mikeynz

When you've been around a bit ya start to be able to see through lots of bullshit, I hate some of the decisions some are making in Racing, I only hope they don't forget the rural areas, just like rugby that's where the heart and soul is unlike the likes of Ellerslie and Trentham that look soulless places, lots of sport now you look at objectively, don't really bother me who wins most times, many times nought much changes. More than likely The Crusaders will win Super Rugby, that's a poor comp now, the NPC is better, shield matches are still interesting, Cricket, the Black Caps will probably perform ok against modest opposition, next year we play aussie, that's more than likely a reality check, Football World Cup, despite having 48 teams, only a handful realistic chances, the more things change the more they stay the same, always been that way, even the Tennis isn't as good, was always good with the 3 or 4 top men's players, Alcatraz and Sinner just don't interest me, Serina Williams was always good, especially near the end when she couldn't get that extra slam win, I didn't like her but her matches were interesting.....I don't even have Sky these days, you tube has highlights, some on free TV, if I don't see it I don't lose sleep over it. Not sure what this has got to do with thread topic, just a comment following on from post one or two above😎

Power bills rates, insurance, house maintanence, petrol things like that spring to mind lol.

Definatly more than 50 by a fair margin, just at present I just find having a punt don't excite me, done it long enough I can take it or leave it, just like the ABs havnt seen fuck all of them this year, Xmas is another thing I've given up , getting older, same old same old, getting older you look at life differently, the yougins despite having technology and all the things we never had years ago in many ways know fuck all, but when your young you think you do, takes a long time to see otherwise lol.

I may suggest to Entain if I can front a add about responsible gambling, I've bet on horses and sport for a longtime up until a month ago when as it stands when I had my last punt, and believe it or not it's not that hard to stop if you try hard enough, I'm still,alive and living nicely, everyone can do it if they want too, not sure though if that's good for their business but winning punters ain't either lol. Roll on the next lotto draw😷

Many who play lotto would never bet on horses, reason, no massive pools to tempt people into bothering, wouldn't think lotto is a problem, 2 draws a week,

All the main races now are being won by a few very well run stables, and in a purely business sense these guys are onto it, especially up north, especially with the young races, who can blame them, dairy farming the same, many of the smaller operators are gone now but as it's customery there are highs and lows, often the bigger one is the harder to fall in a downturn, always been like that, time will tell regarding harness, whatever it does it simply has to work within it's means, is the present situation sustainable, time will tell, no good worrying what will be will be.

I think in the main pacers races at Alexandra Park a rating 90 is racing some who are in the 50s, they call noms and then make the fields but is that competitive like for like racing, can't blame connections putting horses up for racing but a 35 points variance, that's a lot, at least the Cup at Invercargill is rating 70 with handicap, good they didn't have to adjust to a 55+ or something, just to make up numbers.

Some good money up for grabs this week at Invercargill, poor fields for what is probably their big day of the year, the cup field ain't too bad though but then heaps of money at Ashburton for some average run of the mill horses, nice for those who are cashing in though while its there, but is having the Ashburton and Invercargill programmes within 2 days of each other smart, seems Invers has been affected considerably, is this perhaps another example of poor decisions by HRNZ ?

Looks to me Ashburton $60000 day has impacted significantly on this day, not smart in my opinion, the Cup race looks ok, the hanicapping system is creating a situation where anything over rating 55 is almost non existent in the South these days or maybe the present handicapped system is not fit for purpose as a rule. Westports been demoted to their Cup being a rating 46 Motukarara has the 50+ race yet yesterday Rangiora ran a 55 race with good numbers, something wrong somewhere.

So serious sports punters not welcome ? Normally if your not welcome somewhere your told go somewhere else but where, the cartels have eliminated opposotion/alternatives.

I think the sports maximum minimum limit or whatever you call it is $1000 dollars on head to head so really that is piss all too and if you could land one big bet on the Cricket would you trust this lot to accept another big bet on the opposite result during the game to guarantee a profit, Betfair was the place for that.

Next meeting at Manawatu is Jan 8th, is a single day, might not be there.

What you waited 9 months for that, the things we do sometimes.

Strange as it, on Facebook quite a few there reckon it's a great show, they will most likely be aged 30 or less, I think it achieves nothing but the younger generation are different, I'm sure all us oldies were no different 30 plus years ago, I simply don't watch it, these days I'm watching less and less racing, when I do I can happily watch the racing and not even bet, not sure Entain would encourage everyone doing that lol.

I think it's important to have some iconic races with large stakes such as the Cup, and the Dominion and many of the supporting races, age group etc etc around cup time, everyone racing a horse has to have a summit to aspire too, unfortunately most of the money goes across the Tasman but would they come if stakes were a lot less? I just think HRNZ are overdoing the spending on many 2 and 3 year old races with a handful of starters especially early in the season, more modest stakes would suffice, i note the Kindergarton Stakes has dropped 10 grand and a 2yo fillies race at Winton has dropped from 70000 to 40, same stake as the Leonerd stakes at Addington, some have been way over the top. I would love to see after the Invercargill Cup, Westport on day 1 , Omakau and Nelson day 2 get their main races get bumped up considerably so those 3 clubs are getting their fair share back based on what they produce in turnover, they shouldn't be subsidizing others, moving the Auckland Cup to the same weekend of the galloping cup in March would also make sense, about a month before the slots races, the Auckland Cup on new year's eve don't give it it's best exposure, people are in holiday/ pissup mode on Dec 31, they probably don't care if draught horses were running lol they would probably turnup and mid January into February is probably the time our better pacers could chase some races in Oz with the culmination being the Hunter Cup in mid Feb. Interestingly Westports main race has been reduced to rating 46+ race, and Banks Peninsula has a rating 50+ race, the numbers for Westports main races have been falling as a result, Nelson probably don't help themselves by running most races on day 2 over a mile, that probably chases a few away and recently their fields have been small, not helped by Timaru racing 2 days before day 1, and Ashburton racing midweek after day2, if they want to keep these clubs going they need to adjust the odd days in the Calander.