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BitofaLegend

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  1. id assume that only a small party were involved with the investigation. How it was managed to be kept so under rapts up until yesterday.
  2. Well that clears that up
  3. P is a class A drug is it not?
  4. It hasnt been confirmed No. I should clarify this is an assumption on my behalf. Unless she was taking those class b drugs herself. whatever the drugs are EDIT: The article does say "supplying Class B drugs".
  5. Innocent till proven guilty don't forget... But it doesnt look good on the industry when some of the leading figures are involved. Matt Anderson, Nigel McGrath, John Dunn, Blair Orange, Andrew Stuart, Natalie Rasmussen and Brent Wall should be ashamed of themselves along with anyone else involved in match fixing. Surely Natalie will lose her license over this, supplying Class B drugs to stables? Now I would like to know which stables she was supplying the Class B drugs to? What I find even stranger that this comes out on the same day a well known Greyhound figure only got a 5k fine for 5 dead dogs? Was this a case of swaying the media away from that animal welfare issue?
  6. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/106830745/seven-charged-in-harness-racing-probe Stuff understands the 26-year-old is Matt Anderson, who is widely regarded as one of harness racing's brightest young prospects. Four men aged 34, 40, 41 and 44 were due to appear in Christchurch District Court on Tuesday next week on match-fixing charges. Stuff understands the men are Nigel McGrath, John Dunn, Blair Orange and Andrew Stuart. A 41-year-old woman would appear in court the same day on two counts of supplying Class B drugs. Stuff understands she is champion driver Natalie Rasmussen. A 47-year-old man, who Stuff understands is Brent Wall, 47, has been charged with deception by match-fixing and is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court, also on Tuesday, police said.
  7. what a joke
  8. The current stakes are very poor. Losing more would damn near close 90% of trainers down.
  9. Especially when the greyhound code percentage of the stake will go down to a measly 5%
  10. No surprises. Same thing, different day
  11. I have never had a grudge against the Mcinerneys on a personal level, however, I have heard John Mac SR admit that he runs a greyhound 'farm'. Sort of says it all really...
  12. yes, 3 tracks would have been very bad IMO. Every region needs atleast one two turn and one one turn track imo
  13. no surprises that it focused on Thoroughbreds. The other two codes were irrelevant.
  14. We now know how much one dogs life is worth to the higher ups. 1k apparently
  15. Heard from the track today he got a 5k fine, not sure how reliable this is though
  16. This boys career at stud is looking more impressive than his records on the track. In the first two yrs, his stats have been ridiculious with his prodige winning group races on both sides of the tasman. His prodige trifectered the national distance final last night and quinelered the national sprint final. I dare say he will be a better stud dog than both temlee and brett lee.
  17. Its the first boat of mine that hasn't sunk for a while ?
  18. How could the bookies let him go? Christmas came early today ? Should have been $1.30 fav Dyna weslyns a good dog. But just travelled 18hrs and first look at track. Bookies were very brave ??
  19. I hate to say it but if this is the only benefit the codes will receive, how will it lead towards a more sustainable future? We need something revolutionary if we want racing to not only survive, but thrive and if increasing stakes across the board is their answer, than I would be very worried
  20. I think the biggest question would be, what does this report mean for the direction of all 3 codes going forward?
  21. I think the problem is. Its hard to provide decent questions without knowing the contents of the report. However, im almost certain it will heavily focus on positive outcomes for the thouroughbreds and will show little interest in the harness and the greys
  22. Another thing, if you are in the market for a dog, try to get a 500m dog. The money simply isnt there for a sprinter anymore
  23. They tried to put restrictions on the amount of money I could withdraw at a given time (I dont know why as I was only making 4-500 a week, I am not a big punter by any means). One phone call to the head office changed all that. I now send my withdrawals to someone in the head office and they always accept me ?
  24. Ive used ladbrokes for 2 years now. Far better than the NZ Tab. Tend to offer better prices on avg than nz tab aswell
  25. Found this a very interesting read posted up over on racecafe by AC Roberts (not my post) "The Letter the Informant will not publish. Long time greyhound breeder owner who runs a successful accounting practice , Tom Rodewald , has sent me thru a letter he has tried to get the Informant to publish. They I gather are showing no interest and this is not surprising in view of the facts contained within the letter. It seems the horse codes are not providing a subsidy to the greyhound codes rather it is the other way round. ! Tom letter reads Over recent months there have been a number of articles and letters to the editor dealing with racing industry distributions in The Informant. One claim made by your columnist Brian de Lore was that greyhound racing, he understood, was being subsidized by the thoroughbred code to the tune of $5m per annum. It has been a common thread in letters to the editor that thoroughbred racing does not receive the full benefit of earnings from the export of its product. Further it is being stated that Section 16 of the Racing Act is unfair on the thoroughbred code as it focuses industry distributions on domestic turnover share. Fact or Fallacy? Over the past few weeks I have trawled through publicly available information and also made the odd enquiry to try and ascertain the true position. From the publicly available information we can establish in the 2017 season that: 1. Section 16(3) of the Racing Act that requires racing industry funds to be distributed based on NZ domestic code turnover has not applied since 2011 and did not apply in 2017. 2. it appears that betting on greyhound racing via the NZ TAB was 20% of total racing turnover. 3. it appears the gross betting margin the NZ Racing Board earned on greyhound turnover exceeded that of harness racing. 4. the export turnover commission received by the NZ Racing Board on greyhound racing was approximately 31% of its total export income. 5. the greyhound code received only 16.1% of the distribution made under Section 16. 6. a quick calculation indicates if the racing industry distributed its turnover based on each code receiving its share of gross betting revenue and its actual export commission earnt the greyhound racing share of the pie would have grown by approximately $8.8m. It seems to me on figures published the thoroughbred export turnover percentage was well under 50% of the total racing turnover in the 2017 year. Allocating export turnover by each code on an actual basis would have disadvantaged the thoroughbred code. Anybody interested can download my full analysis and some pertinent comments via my website http://rodewaldconsulting.co.nz/blog/racingindustrydistribution/ T L Rodewald Chartered Accountant Accredited Insolvency Practitioner" 
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