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15 commentsToday we have seen the only remaining truly independent racing industry publication "hang the bridle on the wall." The Informant has ceased to publish.
Why?
In my opinion the blame lies firmly at the feet of the NZRB. Over the next few days BOAY will be asking some very pertinent questions to those in charge.
For example:
How much is the NZRB funded Best Bets costing the industry? Does it make a profit? What is its circulation? 800? Or more? Does the Best Bets pay for its form feeds? Was The Informant given the same deal?
How much does the industry fund the NZ Racing Desk for its banal follow the corporate line journalism?
Why were the "manager's at the door" when Dennis Ryan was talking to Peter Early?
Where are the NZ TAB turnover figures?
The Informant may be gone for the moment but the industry must continue to ask the hard questions.
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just read that decision and i found some of the stuff in there,well,a bit amusing. the decision wasn't a long one but it included these colourful snippets. when paying an appeal filing fee he labelled the payee details as yesberg corruption. then thereafter consistently referred to the proceedings as corrupt. told RIB representatives to go and get stuffed,that they were a dishonest bunch of henchmen,little henchmen,couldn't lie straight in bed,even sending emails to some media outlets. Then he seems to think"theres a fat porn star working for the RIB". All i would say about that comment is,whats wrong with having a second job. and then they were also doing a bit of money laundering. And to top it off,he thinks the RIB are antisemetic. and to think he put that all in writing. now theres a bloke whos upfront about what hes thinking,even you could say, one of a kind. i think its fair to say,there won't be many dull moments when hes around. -
Agree about GRNZ but his argument that racing is a dangerous sport where horses and humans get injured and die, while correct, has nothing to do with beating horses for entertainment. It is moot. Didn't really seem to have much else to offer. -
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Really. How can they keep preaching transparency, consultation and collaboration and doing the opposite?
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i've nothing against the methven club,but simply are pointing out they really aren't doing the owners of horses who support their club any favours with the poor stakes they often pay out.. why does a club that is so asset rich run such poor stakes. 3 x $10,000 non win races and 9 $8000 races. Would it not be better for clubs like oamaru and timaru to run more meetings and give those clubs extra days,as they pay out much higher stakes for mid week meetings, and take a day or 2 off the methven club who often pay the poor stakes. Owners would be better off or is methven simply taking for granted the support anyway because the horses won't have to travel as far. its bizzare. And how come cambridge are running a meeting with only $8000 stakes on a thursday as well.At least cambridge have the awful financial state as an excure,what is methven'ss.
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By Murray Fish · Posted
pardon! CRIMINAL! Ned Kelly had Guns when he robbed you! This lot with the stroke of a pen... -
No idea. Like a lot of these things it's a secret. Not sure, but I think I've worked out what this is saying. As it stands, Entain have a revenue shortfall of $26m in covering the current $150m guaranteed payment to TABNZ, GRNZ are saying that 44m of that revenue comes from betting on greyhounds and that will go half to Entain and half to the codes at the end of the guarantee period courtesy of the government banning greyhounds (assuming that money is still bet either on overseas dogs or elsewhere). There is a further $75m (estimated recovery from the monopoly legislation) which the government has "gifted" to Entain and the codes. $44m + $75m = $119m, the amount highlighted in the headline to the above article. As it stands though, that means that if the guarantee ended today, the payment to TABNZ would be less than half what it is now + half any gains from the monopoly legislation.
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Fantastic! They all got pissed,danced to something hip & had a great time , that's great for the game . You dont watch enough gangster films if you dont know what a fugazi is.
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I think in the main pacers races at Alexandra Park a rating 90 is racing some who are in the 50s, they call noms and then make the fields but is that competitive like for like racing, can't blame connections putting horses up for racing but a 35 points variance, that's a lot, at least the Cup at Invercargill is rating 70 with handicap, good they didn't have to adjust to a 55+ or something, just to make up numbers.
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