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The Auckland Racing Club (ARC) has today announced that it will be increasing stakes above minimum levels for this season by contributing close to $1,000,000 of its own monies “First and foremost, we are a racing club and everything we do is with an eye on maximising our returns to stakeholders. “While we have topped-up stakes to around this level for the past three seasons; I am thrilled that we have been able to achieve this again for the 2020/21 season - particularly after the difficulties the last few months have posed for us all. “I seriously cannot wait to get this new season off and racing at Ellerslie and am delighted that our Club has been able to once again make this commitment to industry participants.” Stakes for some of Auckland Racing Club’s races across the 2020/21 season include: Group 1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (6 March 2021) retains its stake of $1m; Group 1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (13 March 2021) retains its stake of $500,000; The Group 3 SkyCity City of Auckland Cup (1 January 2021) to be run for a stake of $200,000; The Group 3 Haunui Farm King’s Plate (6 March 2021) will be run for a stake of $100,000; The Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (1 January 2021) will be run for a stake of $100,000; The 1500m Championship Final (26 December 2020) will be run for a stake of $80,000 The Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap (26 December 2020), the Listed Shaw’s Wires Ropes Uncle Remus Stakes (26 December 2020) and the Listed Mufhasa FastTrack Stakes (6 March 2021) will each be run for a stake of $60,000; Non-black type races run on 26 December 2020, 1 January 2021 and over Auckland Cup WeekⓇ (6 & 13 March 2021) will be run for $50,000 and; Rating and Open races run on Feature meetings between 28 November 2020 - 20 February 2021 will be run for stake money of $5,000 above the minimum*;

Excellent , wont need industry funds for the Karaka millions either then .

I wrote shortly after the race that if Bowman gets less than six months suspension the stewards will be guilty of bringing racing into disrepute. He got six weeks and the stewards are guilty, as charged. Ever since this happened I have been racking my brain trying to think of a similar occurrence. I can't. It was the worst I have seen.

Dead right Big Stuff, lay the Strathayr down and race there every 2nd Saturday, a no brainer for mine.

Over the last few years I’ve enjoyed putting on the Bluetooth headphones and listening to radio Trackside as I work . Coppins, Peter Early, trainers insights to the day’s and weekends racing, CD track spies reports ,Kneebones northern tips.Des Coppins Sunday show and Monday Reviews all gone . Feels like they’ve removed part of the sole of this great sport .As a result of the crude changes I don’t bet during the week now and don’t listen to anything racing apart from Saturday’s .Not the only one I bet .

Slowly catching up with last week's action and I've now seen the third day at Goodwood by which time the hot sunshine had dried the ground to Good to Firm. The feature Nassau Stakes over 2000m for the fillies and mares saw, in contrast to both the Goodwood Cup and the Sussex on the previous two days, the 3-y-o decisively defeat the older fillies. I'm not sure what Frankie Dettori thought he was doing on MAGIC WAND who usually comes from off the pace but FANCY BLUE was always in the perfect position and let's not forget she was second in the Irish 1000 Guineas and won the Diane beating ALPINE STAR who had won the Coronation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hERSvYzZRyE ONE VOICE ran a huge race in second and was closing the winner down at the line. She had come out of a rough Group 2 at The Curragh so the question is whether she improved a lot or the winner didn't quite run to her Diane form. I thought the unlucky horse was NAZEEF who got into every dark corner going but finished well for third and you certainly couldn't say she didn't see out the trip. I'd love to see her in a race like the Juddmonte or the Irish Champion. The Group 2 Richmond Stakes saw a convincing win for SUPREMACY who came home four lengths clear of YAZAMAN. The winner had won a Windsor maiden but his trainer Clive Cox is developing a real reputation as a fine handler of sprinting juveniles and 3-y-o and it wouldn't be the biggest surprise to see this year's winner emulate the 2019 winner, GOLDEN HORDE, from the same stable who went on to win the Commonwealth Cup. The Gordon Stakes is a Group 3 these days but it was the first real test of the Epsom Derby form. However, ENGLISH KING ran badly and it was MOGUL who restored part of his tarnished reputation by beating HIGHLAND CHIEF. With Epsom second KHALIFA SAT held in fifth, the questions over the quality and value of SERPENTINE's win at Epsom remain. I backed AL SALT each way in the 2000m handicap for the 3-y-o on the basis of his good win last time but you could have knocked me down with several feathers when 50/1 blowout JUNKANOO won. Okay, mine crawled into third and I got back a few pennies but it was another odd race as you get on the Sussex Downs.

Yes bring back traditional radio Trackside. Listening to any radio station on a mobile device wears out ones batteries to. At least with an ordinary radio one can take it outside, turn the volume to a sound one can hear it inside and outside. Mobile ph devices it's definitely not the done thing. Wake up Racing industry. Has anyone considered organising a Change.org petition to ensure the return of Radio Trackside on Traditional Radio along with Free to Air TV coverage so the wider community can have a say to? we hear people from time to time ring other talk back stations from time to time saying they "Used to listen to Radio Trackside" but it's at the moment not here for us.

Well said Womby..... Agree with you on getting back to basics, cutting top level salaries and getting radio Trackside back....

Am I the only one struggling to successfully punt on the oz synthetic tracks? Not just in racing but particularly councils and regulatory industries upper management salaries are ridiculous and wrong and redundancy payments also wrong. Our game has survived for generations with a lot of valuable and unpaid work from experienced and knowledgeable people who love the game. It has now been driven down a dark road by well paid, like 5 times what they are really worth IMHO, people who have made poor decisions ie the multi million dollar website etc, and the worst thing is they've taken along with them the poor buggers who love and rely on the industry to eat and get by. A blind man can see we need to get back to basics, cull the huge top salaries, maybe a tender system for the jobs and pay. Get the radio back, everyone spends a lot of time in cars etc, it was our best marketing tool. I was interested in the game but cannot believe with the money it generates, the people it supports, the enjoyment it gives, it is now almost dead Very sad but we must save it and common sense will do it, not grand ideas. Sorry for my rant but it pisses me off

Punting is a self inflicted wound , punters have two choices , smarten up and back winners (administers can't help with that) or gamblers anonymous it really is that simple .

The partnership has been going 4 days, You probably didn't realize the new season starts on 1st August. And the last line is Fuckn DUMB yeah really Fuckn DUMB.

Sometimes I think Legal people think they are above everyone else. I was in a bar once and this lawyer was absolutely blind drunk and he was threatening to “sue the arse of everyone around him”. One guy told him to shut up and go home and demanded that bar staff not serve him. So they did not serve him so he threatened to sue the bar staff. In the end, all of us had enough of this wanker and one guy grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and marched him outside and threw him in the gutter (where he belonged) and told him to get a cab home. Nobody saw him again for several months and by then I doubt he still didn’t know how he got home nor details of the dickhead he was. In the end, certain behaviours catch up with these wankers who place themselves on a pedestal and think they are above everyone.

True Ohokason! But it’s much more assistance to racing than has come from NZTR or the TAB!

None of that will help Joe Punter will it...??

Pretty sad. What a great horse he was. He still holds the WR over a 5/8th mile track over here which is 1:49 http://www.harnesslink.com/International/Sebastian-K.-dies-from-Colic He had blistering speed for a trotter. Could trot a quarter in 25 on his ear. Trotter a half in a race in 53 seconds. Had more speed than many pacers. Has yet top leave a champ at stud.

Premier Daniel Andrews gives Victorian Racing the GREEN light to continue! https://www.racenet.com.au/news/daniel-andrews-gives-victorian-racing-the-green-light-to-continue-20200803

You can bet on it. I think I will pass. Who is going to attack. Pace will ease. And they will run a 26 last quarter.

Not ideal of course, but still a race to bet on and driver allocation will be some guide.

The premier club in the land doing a great job, well done to PW and the team. they are progressive, financially sound and have done a good job over the years with their property portfolio and investments. my only criticism is that the place should have a strathayr racing surface...it’s imperative. but the club is going the right way. and you are right, I hate going to tracks that have subpar facilities...look at Flemington, Randwick, Sha Tin, proper facilities for everyone no matter what rung of the ladder they are on.

Only some of them

But at Matamata the picture quality of the racing from San Francisco and Louisiana was brilliant. I am going to let you people in on a little secret that sodomites from Jackson Street, Petone may not be aware of. Punters who travel to race meetings such as Matamata could not give a tuppenny half penny stuff about Golden Gate and Evangeline Downs racing. They are interested in the betting at the course they are at.

We saw that too TN. In fact they the R1 dividends on 2 screens and R7 on the other where we were standing.

Some off to work on their birthday, others having a day off, good to see cubes charge in the money today, at huge odds.

In my childhood, which was a long time ago, I was taught that if you look after your pennies, the pounds will look after themselves. That is, get the little details correct, the big stuff will follow on in seamless manner. So looked at the punters at Matamata betting on race three after the horses had left the birdcage. And the highly paid dongbeaters from the TAB in Wellington had the screens showing the approximate dividends for race one. Remind me how much those dingbats spent on information technology. They would not know a caslick from a cannon bone. They might think that a caslick is an orthodontal operation on a mug punter; well it is a matter of stitching up a cnut, isn't it. To treat your customers as if they are contemptible individuals is very short sighted. I use the word "contemptible" as my Google dictionary has two meanings for one four letter word; the first is a vulva, the second is a contemptible person.

Ditto Puha - Bluetooth Headphones - While I Worked - Excellent Insights - and Up To Date News and Information AND Entertainment - Sad Loss

Interesting comments from Tegan Adkins.....

Trump has set up Kodak to manufacture pharmceuticals in US in opposition to Big Pharma who will be sued for trillions for ripping off the people and hiding the cures. That is why there shares are roaring.

3.1% margin of error?????? What about the 52.2% difference between the two Newshub polls???? Why would you form an opinion on polls when it shows they are rigged?