RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.

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  1. And yet they considered transferring their next week race-day to synthetic....ridiculous Awapuni is a depressing piece of real estate at the moment...grubby, littered with decades old machinery and generally unkempt
  2. Leggy, I can confirm equine therapists in the CD are currently focusing on Awapuni stables and run off their feet.
  3. They did pay you out...then reversed it an hour later. I know it was a holiday but you'd think TAB would have someone senior working who had bothered to read their own rules?
  4. wobbly

    AWT

    No surprise to see a successful, and likely fiscally comfortable, trainer singing the praises of synthetic tracks Stemming the flow of owners selling/moving horses off-shore must be great for business?!
  5. Shane, Sportsbet et al don't have national sports bodies sucking on their tit. NZTAB have a whole department (Elite Services) working hard trying to retain their larger punters....as they know they can't be competitive v the unshackled corporates.
  6. Decision apparently under JCA review
  7. When it takes an hour+ to make a decision you just know it's going to be dubious As you say Gruff, Extortion went past eventual winner so the ricochet initiated by inside runner should have given benefit of the doubt to Extortion
  8. wobbly

    Stakes

    To be fair WD most SI tracks look like they were designed by folk from your dominant code. Could be the answer to all our industry woes? SI exclusively Harness and dogs....gallops only in the north?
  9. wobbly

    Stakes

    Going way back to 2004 from the NZRB paper - 'size and scope of NZ racing industry': Thoroughbred racing in the north held 75% of the meetings and received 80% of the funding payout for the code. Harness racing in the south held 55% of the meetings and received 65% of the funding payout for the code Given NI breeders provide over 85% of our thoroughbred foal crop and a large % of South's racing stock............
  10. I concur Whyisit...cut them adrift! Compare Stratford RC to Waverley RC (regular track and facility improvements, cash comfortable and still playing the game)...no self-appointed, self-absorbed, entitled, non-achieving relics there!
  11. Same Murray Blue who blackballed prospective members, with a differing opinion to his, at the turn of the century. His vision for the club back then perhaps didn't pan out as well as he'd hoped?
  12. Heavily reduced options on tonight's NRL match. Staff cuts starting to show.
  13. SD...you are on to it. Ownerplus (bonus odds for elite punters betting on their own horses) has just switched from FO to tote. Perhaps they have tired of chasing the fixed odds rainbow?
  14. What about the initiative for AJC to alter their calendar and lock down premiere Saturdays (to allow the best horses in NZ to race on a roomy right handed track as final lead up) to coincide with revised ARC group one calendar. Deemed as assisting the enemy and therefore unpalatable. No governing body dead ends there...no debate...just red mist rejection.
  15. Dont go to too much bother Huey...just your top 5 AJC initiatives please
  16. Can't afford the redundancy payouts...
  17. Details are hard to come by when the wagons have been circled for nearly two decades....what else would you expect?
  18. John, I attended a meeting with your club hierarchy many moons ago. When I queried what their intentions were to upgrade their basic facilities for racegoers...the response was "whats wrong with them?" Membership was never an option from there I'm afraid...but perhaps I'm just a crotchety old snob who no longer has the energy to prize his heels out of the carpet on his way to the bar.
  19. I think the turning point for AJC was when they lost the Monday night bingo rent income. They started selling land next to one of the busiest roads in NZ...below CV
  20. True...but if you complain about Cavalier's share price and can't bring yourself to support them...you should probably sell up?
  21. Isn't that akin to a Cavalier shareholder re-carpeting their office block with Feltex?
  22. Are we boarding-up the shop window because we can't afford the redundancy payments at the office? If so, can we please redirect the ill-advised AW track investment funds toward ensuring the staff cuts are proportional?
  23. I concur with your second point Gubellini...it doesn't stack up fiscally but I bet exclusively with NZTAB as a self-imposed moral tax whilst I'm racing and developing horses here in NZ.
  24. Cambridge trial form is generally regarded by pro punters as worthless (great for weasel bloodstock agents to undermine our industry overseas though!)...imagine how AW racing on same velodrome track is going to wow the punters. Likely the worst single NZTR decision I've seen in my time in racing!