Programming

[goldilocks]

Surely the running of the Harness 5000 at Ashburton  and Invercargill Cup day on the same weekend was the biggest blunder HRNZ has made.Tha available  horse pool was badly split between the 2 meetings.

 

 

[mikeynz]

33 minutes ago, goldilocks said:

Surely the running of the Harness 5000 at Ashburton  and Invercargill Cup day on the same weekend was the biggest blunder HRNZ has made.Tha available  horse pool was badly split between the 2 meetings.

 

 

I'm not alone in thinking that it seems, also Westport are slowly being squeezed out by some weird programming, Nelson ain't helped by Timaru 2 days earlier but also ain't helped by day 2 being mile racing, still no good complaining, the people in charge know what their doing, so they think.

Edited 48 minutes ago by mikeynz

[Brodie]

31 minutes ago, goldilocks said:

Surely the running of the Harness 5000 at Ashburton  and Invercargill Cup day on the same weekend was the biggest blunder HRNZ has made.Tha available  horse pool was badly split between the 2 meetings.

 

 

Definitely a programming blunder without doubt, but they have made much bigger ones!

When Entain was brought in by the TAB, signed off by McAnulty and Dean Shannon and Brad Steele brought in, many had a lot of optimism!

How wrong it has been proven, and things are not looking at all good, unless someone can come on and tell us that things are going good??????

 

[mikeynz]

My issue with Westport is they produce one of the biggest turnover of any Harness day yet the money they generate gets squandered elsewhere, bumping stakes for their main pacers race and readjusting Motukararas main race might help, just demoting their main races seems a simple cop out.

Interestingly Cambridge this week, the only meeting in the North are good fields numbers wise, I wonder if the penny will drop with the  hierarchy, Cambridge are heading the same way as Forbury, more and more poor meetings with poor fields, running half the days with better fields would make more sense.......Forbury once had  the best racing there, when they stopped and started running below average meetings  it just died a slow death, see how the interest returned in Rugby in Dunedin when they won the Shield and most of the NPC games as well, lesson is sell the public a good product, they will get on board.