors to Racenet, if they make partizan political statements, to add to the end of their posts, "Written and authorised by .......... on behalf of The ...... Party (or organisation)."

It’s very sad that you actually believe that opinions that differ from yours must be staged, and not formed out of the empirical evidence gathered from real life experiences.

Dear Formworks. The rantings of people whose "evidence" is drawn from conspiratorial web cites and from Sky News and the like, are not "empirical evidence gathered from real life experiences", they are at best mischievous and at worst, downright dangerous and for the most part, have no basis in fact.

Some of us have spent many years in health and allied fields and have studied the stuff that some others around here purport to know something about and I am telling you, that much of what some come up with around here is completely and utterly wrong and it has nothing to do with "opinion". For example, all the vaccines, not some but ALL the vaccines, that have been touted as some sort of magic bullet by some who wish it to be so and by others for ulterior motives, none of the manufacturers of these vaccines have said that their vaccines stop people contracting COVID-19 and that they stop people spreading the virus, in fact Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer said exactly that in early December last year and there has been absolutely no evidence to date that these vaccines protect people from contracting the virus, and no evidence that the vaccines stop people spreading the virus.

The evidence is that the vaccines help manage the symptoms of people who contract the virus and there is no doubt about their safety or efficacy as far as the therapeutic effect is concerned. This however is NOT what some say the vaccines will do, that is, protect people from contracting and then spreading the virus - this is a fact, not an opinion and it is sad that you actually don't believe that I understand the difference between fact and opinion.

All medical professionals understand and accept the fact of what these vaccines do but we have cod immunologists and virologists getting on here and talking garbage about these vaccines.

We have people coming on here and distorting what eminent professionals are saying to suit the narrative being peddled by some in the media, in politics and business to try and drum up more business activity and by doing so, it can have grave consequences.

Scientific fact is NOT an opinion and I am standing up for the facts and for no other reason.

As for the last bit of my original post: "Written and authorised by .......... on behalf of The ...... Party (or organisation)." it is the only conclusion one can draw from the posts of some. For example, there is an article on Racenet that is about Racing Victoria's proposed whip rules and some people post stuff about Dan Andrews and the Victorian Government. We have seen other Racenet articles where some have brought up the BLM movement; both of these examples show absolutely that some people will take any opportunity to broadcast party political diatribe when the articles have absolutely nothing to do with Governments, politics, politicians. We have people who laud Berejiklian and the NSW government which is all well and good but the adoration pops up in Racenet articles that are not even remotely connected with Berejiklian and Politics.

Politics does crop up from time to time in racing stories, it is inevitable and then, no problems, but to barge into a story and post party political statements and endorsements is out of order and is nothing more than electioneering.

Matrice, your posts on this subject are clearly not from someone without knowledge and a strong conviction concerning your mangement beliefs. This is obvious. It is equally obvious that you believe motives other than the well being of Australians are behind posts from others advocating against lockdowns. This is where my considerable disagreement lays. You need to understand that the virus is not the major daily consideration for the vast majority of people simply going about their lives. Sure, it is a killer...there was a disaster in Vic and almost 900 elderly lives were lost, and scattered outbreaks have occurred here and there, but without catastrophe, and especially in NSW these were swiftly and skillfully managed. In fact, less that 1000 lives have been lost in the entire country.....less than than annual road toll. And nobody is talking about keeping motor cars locked in the garage. One could also mount a strong positive argument that hygiene awareness has significantly reduced the annual flu count. There is too much living to be done to keep everybody, young and old, cottonballed in their homes until who knows when. Who would decide when the right time is? Look at NZ and WA - no cases for months on end and then an outbreak out of the blue. The method to deal with this surely is not to shut everything down but to work out who, where and when and begin the mitigation process. Containment. The only reason politics comes into play is that the left believe the country can sustain the gigantic cost of the national virus welfare, while those on the right believe the cost is way too high and people desperately need their freedoms. And just like the roads, the cost of freedom of movement, even with great traffic control, is the certainty that some innocents will be taken from us.