Waikato Times

[Brown fox]

Stopped off to get a Waikato Times this morning to swat up and mark my fancies for tomorrows Comps.

Racing page has 2 meetings.Metro Trots and Ashburton today.Nothing for tomorrow WTF.?

[Boxie]

Subscribe to the Informant!!!

[Brown fox]

I read the Informant but its nice to have all the bets marked down on a single page beside my Armchair.?

[Newmarket]

6 hours ago, Brown fox said:

I read the Informant but its nice to have all the bets marked down on a single page beside my Armchair.?

Racing print in ChCh press so bloody small, can’t even see it with my reading glasses!!

[Peter RS]

Sitting here with my iPad wondering why anyone still gets a newspaper.

[Newmarket]

1 hour ago, Peter RS said:

Sitting here with my iPad wondering why anyone still gets a newspaper.

Agree, canceled paper couple of years ago, do same as you. 

But many older folk don’t have wifi, so these are about the only ones buying the paper. 

[Huey]

I can't believe anyone would depend on the daily rag for punting info anymore, you can't hardly depend on it for news or weather least of all racing.

[hesi]

I can't believe also that people would still rely on hard copy for form analysis.

If you expanded out the amount of form on Racenet, you would need a whole newspaper just to fit it all in.

I guess still a lot of people around who are not au fait with using a computer let alone accessing the internet.  I've tried to talk my neighbour, an old racing man, into using it, to no avail

[Chief Stipe]

9 hours ago, Newmarket said:

Agree, canceled paper couple of years ago, do same as you. 

But many older folk don’t have wifi, so these are about the only ones buying the paper. 

If they switched from buying the paper every day they could afford broadband internet access.

[Flagship uberalles]

Sometimes its nice just to have one sheet of news paper that you can circle your choices, don't have to flick through endless pages of best bets etc. I normally do my study on inet and transfer them to the paper for easy reference....

[Newmarket]

22 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

If they switched from buying the paper every day they could afford broadband internet access.

Chief, many old race goers would struggle with the tech side of the world. It was a struggle just to get the folks to use mob phone, never mind smart phone. 

Go back 10 years, I was in 4 weekly betting syndicates, 2 family, 2 work. I used to pay $10 to each per week, as did others. 10 in family synd, 20 in work synd, everyone, which we split up just before Xmas. We used to bet over $30k a year, not bad really.

The older members, that ran them, pulled out. They couldn’t get the form in their trusty newspaper, then trackside got pulled free to air. 

I know what everyone is saying, I love looking on line, or printing fields, but I know for myself, you tend to do far more betting by yourself nowadays, rather than associating with others as much as previously. 

 

 

[Chief Stipe]

25 minutes ago, Newmarket said:

Chief, many old race goers would struggle with the tech side of the world. It was a struggle just to get the folks to use mob phone, never mind smart phone. 

Go back 10 years, I was in 4 weekly betting syndicates, 2 family, 2 work. I used to pay $10 to each per week, as did others. 10 in family synd, 20 in work synd, everyone, which we split up just before Xmas. We used to bet over $30k a year, not bad really.

The older members, that ran them, pulled out. They couldn’t get the form in their trusty newspaper, then trackside got pulled free to air. 

I know what everyone is saying, I love looking on line, or printing fields, but I know for myself, you tend to do far more betting by yourself nowadays, rather than associating with others as much as previously. 

 

 

I agree with what you are saying especially about Trackside free to air.  However the Newspaper corporates charge extraordinary fees for printing form.