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I agree that the race was a very bad look for the industry. anyone who says it wasn't is denying the obvious. When your driving such a high profile horse,paying a $1.40 ,you have a responsibilty to put your horse in the race when they are running times slower than they run at the workouts.. Non win trotters go faster mid race at auckland than they did in that race. Yet the driver of the best 3 year old in nz chose to give his horse no chance of winning,because he apparantly is more interested in next week. Greg o'connor making excuses for the drive after the race was a bit of a laugh moment as well. mr o'connor must know people watching aren't that stupid.Horses aren't going to have a hard run if the driver moves up and sits parked for the last round when they are running a 1/4 in 33 seconds. Non win trotters do it easily. at least the whale seemed to have a more tranparent view,pointing out the race was a $60,000 race.

The junior drivers premiership is an interesting contest. The tab has wilson hose as the favorite at $2.10 from carter dalgety at $2.40. harrison orange is at $8. Sam thornley is at $4.50. Last month i had thought harrison orange was a good chance of winning,but he doesn't get the same opportunities numbers wise,so in reality its hard to see him winning the title. I think he may be employed by the purdon/phelan training partnership,but they only give him 1 drive a week if hes lucky. I suppose you can understand that as z butcher and c hackett have done the hard yards working for that stable and drive very well,but nevertheless i'm surprised the purdon/phelan stable hasn't taken better advantage of the half penalty wins for their owners while orange is still eligible for them. Actually i think the telfer stable in the North island would win a lot more races if they had h orange driving for them as there number 1 drivera,but i doubt that will happen as they too seem loyal,which i can understand on one hand,but i can't on the other.J dickie is a good driver and i think he may have driven 5 winners in a night not that long ago,but personally i'm not his biggest fan. That stable also has a harrison who is quite capable and the lady from russia started off well,but just seems to lack confidence to show any aggression,so isn't going too good recently. so as far as the junior title goes,i really can't see C dalgety getting beaten and i'm surprised hes still paying $2.40. The trainers title is interesting. M house seems to be on a mission to win that this year.The season is only 2 1/2 months old and already house has 39 wins,which when you comapre it with his 65 wins in the whole of last year,shows he is going to be tough to catch. Hes been having a lot of new horses come into his stable recently and hes doing well as always. personally i would like to see him win as i think he contributes the most to the sport in nz. Interestingly the tab still has the dunns as the favorites.House is currently 25 wins in front of them. I know the dunn stable has stables in both islands,so maybe they will catch up. One thing i have noticed in the last 3 weeks is the improvement in the form of their higher grade horses. The likes of Double time,dalton shard,dancetilldawn,bryces medel all have turned there form around in the last couple of starts so maybe they are going to get on a roll. There lower grade horses have been ticking away without those signs of improvement recently,so maybe they will have a pick up in form as well.They have malakai as a hot favorite in the first tommorrow night. I had thought he may be worth a $ and expected a price around $4,but the $2 price hes currently paying seems like one of those bets where the return doesn't warrant the risk.Maybe the whales tipped him?

I suppose this is still valid . I happened to read it just before, when looking up a separate issue i was discussing with someone. Under general terms and conditions of holding a tab account 6.1 you acknowledge that the laws of overseas jurisdiction prohibits tab from offering wagering services to persons physically located in those jurisdictions. 6.2. you expressly agree that you will not place a bet nor otherwise use your account while you are physically located in australia,singapore or ireland.

Just watching rfk jnr. interestingly he was saying all the heads of his agencies have said the chickens should not be vaccinated,because if you use a vaccine that is not sure to protect the birds against the disease, you turn those flocks into possible mutation factories which may end up with something that is much more likely to jump to other species. He said most of his scientiests are against the culling of flocks that suffer infections,saying instead the best strategy is to isolate the sick flocks,treat them with theraputics and let the disease go through the flocks and the birds that survive,identify their gentetics and in the future those birds with those genetics should be the ones that are bred from.. He said the reason bird flu doesn't have the same effect on the wild population of birds is because the wild birds have evolved to being the ones that have the genetics to not be effected by the virus. He also went on to say,as far as the theraputics being given to sick birds,if they could identify the theraputics that worked on the chickens that would be a good starting point to identifying the theraputics which work best on humans who get infected. also he said chicken farns should be trying to avoid allowing wild birds to drop in and mingle with chicken flocks. Apparently you can get just one duck swooping in for a quick feed and it possible that one bird could lead to a whole chicken flock being infected. he said 166 million chickens have been culled in the usa since the latest outbreak about 18 months ago. nothing to do with harness racing,but nonetheless, i thought it interesting and seems such a logical approach.

i don't think he would have been intending to help his father on this occasion.i know in the past he has been put out for a couple of dodgy drives,but i don't think that was one. Just the way it turned out.Monaro meg had its chance.Just turned it cost him a higher placing.When i bet on a d ferguson drive,i know he may sometimes pull the wrong rein or go too hard or too slow if in front. Actually,if you had watched monaro megs videos when racing in the south island,its best races have been when coming up the inside,so i do see why you thought it odd he came out .t Actually manawatu is one of those tracks that you do see a lot of odd driving. W house in the last race went on the inside after 200m when it seemed the wrong thing to do. Then came out 400m later but 1 position further back. Manawatu isn't a track where you want to get stuck 4 back the fence,but he drives a lot of winners there. H orange and p ferguson are the drivers in the best form at the moment up there in my opinion. C hackett also driving well.

ok,worldpools are obviously always going to be larger than non-world pools.Why,because those races got greater exposure. perhaps best to stick to nz harness racing and how sky racing coverage exposure on saturday effected turnover on the invercargill trots. i don't have the nz tote pools,but they always follow the patterns of tabcorp nsw turnover pools. the first 4 races at invercargill had sky racing channel 2 coverage. They had the 4 highest turnover races on the nsw tabcorp,with the largest win pool being 5113 on race 2 ,the non win pace. the remaining races,races 5-10,had no aussie sky racing coverage whatsoever,they were the 6 lowest win pool turnovers on the day,with 2527 being the highest.. at new plymouth gallops ,the first 4 races were on sky channel 1 and the last 4 on sky channel 2. The races with the two highest turnovers were shown on sky channel 1.

Not sure whether you can answer this one,but do the race meetings you go to,if any,still provide terminals where you can place a cash bet with an operator. I read a couple of months ago that tabcorp victoria was not going to be providing that service anymore at most of their race meetings on all 3 codes in victoria.The gallops lobbied the state government for tabcorp to provide the cash terminals on raceday,but the state government said tabcorp didn't have to provide on course betting terminals. the gallops victoria then came to an agreement to have 140 race meetings in the year covered. tabcorp lost over a billion a year ago and apparently theyre not providing some traditional services to cut costs. the article i read said the taking away of on course terminals was likely to occur in other states in the not too distant future. Imagine that. you go on holiday in australia,go the races and won't be able to place a bet on course.

so how does that work? if say your in australia on holiday,can you put a bet on your nz tab account? If the proposed geo blocking the nz government is considering eventuates,,so they stop nz punters betting on australiain betting agencies,does that mean new zealanders in nz can't bet can't bet on say tabcorp. For example i have a tabcorp account mainly because their website is so much more user firiendly,just a lot better than the nz tab one. just easier to look at.It also has all the replays available of the nz harness races about the same time each race is confirmed,long before they are on the hrnz website and you can view videos of each starters previous nz harness starts on the tabcorp website to help you make selections if you wish. having said that,tabcorp would the worst company to deal with, i've ever experienced in my lifetime. Easy enough to set up an account,but when i first made a little bit of money and tried to sort out how to withdraw it it took about 3 months,hundreds of phone calls,hundreds of emails to get them to help. I even complained to an australain federal agency and they were absolutely no help whatsover, as they said it was a tabcorp issue,not covered by them. They never once replied to emails,phone calls,eventually after months of trying ,i wrote them a letter comnplaining and they contacted me. Tabcorp truly the pits as far as customer service went. I only persevered at the time because i wanted my money out. I still have have a tabcorp account as well as a nz tab one and bet solely on nz harness,not much on the tabcorp one due to the pool size,but just to spread some bets due to the nz pools being too small sometimes,thus efffecting prices.Are the nz government propsoing to stop that Would that mean if i was in ausssie the only betting i could do on nz harness would be through the tabcorp account? brodie,if you can't bet on nz racing as you suggest,do you find a way around that.

Well your above comment is a total contradiction. Your saying the pools were big because the pools coverage was wordwide,but the tv coverage being world wide made no difference to the pools "per se". I will stand on my head when i read that next time to see if that makes more sense. The whole world pool thing is just an extension of the very argument i'm putting forward. I'm arguing the principle of Greater coverage leads to greater turnovers. That principle applies to a dog race at dubbo on a monday afternoon,a harness race at manawatu on a tuesday evening or a gallops race at ellerslie on a saturday afternoon. Maximise the timeslots that you get greatest pre race lead in coverage on any given day/night nz harness are held and you maximise the turnovers.I've previously suggested targeting the harness jackpots with the carry forward money into those timeslots and you get big pools.The proofs always there if you follow the data. I have given the data above as to why western australia recognise why its so important.

Anyone who has any doubts about what i say about timeslots and pre race coverage being the main factor in turnover,just has to look at saturdays ellerslie meeting for proof. Its such an obvious thing. On saturday, in australia ,they had really good sky channel one, pre race lead in coverage for races 5-10. So how did that impact turnover. Well races 1-4 the win pools on the commingled nz tab,were between 25,000-41,000 and race 10 was $56,000. So what difference did the pre race sky coverage make,well the win pools on races 5-9 were between $660,000 and near 1.1 million. Now if the group ones were the reason for the jump by between $600,000 to million more per race,then why was race 4's group one turnoover only $41,000. its obvious the answer is, because that group 1 didn't get the same sky coverage in australia. as i always say about tabcorp ,their win pools reflected the nz tab turnovers. Tabcorps win pools for races 1-4 were between $6,000-12,000 and race 10 was $25,000. Races 5-9 were between $610,000 and 1 million..

no,didn't see that race,but do remember seeing videos ofpreux chavaliar bowing his head as he ran around sometimes.There was one nz trainer who didn't put overchecks on his horses who trained a small team in nz not long after. Not sure,maybe tank ellis,although i may have the wrong name there. Emma stewarts horses are so well mannered,especially for young horses and most seem to have no overcheck like you say. personally, i've always thought the less gear the better.My thoughts may not be the norm,but they are what i think. i believe most don't need overchecks,although they seem to need them when they are learning.Just depends on the horse.I don't believe poles should be needed,but having said that i know the all stars loved putting them. I don't believe in hopple shorteners either. I've found the first 20m you may be a 1m slower,but your horse will accelerate quicker after 30-40m and that will be more of an advantage.Definetly don't believe in prickers.I do believe in using ear plugs. Hoods i know work,but you should be able to get a change in mindset through alternative training. boots i believe every time.anyways,thats my thoughts about gear.

i think we've all read forburys posts before and know hes just sounding off,ofteh based on just one or two drives hes observed on any specific punting day. Where forbury possibly goes wrong, is he indicates that those drives are the overall norm for the people hes moaning about. We all know the people hes refered to are viewed as successful and capable. No denying he may be a bit extreme in his comments,but i think newmarket has the right approach,just realise that its something forbury does every now and again and anyone responding by calling him names is an indication your taking him too seriously and not understanding him. actually,sometimes i wonder where he gets to. Reading his latest post ,is actually nice to see he's still out there somewhere. Also,the people he commented on today in his post, if you watch their drives,both had days they would rather forget with some tactically average drives ,which punters would have been disappointed in. But thats racing,today things not so good,tomorrow another day and maybe back on top. Hopefully forbury has better luck on the punt on the second day.

In my opinion the breeders bonuses actually contributed to the reduction in small breeder numbers. The breeders bonuses were targeted at the high profile and commercial breeding operations and showed the small time breeders,that they weren't valued. Small time breeders may individually be insignificant,but collectively they are very significant. and who provides the horses in the grades that generate the most turnover ,mostly the small time breeders. Once people get rid of their mares,they aren't coming back. the industry has prioritised the commercail breeders who place far more emphasis on profit/loss. So when the industry starts cutting stakes,which is inevitable in 5 years or so,the commercial breeders will assess their investment and make decisions accordingly. And the hobby breers who were the back bone of breeders,who did it more for enjoyment than profit/loss,well they won't be there in enough numbers. so once hrnz face reality and realise entain aren't able to provide the current amount for stakes,they will dip into their reserves from the likes of the forbury sale. That will temporarily placate those left,then we will see people in administration moving on to greener pastures before the s... hits the fan. Of course we also have the ongoing fiscally unsustainable hrnz policy of trying to prop up racing at alexandra park. Everyone can see racing at alexandra park ,with their preferential stakes,will come to a point when reality kicks in. i was watching mr wonderful,kevin o'leary commenting on businesses that need restructuring and overhauling. He said he had been involved in large numbers of this type of thing. He said the worst thing those running a business can do is make small insignificant cuts and changes to right the ship. He said you should do it once and hard. well HRNZ seem to be taking the approach kevin o'leary said is the worst thing to do.

as i and many others predicted some time ago,the latest breeding figures for the season just gone,showed a significant drop in mares being bred. Down 12% to 1552. The HRNZ press release indicates hrnz isn't too good at maths either. They say the total number of mares bred was 1552,then say "trotting mares stable at around 500 and pacing mares down 200 from 135". well 500 + 1151 =1651. not 1552. . "It is evident the smaller breeders are especially reducing their numbers." No kidding mr steele! Then he says"our surveys show that there is confidence in the future of our sport,and that is crucial". Well your surveys may show confidence ,but the breeding figures obviously don't. Like i have said many times before,Industry leaders obviously are out of touch and in reality have been selective in who they talk to. Oh,and those bonuses that they told us would encourage breeders to breed their mares,that gets a f for fail from that perspective.

Not ripped off by betcha. Treated generously by the tab policy. Sounds like many happy bit of a yarn posters after delightful peg won.

thats what i thought,but someone told me they got paid out.surprised them as well.Perhaps thats a benefit of being an elite customer.

last week there was a decision in the case involving a trainer mistakenly getting the identity of a couple of his horses mixed up, which most likely would have been avoided had the trainer had the option of freeze branding his horse,instead of micro chipping. the hearing accepted david mccormick had no intention whatsoever to deceive anyone but fined him $600 .When the horse was first presented at the trials the stipes pointed out the micro chip reader was saying the number was 1 out . Mccormick believed the error would have been made as a result of some sort of clerical error and elected to start his horse,seemingly sure in his belief that he had not confused two fillies he had, some time prior to working them. It was suggested the most reliable way for trainers to avoid such a mix up,is for trainers to purchase a micro chip reader These seem to cost somewhere between $100 and close to $500,depending on how good a scanner you want. previously i have started a topic,asking why NZ horse owners/breeders don't have the option of freeze branding their horses. After all,you can freeze brand in the USA and canada.costs about another $50 , about 1/4 of harness horses in the usa are still freeze branded.Some like jeff gural both freeze brands and micro chips each horse,due to caring about where they may end up atfter their racing career. Amish owned horses make up a large portion of the freeze branded horses each year.Their religious beliefs around chips is the main reason they choose to freeze brand instead of chip.Amish have a lot of ex harness horse,using them to transport them around . animal welfare issues are a reason rescue organisations who advocate for harness horses after racing, have been particularly vocal around retainhg freeze branding. They say ex racehorses who could be saved or rehomed if they were identifiable at the sales where many are sent to be slaughtered,but due to how they are often housed pre sale,can not be easily scanned and identified as harness horese. The amish apparently don't like buying them at sales if no brand. It does make you wonder ,is part of the reason their is no longer a freeze brand option,to avoid the attention the industry may get from animal welfare groups,if they were to find out exactly what happens to so many racehorses when they are no longer viable racing propositions.you would think that should have been in the back of the minds as a consequence of those who made the decision not to continue with an option of freeze branding. Personally i've always thought theres something not quite right,in implanting a chip in an animal,when there is another option that does the same thing.

The tab would have paid you the full amount on delightful peg,even though it dead heated. $21 to win seemed amazing ff dividend considering it had run 2nd at its previous start in a 1.54.9 mile rate,beating home kourtney kardash,classie linc and shakira. That appeared the strongest form reference of any runner in yesterdays a 0-1 win,3yo filly race.She seemed to get a bit lost when she hit the front easily at the top of the straight and then fought hard when the other horse closed near the finish. actually the tab also seem to pay out ff bets even when a horse gets disqualified/relegated for galloping. they are a couple of things the tab do that treat their punters well.

The latest press release says "hrnz is urging a change of mindset around racing young horses." from 1 october 2025,yearlings can go to the trials,although they won't race until they are at least 2"...."so it isn't a major change" now when alan clark was fined $200 18 months ago, for starting his yearling at a workout in september,the decision on the riu website said clark started his horse,massive merc "prior to the permitted time being 1 october 2023". later that decision said this "rule 402 provides:no horse under the age of two years shall compete in any race(except that nothing in this rule precludes a horse being entered and started in a workout or trial after 1 october in the year before it becomes a 2 year old under rule 401). so,ive read this lastest HRNZ press release and it appears Mr peden is saying that its new for yearlings to be able to trial after 1 october,when in fact they can do that already. Wouldn't it be a basic thing,that the fella coming up with the strategy to create bonuses and encourage 2 year old racing, actually fully understood the topic and the rules hes talking about first?. I've read the full press release and things he said later in the press release, seem to ignore other obvious factors which he doesn't seem to factor into his thinking.

I think your nit picking. I'm just stating facts. if your interpreting those facts as bad news,then you must think its bad news i suppose. I previously posted the expected global profit for 2024 a few months back. you seem to be suggesting the stock price from 5 years ago and 6 monhs ago that you posted is more relevant than the 3 year,1 month and 1 week figures i posted? You can focus on whatever figures you want to,either way,its up to you. i think the key resignations at entain and the fact entain may be in for some huge fines in australia ,was relevant to the topic discussed in earlier posts on this thread. Thats what we do isn't it?

the entain australia resignations reportedly had something to do with the australian authorities investigating entain over non compliance/money laundering. its been reported Entains australian board of senior management did not keep appropriate oversight of its anti money laundering programme,which interfered with its ability to identify money laundering exploitation of their betting sites". Apparantly the people who resigned are both going to get jobs in the nz thoroughbred racing industry. .a couple of months ago austrac(the australian money laudering investigative agency) issued a press release about their investigation into entain. In it they referenced crown being ordered by the federal court to pay $450 million in penalties over 2 years in 2023 and skycity being ordered to pay $63 million in penalties last year. crown was sold by packer to USA private equity giant blackstone. Not to be confused with blackrock,and has nothing to do with jason bournes blackbriar. I did like the bourne legacy movies. so entain may be in a bit of trouble if that press realease is anything to go by. I'm going to be doing my bit to help entain avoid prosecution in nz.. I've told the wife to wear sunglasses and a balaclava when deposting money into my account at the local tab,from now on. But seriously,does not sound too good for entain if they are putting those details in a press release about entain. Entain globally did report a net loss in 2023 of 936 million pounds after having to pay 585 million pounds to relating to some bribery in turkey. they did make 19 million the year before.... apparantly over the last 3 years entain shares have dropped 56%,but they went up 9% last month,based on the expectation 2024 went well,but was down 3 % this week. They are actually reporting there 2024 financial report in a couple of days.

You start off your post by saying you dunno where mikeynz got his figures from,doubting there accuracy,then ended your post refering to mikeynz as the tote police,seemingly acknowledging you knew where mikeynz would have got his figures from. Interesting. Seems to infer you are saying " owners/trainers get paid" is higher priority than what you describe as mikeynz's "Shit" to say both races run at a loss. i had thought both would be important factors for the industry. You elevating one so far over the other. Again interesting. So currently having skin in the game,you believe is a neccessity to express an opinion that fiscal responsibilty is important in the industry?Interesting. you know what i find interesting about your post....its that in my reply i keep using the word interesting. Mikeynz wasn't quoting the fixed odds component of the betting. But now you've brought up the fixed odds portion of betting on harness racing,it would be nice if you could refer us to where we find specific fixed odds turnovers/profit/loss on each race ,because as you infer,that will be an important component in the industry generating income to provide stakes. for the sake of transparency,shouldn't the tab provide such information. I remember they used to have a news portion on the hrnz website where the tab gave highlights of bets won and loss,profit and loss on races at meetings. That only went for a few months then disappeared. As to the sports betting. i think you raise an important point. that is the contribution sports betting turnover makes to racings income. are you able to explain what % harness racing gets,or perhaps give us say the 2023,2024 and projected 2025 figures? Otherwise is all simply,someone saying something, but withholding the exact details from interested parties. Its something that could be used positive by the the tab,but they don't. Whay is that. as to the warriors big loss being profitable for the nz tab. Fiar enough,but like i say,specifics on how that helps the nz harness racing industry would be nice. also,just because there is sports betting,does not mean the bookies will make a profit each year.For example the latest nfl season in america saw many huge betting agencies worldwide suffer big losses due to the unusually high percentage of favorites that won their games.Impacted entains share price as well.

fair enough. I didn't see him that way. I always thought he was approachable and more in touch with the cross section of harness racing participants that make up the industry.. Far more so than what i see is happening currently,in my opinion. I had thought he had said whip use may be fazed out in time but supported the whip being used only 10 times in the last 400m. He gave the impression he fully supported efforts to stop anyone,no matter how high profile,using performance enhancers.He deserved much credit for wanting honesty.Shame the trainers all got tipped off before the police raids regarding the blue magic.Thats another story,but its pathetic when people criticised officials for keeping things close to their chest when the inca raids happended. I always found his move to head of greyhound racing was so ironic. Quite sensibly,while at hrnz he was consistent about animal welfare and the need for the industry to have an appreciation of the publics perceptions as regards that. Then ,there he was a couple of years ago,taking up the job as head at nz greyhound,leading an industry which i thought he should have recognised already appeared to have sealed their own fate through endless bad story after bad story around animal welfare. the irony is,the man who clearly cared about animal welfare,is now downplaying animal welfare concerns in the industry he leads.He must have known that all the really bad animal welfare stories from the greyhound industry originated from the people who still dominate the sport. And he must have known about the stats around other factors like injuriies. Anyways,theres an irony there. i wonder if he had thought about it. Just as theres an irony to point out that the racing indyustry he lead,has similar animal welfare issues,because he woould know,because he used to head up HRNZ. . Hes arguing he can clean up the greyhound industry.When he points to the harness industry as being proof they still have animal welfare issues,then doesn't he realise,it surely would be fair to ask,well if you didn't fix that when you were there,so why would anyone expect you to do any better at the greyhounds.

Theres a story on the nz herald website where edward rennell is interviewed by michael morrah. The reporter specifically asks about mr rennells strategy of comparing,as much as he can, the number of greyhound racing injury stats,to other racing codes,specifically harness racing was mentioned. Mr Rennells answer was "theres a lot more transparency around our reporting. What i would say is the level of euthanasias in greyhound racing is lower than the racing euthanasia rates in the equine codes. Now i'm not saying their rates are unacceptable,but i dont believe ours is either." Then he was asked,"what about injuries,are more horses injured than greyhounds" mr rennell.....'i would argue a lot of them(horse) are not reported" My take on watchiing that interview is,i get what hes saying,but surely the question he should be asking himself is,will such consistent public comments advance in any way, his attempt to overturn the greyhound ban. In my opinion,very obviously not. When winston peters announced the reasons for the closure of the greyhound after 1 august 2026,winston peters specifically referred to the unacceptable level of greyhound injuries. Well someone needs to tell mr rennell,that saying the horse racing indusrrty is just as bad,if not worse,doesn't change whats been happening in the greyhound industry . and someone needs to tell mr rennell that whats been happening in the greyhound industry, is the basis for the closure decision. i think,mr rennell is adopting a lose/lose strategy. Lose,for the greyhound industry and lose for the horse racing industry as the likes of safe and some of the public will form opinions based on rennells comments about horse racing. Personally i find it bemusing that a former head of harness racing nz would think hes somehow helping his cause,by negatively impacting the public perception of the sport he used to be in charge of. I had thought it had been a bit disappointing to see limited support from the horse racing codes to the plight of the greyhound participants and their dogs,but really,given mr rennells comments,why would they support him i suppose. Actually ,i've previously started topics on the fate of many of the horses when they are no longer in training.I know if you drive around the countryside,if you gave it some thought,you would note ,not just racehorses,but all horse numbers seem to be on the decline. I have previously commented on just how hard and unrealistic it is for someone to even find suitable reasonably priced grazing,for their horses.Rehoming places say ,anything aged over 12 they don't take. And i have commented on the feedback i have encountered from people who you approach about grazing a horse.It really is a major issue,that sadly most people just ignore and give little thought to. As far as the greyounds go,i read last month New south wales had a bill proposing banning greyhound racing going through the government process. All depends on the politicians i suppose,they have just had a commission of inquiry into the sport,again. Actually,i read recently that a prominent nsw greyhound person wasn't happy about how much they were spending on rehoming the nsw greyhounds in the usa. NSW,like NZ can't find enough homes for them so send them to be rehomed in the usa. The person from NSW had commented that greyhound NSW was spending about $6 million a year rehoming their dogs in the USA.

Jackpots are defintely a factor that can boost turnover and engage punter participation.I believe your on the right track. The key,in my opinion,is combining jackpots with optimum timeslots and optimum pre race sky tv exposure. reality is ,nz harness struggle to get good timeslots and good pre race sky tv coverage and they always will. Thats why,jackpotting funds should be applied very strategically,when the factors i mention are in play. A very important factor in jackpotting pools,is having an understanding of exactly who and what country are the punters from,who invest. for example,someone at the tab/entain should have the data indicating exactly how much is from nz punters and how much comes from austalian punters. I believe the australian punter component, is a very important component , leading to big pools, in jackpots. Its a basic,that first you have to understand who and where the punters are,who are betting into these pools,as without that understanding you willnever maximise jackpots potential. and its a basic,that you have to understand what time of day is the timelsot that generates highest turnover. Any administrator who claims "high class racing content"is the driving force behind increasing turnover",simply is illustrating just how ignorant they are. Those in charge should be getting advice that enables them to come across as at least having some knowledge of the topics they are making decisions on. not that long ago i started a topic on how to increase turnover through strategic use of jackpotting funds on first 4 pools and when they should occur. Yesterday,on a low key thursday,provided yet another example of proof of what i said. Race 9 at winton. A 7 horse(including 2 first starters), 0-1 win 3 year old race. The first 4 jackpotting pool of $7,000 went to $35,000 and on the same race, the nsw tabcorp first 4 pool went from $800 to $4500.