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Personally not that disappointed with the result , Telfer's sneaking closer in the premiership but I'm expecting a big weekend for the 88's. You could also say David Butcher was a tad unlucky with Whitfield. Small fields on tight tracks always very tactical.

The behavior in the last 5 year's has improved significantly, restricting alcohol purchases and police numbers has had a very positive effect on crowd behavior.

To be fair to HRNZ they don't promote anyone else putting out any sort of content, why because it shows up the pathetic job they are doing. When did they last promote ownership, The new ceo has talked of upping the game so we will wait and see I'm really hoping he doe's Our industry simply doesn't exist without volunteers so piss enough of them off and have no industry, today's rant over. I'm Off to Methven tonight for another meeting.

Over 500 people into Syndicates with absolutely no take out most of which are new to racing, interviewing owners when did you last see that on trackside, volunteers at over 70 meetings as an official every year Methven and Addington, videos from other meetings probably 40 , chairman of the Canterbury Trotting Owners Association, every Saturday videoing from somewhere, taking BBQ to stable day's and Owners BBQ at all Methven meetings, yet HRNZ does exactly nothing to promote me , sour grapes no, Make them look stupid yes , paid for anything no any sponsorship I get goes straight back into industry.Thank you IRT and BetaVet. Why them do it , I love horse's and the people of our industry. Working on a few things at moment including Owners for the day which I have run in the past, continue promoting ownership in Omakau where we give away shares in my Syndicates , yip costs me money. Then theirs my wife who does exactly the same, so will ungrateful people beat me out of this industry, no chance.

Outstanding idea , I've been jotting down a few ideas which I thought I'd share with hrnz but I seriously think I'd be wasting my time so I think I'll go directly to the club's.

Friday night coverage is 1000 % better than what we have become accustomed to but if we what to encourage ownership how about we start seeing some. The big syndicate in Dalton Shard were a great advert to ownership if only we got to see them, better still we could even talk to them.

Always great in a interview, probably one of the lightest male drivers around.

Recently visited Rangiora on a Saturday and was surprised by the number of thoroughbreds that do use the track.

Ashburton is already a training center, currently expanding.

Betting figures will tell you our best betting races have over 10 starters unfortunately Cambridge and Auckland struggle to attract those numbers but if you like betting into 6 horse fields and two dollar favorites with small exotic pools knock yourself out.

Where was the owners representative in that group, with owners views, yip most in that group own horse's but how many pay to have them trained and race them , again the forgotten majority.

Uhinged owners experience, currently done in conjunction with Omakau Trotting Club 12 people walk away with a share in syndicate resulting in alot of their friends joining up , should be done at every meeting maybe not 12 people but watch this space, tours of the Stables guided by CTOA Starting soon at Addington ,i could keep going HRNZ had a group of people working on owners promotions which included myself and Jess Davidson but stopped when Jess left , get her back.

Every meeting at Methven puts approximately 80,000 back into the industry less trackside costs which I don't know. Every meeting at Methven now puts on owners/trainers BBQ near the end of the day care of the canterbury Trotting owners Association, irt UNHINGED and the club. Not alot of cost, bit of volunteer time alot of happy people who want to come back.

Start by stop treating owners as an inconvenience on Raceday, make it the best experience they have ever had oncourse. Put our money where we get the best bang for our buck, grass track meeting's in Canterbury. Cut expenses don't make me race outside of our own locality. Spread the love first win bonuses, pretty simple worked before. 2yr old entain bonus 3yr old 10,000 minimum to winner 4yr old 15, 000 5yr old and older 20,000 The cost to get your first win is way greater than any of these figures but will have owners and trainers chasing them. As John Dunn told me the top looks after itself.

As an owner why would you have a horse if you can't be there to watch it . Southland are definitely on a hiding to nothing with there dates, maybe they could use some of that Forbury money to get some lights and run some meetings twilight when working owners can attend. P.s don't run them at night in winter.

For at least the last ten years that I have been going to Woodend I have never seen a horse go out without a cover on , winter to keep them warm and dry , summer to keep the sun off with light weight covers.HRNZ visit all Stables regularly, next time you are at any race meeting go and have a close look at their horse's then go find profit and smack him in the nose for publishing utter crap.

Strong recommendations I'd say.

You are right subsidizing is exactly what is going on the problem is what happens in 4yrs time when the guaranteed subsidies stop, do entain go again with an annual 10 mil , is our turnover up enough to generate our own money , are we using any of that 10 million to create sustainable growth? Are there smarter ways of creating a sustainable industry?

How about promoting our product not just to the participants. Highlighting our champions , telling the story of our industry, nah way to simple.

Unfortunately we were sold slot races as being self funding which was never the case , now we have two more on showday which are subsidised even more.

I can tell you when determining punishments they do look at past offenses and how frequently they occur, so you do have to factor into any sentence. Personally I don't know either drivers records.

I can't see any reason you couldn't put a claiming price on any horse in any race .probably not so good for gavelhouse but would definitely spark some interest in ownership which we so badly need.

Take it from me first hand John Dunn is the hardest worker I have ever met. The team Robert Jenna and John have put together just works .On Saturday it's not unusual to be still hobbling them up ar 2.30 they just Don't take short cuts.

Your on the money only looking at nz figures, I'll see if I can get the totals

Unfortunately the betting for these meetings hasn't been good but as you say catering for this class of horse's and their owners is.