mikeynz

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,?

Not much point programming it, the Easter Cup if there ain't no horses turning up unless they made it a rating 57 to 65 or something. When I was young Easter Saturday trots from Addington was covered by tv 1 it probably was the best day of the year, 2 year olds, the derby the trotters free for all and the cup. now it's just another day like so many others.

Senz sponsor race 2, what are the odds of broadcasting the race,? or any harness race for that matter come to think of it, seem to talk alot but deliver fuck all when it comes to racing.

So if New Plymouth is a goner, what next for Taranaki.?

Race 2 actually might still be running by race 3 Race 2 Hombre.

Speaking of out of the way places race 3 at Riccarton has a horse trained on the West Coast, dont see that often nowdays.

Alright mr smartarse I was just stating how far Riverton is from everywhere, apart from 4 days a year every other day is a long road trip, just saying ok, only ever been to Riverton once, how many on here have been, be interesting to know.

It's actually an hour from Riverton to Gore, moral of the story is Tyler does choose to train a sizable team out of a distant location, the harness guys can do most of their racing locally but the gallops are a different story, short season and some ho hum meetings when they are racing and it's always been like that, always will be, once Riverton Easters done racing is done basically so you know you got to travel, looking back over Tyler's records its 10 years hes been training a large team, guess like anything one can only sustain things for so long but he certainly does help keep southland racing going though.

No Tyler's in the noms for Riccarton saturday for what is a feature meeting, would they turn up for a synthetic meeting in winter?

If they want to only run one meeting only on fridays it's hard to justify Auckland getting that date with such a average card,maybe except for so called feature meetings, running two meetings is better from a tv watching viewpoint.

Just had a look at the programming for Riccarton, a Friday feature meeting on June 3 and the midweek day of the National meeting on the synthetic, be interesting guide as to who fronts and who won't.

I just looked at some of the programmes, lots of 35000 races, maybe they have been eased back, what does that suggest ?

Strange irony about the stakes in the south, how many harness meetings have stakes like the gallops, yet numbers are better than the gallops, getting back though to Tyler, the travel especially in winter, must be a killer and with Riccarton AWT starting soon if you dont like it your options are less and less. With the stakes I thought the hike in stakes might have been to april maybe they are just leaving them at that level so yea they are up but only as opposed to last year not sure.

I always remember when you went to put a bet on it would display the maximun bet one could put on, like if you were betting on a 30 to 1 shot maximum bet might be $765 or whatever.

Well sky have to pay for the premier league, when spark give up will probably put charges up again

Racings not only industry with issues but how do you get the stakes to keep pace with cost, racing basically survives by turnover then deductions, if people ain't betting as much or not betting enough what can 1 do? There is only a limited amount of money to go around, fact of life. Southern racing will survive but its gunna be the small time trainers who will keep it going, training a big team out of Riverton, one can only sustain the travel and other factors for so long, plenty of enthusiasm is met by reality I guess Places like Southland probably need some of those mini meetings, they are becoming very regular these days for harness racing in Auckland.

On a slightly different note I see an article in Southland times, Kelvin Tyler is reducing his racing team for next season, Robert Dennis the same, sign of the times I guess.

Noms for Auckland friday very light again, seems more want to go Manawatu than Auckland, in some ways it must be frustrating for those with the topliners racing in such small fields yet in many ways they have actually chased a lot away.

I suspect clubs like Westport might be subsidizing clubs like Auckland, maybe I'm wrong.

I've often wondered why Westport don't pay some of the highest stakes, Boxing Day turnover is always one of the biggest of the season yet?

What's wrong with the coverage ? I'm not watching so enlighten me.

We actually didn't vote in a communist leader, just remember it was the manipulative racing minister that got her the job initially, and to be fair she did present herself well at the start of the pandemic but other than that their is very little substance to the PM and over time it starts to show, sometimes you need a leader with balls, English was a steady ship, I suspect Luxon may be the same, time will tell.

That gore track looked good yesty, yet nothing again until september at the earliest, but there proves the point, you simply cant keep beating the shit out of some of these tracks, seems Riccarton just gets overdone.