mikeynz

Nagh I just get tired easy these days, I must be getting old, may need to try harder next week lol.

Only 5 for one of the big races, you put up good money and still sometimes they dont turn up, so it's not just Auckland. As for Aucklands feature meeting, I've enjoyed the last 2 weeks, lay on the couch to watch and go to sleep, wake up at midnight and it's all done, oh well maybe next week.

Be fair to say it would be nice and dry kindling, would burn pretty good.

2 meetings , Riverton and Wairio have $15000 races for the last 2 days of the season,instead of 12 grand, spose that claws back some of what was lost at Easter.

Addington always had and still have Easter Saturday, I can actually remember, sad as it is Easter Saturday once had Ellerslie, Rotorua, Tauherinikau,(check spelling),Fielding and Riverton, with Hawera and Addington followed by Forbury Park at night. Easter Monday was same except Riccarton instead of Rotorua and Roxburgh, that was in the mid seventies. Didnt need all the stuff from oz to attract our attention.

Maybe its named that because it might smile like Jacinda.

Maybe they will move Riverton at Easter up to Riccarton, maybe on the AWT, Tyler and the Riverton mob will have to leave thursday, bring on centralization.

I think your taking the piss😀

In aussie if you want to bet live dont you have to phone the betting site?

In some ways it's a bit of a insult to the southeners, it's not like they are over endowed with opportunities

So you bet on football, never a moment in the day that there ain't a game on somewhere, what do you bet on, head to head or unders and overs, lots of leagues, some produce more goals than others.

That must have been a logistical nightmare cramming two days into one, must have been double acceptors not to forget that there will be half a dozen less races for riders and half a dozen less stake money filtering through to owners and trainers, couldn't see why they couldn't do Monday or even Tuesday, I think some get a holiday on the Tuesday after Easter but I stand to be corrected.

Looks like one day on Monday with more races, oh well the powers that be know more than I do I guess.

I've just turned on trackside, I have to work often so just having a snack, hardly a soul at TeRapa, yet Riverton would probably have , over 5000 on Easter Saturday, something will happen for Riverton, probably Monday and Wednesday I'd say.

That horse, Henley has grown another leg since a new trainer, must be a good chance in the main race.

Did a bit of reading, seems sponsors can write off the cost of buying a slot as marketing, so what have they got to lose, apart from their money.

They use to always state what the maximum stake one could bet but I've never seen it on a bet slip for yonks but if I saw that I'd see as I good investment, at least I couldn't lose lol

That's where a outfit like Betfair is good, betting against others, some of the head to head pools are massive and they are just the middle man. Maybe this is another option for the TAB to explore.

I guess when you look at concept it does seem odd that 90% are going to lose, on this one you have a point, spose if you look at it another way if you do have 9 sponsors with 75000 who can afford to lose then what a great way to sponsor harness racing. Would be interesting to see how the turnover went, wouldn't be that massive, Cambridge never is.

Always gunna be the way, if you have a big winner then it's always gunna be funded by lots of losers, From a racing viewpoint the big stakes do add credibility to racing, they are all trying, one wonders if they got rid of appearance money beyond say fifth if the racing would be better in all classes. As for the turnover I'd say 50 thousand is probably not bad for a race at Cambridge, I dont think Riverton will get that much tomorrow, maybe I'm wrong. A big percentage of the betting was on Self Assured, reason being most thought he would win turned out he did, one thing the TAB have to stop doing is restricting large punters betting fixed odds, should be accepting all bets, it's up to them set or adjust the odds as fair play as invariably the house usually wins more than the punter

Do we really need racing every day in any situation, one day we say there is too much then when there is none we question why not. For the first time in history our local 4 square is open on good friday, no advertising on tv and radio today, how long before we do ? I often wonder though why non religious people get a holiday as the holiday is a religious day for religious people, what a conundrum.

Will most of the crowd at Cambridge last night be there next meeting, what are the odds?

To be fair senz did a 3 and a half hour show last night, I listened while I was out, watched it on tv though, cant always be near tv but what i find with senz radio racing is it dont cater for the most important part of the whole industry, the punter. Good the radio publicity for harness or racing as a whole but as this a turnover based industry those who bet would be focused elsewhere, does it need to be that way,? Be nice if they could make the radio races a one shop stop scenario, better for ratings, better for racing.

So they buy the slot, can have any horse run for them and obviously get a cut of the prize, dont seem to do anything for the average battler but if you have a good one that can get in the race for good money dont seem such a bad idea I spose, be interesting how the betting goes turnover wise.

Havnt really got into the slots setup, as there is only nine runners what happens to the slot holder of the non runner, have they done there dough,?