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Maybe that's one way Entain is paying for Stakes.

Do you think the Premiership might be having an influence? I think his wife told him he could only have one go at it!

Have you ever hit a horse that had given all it had? What message does that send a horse?

It isn't abnormal nor uncommon. Some dogs are more prone than others. How do you know they are ignoring it? Unlikely as it would show in swabs. It isn't happening every time it races either be it Group 1's or otherwise. Given it's performance to date if it was sick I'd love to see it race when it is healthy! Exactly you don't know. You also don't know if officials are "turning a blind eye". In fact you yourself stated that the officials inspected the track on one occasion. You are looking for bones under the bed to gnaw on that aren't there!!! If you are going to impugn all and sundry then at least get your evidence sorted instead of the normal mish mash of inference, suppostion and innuendo! Not to mention adhering to the same standards that you expect everyone else to especially consistency in your analysis!

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You're struggling Chazza. Why don't you go for a walk? Take your GAP dog with you.

Right so you have formed your hypothesis and now selectively look for evidence to support it but conveniently overlook evidence that conflicts with your hypothesis. The first race you mentioned in this ludicrous Topic was the Hatrick Classic Grp 1 Final on 12 April 2024. Post race urine AND hair samples were taken.

@Yankiwi you come across as an obsessed nutter who has a vendetta against any number of people. Your claims are unsubstantiated rubbish as are your so called statistics.

BTW he didn't seem to drool in his first Group 1 either. The St Leger. You seem to only have a 50% accuracy which is in keeping with all your statistics. I guess you will come back with "well this video is edited and he must have swallowed during the running"... I'm guessing the rest of the household is sick of you hogging the recording capacity on the Skybox and the endless Greyhound Racing recordings don't go back far enough.

At the end of the day no matter what you infer He's All Go is a champion dog. Starts Win 2nd 3rd Win % Place % Stakes Total 22 19 1 1 86.4% 9.1% $117,339.00 Who wins from any box - although I'm surprised you haven't started a consipiracy on why he has never drawn box 6. Even though that is statistically possible. Box History BOX Starts 2 1 5 5 1 0 5 3 Wins 1 1 5 4 1 0 4 3 Places 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

But you are inaccurate. The Derby is a Grp 1. No signs of drooling. You said it only happens in Group 1's. Have you gone through every race the dog has had? Well unlike you who sits in his armchair with multple devices in hand everyday it seems looking for anything to bag GRNZ or any stakeholder you don't like the dog was entitled to pant after having put in a high performance exertion on the racetrack. Although we all envisage you sitting in your chair drooling as you frantically rewind 100's of mintues of racing footage. The dog could have been dehydrated. Who knows. But to infer something untoward without any conclusive evidence is crossing the line. No positives from any of the races.

But the NZ Derby is a Grp 1. He didn't drool then. You really are scraping the bottom of the jellimeat tin now.

Don't let the facts get in the way of your fantasy story. https://racingintegrityboard.org.nz/decisions/appeal-reserved-decision-dated-9-july-2021-angela-turnwald/ That said the dog won $26k in the following race and wasn't dribbling.

I don't see any problem - not that I could see how you could see through the fence. But it looks a lot safer than the dogs all jamming up at the lure on the circular tracks! Anything else to criticise? BTW - looks like the natural injury rate is over 4%.

What issue exactly?

Why wouldn't it be up 25% when they made it free to air again? But watching TV doesn't actually mean you bought anything!

Time to buy?

The truth is that if you invest for long enough, you're going to end up with some losing stocks. Long term Entain Plc (LON:ENT) shareholders know that all too well, since the share price is down considerably over three years. So they might be feeling emotional about the 63% share price collapse, in that time. And over the last year the share price fell 46%, so we doubt many shareholders are delighted. Shareholders have had an even rougher run lately, with the share price down 16% in the last 90 days.

Were they actually racing for anything?

Free-to-air Trackside boosts betting Much improved signs heading into Entain Year-2 by Brian de Lore Published 25 June 2024 Free-to-air Trackside and aggressive marketing have Entain Managing Director Cameron Rodger smiling broadly after receiving the latest betting figures. A few days ago, he told me, “We are just now in the process of measuring what the move to Free to Air has done to overall trackside audience numbers. This data is still being finalised but to give you a sense of the result – our total Trackside audience on Saturdays is up more than 25% – and the total viewership over the week is up even more.” Cameron added: “It’s more brutal out there than probably anyone could have accurately pictured, not just the betting market but all consumer markets, but what I’m seeing is upside through engaging more customers – we have so many more customers on our books now compared to last year. But we are getting less out of each customer than we had hoped because there is less money in everyone’s pockets. “Through our investment here, we have managed to fill the funnel at a fast rate, so we have had a 21 percent increase in customers, which delivers to us a turnover that’s not in decline. And that increase came after only 17 days of testing from marketing the new app, so that’s tracking really positively. If we had the same customer base we started with, we would be in serious trouble.” The economic downturn may be worldwide, but it is reportedly worse in New Zealand than in Australia. So why is post-COVID betting in Australia estimated to have a 15—to 20 percent downturn, but against that trend, turnover has increased in NZ over the past year? Entain men have a passion for racing The simple one-word answer is Entain. The newbies have introduced a fresh change of direction and taken control of the decision-making at TAB NZ, thus eliminating the non-performing, apathetic administration of the past with an injection of new life. Dean Shannon, Lachlan Fitt, and Cameron Rodger are intelligent people who all have a passion for horse racing, a vital but missing ingredient in most of their predecessors over the previous 20 years. Entain’s partnership with TAB NZ can only be described as ‘game-changing.’ Cameron Rodger doesn’t entirely agree with my assessment that TAB NZ would now be broke. He says: “If the new distributions hadn’t gone through, distributions to the codes would probably have been cut by about $20 million.” Applying that to the thoroughbred industry, the available prizemoney would be 36 percent less than the current level, accompanied by an exodus of the industry comparable to the annual Hajj to Mecca. Cameron Rodger is buoyed by the most recent stats coming to him after a year of placing racing in front of the general public by embracing mainstream media. He elaborated: “Thoroughbred racing in May was up 28 per cent in turnover on the previous year, which is a huge leap forward, and harness was up 15 per cent, and Greyhounds was up eight per cent, and that’s just May. Total active customers in May 2024, was 82,500 against 72,000 the previous May, so we are genuinely thrilled with what we are seeing. June new customers up 15% “As an example, for the month of June thus far, we’ve had two-and-a-half times more account sign-ups than we had in the same period last year. That number is exceeding even our own new customer number forecasts – by just under 15%. “It tells us that the different initiatives we’ve put in place are doing a great job of getting customers in the door which is the critical measure we are chasing, and is especially gratifying this early on.” No one will deny that Entain has made a great effort in year one, but what about sustainability? The first year has passed with a positive pass mark, but everyone with an investment in racing is interested in the long term with consistent growth which will encourage new participants. I put that question to Cameron: “We have a five-year window for a reason, we are not going to be going backwards. If people can see that we are trying our best to find a solution to issues that are not really our issues to solve, hopefully, it shows how serious we are about New Zealand’s future for the long term. “We don’t even have to worry about the turnover right now because we are here for the long haul. I’m not just putting on a brave face, there are genuinely very good signs despite the tough, tough market. Riding out the economic downturn “Without the economic downturn, we would be really flying along. The upshot of this is that we can ride out the cycle now, and distributions won’t be affected. We can keep investing and growing customer numbers. When the economy comes back, we have a great customer base to grow again. “We are up 3.5 percent year-on-year in turnover and gross profit is also up slightly. “Other jurisdictions are down, and we are putting up a helluva fight. It’s genuinely showing us that if we can get these numbers up further, it’s very positive for the future. The best thing we can do at this time is not to try to get more money out of our customers in this economic climate.” When I suggested to Cameron that the problems confronting the breeding industry are just as serious as racing with a historically declining stallion, broodmare and foal population, he responded this way: “We are aware of the problems facing the breeding industry. “The top end seems to look after itself, but there has been a weakening of the middle and bottom end. We are trying to get involved through the Pearl Series. We have looked at the decline of the broodmare band, which can’t be ignored; if you look at the number of stakes-winning mares and progeny going through the sales, it’s on the decline, and good broodmares are getting harder and harder to buy. “Prizemoney increases still catching up” – Cameron Rodger “We do know that increased prizemoney makes a difference over time, but we are trying to think of tactical ways we can engage the breeding and racing industry. I don’t really think that the full upside of the prizemoney injections has yet caught up to all areas of the industry. “I think the time to be investing in the industry is in a downturn, and I know that’s an easy thing to say, and everyone knows that principle, but it’s just a hard thing to do in real terms. The amazing positive we have right now is that we are one of the few sectors where, despite the inflationary pressure, the underlying picture is improving. I do believe that things will improve within a couple of years, but it might be a more extended period of pain than most people thought. I said to Cameron Rodger that we are an apathetic industry with a poor record of helping ourselves and now we are relying on Entain. He replied: “We are not pretending we have a silver bullet. Cameron Rodger: “Lachlan Fitt is a machine; he doesn’t stop” “Lachlan Fitt has been appointed Chairman of the board of Thoroughbred Marketing (NZTM),” he continued. “You won’t find a more passionate foreigner when it comes to the New Zealand industry – he loves it and is a machine; he doesn’t stop. He’s never satisfied and he’s the one that’s driving things here, but we haven’t worked out all the equations yet. The Entain executives have all pledged their allegiance to racing over sport, which is music to the ears of racing, but he did finish the chat by revealing an interesting stat, which comes as a result of advertising on mainstream media: “The turnover on the Warriors has gone from about $400,000 to $620,000 per match involved, so it is about a 50 percent increase.”

The trials tomorrow are on the AWT.

But they are all doing much better than other jurisdictions. Perhaps Mr Dore should be rewarded for his efforts rather than denigrated?

Then your analysis is flawed which I've said from the beginning. Your objective isn't anything to do with Greyhound safety and welfare but as you state holding GRNZ accountable. In other words rather than dealing with facts you sole intent is to bag GRNZ. If you were consistent then you would point out to GRNZ that the KPI's by which you measure them on are flawed i.e. GRNZ have made a rod for their own back. The reality is that Greyhound racing has an inherent systemic injury rate that no matter what is done will always be there. In that regard it is no different from any other high performance sport. So I doubt that you support Greyhound racing - I would say you are a wolf in sheep clothing i.e. truly anti-greyhound racing. No doubt negatively motivated by a past negative experience that you can't let go.

Don't forget the 2yr olds are rising 3yr olds. Doesn't bode well for the Spring.

Your stats are meaningless because GRNZ's KPI's are meaningless. The statistics you need to compare against is the natural injury rate of racing a Greyhound. When you do that you'll find that NZ is no different to any other jurisdiction. We look forward to your new analysis.