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i agree with what you say. cambridge,auckland,and southland can't continue in their current form . They need restructuring,whether it be their racing calendar or their venues.The betting product they often provide is simply not worth having a bet on.. its a total mystery why nz administrators think running more and more meetings at a loss ,is good for the industry long term.It makes no sense. the number that run at grass tracks will decline in the future. it a given that will happen. The declining numbers being bred will flow through in years to come as will the aging trainers disappearing and the reducing number of licence holders. The focus of hrnz has not been on this one area which generates a profit and the industry is certain to pay the price for losing the confidence of those who particpated at the likes of grass tracks. your right about the same old horses that go around in southland .Some of those horses just get sick of racing or they are lined up when their manners would say no,but they do it anyway. the only thing working in new zealaands favour is australian harness racing ,especially victoria,are going so poor they dont import as many new zealand horses. lowering the qualifying times would only work if they had a better handicapper/race programmer who catered for all levels.They don't so that won't help.And thats also partly because people realise its too costly to keep horses that don't earn money. perople breeding more? Thats never going to happen. Do people realise just how many mares people have got rid of in recent years. No one wants them and people who breed the bread and butter horses have felt left behind by current policy makers.. Its so sad. but thats the reality. the answer to fixing nz harness racing and making it sustainable,i belive,is replacing current administrators with new administrators who look 5-10 years ahead and who recognise the importance of the profit making sectors of the industry. Thats where it must start -
Not to me. They are certainly getting on running their businesses, those participants that have businesses, but I certainly don't see or hear that they are not grizzling and not very worried for the most part. Stakes may be the highest ever but inflation adjusted stakes are only slightly higher than they were in the 90s and then they were paid for by racing's wagering earnings, not by the capital payments from the sale of the TAB operations. -
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fair enough to have that opinion, but the difference was this year the cup carnival had several really high quality australian horses including the young trotters. They dominated cup week like never before,winning the main pacing races,the main trotting races,the 2 and 3 year old trotting races. Everything they started in during cup week they won.The only ones they didn't dominate was the 2 and 3 year old pacing races,as they had no australian trained horses in them.. take out those aussies,and this year was not any better horse flesh than any other year. I've been around long enough to hear people say,year after year.best racing ever. And why did they come here more this year,because the stake money.Australia is in decline,so they come here to cherry pick while nz has administrators that throw millions at the high end races.And we all know that can't last. Take a horse like gus.He had been going great in australia for the last 3 years. But do you know what.He is the best in queensland and had won 16 of his 42 starts over there ,in the last 3 years. But he can earn more than double his lifetime earnings in just 2 start here.
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