curious

Prior to that of course, he was general manager of Blandford Lodge Stud until it was wound up in 1992 when he became GM of the Manawatu Racing Club.

Has he resigned to take up the CEO position for RITA's successor organisation shortly?

So, where exactly were the cost savings supposed to come from?

OK. So, is there a separate contract for the supply of odds? I thought that was the whole point so RITA didn't have to employ their own bookies to frame all the markets.

I didn't think the $17m p.a. is to do with the website installation per se is it? That's been paid for hasn't it? I thought that annual payment was for the provision of odds to/for the FOB platform?

They should be well used to that. Maybe immune to it. Good thing their loan is guaranteed by RITA.

I appreciate that it may be less convenient but you don't need wifi and you can still use the phone for calls. You'd turn the radio down or off for those anyway.

What's wrong with just using the radio button?

Yip.

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I imagine the committee and a few other member volunteers will be out there after training every morning picking up the shit before the track is harrowed won't they?

https://loveracing.nz/OnHorseFiles/Downloads/NZTR Strategic Plan 2015.pdf

We have the best of both. Pay nothing to government (in fact the revrese) and a huge volunteer added value but still can't survive.

It probably won't really matter anyway. There's obviously no-one left at the TAB who knows the difference.

I don't think you are. I didn't say that did I? I think the $20m the industry has to find for them would likely be better spent on existing tracks at this point.

If you take Riccarton as an example (correct me if I'm wrong Pitty) but I think they've been running about 27 meetings a year there on the grass and my understanding is that the committee feels that has the grass course pretty maxed out. If they go to 40 meetings there, then you'd think that might mean say 15 of them on the AW, mostly over winter. I guess there's also the possibility that some meetings could be run using both courses as is common in the US between dirt and turf.

Yes, I imagine they'll be used mainly in the winter.

No! There are 6 AWT meetings scheduled for the AW at Cambridge next season. Add maybe 1 or 2 transfers. Most Riccarton meetings will be on the turf. Perhaps a similar half a dozen on the AW.

I know a lot of people still operating at level 3 and working from home if possible is a level 2 recommendation anyway isn't it?

Wouldn't this be a good time to pilot no whip or much restricted whip use racing?

Except a scatter gun is more accurate and more focused.

And even in a Greenfields project???

I'm trying to think where any drainage would drain to? Same at Awapuni. It's already a swamp in a hole and the track experts here have already proven that it's not easy to get water to run uphill.

They can even transmit cobalt from sharing water troughs between species.

Who do you mean by 'they'?