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By Chief Stipe · Posted
I think you will find that they are reducing head count. -
Who cares anymore. It's just rearranging furniture at further unnecessary cost to the industry. -
perhaps i should have added,as i wandered off to care for my horse i watched our driver and the driver who knocked us over ,get into the same car and start their journey back to auckland with others . Harness racing operates within a bubble and things within that bubble are magnified.. You need outsiders who aren't part of the group think. The irony is,the more outsiders you have,the better those within the bubble perform. But its all heading the wrong way and cambridge racing is an example of that. -
working out the reasons why racing at cambridge is such a bore and so unattractive from a betting perspective,doesn't seem too hard. 1)having.6 races with an average field size of just 6.6. 2) so many opportunites for every horse that exists in the north island to race every week of the year. 3)The small number of participants and the bubble they work in-i think this is the most important reason myself. Look at the backgrounds of those competing. they all know each other because many are related,they are all mates,so many of them work together.I'm guessing all the drivers from oustside the waikato area would travel in 2 or 3 cars to the track.No one,and i mean no one exists outside te bubble that exists in waikato/auckland, except for luk chin. outside the amateur race last night you had 9 professionals and 10 junior drivers. j stormont,p ferguson,w rich,z butcher,b butcher,m white,j dickie,a poutama ,n chilcott l hibell,e johnson,j dunn,b wilkins ,k coppins,m ranger,c hackett,f schumaker,h orange,k denisfotova now i'm not saying this bubble doesn't have good people with camradery and i'm sure they would rally around someone within the bubble if they needed support in some way.But i'm talking about the racing product that they want us to bet on. i've seen how it works.quite a few years ago, we travelled a long way to start a horse in the middle of the north island. Half way down the straight bang,when travelling and looking like the winner,a driver inside barges into our horse and knocks him over (which caused a career ending injury),you could hear the bang 200m away where i stood. So the horse and driver come back in,the driver says,we got completely flattened by ...,he just barged his way out ,it was quite reckless the way he did it. So what did he tell the stipes,well nothing apparently. Even though blind freddy could tell what happended from just 1 look at the video. That was 30 years ago and the stipe being escott,well he preferred to be the big bully that he liked to be what asked to show the video evidence that justified his inaction. Tosser..anyway. the lesson i learnt was drivers aren't going to moan about what their mate has done as they may need their mate to cover for them next time. Mates don't want to upset a good relationship by complaining . i get it,thats just the way it works. but heres the thing, you see the same thinking in the way they drive. They drive like they don't want to be annoying one another with aggressive tactics.Afer all,we're all mates aren't we,type of thing. The drivers up there i'm sure are very loyal,hard working and would do whatever they can to help someone they knew out. but the problem is theres no one outside the bubble to keep those within the bubble on their toes and its all ended up like the punter is being taken fro granted and that they know HRNZ is going to keep prioritising the uncompetitivercaing they dish up.. you know ,i used to read where gammalite would say,he hardly ever watchs redcliffe races at all and i used to not quite understand that, as he is a pasionate follower of harness racing. But having watched cambridge recently,i get why now. And the thing is redcliffe racing has full fields and is more competitive than cambridge.
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By billy connolly · Posted
Good eulogy from Bellew. Imagine if the Brothers had have crossed Zabeel with those good race mares, progeny could've been anything.
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