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  1. chelseacol

    Radio trackside

    The TAB is slowly succeeding in turning me off gambling..... website debacle, machines on course and at pubs not being fit for purpose, no newspaper coverage, fiasco of form guides being published etc. But the absence of trackside radio has become an annoyance. A few times in the last week I have gone to listen to a race while out and about in the car etc and then remembered. I do miss the Saturday morning 8am show which set up the thinking for the day (the TV offering is 24 hours old, pre scratchings and with variable track conditions often a joke ... as are the selections). Oncourse at Riccarton Saturday I spoke to several people who felt the same way. It just feels like they would prefer to shut up shop ........ (and please no responses saying I am old fashioned etc etc etc - I do 90% of my punting on the phone or computer, and it used to be at a significant level - yes I can source info online etc )
    4 points
  2. gubellini

    Trainer gone????

    Russell Campbell started training in Rotorua before moving to Matamata. His first winner was Miss Hiawatha at Te Aroha on the 25/11/50. He also trained the very good mare Bellota who won the 1973 Ladies’ Mile, the 1974 South Auckland Breeders’ Plate and Rotorua Travelodge Stakes and the 1975 Foxbridge Plate and Avondale Cup. He also trained Neat who won five races at three and ran second to Young Ida in the 1972 Great Northern Oaks.
    3 points
  3. Chris Wood Cyril Beechey trained Analight to win the 1975 Caulfield Cup. Russell and his co owner Reg Durrant sent her to Cyril in August of that year to train her for the big events.
    2 points
  4. barryb

    winsurance new bet type

    I just did Hawkes race 5 and the win odds for 2,3,4 (money Back) tallied to 250% Good luck using this product, as you will need it. The pokies would be a better option as you will lose your cash slower.
    2 points
  5. Maybe so but its a convenience type bet. I took several such bets and will work out the pro's/cons. However its worth noting that in the TAB's quest to emulate the overseas bookies with promotions they miss one vital point. The bookies there don't have tote betting therefore they are competing against the tote. I can't see the point of competing here in NZ against the tote unless you are trying to wean people off racing and onto sport.
    2 points
  6. lamour

    Betting Machines

    I rarely bet these days but went into the local pub on Friday to use their betting machine. Couldn’t help but think I was using technology Software that seemed right out of the 80,s that hasn’t been updated since. If they are going to replace tote operators with these machines they need to bring them up to date. They should be able to accept eftpos for one thing. Also to speed things up they should Be able to accept bet slips so people can place numerous bets without spending 2 or 3 minutes at the terminal. Also , what happens when you win because these machines only take investments, they don’t pay out on them.
    1 point
  7. It's an awful concept for punters. If you're serious about making a profit, you would simply back your runner to place, instead of taking much shorter odds and only getting your money back if beaten. It makes no sense to bet into the Winsurance market and only mug punters will be attracted.
    1 point
  8. Maybe we shouldn't knock Dean McKenzie and RITA so much as I heard over the weekend that NZ Lotto and the various Casino's around the Country are very very happy with their efforts and progress to date since their appointments. SKY City shares $1.30 in March 2020 now $2.41 and word is to those that missed on the $1.30 buy now because as soon as the NZ TAB announce their 2020 end of year result it will spruik their share price.
    1 point
  9. Fredd002

    Radio trackside

    Maybe someone in IT arrived this morning and fixed the (my) problem because, I did send them a couple of terse emails over the weekend about it
    1 point
  10. tripple alliance

    Jacinda Ardern

    Going down the gurgler , really , now let's see . National UP 9 points that's a half way back to where they really are and a strong well funded election campaign to come . Now the winning Trump card , ACT , most of us realise they will do well this time around and that was confirmed last night at their campaign , very strong support . The targets , Kelvin Davis , Phil Twyford , Andrew Little , Carmel Sepuloni , Nanaia Mahuta , Iain Lees-Galloway , Jenny Salesa , Damien O'Connor , David Clark , Willie Jackson , Stuart Nash . Now that's 11 of their top 20 , 11 who are failures and should not be in parliament , easy targets with records to prove they have chosen the wrong career . A guy like Little , I thought he might be OK but , pike river $100 million stupidity and prisoners voting , he just doesn't get it and therefore not up to the task . The rest on the list all have real , proven short cummings .
    1 point
  11. chelseacol

    Betting Machines

    This post is spot on. Trying to feed notes into the bloody thing is frustrating. Then navigating between screens takes a while - interrupted at the beginning by it then bringing up a screen saying you just deposited $20 about 30 seconds after the money went in. Which I was aware I had done without being told !! Then large fields don't appear on one screen (WTF) etc etc etc - they are absolute dogs. Thank goodness we still have tote staff on course for those who don't use the phone.
    1 point
  12. Stables

    Nigel McGrath

    You are correct 2Piper he can own a horse during the period of disqualification, but he cannot race it. He could buy a horse at the yearling sales, but not in his qwn name and he would be breaking the rules if he was to train the horse. The only horses he will be permitted to sell would be those in his ownership at the time of his disqualification.
    1 point
  13. Okay, the weekend gives me a chance to catch up and I've got some serious unfinished business from last weekend in the form of the Eclipse at Sandown which saw the seasonal re-appearance of dual Arc winner ENABLE, still in training as a 6-y-o. She went off favourite but was decisively held in second by GHAIYYATH who made most under William Buick. To be honest, the race went pretty much as might have been expected. Buick got to the front after 100m and had a fairly easy time of it in front. Sandown is a track which favours front runners but the key feature of last Sunday was a strong headwind up the finishing straight. I thought it wouldn't help GHAIYYATH but it didn't help the pursuers either who found it hard to make the ground into the teeth of the near gale. Buick had enjoyed the tailwind on the far side and still had plenty of petrol when quickening off the bottom of the hill. GHAIYYATH won by two and a quarter lengths and he might well have won at 2400m but we'll find that out another day. Not many horses have won the Coronation Cup and the Eclipse in the same season - post race plans suggested the Juddmonte would be the preferred route. York is another track where front runners are favoured but not to the same extent as Sandown. ENABLE ran okay but, to be honest, I have some doubts. She won the Eclipse last year and this was an inferior performance by 5-7 lbs. Trainer John Gosden told anyone and everyone before the race she was "85% fit" and while he occasionally bluffs, this time he was on the money. Time makes fools of us all and while I'm not saying ENABLE is anyone's fool, the question as to whether she has or can retain her full ability at age six is one I'm going to be musing on for a while. No plans for her formally but I suspect the King George, Yorkshire Oaks and then the Arc. JAPAN ran a much better race in third and was a head behind ENABLE. I know they still rate him very highly at Ballydoyle but they have LOVE who is now many people's idea of the Arc winner (she was mine as soon as she passed the post at Epsom). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9bDK0Ke_r0 On a busy racing day, the feature supporting race at Sandown was the Henry II Stakes over 3200m and this went to DASHING WILLOUGHBY and I believe they are considering a trip to Flemington in November. At Haydock, the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks went to MANUELA DE VEGA who romped home unchallenged by five lengths. The field was decimated by scratchings after overnight rain left the ground soft so I'm not certain what to make of this. She's highly effective on wet turf so an autumn campaign might be on the cards. The circus moved on to Newmarket for the July Festival. The opening day is Ladies' Day and to be honest it was fortunate there were no spectators as the rain was incessant for much of the afternoon and that turned the ground to Soft. The opening day feature was the Group 2 Princess of Wales and the rain was perfect for DAME MAILLOT who had been well behind ENBIHAAR on fast ground at Doncaster last autumn but reversed the form in style. She won the Pomone on heavy ground at Deauville last year so, rather like MANUELA DE VEGA above, she could be one for a wet autumn campaign. COMMUNIQUE made a bold effort to follow up last year's success in this race but came up against an improving filly on her ground. At York, the Group 2 Dante saw HIGHEST GROUND, a well-touted type in Newmarket, start odds-on for this post-Derby "trial" but he just ran out of steam on the slow ground and had to give best to THUNDEROUS, a more experienced typical Mark Johnston type, gutsy and courageous in a battle. Both the front two ran with credit. Friday saw a better day weather wise at Newmarket but the ground remained Soft for all they were racing on fresh turf.The feature Group 1 was the Falmouth Stakes for the fillies and mares and favourite for this year's renewal was TEREBELLUM who had run such a fine race behind CIRCUS MAXIMUS in the Queen Anne but this wasn't to be her day. There were two problems for jockey Frankie Dettori, first, the ground on which she was unproven and second, a field made up of finishers. He set the fractions and tried to quicken it from the front and get the others to get in each other's way but as TEREBELLUM hit the rising ground the petrol gauge was empty and she was swamped in the final 150m. The race went to Duke of Cambridge winner NAZEEF who showed tremendous determination to battle up the hill and scramble home by a neck from the fast finishing BILLESDON BROOK who ran another fine race. Let's not forget she won the 1000 Guineas back in 2018 beating Laurens and while she's had a few moderate efforts since, she's always kept very good company and won the 2019 Sun Chariot so she owes her connections nothing and will be a smashing broodmare. TEREBELLUM was third beaten two necks and perhaps the ground was the key or perhaps it was the nature of the field. She stays further and I wonder if connections will think about stepping her back up in trip though 2000m is a crowded market currently. ONE MASTER was slightly unlucky - he was beaten a length in total and fourth and had to switch around the winner which cost her momentum and ground at a critical time. Would she have beaten NAZEEF with a clear run? You can judge for yourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9aSq0jZhM DANDALLA had put up an eye-catching performance to win the Albany at Ascot but had to work much harder to win the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes. She was reluctant to go in the stalls and while she got home here, I just wonder if the Ascot effort took more out of her than seemed the case. The placed horses, FEV ROVER and SANTOSHA, were coming off maiden race starts so the quality of the form is open to question but it's very early days for the juvenile fillies.
    1 point
  14. Idolmite

    Trump written off

    The only one I recognise is in the top pic, RH side. Benji Marshall.
    1 point
  15. barryb

    winsurance new bet type

    Have you worked out the market %?. The best punters on the planet would struggle to overcome it using this product long term.
    1 point
  16. Keneperu

    Todd Muller / Nikki Kaye

    Muller hides behind a lady's skirt and puts her to answer leaking peoples health records to fellow MPs on Q and A this morning. What a great brave man! Certainly wont endear him to decent kiwi voters
    1 point
  17. Ohokaman, about 30% of americans are certifiably insane, these two are classic examples of that insanity
    1 point
  18. Stables

    Nigel McGrath

    No, he has been classified as a disqualified person by the Judicial control Authority, it makes no difference that he wasn't a licence holder at the time of his disqualification
    1 point
  19. Wrong Trump should have released Stone , just like he has commuted the sentences many ordinary people who have been harshly treated by the justice system , Stone and others are actually political prisoners .
    1 point
  20. Well , let's see . The Russian collusion HOAX , Proven . The Impeachment HOAX, Proven . The Polls HOAX, nothing new Normal . The Climate HOAX , Proven exaggeration . The current bigge The Covid HOAX , jury's out but the rest of the world is getting on with life , living with it while we are imprisoned . How long can we stay closed before we become like Cuba , North Korea or New Venezuela
    1 point
  21. Stables

    Nigel McGrath

    Technically by the rules he can have nothing to do with any horses registered with HRNZ and he cannot enter a racecourse
    1 point
  22. Gunna be good TREASON + CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Flynn set to go public Wait for John Durham
    1 point
  23. I,m surprised they are still showing prelim's , i'm sure they must be able to squeeze in yak race from outer Mongolia in that amount of spare time , so i'm be grateful for what we're getting .
    1 point
  24. Shifnal Prince.....
    1 point
  25. Blue

    Trainer gone????

    Fairfleet probably his best Crusty, though Shifnal Chief won three for him before being sold to a client of Jack Winder.
    1 point
  26. LightsOut above makes some excellent observations above....it sure is a question why Credit Card fees so high......surely there are other expenses/recoveries included in that line Close to $5 mill seems a lot ! But the narrative obviously designed to mention a few roses while overlooking the weeds !
    1 point
  27. Mikie

    RITA 6 Month Results

    Awesome Lightout, you should be LightsOn Mikie
    1 point
  28. LightsOut

    RITA 6 Month Results

    I can't fathom why McKenzie would in the half year August 2019 - January 2020 financial report make mention at the beginning and the end of his comments the impact that Covid 19 has had on most business's across the globe. Covid 19 had zero effect on the a bottom line of the accounts in question. In comparison to previous 6 monthly reports it's a 'con' 'dense' statement and as such lacks the required information to be able to fully comprehend the true situation. It's poor financial reporting when an Organisation doesn't have the previous 6 months alongside the current figures and if you look at last years 6 monthly report report both current and this years both figures exist. The Racing Minister said that RITA would be a transparent and open agency well it's obvious they are far from that. The first 6 months there appears to have been no real urgency towards cutting costs and then along comes Covet 19 and gives RITA the jump start they needed but due to basically doing nothing in the first 6 months they had no other option to adopt but a cost cutting knee jerking reaction which meant maybe some things were cut which shouldn't have been eg Radio Trackside . .Mmm do you think the axing of Radio Trackside would resulted in a decline in public interst of the Industry. Why didn't RITA communicate with their customers as required under their mandate to do? They obviously forgot about that small detail of been open and transparent. Ha financials structure had no chance when millions in Bonus Bets oddly gets coded to the wrong area. I mean come on how could it not have been picked up earlier when all of a sudden one area of cost starts going above what it should be. Most financial Organisations would actually call that creative accounting rather than blamed on a coding error. Great financial structures implemented when it takes months to pick-up what should have been noticed after a month. So that's a fail by RITA. Looking at the figures and results that's a fail by RITA Update from RITA aug 2019 4th meeting board Near a year on the same pin gets given bad results going punters way and big punters betting less. Must be some punters making plenty out there. Oddly enough the best sports result ever occurred in the first 6 months when the TAB won over $7 million from the Rugby World Cup. Fail Does that $26 million relate wholly to the first 6 months? And is it reflected in the expense accounts? Why are they reporting revenue growth in this area when merchant fees charged to a consumer are only supposed to be a recovery of bank credit card costs by a Company. The expense and income from this area should cancel each other out. Elite customers don't pay credit card fees and with them turning over % wise in betting more than the average 'Joe' punter it seems they are subsidising the free ride for the Elites. John Allen said the $50 million dollar plus $17 million a year in costs would be world class and enable the NZ TAB to competitive with overseas rivals. Well the first thing you do is remove credit card deposite fees like all TAB"s and Corporate bookies have in Australia. Paying a fee to use that nightmare of a site is a joke. Poor NZ punter deposites $20 into his account pays his bank $2.15 for a credit card fee, if he uses card credit pays about 20% then punts into tote pools with a top takeout of 26% then they poor $#$@ard has to try and pick a winner. That credit card fee came in a year after Bayliss and his ex banking GM mates came in. The NZ TAB would have a good % rate on their merchant fees, most companies that do charge a credit card fee are around 2.5% so teh $2.15 on a $20 deposite is a high % for a customer to pay and on that type of a transaction results in a money making excercise. Interesting Lotto don't charge a merchant fee for online deposites. The merchant fee for debit cards online is 1% and $0.00 through eftpos. If anyone was charged a merchant fee of $2.15 by the TAB when depositing online during Lockdown e-mail them for a refund as banks waived merchant fees during this period. Its not the amount but the principal; as punters already get stung enough without adding to the TAB's revenue line when they don't have to. The first 6 months I would rate RITA's performance 2/10 as saw nothing to make me think they were onto it and made changes needed.
    1 point
  29. I dont live down that way but the difficulties that Race got into I believe was getting involved in building and development. Bob Jones says all developers go broke. I have been a builder and developer and got caught on two specs but many were good and I kept the shirt on. Awapuni built a new stand then got into land development then got hit with a recession. Result sections didnt sell (and really was there a market for them at the time) But a perfect storm nonetheless. Lesson - Clubs should not get involved in things where they dont have the expertise. Land agents and banks are skimmers and take no risk. They can talk the unwary into unwise actions, in fact clubs are sitting ducks. And there is no accountability and that is the major flaw.
    1 point