Westport first day

[Westview]

Absolutely disgraceful that it's on trackside 2

[Westview]

18 minutes ago, Westview said:

Absolutely disgraceful that it's on trackside 2

Now they are previewing gallops on other channel between first and second race.

[Nowornever]

2 hours ago, Westview said:

Absolutely disgraceful that it's on trackside 2

Absolutely disgraceful they have the track conditions as "Good" on the TAB when the pacers are coming home a last 800m in 67 seconds on a 2:12 mile rate. They get it wrong so often they should just put "All data is fucked" up there instead.

Couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat!

Edited December 26, 2024 by Nowornever

[Westview]

30 minutes ago, Nowornever said:

Absolutely disgraceful they have the track conditions as "Good" on the TAB when the pacers are coming home a last 800m in 67 seconds on a 2:12 mile rate. They get it wrong so often they should just put "All data is fucked" up there instead.

Couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat!

All day between the race's they are previewing a galloping race on the other channel WTF

[Doomed]

What's wrong with it being on 2? It's just a number. One has gallops on a Saturday and public holiday, everyone knows that.

The shocker today was allowing less than 2 minutes to preview a listed race at Wingatui while they babbled on about a hack race at Ellerslie.

[Brodie]

59 minutes ago, Westview said:

All day between the race's they are previewing a galloping race on the other channel WTF

They do not care about harness!

Sam Ottley gets the 100 wins for the season and  they whip over to a pointless gallops race in Oz!

[Westview]

58 minutes ago, Doomed said:

What's wrong with it being on 2? It's just a number. One has gallops on a Saturday and public holiday, everyone knows that.

The shocker today was allowing less than 2 minutes to preview a listed race at Wingatui while they babbled on about a hack race at Ellerslie.

As far as I know they don't take trackside 2 into Australia so I'm picking quite alot really. 

[Doomed]

1 minute ago, Westview said:

As far as I know they don't take trackside 2 into Australia so I'm picking quite alot really. 

Why does it matter whether they take 2 in Aussie? It is the NZ TAB, we are NZers and the races are in NZ. They are $12,000 races, why on earth would Aussies be interested in them?

[Westview]

11 minutes ago, Doomed said:

Why does it matter whether they take 2 in Aussie? It is the NZ TAB, we are NZers and the races are in NZ. They are $12,000 races, why on earth would Aussies be interested in them?

I suppose your right the margin we get from offshore betting doesn't count 

 

Edited December 26, 2024 by Westview

[JJ Flash]

6 hours ago, Westview said:

Now they are previewing gallops on other channel between first and second race.

Did your mates the Dunns not get enough exposure?

[Shad]

Track seemed ok, didn't look to be marking it when where I was watching in the stand, some didnt handle it, didn't get much rain yesterday. 

[Newmarket]

I thought it better Westport on 2, keep gallops on 1

[Westview]

13 minutes ago, Newmarket said:

I thought it better Westport on 2, keep gallops on 1

Between each race on 2 they had a galloping preview on , harness racing derive income from Australian betting so people with no skin in the game probably don't give a shit that it's not on trackside 1 but sooner or later we will need every source of income we can get.

 

[Newmarket]

22 minutes ago, Westview said:

Between each race on 2 they had a galloping preview on , harness racing derive income from Australian betting so people with no skin in the game probably don't give a shit that it's not on trackside 1 but sooner or later we will need every source of income we can get.

 

At least everyone now can get both on Freeview….

[Westview]

16 minutes ago, Newmarket said:

At least everyone now can get both on Freeview….

Yip that is a positive 

[mikeynz]

Over 20000 in tote win pool for Cup at Westport, almost doubles best at Auckland for their million dollar night last week, Invercargill best was 18 and just under 15 for their cup, both Westport and Banks Peninsula will have big turnovers this week,  only to subsidize the northern clubs, only 7 and 8 for Westports main race on day 2 and more than likely Reefton will be same.

[Westview]

5 hours ago, mikeynz said:

Over 20000 in tote win pool for Cup at Westport, almost doubles best at Auckland for their million dollar night last week, Invercargill best was 18 and just under 15 for their cup, both Westport and Banks Peninsula will have big turnovers this week,  only to subsidize the northern clubs, only 7 and 8 for Westports main race on day 2 and more than likely Reefton will be same.

I know it's hard to get your head around but north and south is one industry,  great turnover on the coast which should be recognized, if you start look at the figures Canterbury clubs also out perform Southland clubs as well.  Have you done any homework as to where the betting is coming from .

[Nowornever]

Track condition today? Good or still a bit of moisture on it like it was on day one.

[Rangatira]

26 minutes ago, Nowornever said:

Track condition today? Good or still a bit of moisture on it like it was on day one.

According to Met Service past weather

26.4 ml of rain on 25th

0.2 since and windy to boot

should be a genuine good today

Edited December 27, 2024 by Rangatira

[Shad]

9 hours ago, Nowornever said:

Track condition today? Good or still a bit of moisture on it like it was on day one.

Started the day as dead, funny as first day it was good, played fair today, winners hard to find for me, only horse I never backed up on the second day, after what a very poor run first day was Deirdre Franco, thought first day was to bad to be true, ultimate punishment for not sticking with her, the 32 divy I thought very poor given her recent form.

[Nowornever]

2 hours ago, Shad said:

Started the day as dead, funny as first day it was good, played fair today, winners hard to find for me, only horse I never backed up on the second day, after what a very poor run first day was Deirdre Franco, thought first day was to bad to be true, ultimate punishment for not sticking with her, the 32 divy I thought very poor given her recent form.

Last year on Boxing Day 2023 the Track was rated as "Slow" and in the Westport Cup they went a time of 4.21 last 800m in 62.0

This year the track was rated as "Good" by the stipes and in the Westport Cup they went a time of 4.26.6 last 800m in 64.8

 

It was clearly soft or worse! You could see the track cutting up on the fence around the bends and I have seen quicker times on a heavy track.

FFS if they can't even get the basics right how do they expect everyone to take them seriously on other stuff.

[Brodie]

10 hours ago, Nowornever said:

Last year on Boxing Day 2023 the Track was rated as "Slow" and in the Westport Cup they went a time of 4.21 last 800m in 62.0

This year the track was rated as "Good" by the stipes and in the Westport Cup they went a time of 4.26.6 last 800m in 64.8

 

It was clearly soft or worse! You could see the track cutting up on the fence around the bends and I have seen quicker times on a heavy track.

FFS if they can't even get the basics right how do they expect everyone to take them seriously on other stuff.

On boxing day the track was never good.

It had a good amount of grass on it and thry had had rain and most horses struggled to get through it.

Yesterday it was totally different, it had dried out a bit snd they had rolled it so the grass was not as long and there were form reversals from the first day.

A lot of the time the weather snd track conditions are at odds with the true weather conditions.

HRNZ can say rain and yet no rain predicted at all on the metro weather report?

Edited December 28, 2024 by Brodie

[Nowornever]

2 hours ago, Brodie said:

On boxing day the track was never good.

It had a good amount of grass on it and thry had had rain and most horses struggled to get through it.

Yesterday it was totally different, it had dried out a bit snd they had rolled it so the grass was not as long and there were form reversals from the first day.

A lot of the time the weather snd track conditions are at odds with the true weather conditions.

HRNZ can say rain and yet no rain predicted at all on the metro weather report?

How do we have no-one in charge capable of putting two and two together when the times obviously do not match the posted track conditions and quickly getting it sorted.

I even heard drivers saying the track was very testing in places. There were dozens of drivers reports about horses not handling the track conditions. What conditions? The track was good wasn't it!

For the stipes to post a good track in the report tells me a lot about how competent they actually are.

[Nowornever]

Lover Boy in race one according to the form guide has had one race on a wet track when it was actually Good and one race on a Good track when it was actually wet.