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[the galah]

can anyone follow the press release on the hrnz website.

it says "for harness it features 6 additional race dates compared to the 2024/25 season.They are addington(2),auckland (4),including 1 at ruakaka,methven,banks peninsula and oamaru(2)."

i mean,whatever way you read that press statement,it doesn't add up to 6. Thats not the first time they have realeased statements that made little sense around figures. 

[mikeynz]

25 minutes ago, the galah said:

can anyone follow the press release on the hrnz website.

it says "for harness it features 6 additional race dates compared to the 2024/25 season.They are addington(2),auckland (4),including 1 at ruakaka,methven,banks peninsula and oamaru(2)."

i mean,whatever way you read that press statement,it doesn't add up to 6. Thats not the first time they have realeased statements that made little sense around figures. 

They were going to have 15 but they've scrubbed some.

[the galah]

39 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

They were going to have 15 but they've scrubbed some.

yes. in that same press release it says they have scrubbed 9 of the 15 ,and names them.

But they also said in the same press release they have 6 new meetings and then named more than 6.

isn't that an indication the numbers people aren't good with numbers. they are either poor with numbers or poor with the wording they use to describe their numbers. In this case it comes acrros that they can't add even small numbers(again)..

[WOLF]

IT IS THE SAME ABACUS THEY USE TO WORK OUT HOW WELL AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB IS DOING.

SORRY ATC.

[the galah]

the latest comment that makes no sense to me again comes from mr peden,who in the short hrnz press release about the cambridge meeting that was cancelled said

"we are looking at putting some of the stakes cambridge lost this week back into the region,just how it looks is to be determined"

Now what is the logic behind such a comment. 

Does he not realise there was a race meeting 2 hours up the road that the horses from cambridge could have started in.

Or why couldn't they have just said ,hey lets transfer those 4 races they could have held at cambridge,to be run at auckland.even use the same nominations to select the fields,run them for the same stake or whatever.

Why is mr peden saying things that encourages people to say,hey if we don't go to auckland then we will get a bigger stake down the track.

does mr peden not realise that the shortage of horses was caused by,you guessed iit ,a shortage of horses.

Wheres his consistency. hes never said before that when there  were programmed races at cambridge that weren't run he thought they should do the same.. i.e. when they only run 6 races,if his thinking is consistent,why hasn't he said the stake from the races programmed and  not run on those nights, will go into the region.

Why did they just add 4 new meetings to next years calendar in the auckland region.Can't they work out they don't have enough horses in that region to justify that.

Also,where is the proof that running races like the southern surge or the golden gait or whatever,with the increased stakes,generates more overall starters throughout the year. If you look at auckland.all i see was people aimed at the bigger stakes,but did they actually race more over the season or will they do so in the future. If hes a so called data man,can he show us the data which says its more beneficial to put the money into  high stake races on certain nights than it is to apply the increased stakes in lesser amounts across the board of all racing.

these are the people at hrnz who came up with the 2 year old bonuses,which have done nothing to increase th number of starters in 2 year old races. These are the same people who said having a million dollar nz cup was needed. Where is the evidence having  big stakes for those races did anything to get the connections of the horses at that level to start more in other open class races throughout the season.

Also what strikes me about the auckland trainers is,put simply,they are far more wealthy on average than anywhere else in nz. Yet they are the ones HRNZ think need the support more. How does that make sense.

oh well,in my opinion,its all just groundhog day.

Edited 1 hour ago by the galah