curious

Who are they now? They are appointed annually at the Trainers' Association branch AGM, aren't they? I thought usually 3.

No she lay in, bumping the winner and placing herself on the heels of Cannon Hill as the stewards said.

Looks like CBL lay in quite badly bumping the eventual winner but had been tending to from the turn and Bosson was attempting to correct so questioning him probably wasn't necessary. Pretty much as I saw it in the original video.

My main conclusion is in line with @Thomass. It's absolutely atrocious that the best that NZTR can do is to put up video of this quality for participants and that it takes them a month to do so.

Yes, that was sort of part of my point following your remarks about AI.

When I asked AI about the transmission, it didn't actually mention satellite links. Central Production & Viewer Delivery Live feeds from OB vans are sent via broadcast-grade links (often fiber or microwave) to the production centre and then distributed to: TV channels (Sky, Freeview) Online streams via the Trackside website and TAB app.

I was allowing for coffee and sausage roll breaks and a bit of a yarn with the locals.

The consultants appointed for the Project Stamina report now due in May.

I don't get that either. Wouldn't take an hour for one person to set up the starlink hardware from scratch would it?

Could it be that Trackside uses a dedicated satellite uplink not easily converted to broad customer access across the courses.

I seem to remember that was an issue maybe for Foxton. But if they have fibre, they wouldn't need the satellite? This seems to be where there is poor mobile connection.

Is the telco link also satellite?

Yes. I've been looking at that. Although there may be an alternative, it seems liquidation is highly likely, if not inevitable.

See note 4. So, no as I read it. All NZTR funding. NOTES 1. Total turnover is provided by Entain NZ on a per race basis. Turnover through betcha was not available to NZTR for meetings prior to 24 January 2025. Total on-course turnover is all tote and fixed odds racing turnover placed on-course, including geo-located mobile and digital turnover. Total off-course turnover is Total NZ turnover minus Total on-course turnover. 2. Australian Racefields includes Australian TAB turnover and a calculation to estimate other Australian Corporate Bookmaker turnover based on the known current market share of these companies. It does not include turnover placed on NZ Thoroughbred racing through international operators outside of Australasia. 3. Club Noms, Accepts & other charges/payments is the net amount of all nomination and acceptance charges for Group & Listed charged to owners and paid to clubs and for Feature jumps races not charged to owners, minus credits paid to owners for the same races. 4. Total Club, Meeting & Stakes Funding is all NZTR funding paid to clubs, including Minimum Stakes, Group and Listed, Special Interest, Iconic, Heritage, Country Cup, Innovation and Other Race funding, Meeting Type, Venue Category, Racing Compliance, Event Tier funding, Carnival funding, Jumping Support, On-Course commission and payments, including any Digital turnover and any other meeting funding. Club Compliance funding is included but other funding to clubs or venues for infrastructure, Strategic Training Centre funding, HR Support, Business Innovation is not. All efforts have been made to reconcile against total funding paid to clubs but there still may be some small discrepancies between funding recorded and total funding received by clubs. 5. Net Stakes is Stakes Paid minus the net Club Noms & Accepts & other charges/payments received by clubs. 6. Net Stakes to Funding Ratio is Net Stakes Paid as above and divided by Total Club, Meeting & Stakes Funding. Note that club funding and other numbers can be affected by meetings or races not run, abandoned or transferred.

Ones at the top have the highest turnover:stakes so are generating more revenue or at least losing less.