curious

lol...........

Useless information from a punting perspective as you say mardigras but surprise, surprise, the difference is almost exactly the same as when I looked at it using what is now 6-10 year old data except that I decided that .02 seconds was not significant and rounded it to a big fat ZERO. Any way it's about 1/100th of what Thommo dreamed up. It does however support the argument that there should be no tiered stakes differentials except by rating band/ class of race.

Masterclass! And I got a few bucks worth of the first four. Nice. Keep it up guys.

I think I'd be making a fortune laying the BP selections but it's very complicated figuring out which they are. Moving target.

Yep, that's just fundamental good business sense. It largely works in Oz but here they fund stakes randomly in no relationship to what revenue is generated, often in the reverse of that. Completely nuts. And we have people advocating to extend such nonsense. No wonder everyone's walking.

I think you'll find that all NZ metro tracks lose the industry a lot more money per meeting than regional tracks. The reverse is true in Oz where the metro tracks generate funding that assists the regional tracks.

Agree. Not emulating the failure of NZ metro tracks as Freda is pointing out.

NO!

Not bad. 2.90 FF place odds from the generous NZTAB.

It is a pipedream because they have no idea about how to fix the half a dozen key things that need to be fixed and are regularly mentioned here and elsewhere, most recently the rooted handicapping system and stakes structure. They have solid evidence that the handicapping system is munted as far as providing competitive racing attractive to punters goes. Never mind. Let's just find more idiots in a different age group to support it instead of fixing it as Mardi has recently suggested. Don't fix the ridiculous tiered stakes structure. Expand it. Sell our best assets and use the money to replace diminishing reserves until they are also squandered. Or use some of it to "fix" stuffed tracks that have not been refurbished for decades and do that with no sustainable business plan for funding those refurbishments. I'm with barryb here. I'd be staying on the sidelines while they exacerbate the damage and things continue to race towards an even bigger pile of s&^t than we have now, while the powers that be sit around with hands in pockets or elsewhere expecting the taxpayer or someone else to bale us out.

I agree barryb but unless they can start generating significantly more sustainable net revenue, nothing will change and as we can see from the NZRB annual report reserves will run out sooner rather than later.

What are you smoking? Can you send me some? Only hope is to borrow more money or steal it from the taxpayer.

Maybe we should start a givealittle page for NZ racing so Thommo can just donate directly without having to worry about whether the blinkers are on or off? It must be taxing doing it the way he does.

what do you have those two priced at?

I assume the stipes checked that out with NGH?

I like backing barryb's tips when he gives us the prices he's taken. He's done all the work and I just have to find or wait for a better price. GOLD! So far almost double my ROI on US racing And I hadn't bet on NZ racing for yonks.

Is it a BLUE print ... or a GOLD print? I'm getting confused.

I could get into that. Selling useless info might be more profitable than punting if there's that many suckers around.

Selling useless info? Thommo would probably buy that if he can't get it for free.

As usual.

Big difference between having and using inside info and selling it, for mine.

Yep, the princess actually reckons you Northern boys are even faster than that from what I hear.

I heard the Princess hasn't seen any wood for some time either. Any tips from the BP for last Saturday yet? Blinkers on preferably, down in class and 10/1 or better?

Yes, to make it work, they would need to adjust the rating system similar to NSW but as you say, the pool of horses is too small in NZ for that to work. It just makes no sense.

Yes, you have. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I think you are claiming that a tiered stakes structure is necessary because the winning performance in a 30k race is better than that in a 10k race. Can you produce some evidence of that please and if not, why would you have a tiered stakes structure for the same class of race? I don't get it.