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  1. Chief Stipe
    You've lost me on this whole thread.
  2. Chief Stipe
    Are the landlords licensed?
  3. Chief Stipe
    Not your paddocks! You've given up.
  4. Chief Stipe
    Thanks @hesi for posting that. I do like Elen Nicholas as a Jockey. Time we all pushed back against some of the crap. Point the shotgun level instead of at our feet. BTW that's a bastardised metaphor.
  5. Chief Stipe
    Yours already are.
  6. Chief Stipe
    You seem rattled. Weren't clubs getting a greater % of funding from their oncourse turnover at one stage?
  7. Chief Stipe
    Colin Whiteman has been doing it for years. First time I've heard you complain!!!
  8. Chief Stipe
    That they may well be and at one time it was important to allocate oncourse based funding. But in today's world the average person can't distinguish between what they need to know and why they would like to know let alone statistically understand it. Looking at the Covid pandemic it would appear that many scientists didn't understand data either and politicians weaponised it. That's the danger with distributing all the data on a regular basis let alone basing KPI's on them. This Topic is a good example of that. Yes thank you @Kit Walker for posting the data. But does a 4 raceday one week data set prove anything?
  9. Chief Stipe
    Why would ENTAIN do that? They have no legislated obligation to do that at the micro-level. Their responsibility is to their shareholders. What's more why do you actually need to know? I gather given your negativity that you are not even a shareholder.
  10. Chief Stipe
    Online. NZTAB turnover is hardly an investment.
  11. Chief Stipe
    If you use the crude application of stats then Geo-blocking has had resulted in a 50% improvement. I.e. July is up 4% and August is up 6%. A difference of 50%.
  12. Chief Stipe
    But you've already stated that you are not investing any more. "This is my last horse" etc.
  13. Chief Stipe
    When was that transaction? NZTR and HRNZ don't do much either. I can understand why they don't as compliance costs are high.
  14. Chief Stipe
    I don't understand your vehement negativity towards ENTAIN. Without them the TAB was broke.
  15. Chief Stipe
    How are they bludgers? Racing has been bailed out $60m by the NZ Taxpayer in a very short period of time.
  16. Chief Stipe
    There you go there should be more than 4 racedays of data available.
  17. Chief Stipe
    Come on @curious the data posted is for only four race days representing a completely different pattern to the previous year. You can't draw any "clear evidence" at all. I thought geoblocking started 1 August? Let's hold off the naysaying doom and gloom until we see at least a whole month of data. I think the Minister of Finance is right the doom and gloom is a malaise that doesn't match the facts. Perhaps we could blame the 2.5% drop in GBR on the "cost of living crisis"!!!! From that viewpoint one could argue geoblocking is saving the bacon!!
  18. Chief Stipe
    Interesting how the punter much maligned Ruakaka is up 8%. Perhaps geoblocking got @Huey to offload. in thw winterless north!
  19. Chief Stipe
    Rotorua was a Sunday meeting 2024 on its own and midweek 2025. The total is down $200k but that was dragged down by Woodville and Rotorua being down $300k racing in the same day. Not to mention of course that the figures only represent 4 race days.
  20. Chief Stipe
    You might be going off a bit prematurely. Taupo and Woodville were on the same day this season they were competing against each other. Last year Woodville was the only meeting on a Sunday and Taupo on its own mid-week. Also there are no import figures so the turnover figures only show part of the total turnover.
  21. Chief Stipe
    Some of us wish you would bury your head. Your cynicism and negativity aren't doing much to change things!
  22. Chief Stipe
    Most pet dog owners do i.e. more than one in 5 million. Unfortunately some of the Industry's own supposed supporters are doing it too. For what purpose I cannot fathom other than they like digging pellets out of their feet.
  23. Chief Stipe
    But why would it worry you? You seem to have hung the bridle on the wall years ago and are Waiting For Godot.
  24. Chief Stipe
    $60m that's $40,000 per dog!!! I'll take 3. Geez and we criticise the supposed largesse in Racing administration.
  25. Chief Stipe
    There you are @curious and @Thomass you have a haveer girl for your crusade.
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