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I see She along with La Dorada and Return to conquer have all headed straight to Victoria for spring racing , they are going to leave a huge hole in our spring racing . Seems all that extra cash hasn't helped retain horses in NZ . -
Paul Williams in Levin does a fantastic job keeping local racing and J/Os along with Foxton trials relevant in one of the local papers , The Star I think . And some personality pieces , long may he keep it up .
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I would love to see the news option but the reality they don't really want to show horse racing on primetime news , not a good look showing horses getting whipped . I always record the news and just stop where something interests me because there is so much click bait , the sports news now is rugby , netball , league when the Wahs are doing well , cycling , yachting and some football , usually local , hardly ever show PL football , even the big games , sometimes if they are short or it's spectacular , so racing hasn't got a show . We simply aren't main stream anymore .
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The main reason is they are nice horses without being exceptional so hence they are all pretty much on a par with each other , hence come race day i's often the horse with the best run in the race that wins . Our biggest issue is a nice young staying horse doesn't get a real chance to develop , if the you have above average ability they can win 4 races pretty quickly and they then find themselves having to race in open company , where often being younger than most and not had a lot of hard racing they can get beaten just by the toughness and durability of some of the older horses . And god forbid they are good enough to step up quickly , they then either have to start lumping big weights or are snapped up for overseas . This is a ratings problem .
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CHAMPION STAYER (2101M +)* = Wolfgang ? CHAMPION TWO YEAR OLD* = La Dorada ? CHAMPION THREE YEAR OLD* = Savaglee ? A shame Damask Rose won't get a look in as she was one of our better 3yo performers. -
By We're Doomed · Posted
I'm noticing just recently that with traditional print media struggling, and virtually closing down on weekends, the free racing stories provided by loveracing are happily getting printed to fill a gap. It is a good opportunity to get some stories out there. They may well be paying for them of course. -
By We're Doomed · Posted
One problem with our stayers is that they can be very inconsistent. They often need everything in their favour to do well. Roger James had a couple of solid staying mares a few years ago who seemed happy enough to make their own luck, but they quickly rose to the top of the weights. -
By chiknsmack · Posted
There's a couple of obvious opportunities here. The first is that the weekend news tends to be slow and so there's room for Trackside to throw together five minutes of reporting/reviews on a Saturday's racing and offer it to TVNZ to pad out the sports news on a Saturday or Sunday night. We have the footage, we have interesting stories, if we give them a package lock-stock where they don't have to do any work it'd suit them fine. Five minutes a week on the news would be a start to lifting the profile of the sport. The other option is to have a big Lotto jackpot-style bet type (dare I say Race-O?) on a Saturday, with the last race run at 5:50pm. From 5:30 to 6:00 we can have a program on TV1 of which the first half is replays of the first legs of the Race-O/Pick 6/Triple Trio/whatever and the last 15 minutes is the live broadcast of the last leg and congratulating whoever won the million-dollar jackpot. You get hype from the jackpot-style bet type, you get racing in front of free-to-air eyes right before the news, you get racing back into the consciousness of the average Kiwi, you expand the social license, the industry doesn't die in a few years when Entain start taking half the betting revenue for themselves and we have a Green Party Minister of Racing emboldened by the banning of greyhound racing and looking for more scalps to take. -
Wolfgang was probably our best stayer this season on results ?
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Indeed you are correct, are you HRNZ?, I had not noticed that the integrated figures in the Turnover had not been updated since April, although the figures in Club and NZ Group Breakdown, have integrated Betcha figures,( so you would have thought you should have had them in the raceday as well) I see that the latest (inclusive figures) gives ATC 52.8% GBR/Funding, still the worst Club. I note that the Q3 Breakdown has still not been added, and now we are only 3 weeks away from the end of Q4, maybe you could have a word with the responsible person?
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