Dogs

The concessions for juniors is a good thing if your perceived as a talented up and coming junior,but reality is its doing very little for the drivers in the bottom half of the junior premiership. so far this season,of those in the bottom half of the premiership, only 2 have managed to average more than 2 drives a week.  and theres less juniors having driven so far this year then the previous couple of years. And i don't think the concessions has that much to do with the 5 juniors being in the overall  top 10. Yes,they would have got more drives when they started off  their careers,which would have given their talents greater exposure,but 4 of the top 5  juniors aren't concession drivers anyway and the other one won't be for much longer. To me the junior driver concessions are all a bit smoke and mirrors. On the face of it they give the appearance of prioritising juniors.  but as i've said,reality is its doing next to nothing for the bottom half of juniors and its not relevant for the more successful drivers. So in reality only about 1/3 of the juniors are getting any benefit from it. Then theres the,well its not as if theres more drivers driving because you have concession drivers. In other words,if they are getting more drives,then other drivers,most likely those who are not juniors and struggle to maintain much income to continue participation in the sport,well they are losing drives. And then you have HRNZ paying juniors gear and licence renewals. Thats all well and good. But what about the people who struggle to get enough income to keep their horses. They in effect are paying more to hrnz so hrnz can cross subsidize the juniors. Iits just logical to say,that if one group,within a group of either owners/trainers/drivers/rating of horses,etc is getting preferential treatment then other groups are recieving less than fair treatment. Previously i have given my suggestions on here for better and fairer ways to give all juniors,at all levels a fairer go  and in a way that doesn't have a negative effect on others who struggle to make a living who are juniors.  but like most of what i suggest,don't see the point in going through my thoughts as its nothing like the system currently in place and because i think it would work better,it will never be implemented anyway. people should ask themselves this,are more of the current juniors going to continue their particpation in the industry long term because of the current system?  

Sydenham, proud! 62/68    we usually beat green&black  

Well done…. Patiro still looking for a gap…. Next time.

Driver can’t carry them…

Both TAB and Betcha fixed odds are the same prices, so one must be doing it for the other.    Entain stated they would not lay off any TAB staff for 2 yrs…. that date must be getting close so must be a few that go. I contacted Betcha last year to enquire about something, I am sure the guy said he worked at Ladbrooks, but not 100% sure. Makes sense, cut TAB staff in NZ, get Aussie staff to pick up slack. Have had Betcha call me a few times recently, offering tickets for events, never had offers from TAB ever in 40 yrs punting….