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That article is unsubstantiated and ridiculous. It says horses reach 90% of their mature height at 2. So a 16hh 2yo is going to grow another 6"? Hahaha. Very funny.

OK. Can you get the supporting data from your trainers then please. I'd be interested to see it.

That question confirms that you don't get it. I'll leave my comments for those that do to consider and respond to if they like.

I'm referring to the public not generally involved with racing or betting. No and no to the other 2 questions. You clearly still don't get it.

No. It comes out of their stakes funding at the expense of funding for other races.

That's interesting. Do you have some data on that? I thought TB growth (wither height) pretty much stopped at 18-24 months.

You clearly still don't get it. I'm talking about promoting racing to the general public. If you want to discuss the merits of the Everest as a race or racing's social licence, do it in another thread.

Maybe, but it's not now. Totally different from the Kmillions excessive spend by NZTR

Yep. It comes from sponsorship. Not industry funds as Freda said.

When was the last NZTAB runner in the Melbourne Cup again?

I don't know since the TAB has decided not to publish monthly, 6 monthly or annual reports anymore it seems. You'd have to probably do an OIA request to find out! But for TABCORP it's definitely NSW's biggest turnover race of the year. This year if you bet there that will be into the massive world pool.

What? It'll follow the TVNZ+ lead up series won't it. Free to all. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/sport/horse-racing/horse-racing/the-everest-show-episode-1-extra And he is, arguably at least, the fastest, certainly rated the best, sprinter in the world and it is the richest turf sprint in the world.

And of course it returns revenue to NZ racing. It doesn't cost us anything to run it but the profit from wagering on it returns to NZ racing.

I think you have entirely missed the point of the thread Chief. I am not debating the merits and politics of the Everest as a race here. That has been widely canvassed elsewhere and I largely agree with your comments. But it doesn't matter whether it is the Everest or an 18k maiden at Reefton. What I am applauding is that Entain with this ad are taking racing and betting on racing to a wider audience than just the existing participants

No it doesn't. It says it's the world's richest turf race. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tab-brand_everest-i-wish-i-win-tv-30-activity-7114364220791558144-FWUS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Well I think most of the general public know about the Melbourne Cup and many watch it and bet on it if they watch and bet on no other race during a year. Most however, have never heard of IWIW or the Everest.

Might have said "best" which would be a fair claim. https://www.racingnews.co.nz/i-wish-i-win-rated-worlds-best-sprinter/

Might have misquoted that. Have to see it again.

The missus was watching HGTV tonight. An ad came on. Something like ... I Wish I Win ... fastest sprinter in the world... a New Zealander ... back him in the Everest ... NZTAB Good ad I thought. B&W. Looks like Entain are taking racing to the wider market. Anyone else seen it?

200 + noms I see. The demand is obviously there.

Might have met the PGF funding requirements more legitimately too?

That would have left Riccarton with room for a second grass course for gallops and trials.

It's kept them going at Foxton, although the hope of a raceday or two again hasn't gone away and I'm rather surprised it wasn't called on, at least temporarily, while the Awapuni track is down for renovation.

It seems to me that the sensible option would be to set Rangiora up as a training/jumpout/trial facility capable of running 10-12 trial meetings a year. This would be very similar to what they've done in the CD with Foxton, so there is a successful model for that where the trial revenue is sufficient for a primarily volunteer organisation to remain viable. It's similarly a well drained track with irrigation and forgiving grass surface proximal to the bulk of the Canterbury horse population. It would also serve as a venue for grass gallops for Riccarton based horses when none are available there in the same way that Awapuni trainers use Foxton for that purpose.

It's 6 weeks from the cup meeting. Probably be a nice forgiving soft 6 or 7 at Rangiora tomorrow, possibly better with the current nor'wester. If they don't want to run them there then they have to surely run them on grass at Riccarton at this time of year. Incompetence is too nice a word Doomed. It's just plain stupid like much of the other programming and they wonder why less and less people are racing less and less horses. Sigh!