Bimbo

They want you betting today. Not tying your money up on tomorrow’s races.

I think Entains rule is you can lose but you can’t win.

Can't remember the last time I listened to someone talk so much and say so little.

I agree, but $95 is ridiculous.

I won’t go back to Riccarton. There’s no grandstand. Won’t go back to Trentham. It’s just run down and depressing. Haven’t been to Pukekohe since I was a kid and Trevor McKee was still around. The place felt old and the facilities were so outdated. Don’t know if they’ve improved. Problem is there’s no point building a grandstand that’s going to be empty for over 360 days of the year. They’ve sold off land around these tracks but the tracks themselves are worse than ever and the facilities haven’t improved. Don’t know what they’ve done with the money. I struggle trying to work out how many horses are going to go at Ellerslie so I basically don’t bet there. It’s okay for a day out, but most of the people I know in Auckland aren’t interested in racing. Just wait for the Australian racing to start on television a couple of hours after the local racing starts every Saturday. It’s great to watch and all the better races are in a good time slot for me.

On horseback?

Should be sold to an orchardist and funds put into getting some more consultants on board and putting a StrathAyr track into Awapuni.

He actually said it was a handful, literally 200 people and he would probably have just made it up like Andrew probably just made up his 200 bookmakers. At around 41:20

BS’s $650 million a year spent overseas was staggering. Guerin telling us less than a hundred New Zealand punters understood market percentages was staggering.

Twenty five minutes of nothing.

Make a complaint to the BSA.

I wonder what the TAB advisory committee of Chris Waller. etc. have come up with so far. Maybe Andrew Vouris will let us know when he fronts up on Guerins’s propaganda hour on Monday. Funny how you have all these highly paid executives unable to do what you’d expect from them without external assistance.

Yes that’s what they said when they launched Project Stamina back in July. Four months to find a consultant. Imagine how long they’ll take to action the consultants recommendations.

Just like in racing there are no certainties in business. You take calculated risks hoping they pay off. I don’t agree with what they’re doing. They’ve taking something that’s not theirs. Once it’s sold it’s gone forever and they’re virtually guaranteed to put a good deal of the proceeds into stakes. Any gains in turnover they claim might come from what they’re planning are pie in the sky like the millions they claimed geoblocking would bring in.

But everyone knows the plan is to sell off tracks. etc. to fund infrastructure projects. I don’t think you’ve uncovered anything new. Hopefully these guys will fix the current disasters and future developments will be done right.