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    Stables reacted to Berri in The numbers don't lie - where the TAB went wrong   
    Listen Lachie, I get that it's election year, and I get that you need to drum up votes, and I get that a christian should be able to race horses, but you should have got yourself armed to the teeth with racing policy months ago instead of grasping for a small piece of air time just prior to the booths opening.
    The problem with this industry is that it's not making enough money. You either invent new things to make money, or you chop out the bits that don't work that cost you money. Chopping out bits is obvious in this case as it has been a shambles for a long time. What I want to know is WHAT you would do to build more profit? I don't want a wish washy response. I want something direct that pushes the money envelope in the industry's direction.
    What do you think that is?
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    Stables reacted to JJ Flash in Crackator   
    The horse was an absolute fizzer on its debut. TAB took it on and won big time. Racing today is very good IMHO with some good divvies.
     
    Greg
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    Stables reacted to fermoy in Racing resumes early 20th June Pukekohe   
    Attitudes like this is one of the reasons that the TAB went broke surely?
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    Stables got a reaction from shaneMcAlister in The numbers don't lie - where the TAB went wrong   
    This is a racing forum not a political campaign forum. The Conservative party has a so called Christian base, I'm surprised they have a spokesperson for or even an interest in racing
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    Stables reacted to One more lap in Standard Stake Distribution   
    This is really a win loose conversation on field sizes, smaller fields give a better chance of a winning punt with maybe a smaller divvy but if you spend four dollars and get seven back, you move on to the next with another four or more, small punters might not save us but the winnings are like those on a poker machine, they come back for more and have a fun night out with their mates. This is an entertainment industry as well as a job provider and as we speak, it is more of an export industry, get the horse running and prop up Aussie fields by selling it, you cannot even pay the bills racing here. Most racing stock here have a price on their head, we the owners are  just waiting for the offer and I am a realist on the value of my stock, a willing seller, the returns to the man who actually pays all the bills are not good enough, but those in the trough who cannot see past there snout do not care, Ask Winston how many small owners he knows in all codes and does he care, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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    Stables got a reaction from JJ Flash in Now it's Greg who's gone - when will the bleeding stop?   
    Addington and HRNZ are already well overstaffed with PR people
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    Stables reacted to Ohokaman in Now it's Greg who's gone - when will the bleeding stop?   
    They have been overstaffed before too...didn’t make much difference. Your name apparently meant more than actual ability to make a difference.
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    Stables got a reaction from ivanthegreat in Racing resumes early 20th June Pukekohe   
    All we had at Addington were the self serve machines
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    Stables got a reaction from TurnyTom in Now it's Greg who's gone - when will the bleeding stop?   
    Yes I see that NZMTC have just released a job desciption that seems tailor made for O'Connor, I bet the salary package is pretty impressive too. No money to increase stakes, but plenty of money to seek additional employees. How can this happen when RITA and the TAB are shedding 100's of jobs to save the industry. 
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    Stables got a reaction from JJ Flash in Now it's Greg who's gone - when will the bleeding stop?   
    Yes I see that NZMTC have just released a job desciption that seems tailor made for O'Connor, I bet the salary package is pretty impressive too. No money to increase stakes, but plenty of money to seek additional employees. How can this happen when RITA and the TAB are shedding 100's of jobs to save the industry. 
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    Stables got a reaction from napier in R5 Cambridge,just listening now   
    Only subject I've known where there were 6 posts all by the same poster
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    Stables got a reaction from Baz (NZ) in Colour Change   
    So do brown
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    Stables got a reaction from Gruff in R5 Cambridge,just listening now   
    Only subject I've known where there were 6 posts all by the same poster
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    Stables reacted to weasel57 in Now it's Greg who's gone: When will the bleeding stop?   
    totally agree mate ..i was just encouraging you to keep looking on the brighter side of this crisis ...
    eg over the last two months I' haven't had to listen to the constant repetitious drone of Peter 'Ah..There' Earley ...now I'll be spared the nasal twang and lazy diction of Greg O'Connor.
    Small comforts, really. Maybe someone is clever enough to crank up a privately-owned Racing Radio Channel in our brave new world 
     
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    Stables reacted to rdytdy in NZ TAB said 'we need to spend millions'...   
    No response Greg
    (c) was never adhered to as evidenced by the huge new platform costs etc and excessive salaries
    and now (a) is not being adhered to evidenced by cut backs to radio, form, presenters etc recently announced to go along with other promotion retrenchments in recent years.
    Without (a) & (b) occurring to create interest and growth leading to income the bottom line of (c) will be reduced.  
     
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    Stables reacted to Ohokaman in THIS IS SERIOUS PEOPLE MAKE NO MISTAKE   
    Yet another rebuttal of this wonder drug......
    Trump said he took hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus — but new study shows that doesn’t work 
    From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen
     
    George Frey/AFP/Getty Images  
    On the heels of several studies showing hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help patients in the hospital with Covid-19, a new study – the first of its kind – shows the drug doesn’t work to prevent infection with the virus, either.  
    The study of 821 people is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, considered the gold standard in medicine. The study was expected to be published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
    The researchers assigned about half the study subjects to take hydroxychloroquine and half to take a placebo, or a pill that does nothing. Neither the researchers nor the study subjects knew who was taking hydroxychloroquine and who was taking a placebo. They found the drug didn’t make a difference – over the next two weeks, the study subjects came down with Covid symptoms in equal amounts. 
    The study’s senior author, Dr. David Boulware, says that on May 9, the White House physician sent him an email asking his opinion of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against Covid-19.   
    Boulware, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, says he advised Trump’s physician that there was no published research showing hydroxychloroquine worked preventatively and shared that people in his study who took hydroxychloroquine had higher rates of side effects, mostly gastrointestinal problems such as nausea and vomiting.  
    On May 18, Trump announced that he’d been taking the medicine for a week and a half.   
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    Stables got a reaction from JJ Flash in Now it's Greg who's gone: When will the bleeding stop?   
    Too true, maybe with him gone we will get a few more interviews other than Mark Jones and Mark Purdon
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    Stables got a reaction from JJ Flash in Now it's Greg who's gone: When will the bleeding stop?   
    Inclined to agree with you Greg. When one star retires another one rises to take its place
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    Stables reacted to JJ Flash in NZ TAB said 'we need to spend millions'...   
    Well if you inherit a oversized unprofitable top heavy lemon what else could you do except cut costs. Dont forget this is what the industry wanted and chased WP for. Now its being implemented everyone except the smarts are up in arms. If it was your business and you are close to insolvent but want access to funds you would need a pretty harsh cost cutting plan before any funders would come to your aid.
    You cant have it both ways when your broke so hard options are taken. An example being and ive raised this before if you had a choice between keeping Radio or  taking 4 mio off stakes which one would you choose??
    The second point i would raise is that surely the promotion and growth  of the relevant 3 codes is up to those codes. RITA's focus is on providing gaming options and implementation of racing bill to the new entity NZTAB
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    Stables got a reaction from weasel57 in NZ TAB said 'we need to spend millions'...   
    Has been tried and was an abject failure
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    Stables reacted to Peter R S in Can't believe JA did that ...   
    Funny that - I stumbled into Main Street unaware of its existence, through a shortcut. My mistake Gruff, but I followed what I thought was a topic related to John Allen and got more of the right wing rubbish that most of us are tired of reading! 
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    Stables reacted to Ohokaman in Trump written off   
    Wins again...?? You fuckwit. He’s hiding in a bunker. The people have had enough....he’s history.....
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    Stables reacted to slam dunk in On course betting terminals.   
    Thinking at cross purposes here. Can't really figure what you prefer. We do agree the SST's not much use at the races. I used to take a laptop to the races 25 years ago. No accessible internet but all the form data was on the computer database. Quicker and simpler than even now with the internet. Don't think I ever saw anyone else on track with a laptop.  I actually ended up with Ivan Cosgraves CPM machine in the eighties.  Remember him he was the one who started processing stats and Best Bets/Turf Digest purchased his weekly stats which appear for every runner, e.g. 50 starts 5 wins 5 2nds 7 red Stakes $666666  5 starts Heavy 3 wins etc etc.
    So what I am saying is there is one rule I have learnt, That is "Keep it Simple"
    If RITA are looking at technology for the racetrack the first thing is to figure what is the simplest way of placing a bet, Then call for solutions. Finally decide what is most cost effective. The answer will no doubt be far simpler and cheaper than they imagine.
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    Stables got a reaction from drewandjo in The Return of Radio Trackside/ Television   
    God, you're weird
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    Stables got a reaction from drewandjo in The Return of Radio Trackside/ Television   
    As I said in another topic, you write to them, let me know what response you get