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Breeding is also wrong and not standing at Waikato Stud

You have to be wary with AI, quite often gets it wrong, eg 3. **Cool Aza Beel** (Savabeel - Miss Delighted) * **Purchase:** 2020 NZB Karaka Book 1. Bought for **NZ$400,000** (a joint-venture with Brendan and Jo Lindsay). * **Achievement:** Won the New Zealand Derby (G1). Standing at **Waikato Stud**, his success is a direct product of Ellis buying a top Savabeel colt.

All the more reason they should get creative and have a whole range of food trucks on course. Knowing how negative people are in racing, I'm sure they will find a reason not to. Imagine, Ellerslie could turn both Boxing Day and New Years Day infield into a race day food truck extravaganza. Every gourmet food, different ethnic food you could think of. Might even be worth going, maybe not, might run into the Dog, that would spoil it lol

Better than a stale ham sandwich

Well done, a bit of innovative thinking there. They could also extend the packages to the less formal situations like the outdoor picnics. There are lots of top-quality food trucks around these days that would love to get the opportunity to provide food on a racecourse

Year Stake No of starters 2018 100k 8 2019 100k 13 2020 100k 14 2021 110k 12 2022 140k 7 2023 175k 8 2024 175k 8 2025 175k 7

And they do a very poor job of it; in fact you could not call it competing. This is when it all started to go wrong in the 1990's when others started actively competing for the entertainment/hospitality dollar. The whole concept of a 'day at the races' is a very attractive proposition, but you have to actively market that to the general unwashed, not just for 6 weeks, but year in year out

Abit roughhouse, now there is a name from the past. I recall you did indeed run a lot of competitions. That was in the days when comps were not deemed important to chat sites, so you usually got the bum's rush from his nibs if things went wrong lol I think these days they add a bit of light relief to the sterner world of vigorous debate. I recall when I was helping Chief Stipe (CS) with the site when it was first set up, we ran a comp and within 2 weeks of starting the site, we got 38 entrants. I recall it vividly, as someone commented on it.

We have one loss of traction and it usually means the meeting is called off, not that I am saying that is wrong. How often in the past have slips, loss of traction etc etc been undetected or overlooked.

You have to remember the bar has been raised substantially with the H&S legislation and the improved video coverage on social media. Everyone is an expert on tracks now

I think the term Red Neck Cafe is apt

Still a hard road, that Aus market is very hard to break into. Don't quote me, but I think many of the other NZ trainers that have gone over there have taken several years to make their mark as they establish the contacts and clientele

Pathetic aren't they, then again Herlihy on the FB site is not much better, questioning the integrity of the stipes is getting onto dangerous ground. Just keep it ticking CS, some nice numbers of people who read the threads, and with all the other things planned................

How long before sports want more?

Anyway, we don't really know. What we do know, is that a lot more people are using the 2 TAB apps to bet on sports. It is good exposure that racing has to try and find a way of leveraging into