Chief Stipe

Not where @Brodie would like it. He has been pipped so many times. He should adjust his Lazy Boy and watch the TV on a better angle.

They're the ones that put the money up for the sweepstake. The owners negotiate how much of the pie they get. Easier if you are negotiating with yourself of course.

Average ticket price?

The latest explanation regarding @Freda 's post doesn't stack up at all.

Ellis owns the slot AND the horse. Which one of the 20+ owners would you want to join him? Perhaps the Syndicate Manager? That would have made a nice picture

Anyone know how Brittany Taylor is after her fall at Ellerslie yesterday? The lack of news isn't a good sign.

Are you OK @Huey or are you citt9ng the hedge now?

We're up for an aftermath and a half if Aftermath wins.

The “Dead Horse Theory” is a satirical metaphor that reflects how some people, institutions, or nations face obvious problems that are impossible to solve, but instead of accepting reality, they cling to justifying them. The core idea is clear: if you find out you're riding a dead horse, the wisest thing to do is to get down and leave it. However, in practice, it is often the opposite. Instead of abandoning the dead horse, measures are taken such as: • Buy a new saddle for the horse. • Improve the horse's feed, even though it is dead. • Change the rider instead of addressing the real problem. • Fire the horse manager and hire someone new, hoping for a different result. • Organize meetings to discuss how to increase the speed of the dead horse. • Create committees or working teams to analyze the problem of the dead horse from all angles. These committees work for months, raise reports, and finally conclude the obvious: the horse is dead. • Justify efforts by comparing the horse to other similar dead horses, concluding that the problem was a lack of training. • Propose training courses for horses, which means increasing the budget. • Redefining the concept of "dead" to convince the horse still has a chance. Lesson Learned: This theory demonstrates how many people and organizations prefer to deny reality and waste time, resources, and effort on useless solutions, rather than accepting the problem from the start and making smarter and more effective decisions.

I bet you've got a dog box!

Where are you moving them to? The living room?

Sacred Satono hasn't won a race in nearly a year. Babylon Berlin has chance. That said in your opinion there is 4 horses in the field that would be hard to beat.

What's you point? Every stud has dud choices. What about the imported sprinter miners that did improve the NZ breed? Although in today's world a NZ Breed is a misnomer given how easy it is to import breeding stock from anywhere and send mares to Australia. They don't need to come over on a boat.

That's not correct. Assuming when you are referring to sales series you mean the race series? Either way the vast majority of horses are NZ bred even though they might be by Australian based sires. The NZ breeding industry would be dead without the importation of new blood.

Sure but your pocket will be disappointed a lot less.

Really? You'd rather be mowing your lawns. But you'd spend a zillion dollars causing the dream of winning an Oaks or a Derby.

The TAB operator at an agency had a little book which he wrote you bet in. It had a carbon copy and you were handed the bet slip which was on yellow paper. Well that's how I remembered it.

I know the TAB pays full Div on Deadheats - Emily said so so it must be true.

Geez Curious how far back to you want to go? Yellow bet slips?

That's your opinion. As for hyping things up I thought the total was $8.25m NOT $9m. $3.5m is Raffle money is it not? At the end of the day that money will be distributed to a lot of owners. An interesting statistic will be how many owners will be rewarded at the end of the day.

I tend to agree. They may not make a profit but turnover will be well up coupled with some great racing from Flemington.

How many of them back up in a week nowadays? Let alone the elephant in the room of backing up on the Ellerslie track!!

Isn't where the money is though. Plus limited opportunities and you can only win very few of them unless you have a Makybe Diva.

5 & 6 6 & 7 ??

Why would that be the only measure of success? There are numerous others that are more relevant.