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Not really a big fan of ball sports but listen to SN in the car as background music in the car or tractor when I don't feel like listening to music. Noticed they have a rather limited range of regular advertisers, Blue Bubble Taxis, Night n Day, PGG Wrightson, Signa powerbanks HRNZ and a couple of others get thrashed to death.

A NZ quinella , what's the chances of that happening again ???? Also had Mr Illusion in the race .

Sorry Miss Jools

They were a few years before my time, but I have heard just how popular on course jackpots were in the early 70's. Just wondering if they were so good, why did they go ? Was it because of the logistics of storing huge amounts of cash safely on a weekend before banks were open? [No Eftpos then] Was it something else? Could they have survived if they became 'must be won' at a fixed point? Just wondering

Given its Stradbroke weekend ... remembering CANTERBURY BELLE and her Elders Handicap win in 1985. LINK to Youtube: Fast forward to 38:27 Canterbury Belle (Elders Handicap) AND 41:16 Dave Kerr (trainer of Canterbury Belle) with Jan. A great interview by Dave as always. Canterbury Belle's win is quite possibly the last South Island trained GROUP 1 winner in Australia? need someone to check. All 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th U Prizemoney Career 21 10 5 1 0 3 2 $444,923.00

Better than usual - he has impoved

Ratings reductions, a couple of SI trainers are experts at it and mostly their punts land, after a few rating reduction runs

$3.2 back for my $6 today

What a wonderful interview….. On Santanna Mach….Amazing facts….. Commentator spoke well…..Trainer was emotional….. This is what racing is about …. Great work Unhinged…..

Agree, almost a track gallops .. back it next time.

No….

Happens multiple times in multiple races here , I personally put it down to the fact most of them can't judge the pace and have a poor understanding of race tactics .

Just like that, Santanna Mach is retired Good on connections, won a heap of races, but not a fav of mine, farewell bro. The other House runner which was fav earlier, every chance in lead, but faded to 4th. Its a stable i find hard to follow, thats for sure.

IMHO a soft steer, simply not put in the race and no effort made at any time. Soft run to reduce ratings. In Australia had 3 months written all over it. But nothing will be done, same same as yesterday. Disclosure; I do not bet in NZ - this effort says why I don’t

Yeah, thought home 200m out, but maybe not as sharp as last start. That Santanna Mach…. gee i can never be on the winning side with that horse, cant wait until he retires Also, its hard to see Prince Teka fading out each start, was always a hard horse to get past, but lately its putting up white flag 400m out, think he has had enough, been a good plodder.

Is there any thought around how much 'money back' bonus's being regurgitated may have lifted this. And what the actual cost to the business these returned bets represent?

It seems that Racecafe get's read by at least some of the people responsible (using that word very loosely) for steering the industry, so continually pushing opinions through this medium may eventually bear some dividends.... It seems like a hopeless cause at times, but there's enough common sense from the common people to still believe that change can happen.

I presume those figures you are quoting for ATC are from last season? If that's the case, then you need the context of the 40% increase in races at ATC taken into account, 395 races compared to 282 the previous season, also the average field size dropped from 8.5 to 8.2. Turnover tells you nothing, if the small fields don't produce GBR, and it's the GBR that is halved in 2 year's time.

Had the best run in the race in perfect trail, was poor. Harry good run

Well they reckon he can stop a train. Had the perfect run in the trail as well

Hmmmm lol

It sounds like changes to the members' council and a proposed meeting between its chair and the board might have ruffled a few feathers at least. That board is accountable to the Members' Council for its performance, so hopefully this is a sign that they are starting to take some action. Whether or not that can help resolve the current mess is another question.

What I'd like to know, along with plenty here, is what part he played in banning Dennis Ryan from publishing an article about some industry participants caught out by the Rules? This sounds like North Korea where you only do what the dictator tells you. Whatever else is going wrong with the industry this type of behaviour is atrocious.

Hopefully just the beginning .

Entain introduced more place options, which i think is great. One issue, how long it takes to confirm. Surely with the technology available it can be sorted more quickly. Oamaru today, still waiting for placings outside top 4 to be confirmed on R7, yet R8 has already run?