Twilight funding and Reefton

[curious]

Do you think this announcement might have slightly upset @Reefton?

Meeting News
Waverley 28 January Stakes to $25,000

The Waverley twilight meeting on Wednesday 28 January will run for stakes of $25,000 for all eight races. This brings it in line with all twilight Wednesdays from mid-January through to the end of March.

So the ONLY Wednesday meeting this year that didn't get twilight funding was ???

And to make matters worse, Reefton on a weekday with industry funding did oncourse turnover of $132k.

The following Sunday, ATR (feature meeting at Ellerslie qith 460k stakes) just managed 100k.

[Special Agent]

The wording is beautiful, isn't it.  From mid-January ...

How is the disparity between stake money and on-course turnovers for the two clubs explained away?

[Murray Fish]

28 minutes ago, curious said:

And to make matters worse, Reefton on a weekday with industry funding did oncourse turnover of $132k.

The following Sunday, ATR (feature meeting at Ellerslie qith 460k stakes) just managed 100k.

any idea of the entrance  money and the catering profits?

[Shad]

Well done reefton, good turnover for very small fields and a week day,any idea of off course turnover, may have been a 5$ entry, time to spread those stakes around a bit more, I'm sure some smaller clubs with better turnover be grateful.

[curious]

2 hours ago, Shad said:

  any idea of off course turnover, 

1270.6k

[curious]

Kumara on course 430k

Off 2.517k

Ellerslie off course 2.488k

[curious]

Sorry, the above are total turnover where it says offcourse.

[Chief Stipe]

1 hour ago, curious said:

Kumara on course 430k

Off 2.517k

Ellerslie off course 2.488k

I'm not sure what your point is.  You aren't exactly comparing apples with apples. For a start:

Kumara had 9 races.

Ellerslie had 8 races.

 

[curious]

11 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

I'm not sure what your point is.  You aren't exactly comparing apples with apples. For a start:

Kumara had 9 races.

Ellerslie had 8 races.

 

My point was about Reefton.

Turnover per race was 311k Ellerslie (stakes 460k)

280k Kumara (stakes 240k)

 

Edited 1 hour ago by curious

[mikeynz]

I think you actually find those good on course turnovers at many of the small holiday venues is pushed by tote betting by the non regular race goers, they don't care about fixed odds, probably don't care about horse racing that much either but just enjoying the summer outings that become traditional for many.

Edited 28 minutes ago by mikeynz