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 Monday at 12:19 AM 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.

[Shad]

4 hours ago, mikeynz said:

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.

Yes turnover very high, be interesting this year poor fields, and weather forecast not looking great, hopefully it changes.

[mikeynz]

2 hours ago, Shad said:

Yes turnover very high, be interesting this year poor fields, and weather forecast not looking great, hopefully it changes.

This meeting is being demoted in some ways and more than likely it does affect the turnover, better fields better betting.

[Shad]

35 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

This meeting is being demoted in some ways and more than likely it does affect the turnover, better fields better betting.

Yeah bloody shame as always a popular meeting, looking through the fields be a struggle to find a winner, Ultimate Counsel tad unlucky last start, no champ but handy draw will help, old boy evidently pick something up over the circuit, let year the Mitchell's bought horses to Westport I think for the first time, I got on to Sinai Sermon, 25s Westport 40s Reefton, done the double, although was the March meeting, always seem to have a win at Reefton, Sinai now been exported to China, was a half brother to Lazarus.

[mikeynz]

Have said it before New Years eve is not the right date for the Auckland Cup, only 2 southerners  nominated, Omakau on Jan 2 is better for southerners, me thinks Auckland Cup should be in March leading up to the slots meeting, Auckland stuffed things up moving in the first place.