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No, Huey Lewis and the News hahaha Well, I thought it was funny

NZTR have actually built a brand, quite a nice one too, called Love Racing. But it is intra industry, so largely a waste of time as a promotion of the industry

I've always maintained that the reason racing started to go downhill, has been the lack of concerted marketing and promotion each year, to present racing to each new generation (they have missed 3 now) and build a nationwide brand. It has been happening since the 90's, when sports like rugby, casinos and Lotto started actively marketing their product to the mases to capture that disposable dollar. At the time, it was full on, on what was the only medium, mainstream media Racing never competed to retain their share of the market, that they had a good hold on still in the 90's. Marketing 101, if you don't market and promote your product for 30+ years, you are going to suffer. The Grand Tour is the right idea, but it is mainly marketed to those already aware of racing, not to potential new customers, so fails as a marketing and promotion strategy

Yes

You know he owns a part share in a current multiple group winning horse

I actually agree with you, it is a cop out, and reading up about RCP, the bill will be 7 figures. Wasn't aware the mafia were in NZ though

They are not grizzling like most of the malcontents on social media they are getting on with running their business. I thought that was pretty obvious

Looks can be deceiving. Anyone who regularly spends time on social media sites, could be forgiven for thinking everything is negative, because 90% of the posts are people bitching about something. The jockeys, presenters, journalists, no one is immune to the keyboard 'experts' But what about all those people in the industry who are getting on with the business of owning and training horses in a climate of the highest stakes NZ racing has ever experienced

NZTR did a venue plan, most of which was incorporated into the Messara Report

Pete Lane does a lot of reviewing of videos and comes up with some nice value winners on regular occasions. Sunday at Waipukurau with Sunshine Ale at 21's

No, 2 dollars

Part time breeders can still put a good horse together if they do their research. The Crofskey's did so with Leica Lucy, for the cost of a service fee to Derryn at $5K

According to Chatgpt that is correct He was bought at a Wanganui Hunt Club mixed sale, for $1000 where they mostly sold hacks and farm horses. Snow Lupton always joked he “wasn’t sure if he’d bought a racehorse or a ride-on.”

Be good if there was a site where you can look at 1. Total distance run as compared to the distance of the race 2. The track each horse has taken during the race Should be able to be done with GPS We hear claims that barriers don't matter, sitting wide through a race etc etc. This would allow for further examination of that and what correlation there was if any

Not quite CS