mikeynz

Think you will find Green Island Rugby Team are probably all blacks now Speaking of places and horse trainers, how many still left in the Seddon Shield area, can't be many left either.

Strange as it was the braces on the driver's colours that got me thinking, I'm pretty sure Campbell's colours were cerise and something, maybe brown braces, I think Campbells had a hardware shop in South Dunedin, I stand to be corrected though, if he was one of that tribe. As for the horse, can't remember, easy I guess to Google but by googling everything we have lost the ability to think, we have heard of a thing called artificial intelligence, and that's what using a computer for everything is, we have been duped by technology.

He still has one racing out of Williamsons stable.

Wasn't there a guy Campbell who trained out of Forbury for a while? Maybe that's him in the photo, I'm trying to rack my brain as to who that is.

Use to be a guy Ashton who apparently lived at Portobello, seems to have gone, he used to clock up some miles,actually don't think any trainers in Dunedin but still one or two in surrounding area, Graeme Andersons name crops up at Wyndham workouts often.seems a wee way to go from Brighton, but it is what it is. You would imagine a few owned by people in Dunedin, trained elsewhere.

At present Ellerslie struggle to run one day, and any track in NZ has ample free parking., not because of trains dropping people off, simply as no one goes anymore.

I would be keen to knowt what HRNZ are doing with the funds from the sale of Forbury, hopefully they ain't going to squander it lifting Auckland out of the hole it's created, it just seemed last weeks announcements didn't seem to include the south in any way. Anyway going to watch second half of Euro semi, not sure who I want to win, Netherlands knock out England or Spain, kick England's arse in final.

While Entain claim viewers on Saturday afternoons it would be interesting to know how many people actually watch or on Fridag nights, Sundays etc etc. I personally don't know many who watch horse racing, Seems to me based on reports of viewing numbers for sports going free to air numbers bump up plenty as opposed to being behind a pay wall. As for trackside it is weird they don't have place odds or results either, for most those 2 things go hand in hand.

I also wonder what Entains vision is for the radio frequency they bought back, maybe simulcasting Friday nights on radio could be a goer, I've noticed recently they have a lot less commentary of sport these days, I think they are still tied up with SENZ for a period of time, what makes things hard for SENZ in Australia is that they compete with the ABC who also broadcast NRL, Cricket and AFL, Senz also have content from the UK from talksport who are rivals of the BBC, they both compete with live commentary of sport. I've always said there is room for a proper sports station in NZ, despite most media having great struggles these days, would be very interesting to know how many tune in to sports radio, or for that matter watch Trackside, I would say for both radio and TV the numbers might not be massive but would think they would be hard-core supporters. Everything Entain does all comes down to income as in turnover, time will tell where all this ends up.

Interestingly, Greg O'Connor left Trackside as he didn't want to be in the studio, now he has a job in the studio. On a completely different note, as it seems very little in today's news for the south one would hope HRNZ don't shuffle money from Forbury Park to fund other areas.

Looks like nothing positive for South of the Waitaki, I note in the calandar 2 days seemed to have disappeared from the calandar as well from the original, mostly Thursdays, some Sundays in Summer and Saturdays in March, oh well we will see if it's a positive or a negative..

I thought the Jason Teaz type programme was a good idea, I think you need 2 meetings to make it work but the quality of the racing has to be good as well, at present,winter it's just run of the mill, it should get better. At least they are trying something new, will it increase turnover, who knows.

As at July 3 12 15pm still no sign of racing at Otaki duel meeting or Thames, so when will the great announcement be coming?

How would one police that?

40 minute intervals for some races, that's dragging it out but TV dictates the terms. Not many runners but good pickings for those prepared to keep going, with 7 races this could almost be classed a mini meeting, sometimes these might be just the thing needed to keep some continuity, there are a few situations where there are no southern races for almost 3 weeks through the season, that's quite a gap. I note a comment from Kelvin Tyler about Oamaru racing 2 days before Riccarton as being dumb, next year Oamaru moves forward to Sunday, maybe the powers that be got the idea off here or maybe not.

So will geo blocking make it impossible to play online? I think the idea is to ban all gambling on overseas sites, only Lotto and TAB.

They have closed New Zealanders accounts for their aussie sites, that may have something to do with it but I've also noticed they have blocked those 2 sites completely which seems a bit odd.. As for the TV , the question is how many watch Trackside normally, maybe numbers are up, I don't know how many people watch Freeview through UHF, most probably have dishes but there are probably a lot of elderly who may not have changed.

Do you have a aerial or dish on roof ? Uhf Freeview, racing. satellite , a dish no racing.

I'm not suggesting anyone in particular is attacking anyone personally, just a comment.

I would say someone of the hierarchy reads what the average blokes thinking. Constructive comments are fine on social media, personal attacks not.

You never know, word might get around about a 2400 metre standing start and a cup day size crowd turn up

Should be plenty of racing forum members applying, just what Ellerslie need.

Might have got the exact too.

You would actually think turnover would be down per meeting in the coming season with the extra meetings on Friday nights and Sundays being crammed up with clashes, I don't understand so many things, if they move all Southern meetings off Saturday to Thursday is it to maximize turnover ? If maximizing turnover is what it's about then having more clashes contradicts that thought. Running all those Tuesday meeting up North also seems weird but I suspect they will be racing for small stakes, hard to know what the thinking is at HRNZ. Entain are doing all the things the TAB supposedly failed in, TV, Radio, stakes, etc etc, let's just wait for sometime before we pass judgment, after all the TV presentation is no better, they don't have the place prices, the results etc etc, we haven't seen any change in the radio in anything they took over in February, the new website is not any better than the old version, so apart from pumping a lot of money into NZ, hard to know if they are getting a return, I suspect not,. The biggest concern is the geo blocking bribe which is being instigated by the Thoroughbred fellas up north who promoted NZ First and then got the payback with the AWT donation and the bailout for the TAB when it got into trouble, they will be seeking Winston's magic wand again. Maybe the case is is to make hay while the sun shines, after 4 more years who knows what the landscape will be. Some things just seem too good to be true. IMHO.

Seem to be plenty on tv these days. One wonders how much it must cost to run a TV channel, none of the others apart from.Sky can make money. I expect it don't cost much for the overseas feed, no local input.