leaderships vision

[the galah]

one thing that has struck me in recent years is that the decison makers at HRNZ have never promoted a vision that uplifts industry participants and injects a form of comradship and positivity into the industry.

from my observations this lack of leadership flows right through to the grass roots.

People at all levels,from leadership to trainers and administrators say the right things about doing this and that being needed to retain participants,but when it comes to the crunch they just do their own thing and do whats best for themselves,and so what about the fella next door who's drifting away.

Maybe its just a human thing and they may feel they can't do much anyway,but i've formed the opinion that theres an attitude ,a mindset within the industry thats negative and a lack of thinking outside their own we bubble.

My point is we need leadership to actually lead and their example needs to make each and everyone just think a little more about whats happening around them industry wise.

A positive vision for the future and actual tangible ,sellable, positive plans from industry leadership is where it should start.

We recently saw the appointment of  the aussie as hrnz leader.

then within a couple of weeks he came out and stated " how encouraging it was they were having 7 races at cambridge instead of 6 the week before',despite there much less actual starters. The first thing people would have thought when they saw that would be,well so much for that new guy talking much sense,he must think we are all stupid. Leadership needs to actually lead.

Edited August 21 by the galah

[the galah]

I watched the friday night thing. Good viewing.

The thing i found interesting was the interview with jamie mackinnon ,the head of the auckland club.

now i will say i think hes a high achiever and has done a top job representing and pursuing whats best for auckland. Very single minded although the negative to that is its been reported some of his decisions have upset some who also have served the atc at times when it was well run.

but its what he said in his interview that i found interesting.

I'm assuming he was just saying what he thinks.

He said amongst other things that,

he had never felt the high level of comradery that exists at present,that so many positive things were happening in the indstry,that entain was doing a wonderful job,that people at the grass roots were thinking positive...

i heard that and it reminded me of the conversation i had just this week with a small time trainer who has a broodmare. He was telling me how he had sold his broodmare overseas and he thought the horse he currently trains will be his last,that he had been talking to another trainer this week,a professional trainer who trains about 15,who was telling him 3 of his main owners who normally breed one each year had told him they won't be this year.i heard the same myself from someone else this week.  

i know what i heard is real. Mackinnon obviously believes the opposite.

obviously people move in different circles.

but it does prove the total disconnect that exists in this industry.

Its mackinnons view of things that is the basis for decision making at the highest level.

people will have to make up their own minds as to who lives in the real world.

Edited August 23 by the galah

[Brodie]

It is great that some people are speaking positively since Entain was basically given the rights to the NZTAB for 25 years!

Who has heard of a business getting rights to an established business lease for 25 years??

The ones who are salaried paid employees have to speak positively sbout what Entsin are doing with harness or it would not be a great look.

Reality is that there is a lot of propaganda being spoken that is just that.

The proof will be in what actually happens.

Will there be more horses, owners, trainers and punters from an increase in stake money?

Brodie personally believes that the increased stake money is good, but not necessarily being distributed correctly.

There are so many other issues that requires attention to be resolved and at the end of the day, Entain will want a positive result from the money put in!

Haven’t got a lot of confidence however due to some of the very poorly thought out decisions being made, despite the media publicity!!