tasman man

OK TM.     I presume you will be dodging the cameras.     No doubt you will in the TAB where they can't find you.   Or the Lone Star?        

Cheer up eljay......more time and information etc available to encourage more betting !
I heard the cameras will be scanning around the oncourse crowd to see the happy folk enjoying their night out with special focus on your lounge and in particular your table to gain some insightful comments on each horse's chances.
So have a shave ,wear your best threads and take your trial notes along and remember to smile !

The article states it is available on both Facebook and You Tube so should be accessible to most.
 6 weeks is quite a short trial , but it starts with a Group 1 night and better fields than recent weeks.
Every race will have extra lead in times for people to have a bet.
The new channel probably won't be shown in TAB's and Sports Bars  and may give folk even less reason to go to the races.
But on-course attendances often quite bleak in winter.
 
 

Cheer up eljay......more time and information etc available to encourage more betting !
I heard the cameras will be scanning around the oncourse crowd to see the happy folk enjoying their night out with special focus on your lounge and in particular your table to gain some insightful comments on each horse's chances.
So have a shave ,wear your best threads and take your trial notes along and remember to smile !

Cheer up eljay......more time and information etc available to encourage more betting !
I heard the cameras will be scanning around the oncourse crowd to see the happy folk enjoying their night out with special focus on your lounge and in particular your table to gain some insightful comments on each horse's chances.
So have a shave ,wear your best threads and take your trial notes along and remember to smile !

The article states it is available on both Facebook and You Tube so should be accessible to most.
 6 weeks is quite a short trial , but it starts with a Group 1 night and better fields than recent weeks.
Every race will have extra lead in times for people to have a bet.
The new channel probably won't be shown in TAB's and Sports Bars  and may give folk even less reason to go to the races.
But on-course attendances often quite bleak in winter.
 
 

I've heard and read complaints that there are no grass track meetings in Canterbury for 7 weeks , during the time that regular meetings ...3 in June , 2 in July.....are held on the synthetic track.
This comment appears to be untrue.
In June there are grass meetings at Timaru and Riccarton , while Ashburton races in July .
In addition between now and the National week starting early August there are grass track meetings planned for Wingatui x 3  and Oamaru x 2.
And before National week there are at least 3 x meetings where most races are worth $30k - $35k.
As to the smaller field sizes racing on the Synthetic , naturally there have been some nervousness and misinformation as to the suitability of the surface for racing.
Once this has been overcome , those willing to race should improve. Even if it doesn't ,wasn't the main reason for them to assist in traning and to ease the burden on winter tracks and limit postponments of trials and racing during inclement weather. Yhey were never intended to 'save' NZ Racing in their first year !
Like my trainers I want to see my horse burning up the grass tracks of Ellerslie ,Randwick and Flemington but sometimes our horse is just too slow for that !And we hate admitting it. !
Good to see 9 x connections pay their training fees for 2 x months today and some excited ones indeed eg MHouse !

I don't have Sky so I won't watch it. I shall continue to watch harness racing on the TAB website. I prefer that anyway cos you only have to tune in just as race starts. Miss all the whale garbage!!!

Maybe the Waikato should have a synthetic track  .

Maybe the Waikato should have a synthetic track  .

Nice Win by Koshu.

At Kensington a soft 7 track and J Mac aboard under John OShea's training could be a big hope. 

Interesting debutant at Randwick tomorrow in the shape of the Satono Aladdin filly Koshu. Won a jump out most impressively and quite a bit of talk about her on Sydney radio this morning

Maybe the Waikato should have a synthetic track  .

Luke , and he probably is very lucky as well , is a great guy to listen to ,very knowledgable and I always loved him when on previously .
He had a great knowledge on many sports ,and in particular racing and he was a Tasman man .Obviously with his law qualifications he was possibly over qualified to be just presenting from a Trackside studio.
My friend used to say he reminded him of an undertaker....quite a stern serious complexion.
So I read Torch's post with interest and decided to take a peep at what he was in convulsions over and praying to get strength from above.
I saw a very relaxed Luke enjoying his opportunity to give his opinion on the weekends racing and chip in with some rants !
The mighty Wairio Cup warmed him up....he called a couple of the runs in that deplorable !!!!!
He ranted about the Computer Generated picks in the Australian race form guide presented to us Kiwis......bang on ....employ a person .Bang On !
He then commented that all  NZ bred horses should be in running for end of season awards , even if solely racing overseas.....interesting opinion but probably not overly supported.
He made a few suggestions of horses who could win the awards this year.....standard stuff.
He honestly described recent Austalian race conditions with shocking rain and visibility as disastrous.........good on him. Very few point out negatives re Aussie racing . Good on him !
Then at end he mentioned that he could add support to Verry Eleegant 's owners trying their luck in Europe ...the program seemed to be leaning to saying it was a bad thing to take the horse away from CWaller etc etc. He was just going to explain how International travel was more normal now days, and to impress the old buggers he brought up the time when Harness horse Vanderford was off to USA and................the program ended with Luke trying to finish the story.
I doubt the Racing bosses wanted that story retold.......a horse being beaten to death with an Axe !
And he was smiling while trying to get it out.
Yes ,Luke was in very relaxed mood !
But is he a game changer ?
How many other than Torch actually watch that show ?

Id say Trackside would be mad to do that.......it would only highlight the immature and amateur bunch of presenters we have had to put up with since Day 1 of the channel. 
Radich is far too classy for them. He is a lawyer who pops back to "Weigh In" and immediately hits key issues in a direct and meaningful way. A breath of fresh air compared to the stupidity we hear every week like "wins by panels" and "good shopping". Give me strength.

As owners of a higher rated NI trotter that just in ordinary races has been beaten regularly by BFB and Temporale, we pick and choose when we are prepared to have our horse thrashed by the likes of Sundee's Sun. There are 4 group races over 5 weeks for the top trotters  at Auckland and not every horse can cope with gut-busters week after week. It is scarcely a surprize a week out from from the Rowe Cup some horses are having a breather.

Where are they going to put the orange cones. ATC have to protect people while at Alex. Park. Seat belt or safety harness?

Huge marketing tool gone by the wayside, how better to promote the game than to get people in amongst it.

Has this "marketing" tool been scrapped in the North - to be honest haven't been to Cambridge for a while but they appear to have vanished from Auckland.

Congrats to all winners , and this 'say no more' character......what an amazing job he does !
Thanks !

Congrats to all winners , and this 'say no more' character......what an amazing job he does !
Thanks !

Picks
Rotorua R3......4 ,7
Rotorua R5......2 , 8
Rotorua R6.......2 , 7
Rotorua R8........3 , 5
Eagle Farm R3....4 , 5
Eagle Farm R5.....6 , 18
Eagle Farm R7.....3 , 11
Eagle Farm R8.....1 , 10   BB
Scone R8.............12 , 15
Scone R9..............2 , 15    BB
Morphettville R3.....1 , 7
Morphettville R8......1 , 4
 
Thanks

I guess the reference is to the regular occurence of commentators saying about a recently deceased owner that 'He/she will be looking down from above on the horse winning the race' ,and getting great satisfaction etc etc etc

Join the dots eljay !
If you look closer , you will notice many more Thursdays for your Club.....they don't want that.
Plus there are still several Thursday/ Friday back to back meetings for Cambridge / Auckland ....surely self defeating.
Add in the well documented shortage of horses in the North , and the small fields that result  in very poor turnover  and one concludes the relevance of the North and it's bargaining power must be at an all time low.
And what is the Club doing to reverse this trend which appears to be in free-fall ?
Meanwhile Addington can do OK with Fridays to themselves and the Southern grass track circuit doing well .
A starting point for the North's clubs would be to get together and try and improve their dilemma while HRNZ and Sires Stakes are still funding a lot of group races up North !