Question regarding stakes payout.

[mikeynz]

Ok now the gallops are paying stakes just for turning up,it might be a couple of hundy  for the also rans so what happens if they don't get a full field,does the money go to the rest or goes elsewhere.

[curious]

15 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

Ok now the gallops are paying stakes just for turning up,it might be a couple of hundy  for the also rans so what happens if they don't get a full field,does the money go to the rest or goes elsewhere.

Goes to the winner.

 

[Huey]

Don't they get put back into the winners distribution?

The best thing they are currently doing at NZTR is paying out to 14th, probably the reason the field sizes have remained strong in volume.

[mikeynz]

Do they still have acceptance/nominations fees.

[curious]

2 minutes ago, mikeynz said:

Do they still have acceptance/nominations fees.

Not if you start.

 

[nomates]

2 hours ago, Huey said:

Don't they get put back into the winners distribution?

The best thing they are currently doing at NZTR is paying out to 14th, probably the reason the field sizes have remained strong in volume.

Took a completely positive move and undermined it by taking it out of the winners prize , brain dead decision . Suppose it was too much to expect them to get something completely right .

[curious]

2 minutes ago, nomates said:

Took a completely positive move and undermined it by taking it out of the winners prize , brain dead decision . Suppose it was too much to expect them to get something completely right .

Where would you take it from?

 

[nomates]

28 minutes ago, curious said:

Where would you take it from?

 

Add to the stake or just have a pool for paying starters , it's robbing Peter to pay Paul FFS . We are supposed to be incentivizing people to keep racing horses , and the positive was paying a starters incentive , OH but we are going to pay you less for winning . 

If ever we needed proof of how empty our coffers are this is it . While the starters payment is something i have wanted for years , there is no point doing it if you can't afford it , better off staying with status quo . 

Maybe if they had taken 10% off the top end races we would have had a pool to help make these payments to some of the battlers that are looking for a reason to stay in the game . But no , they start making starters payments but basically say it has to fund itself . Pointless exercise .