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    • Big businesses prioritize the interest of shareholders unfortunately and that revolves around maximizing profit. Banks are a prime example. They could choose to not make as much money as they do, but instead choose to screw over customers in the pursuit of more profits.  
    • They are too obsessed with the damn yield! Do the successful big retail business worry about yield as much as turnover? They want turnover snd that is what drives successful business, you get people coming to your business and you make profit! Without enough people coming to your business then you wont make profit! Many of the successful businesses have loss leaders but that is why they get people to their business as they make money on all the other bits! Just as the TAB should be acting! Continue to drive punters away and u have no business, end of story
    • Emerging filly Levakia (NZ) (Proisir) has given Curraghmore further cause for celebration. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained three-year-old struck for the second time from a handful of starts when she won the Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Ruakaka last Saturday. The Proisir filly’s success followed the good time enjoyed by Curraghmore at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale at Karaka. They ended the auction as the leading vendor by aggregate with eight youngsters sold for $465,000 and a top price of $120,000 for a colt by Sword Of State who was knocked down to Kaha Nui Farm. He is a half-brother to the Gr.3 Easter Cup (2000m) winner Torranzino. Levakia was bred by Gordon Cunningham’s Waikato operation and sold to Ancroft Stud for $105,000 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Online Yearling Sale. “She was a filly that we always liked, she was a progressive type but didn’t have the maturity to be a January sales yearling,” Cunningham said. “She was a filly that had plenty of quality but needed that extra time. “She has obviously showed good ability from the get-go for her owners, they have been very patient and all going well she will continue to reward them in the next 12 months and more.” Levakia is out of the unraced Rip Van Winkle mare Rose’s Girl, who produced a colt by Sword Of State last season. “I’ve got a big opinion of him and he’ll either go to Karaka in January or the breeze-up sale,” Cunningham said. “The mare is back in foal to Proisir on the strength of the promise that Levakia showed. “We bred Rose’s Girl and she’s from the one of the very best Waikato Stud families. “Levakia is a little bit distant from the real depth in the pedigree and hopefully she can put this branch of the family back on the map.” It features the Australasian and European Group One winner and late sire Starcraft (NZ) (Soviet Star), whose half-sister Forum Floozie was a stakes winner and finished runner-up in an edition of the Gr.1 Coolmore Classic (1500m). Their dam Flying Floozie was a three-time New Zealand Broodmare of the Year while this season’s Gr.2 Waikato Guineas (2000m) and Gr.3 Wellington Stakes (1600m) winner Tuxedo (NZ) (Tivaci) is also a family member. View the full article
    • Wentwood Grange Yearling Manager Brad Molander was recognised for his contribution to the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeding industry at the Entain Industry Excellence Awards on Sunday night when he was bestowed the Dedication to Breeding Excellence Award.  It comes two years after Molander was awarded the Mary Lynne Ryan Young Achiever at the National Breeding Awards, and he was delighted to be recognised by the wider industry on Sunday.  “It was awesome to get the award and be recognised,” Molander said. “The Hawkins family, who own Wentwood Grange, were there as well as a few friends, and I got a lot of messages of congratulations from family.   “I do a bit with the standardbreds as well with harness racing, so to mix those two codes and to have a great night like that was really fun.”  Molander has become an integral part of the Wentwood Grange team, leading their yearling sale preparation for the best part of a decade, and he enjoys being a part of the Waikato farm’s framework.  “I have been yearling manager at Wentwood for eight seasons,” he said. “I love getting the babies ready from when we start handling them when they come off the mare.   “We do a good bit of everything at Wentwood, we do the mares, foals, spellers, racehorses and yearlings, we are all one big team. I love it.”  Molander also has plenty of skin in the game himself, having started breeding on his own account in the last few years, and he has struck immediate success.  “In partnership with my mate John Atkinson, who is our farrier, I have got an Iffraaj mare called Missouri that we bought for $600 (off gavelhouse.com),” Molander said.   “We bred her to Embellish, who was only a $4,000 stallion at the time, and we sold her first foal (In The Air) for $27,500 at the weanling sales a couple of years ago.   “He won as an early two-year-old at Tauherenikau and ran in the Karaka Millions, which was awesome. To do that with the first foal we bred and first foal out of the mare was great. He only followed them around in the Karaka Millions field, but it was amazing to be there with a runner in the race.  “The second foal, the colt by Embellish, we took him to Book 2 at the beginning of this year and he made $100,000. Ross McCarroll bought him and he is at the farm right now. I have kept a share in him with Ross and the rest of the new owners. He has been broken in and the reports from the breakers were good.  “We skipped a year with the mare to give her a year off and now she is in-foal to Shamexpress and she is due late-August.”  While pleased to receive his award on Sunday, Molander said he got a bigger kick out of enjoying the night with his partner, Cambridge Raceway chief executive David Branch, who was also a finalist in the Administration and Innovation Excellence category.  “The highlight for me was being a finalist on an evening like that with Dave, that was really special,” he said.  As part of his award, Molander received a $10,000 cash prize, which he said would likely be reinvested into the industry.  “Thank you to Entain,” he said. “I haven’t thought about what I will use the money towards, but it will probably end up going back into the industry.” View the full article
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