Sandpiper

First time logging in for months. When youre arguing with people for choosing to leave your site, it probably time to take a look.

I agree wholeheartedly. Whether you love or hate the current bunch, watching sport requires colour commentary. What is this nonsense about only one camera on course???!! Look at how other sports are trending with camera coverage. This is a death knell to viewership. It all smacks of look-after-your-mates-in-the-office at the expense of folks out in the field less able to defend themselves from the poison memos and decisions.

Do RITA include online casinos in their figures? Pokies in the cloud are a big thing

Of course racing gets shyte all from that. Why would it. Someone sold fast horses/horses that might produce fast horses. You don't need a NZ racing industry to breed fast horses. Fortunately the government sees a co-existance if not a synergy and noted that when handing over a bailout. The "few hundred million" is imo a lowball guess of what kiwis might lose to overseas providers betting sports and casinos online over a few years.

I liked the bigger picture talk re racing needing to survive to maintain export earners and jobs. I liked the even bigger picture talk about regulating offshore gambling. Its a devil of a bargain to make against personal liberties, but a few hundred million gaming income from kiwis which can finance various sports including racing and central administration would be transformational. I liked the dunces hat being put on racing administration. Not much reading between the lines needed when half a 50 million dollar bailout goes to pay one overdue supplier bill.

Hard task to measure profitability of bonus bets promo imo. Some winning bonus bets would be withdrawn, sure. But some of those punters will soon deposit again. And perhaps their turnover will be higher for some time thanks to that win. How many additional bets were taken because punters were engaged by the promo? Or shared the promo with friends who created new accounts? How often did punters stick around instead of betting with overseas providers? Did your average 5k p.a. losing punter still find a way to churn their balance to lose the same amount despite getting a few bonus bumps along the way? TAB may have cocked up the accounting but that doesnt mean its a dumb promo. Especially if what they've done is double pay some winners as has been suggested, that could have happened in many other ways too. And the hint at coding faults could indicate a pending claim to be offset against the horrendous website service fees.

Covid will be helping the board wash their hands for years to come

Not going to attract the younger crowd when Guerins smiles and winks will give anyone under 21 nightmares.

Highest prizemoney for maidens, $10k group 1s ☺️

Yes a total waste of funds. Let's reduce all the stakes until all the meetings are 'profitable' by this measure.

Converting a race from handicap to SW&P is designed to retain its status by encouraging higher rated horses to enter, since they are better off at the weights. Can't remember the exact source for that, some article about the Telegraph a couple of years ago. While it can be seen as helping breeders, clubs and anyone else with an interest in races not being downgraded also benefit. Don't see any conspiracy. The format is ok I dislike how it has changed the history of races though and left gaps in the calendar. How many handicaps are there left worth over $50k now up to a mile? Hardly any.

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Just race wild pigs instead. Ill still have a bet

Ah of course thanks Mardi. I made the leap that the author was only using sectional data from previous starts when that wasnt the case. As in "horses projected to be < 3 lengths from the lead'. Amazing that the ROI was so minimal frankly.

What's wrong with the data? Would want to guard against cherry-picking the 3 lengths figure by establishing more of a trend. Seems reasonable on the face of it though. Disclaimer: I have found similar data in NZ using running style profiles rather than sectionals so I'm biased.

Interference, dangerous riding, things such as this need a qualified panel to review the appropriate penalty. Counting beyond 2 and 5 really doesn't. Should just be a simple table outlining the offence and the penalty, with extra dessert for repeat offenders.

Here are the facts. The letter R is the most profitable with a mere -11% loss to level stakes over the past couple of years. The letter L performs well, 4th best at -15%. Certainly you could be outperforming your mates backing either of these two well-performed letters. First time blinkers performers aren't so flash, at -19%. Far better than the letter Q though which sits at a devastating -46% ROI. The most intriguing outcome is the correlation between letters and their scrabble tile value: Clearly what we are seeing here is a subconscious bias on the part of owners and trainers towards giving bad horses 'junky' names in the hope that this will somehow make them more special. Like celebrities who give their children stupid names because they are worried their spawn won't be as special as they themselves have become. Hop on board the scrabble train, what could go wrong.

Sorry to be dumb. How can photographic evidence get planted?

You could try using in landscape orientation & desktop format. Otherwise a different browser might be the best next step. (Try Brave or Firefox imo). Good luck. The website detects your screen size / phone and chooses the 'best' layout to render so ones options are unfortunately limited.

I put her up at $80 on the other site. Just thought the anthropomorphism went a bit extreme, she is after all a racehorse and a reasonably decent one at that.

Her being entitled to race was all I was pointing out CS. She ran like the $80 shot she was. It's somewhat rich to have a go at connections for racing racehorses in horse races they are entitled to race in. You pay your money you take your chance. Aalaalune began well and faded early on in the striaght to faster / fitter / better racehorses. There are plently of horses going around in races they don't have a hope in every raceday. Nothing to see here.

One legnth off NZ best 2yos last year (3 times), suited better by this trip, no need to assume she will get bottomed out if she doesnt get into the race. Are 3yos not allowed to race WFA now?

Its quite simple. If you run a female out of the handicap you forego the 2kg allowance. Thats the system we are in.

I think you are too hung up about rating bands. Horses that are placed out of the handicap (including for the sake of the discussion the 2kg allowance) are done so knowingly by connections. If connections feel hard done due to lack of racing options by that is an issue for race programming nothing to do with any allowance.

Yes I agree with that quote