Chief Stipe

Wait until the Brendan Cole case hits the headlines again!

I meant "it".

I understand that RACE and the CJC have to come up with $6m themselves to fund their synthetic tracks. RACE - forget it - just put a new fibre cable into Foxton! CJC - ........

What species of Piroplasmid were they infected with? Forget that question - found it in the original article - Theileria equi

They made those decisions, in my opinion, because they are an entity that has no accountability structure - checks and balances (see post on Gallops forum) and they operate in a protected market position in NZ. Put it another way they are not subject to scrutiny of being either a Crown Entity or Corporation that has shareholders. This "new" leadership isn't NEW! They have all been in and around racing administration for decades. They were appointed in December 2018 on the Ministerial Advisory Committee and then created the jobs for themselves on the RITA Board. That's 18 months! WTF have they been doing? It took a viral kick in the arse to get them doing something! It seems they were winging it having brought into the Racefield's Legislation pot of gold that in reality doesn't exist and/or will take at least another 1 to 2 years to show any results!'

Here is the 2015 Offshore Sports and Racing Betting Working Group report. A lazy read on a wet Sunday - 67 pages. If you want to cut to the chase then flick through to page 40. Note a lot of the assumptions are based on the estimate that NZer's bet in excess of $1b per annum overseas with overseas operators. I find that hard to believe as it would be roughly 50% more than what the NZ TAB turnover was in 2015. Working Group - Final Report October 2015.pdf

Definitely NOT an underestimate. The DIA figures of potential revenue were substantially lower than the TAB's. The point is it is, and always has been, a smokescreen to excuse the poor management. No where near as much as we are led to believe. Easily fixed anyway and that is provide a more attractive and easily accessible product. The NZ TAB has done the opposite and now want further monopoly powers to force us to use their lower quality product at higher prices than their competitors.

They didn't pass the law to stop little old NZ - they had bigger fish to fry! We were just the little fry caught up with the big fish. Surely you mean revenue? If it was turnover then it was only worth about $150k to NZ in revenue terms. If it was $1m in revenue then losing that is hardly going to break the bank when it 6 weeks they were $26m behind in paying suppliers!

Not entirely correct either. Any overseas operator can take bets from Australia but they have to have a license to do so. I suppose the NZ TAB could set up a company in Australia but then they would have to pay tax which they don't do in NZ. The other aspect to this is that in our arrogance we believe that Australian Punters want to bet on our product......

Would be great to see the half yearly report to see how much revenue was being generated. You also have to understand that it cuts both ways. Why do we need legislation? Another question that I have is if there is such a big loss of revenue why hasn't the Lotteries Commission got onto it?

20 December 2019 The Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) has entered into a deal with international sports betting and gaming company, GVC Holdings, who trade under the Ladbrokes and Neds brands to show New Zealand thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing on its digital platforms across Australia. “Ladbrokes are one of the world's biggest gambling organisations and have a significant presence across Australia, providing great opportunity to showcase New Zealand racing. “This means we have about 80 percent of the Australian online bookmaker market now contributing back to the New Zealand Racing industry,” says TAB General Manager, Media and International Andy Kydd. “As with Sportsbet, the new deal will involve them taking live vision of all three codes of New Zealand racing, and the TAB’s long-term broadcast and wagering partner in Australia Tabcorp will facilitate the delivery of the vision. “Once again, this is about us securing new revenues in the diverse Australian market through voluntary commercial agreements, and supports our ambition to expand the reach of live NZ racing vision across different, growing platforms in that market,” says Kydd.

Wrong.

China needs you.

But the only way it could be transferred between a horse and a dog is by the Tick vector or dirty needles. You would have expected the mare to be displaying some signs of infection. I'd say a false positive. Aren't imported mares from Europe kept in quarantine for a period of time?

Well I bet MPI don't take the Mycoplasma cull the herd approach of that's the case.

Hertz has filed for bankruptcy.

The vector for transmission is a Tick. Supposedly we don't have them in NZ. So the most likely reason is that the first test results were false negatives before it arrived OR the latest tests are false positives.

That's where they say they are

Both trained at Matamata

WTF has "landscaping" got to do with racing? Sorry but most clubs don't have the excess funds to prune roses like they do at Ellerslie!

There must be a PGF application in the system for the Cambridge synthetic track. How do we get a copy? There has to be a cost/benefit analysis for PGF funding!

Who was advising him? Who has been the GM of Wagering and new Products for the last 5 years at most?

Are you sure? That's 3 a month!

It did especially when you consider that if ALL the budgeted meetings had gone ahead there wasn't any money to pay the stakes! Huey would you let your high priced yearling that you just bought at Karaka be trained on the Synthetic Track in its first 2 years of operation? From what I've read they need to be micro-managed on a daily basis relative to environmental conditions.

The Minister of Racing said the following when announcing the emergency package: Compelling arguments exist behind synthetic race tracks because they reduce the number of cancelled events due to weather or poor surfaces. For example in the 2018 year there were 32 races abandoned which cost the industry millions of dollars. 32 races abandoned? Isn't that about 4 race meetings maximum? How did the abandonment of those meetings "cost the industry millions"? Bear in mind they budgeted for abandonments.