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Sadly the issues you have pointed out will only get worse. i've commented on them for many years now. Actually i've made suggestions how hrnz could have mitigated the impact,more recently suggesting HRNZ should have used their forbury money, to purchase strategically situated land and developed it for the purposes of supplying specific harness industry activity land use and harness industry related professional services, at rates which could have had the two fold effect of reducing costs for owners/breeders/trainers while at the same time being run in a way that was profit generating for the industry,that profit being reinvested in the industry . In effect a business model similar to that used by the exclusive brethren. but ,the way HRNZ operate and think, thats never going to happen. the north island being more expensive. Well its been like that for decades.I remeber noticing that 30 years ago when i travelled to the north island.And the reasons for that have only got more significant. Land values,land use,urban sprawl,population growth all factors which have negatively impacted on people who own horses. Look at those obvious factors i just mention,they directly are related to why some provinces have only large scale harness horse trainers and very few small time trainers. Auckland is the best example,yet for reasons which i find totally illogical,you get so many people telling us to ignore the population based causes and base ones thinking on population growth being a good thing. as i've said before,the same thing is playing out in canterbury,urban sprawl,the negative flow on impacts to harness racing will and are happening there. farm use,i.e .dairy farming is another factor which had a major impact on the harness industry. Just look at the land use in southland and how the dairying transformation there resulted in a different type of farmer with different interests. The sheep farmers with the harness horses in their paddocks cashed up and were replaced by dairying,with no horses. anyways,so much of what has significantly impacted the harness industry,e.g.land use,has been outside the industries control,but sadly they have never taken steps to mitigate the damage anyway. Not that long ago HRNZ put out a press release about approaching racing clubs to see if their land could be better utilised for harness racing. Having seen for years how tracks work and be run,i know thats a loser of an idea.HRNZ mean well with those thoughts,but in my opinion shouldn't waste their time working with that. They should either address the issue themselves without partnering racecourses ,or not at all. One thing HRNZ did do which i thought was good was they tried to set up a registry of agistment properties so people could use that as a starting point when looking to find somewhere for their horses. That was good thinking. But,i don't know whether they got much of a respeonse to that as i'm not on facebook,but my guess is they would have been disappointed with the response from people advising they could take horses in for grazing.From my own personal experiences of looking for somewhere to graze your horses at affordable rates,you can take years and approach hundreds,sometimes thousands of property owners with nothing in their paddocks and still find no one interested. . -
I Reckon the Government would love ENTAIN Mikey. they help greatly with the collect of the gambling dollar from all those punters/gamblers out there , that get carried away and are spending their money , just chasing more money lol. Governments Just love the Gambling/alcohol and tobacco taxes. worth billions. They should help Entain collect some of it. Mad if they don't ?. Some supporters of the Harness sport . Like HRNZ for example , are just trying to Support the Sport. They have introduced new schemes , incentives , all sorts of things like the EXcellent Slot races at Cambridge and Show Day at Addington to attract the BEst horses. even this thread the Harness 5000 , seems they are trying to exclude the Best on this occasion 🤣😂 to give the poor folk a go at bigger prizemoney lol. worth a try I spose. 🤔 The Golden Gait at Auckland gave 'loyal' local folk a go at some bigger bucks , etc . Excellent Stuff !! 🏆 Alas every idea the HRNZ comes up with is met with strong criticism here , even the rating system of horses and races put on . Nothing is right. But at least the HRNZ still Put races On , all round the country. good on em' . and that Keeps the participants in the sport for now . -
What a crock of shit….. I’m really peeved off about this. How dare they tell me where I can gamble. Right, this is if for me, I will be betting less than ever. Seems they are counting on basketball punters to make it rich… -
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No Response won the Trotters Final Harness historian might not be your best fit lol
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