timaru on a wednesday.

[the galah]

Was timaru a good track to run a wednesday meeting at this time a year?

The reason i ask that is because i would have thought the idea of these wednesday meetings is to maximise turnover,especially the extra turnover that they get when races are held in time slots where people in australia have just finished work.

Same does apply in nz as well,but the betting turnovers in australia can be significantly different depending on what time they are run.

So wouldn't it make more sense to run them at addington where they can run at the best time slots given they can turn the lights on if necessary.

A wednesday meeting at timaru makes morse sense when the daylight hours are longer and they can run a twilight meeting.

thats my thoughts anyway.

[Doomed]

The problem with running at Addington is that it looks terrible with 2 people and 3 dogs sitting in the stands. At least Timaru should get a better crowd and a bit more atmosphere.

[mikeynz]

Seems Entain are wanting a 10 % increase in Harness meetings, as in all these Monday Tuesday low grade stuff, so expect a big rise in days like today, we don't need more volume, just more quality.

[Doomed]

12 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

Seems Entain are wanting a 10 % increase in Harness meetings, as in all these Monday Tuesday low grade stuff, so expect a big rise in days like today, we don't need more volume, just more quality.

Where do you suggest this quality will come from?

[mikeynz]

3 minutes ago, Doomed said:

Where do you suggest this quality will come from?

Don't ask me a hard question like that, leave that to the experts at ATC and NZHR.

[the galah]

7 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

Seems Entain are wanting a 10 % increase in Harness meetings, as in all these Monday Tuesday low grade stuff, so expect a big rise in days like today, we don't need more volume, just more quality.

But as i have pointed out many times,if you look at the tote pools held by the likes of tabcorp,your wrong when you say more quality horses  means higher turnover.

I've given the figures many times and its pretty clear cut that turnover generated is not connected to quality,its all about exposure and timeslots.

So in reality no one sector of the industry is more valuable than the other when it comes to generating turnover. I've given so many examples recently. 

The only way,in my opinion,to combine quality with higher turnover from australia would be to run the high quality races in the high exposure timeslots. 

 

[the galah]

1 hour ago, Doomed said:

At least Timaru should get a better crowd and a bit more atmosphere.

Why? 

Edited April 3 by the galah

[mikeynz]

Less than 5000 on the late Quaddie, almost more bet on the last treble, there in lies another issue, is there room for picking the last 4 races as well as the last 3, but judging by those figures fuck all were watching anyway.

[Rangatira]

9 hours ago, the galah said:

I've given the figures many times and its pretty clear cut that turnover generated is not connected to quality,its all about exposure and timeslots.

With field size also of high importance.

[the galah]

1 hour ago, Rangatira said:

With field size also of high importance.

yes  good point ranga,that would be a factor,although looking at the patterns of money invested in tabcorp pools,the timeslots and sky racing exposure look to be the main factors.Thats just from my observations.

I remember a couple of weeks ago the last race on the first day at manawatu,had  the highest equal turnover.It was a 7 horse race with not much form and low graded horses.I don't know what the pool was on the nz tab but i don't think it would have been as high as tabcorp.

The aussies seem to be happy to invest as long as theres 7 or 8 running in nz and its there on their tv screen. I suppose thats partly because they are used to those field sizes in aussie.