mikeynz

I read that Orari have 2 days,this time last year they were facing the demolition dozer. Gee checking out the dates for some strange reason is like opening Xmas presents lol,sad as it is but I don't get anything for Xmas anyway lol.

Have just been looking through the ratings for radio from 2 years ago,and radio sport had a very low rating. There is a demand for sport radio and racing but it is limited,I suspect covidwas a convienient reason the suits who shutdown radio sport used but simply it didn't rate highly,latterly the only time I tuned in was for live commentary,cricket mainlyr. Zb still have some sport,an hour during the week and 3 hours Saturday and Sunday plus some live commentary.. In a small market like nz is there probably is only room for one setup on radio,Senz is supposed .to be starting up some time this year,hopefully if run right it caters for everyone's sporting interest, that includes racing.. Trackside just like radio sport probably didn't make money,it's just plain economics. ,

After posting a couple of comments on this subject I now have to come to the conclusion that I no longer give a fuck about the subject anyway lol.

Keith Lawlor would have been a one horse trainer, thus deemed to be a amateur trainer,this is 1975 he won the cup,and he drove the horse himself,these amateur driving races as such they have now a relatively new as in being a betting race, I just can't see how they can't drive against the rest in standard races,a bit of a grey area to me.

Keith Lawlor would have been a amateur trainer slash driver yet drove his horse and won the Cup,still drove against the pros.

What is a amateur driver as such, or why don't they drive in normal races, do they get a drivers fee,what's the difference?

They are not healthy but yep they are tasty,when it comes to food anything good for you usually taste like shit. I have to confess I've never eaten shit as such. Some of the stuff people eat looks more like animal fodder,some of that Chinese stuff looks like something the animals have spewed up,no wonder they get disease.

Except for those mutton pies,I think they are more fat than meat lol

Was wondering what happens to Forburys days when their days are over,Tuepeka race there,someone must be in the know by now,incidentally if Blenhiem got the winter days back Nelson probably would as well or will a never ending sundays of Addington now be the norm

The aussie in Southland probably struggles when it gets cold too aye😂

If the trainer says he will have few if any runners where will he be racing them?

You may say that but so many of the young announcers try to be comedians,hopefully most of the radio sport lot stay on the sideline. Radio sport I reckon went downhill when Telfer got the heavo for Devlin who right now on zb is talking the biggest load of shit you are ever likely to hear. Despite the fact that technology is good,for some strange reason when I want to watch or listen to a race through the TAB website it always cuts out usually half way through the race,it's just not reliable and the internet is generally good where I am,that's what pisses me off,radio is generally always reliable.

I read where this new setup that's bought the trackside channels has the rights to broadcast racing from nz,it will be interesting to see what if any is broadcast,New Zealand is a fairly small market,that's probably why radio sport didn't pay and trackside would still have cost a lot to run as well,I guess it's easy to say it's not so important that it don't make a profit,but the present lot running the TAB had to make some changes,moving forward it seems one setup running everything under one umbrella might survive,it will be interesting,simply over the years race commentaries on radio has always been like a revolving door,I think the zb stations years ago broadcast them for nought, I think in those days racing had a much stronger public interest than it has today so it probably helped the ratings, then Radio Pacific starting doing them,the zb network stopped doing it,trackside has come and gone,lots of things have all moved on to a online setup,and that's fine to a degree,radio still plays a big part in our life,this new setup maybe a sports,racing station but as the news talk channel has the rugby and magic has the cricket there must be space within this new setup that will be able to have some good racing coverage, days like to day,Saturday it is a bit odd in today's world that we don't have radio of some sort. I see Ian Smith has signed on,Jason Pine is also signed up,so things are moving forward it seems,sports talkback is actually very popular,so no real reason why a Des Coppins type talkback can't be fitted in somewhere,it will be interesting I guess,

It's getting around to that tiime of the year so anyone hear any rumours, changes to the calandar,always creates good discussion.

What role does he have at the ODT,news or racing?

Second from the right, maybe the guy who was the writer, a guy Cannon perhaps.

Rob Fielder on the left perhaps, wonder if Rob Muldoons there, maybe standing behind the others😄

Anyone know the others,is this a celebrity race?Is the guy next to Murtha Rodney Bryant

Sorry about the stut stut stutter lol.

Did the Royal wedding too i think, in fact he did a fair bit of commentating when one thinks of it, Stanley Rio winning the the interdoms too.

i think Reon Murtha did a bit of rugby calling too.3ZB did a lot of local rugby those days,same as the days when Ian Galloway,excuse the spelling if incorrect, he always did the main match on club day from Carisbrook.

Eric Percy called international rugby matches, im picking touring matches played in Nelson and Marlborough?

Am I correct that even though the cricketers have been vaccinated,they still have to do quarantine when they come back home.

Just to add,watching video , as in races on ya smartphone burns up your data and your battery, to say you can watch and listen free is a load of crap,buying data all the time adds up too,the simulcast the tab have on the rova app is better than nothing but not much. You have ya internet at home then ya cost for pay tv and your phone charges, it all adds up.

These are the days, Saturdays that no radio is a pain,i will be out later so will miss some of the main races,technology is brilliant but not the be all and end all and not always a option, we dont always have time to ef around with smartphones.