All The Aces

https://www.lincolnfarms.co.nz/stories/tote-packs-its-bags-axe-to-fall-on-over-the-counter-raceday-bets-in-new-cost-cutting-move/

Tote windows on-course will be going being replaced with self service terminals or digital betting only. Closure of some retail agencies. TV will have fewer presenters with no dedicated racing shows with the exception of a no frills betting show for weekend racing. No phonebet channels. If I understand Winston correctly it looks as if they will introduce to ring fence and stop betting with overseas agencies. ( can someone give Mardigras aka Kim a lift to the airport. ?

Greg Where is the logic in removing racing from radio? This is just another example of racing shooting itself in the foot. Loss of Freeview, newspaper coverage and now radio. Doesn't the industry want to engage with the public or want to promote racing in order to attract people?

https://www.lincolnfarms.co.nz/stories/its-high-noon-in-the-beehive-ministers-pre-budget-announcement-to-be-live-streamed/

Others of us were pretty good at getting the young girls at the bar.

https://www.lincolnfarms.co.nz/stories/blood-on-the-floor-at-trackside-coverage-to-be-decimated-and-long-time-callers-victims/

You reckon. Radio Trackside gone and a number of frontline staff advised of job losses today. ?

They may be cutting the workforce by 30% but it won't be a 30% cut in wage costs. You can bet the small fish will be let go instead of a lot of those on the bigger salaries. The word is Trackside Radio which has shut down won't be coming back on air. Yet another avenue of promotion taken away and more distancing from the public. Hopefully the word is wrong as many of us who do a lot of driving do enjoy having the radio on Trackside.

Are you sure or am I reading this incorrectly. Marton race at Awapuni for example. It is Marton's meeting not Manawatu RC meeting therefore stakes funding and meeting payment would go to Marton JC not Manawatu I would have thought.

Was talking with a work mate what would happen if they close Tab agencies/ pub outlets and just bet on line. He reckons it would be a further reduction in betting as some just won't be bothered to bet that way. He did make the point that if indeed that happens it could well mean a re-appearance of the pub bookie setting up and providing a service. Which he said would be ironic as the TAB was originally set up to put illegal bookies out of business.

Whatever Noodles we agree to disagree. For your sake I hope that your South island trainers start to support the Guineas more. They hardly seem interested in recent years. Without the North Island horses coming down they wouldn't be G1s for long.

Let's face it what difference would it make to the public at Riccarton if the Guineas where raced elsewhere. They couldn't give a damn. It's more the piss up and the social occasion for them. The biggest turnover race every year is the Cup itself. This season the NZ TAB did $799k on the Cup. Anyway Noodles, keep crying for tradition and keeping things the same. By keeping everything the same is why the industry has gone nowhere. If you want different results you have to try different approaches. What's that saying "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." I just believe that both Guineas races have reached a stage where they would be more successful in the North.

Which is a different matter altogether. Both the Derby and the Oaks get better numbers than the Guineas and have a far greater turnover.

Certainly not subjective. This season both the Derby and the Oaks had capacity fields. NZ TAB turnover on the 2000 Guineas was $394K. Couldn't locate the figure for the 1000 Guineas. NZ Derby the NZ TAB did $851k and the NZ Oaks $572k Both significantly better.

And the Riccarton track is perfect? Are they still watering the outside to stop horses going wide in the winter? BTW I only added sending the two races South as an afterthought. If you don't want them so be it. As to the NZ Derby and NZ Oaks, well obviously they have gone pretty well since coming North. I suggest the Guineas would be the same.

Pure speculation on your part Noods and incorrect. It's funny, everyone talks about rationalization from number of tracks to racing programmes and yet when something is suggested, those affected (even though calling for change), vigorously then defend their patch and yell no way!! I thought about it, provided figures in both horse numbers and neither race is strongly supported by the South (and let's face it the South haven't won either race since 2011 either). I even went as far as suggesting where both races looked best placed, at Ellerslie on Boxing day and New Years Day replacing the two 3yo races that currently sit there. Perhaps those two races, one listed and the other a G2 could go South.

Just further evidence of your Kim Un Jong traits. Huey had got the better of you. How will he be executed?

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And you bet on Australian racing.....When entering Australia I was asked if I had any criminal convictions. I replied that I didn't know it was still a requirement.

And I suppose that you also believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy that setting a horse for a punt doesn't happen anywhere else. ?

Well it's definitely not for yours Kimmy.

Not if you are getting it ready for a punt.

Gee that first up punt and aim to beat Pitty to train a winner first could all go up in smoke if it turns out to be field shy.

Ok for one month Chief bearing in mind no stakes will have been paid out since March. It is the big picture we need to be advised of. "What the stakes for next season will be."

How so Kim? I stated that Australian racing receives support from Government (which it does) and that Chris Waller has said the NZ Government should do more for NZ racing. Both are statements are factual.