mikeynz

Sometime the galloping clubs don't like harness racing on the grass yet Forbury Park and Otago racing club wanted 6 days but only got 2 maybe they may get a all weather track and get a few more days in the future,they will have plenty of funds once they sell out,getting back to the grass track,yep they seem popular than ever,it just adds some variety.

When I saw amateur race it did raise eyebrows at the time.

No amateur race,probably couldn't find any riders ,not many racing at all actually at Riverton,8 race meetings are almost the norm.

Some advice, if you have had a good day, take the money and run, they are few and far between.

Just to clarify things davis I have a dabble now and then,once it bums out and most of the time that's what happens I just pull the pin,I get bonus bets after a week or two but why you get 70 bucks,would be nice to know why or how. I too always leave a few cents in my account just to keep the account active so I can watch races or any sport that's worth watching.

My account seems to always be under a dollar.

3 things I reckon about the AWT,one it does seem a lot of money for 7 or 8 industry meetings. It contradicts the centralisation theory, as Timaru is actually central ,perfectly central between north and south. And it doesn't actually take any pressure off the present Riccarton track,which probably needs a bit of a spell. It was interesting reading about Wingatui wanting 6 meetings of harness but only getting two,they being the experts were concerned about the damage to the track,yet they start the season off by having 3 days in August at Riccarton at probably the poorest time of the year,

Riccarton not doing any renovations,maybe what would help would be to can the three days in August where the track probably gets the shit beaten out of it,maybe the first Saturday shift to can you guess?.............Timaru and Riccarton race the big day the following weekend,as jumping is basically gone,maybe the washdyke meeting could even be a feature meeting to kick off the season or is that too much of a good idea?

Methven in september is the first meeting on grass,personally in some ways I think there is a bias,hopefully that's the right word towards Canterbury in the whole calandar,maybe a even spread of sunday meetings for Southland and Canterbury would seem fairer. Wyndhams gunna be busy.

The tab are having nothing to do with senz but they have granted the rights to broadcast the races to them, what have they got to lose?

Why are the displayed in such a arsehole format?

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.