Traka 115 Report post Posted September 21, 2014 Still waiting for the post where you said you brought this issue up last Sat and got pilloried for it. Or was this not the case as I suggested. And making the comment regarding the stipes report in comic form is not a good way to build bridges. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted September 21, 2014 I apologise Traka.The comments were made a fortnight ago on the Manual Starts thread not last week.My mistake.We all want a better deal for racing Traka! I withdraw my comments about comic form.Just a tongue in cheek reference to one of the two year olds withdrawn who is named after an English comic strip character! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted September 21, 2014 Yesterday was a Premier day at Hastings.A number of first time racegoers would have been in attendance.They would have placed a bet on the first race.Two gates opened slowly.This is their first impression of live racing.If they had backed a placegetter they would have got a scaled down dividend!Not a great second impression! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted September 25, 2014 Postscript.In Race 7 at Hastings gates 11/12 opened slowly.Well backed Tyne Cot and also Kapsboy were declared non-runners.Further significant loss of turnover. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted September 25, 2014 Postscript 2. Great article by Des Coppins on starting stalls in his Track Talk column in todays Informant Page 10.The Steriline starting stalls may be the answer! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midget 4,489 Report post Posted September 25, 2014 This is a joke and needs to be addressed immediately. It is reported that a late scratching costs the industry 13k,we have had a half dozen or so in the last month.What does this do the profile of our product.One week we have the the RIU saying this is a club matter and then the following week say they are going to look into the matter. The West Coast of the SI paid 100k for a set of 12 stalls,THAT CAN BE TRANSPORTED around meeting to meeting.The 4 clubs paid for the stalls themselves and had NO financial support from the NZRB or NZTR They were forced into this action because i am told the CJC has refused the clubs to use there gates.Now these clubs race on one day a year,so if they can do why the hell can't RACE??? Now we are told that another junket is being arranged to Paris.I was told that the last junket cost the Industry 40k plus when they went to Hong Kong. These junkets must be stopped and the infrastructure that is so important to our product must be addressed NOW. Did GP and his band of merry followers pay the training fees and float fees for the horses that were late scratched due to the continuing problem with the gates?I will say NO but they continue down this Road of Destruction of our Industry. scooby3051, THE TORCH and hedley 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted September 25, 2014 Perhaps G P will name his next horse Steriline.This will be the closest we will get to them! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leggy 4,089 Report post Posted September 26, 2014 To be fair Midget, I think the cost is $13,000 of turnover so about $2500. That however, as you point out, is only the direct cost. The continued flight of punters to events other than NZTR product is the bigger worry for mine. Persistence with antique infrastructure, particularly crap tracks and gates that are almost as dysfunctional as the NZTR board and management themselves, only accelerates this. In the meantime, the plonkers are poncing about the country, dismissing critique and feedback, proclaiming how clever they are to have achieved almost 40% of their KPIs (which are mostly stupid anyway and some so stupid they are measuring the opposite of the effect of the strategy they purport to measure). Nevermind that, the KPIs they should be measuring are revenue produced by NZTR product which in real terms is declining at an accelerating rate in the three years they have been screwing the industry. To make matters worse, code share, upon which s16 distributions are based, is falling as well. That is a direct result of the failure to address such basic requirements of tracks and gates mentioned above. Evidently, they are also hyping stakes increases, which for 2/3 of starters and their owners is non-existent, in fact, negative in real terms. Worse, they are unsustainable with falling code share and falling RB payments, and entirely reliant on inwards leakage from sports, pokies, and overseas racing and other events. Now you say they are off on yet another junket to the Arc. For what, may I ask? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasman man 11 979 Report post Posted September 26, 2014 Starting gates at Avondale Trials on Tuesday. I noted that during the Avondale trials ,and I saw about half the events , at least one gate was slow opening during at least 2 trials. These reported by jockeys to trainer/owners. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Thistle 133 Report post Posted September 26, 2014 INDUSTRY INTEGRITY Jockey wears unapproved gear = fined. Jockey overweight = fined. Trainer presents horse with wrong gear = fined. Trainer late declaring jockey = fined. Club deliberately waters track unevenly = yawn. Club not fined. Club uses stalls unfit for purpose = yawn. Club not fined. No automatic recompense to owners. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 Here we go again.Ruakaka Race 2.Gates11/12 very slow to open.Indian Giva and Who's Queen will be late scratched.Deductions again! Float trips from Pukekohe for both runners wasted.What next? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen 3,226 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 Ruakaka - again yesterday and how mant times between May and September?? only took 2 races today for the same thing to happen - 2 more late scratchings. NZ racing is a disgrace - time to find other interests! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 15% Final Field deduction for winner Sardaaj.This situation is making Fawlty Towers look like a serious documentary! elbow and jess 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 2Admin2 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 It's alright our three reps in Paris will find a solution - somewhere between the champagne and fois gras Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 They should cross the Channel and audition for a reprise of Fawlty Towers.Move over Basil/Sybil/Manuel! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 3.10 p.m. today on Trackside Radio Tom Wood editoriaising on the woeful state of our starting stalls.Supreme irony-NEW Running Rail in use there today.Earth to Traka-where are you?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseacol 2,488 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 3.10 p.m. today on Trackside Radio Tom Wood editoriaising on the woeful state of our starting stalls.Supreme irony-NEW Running Rail in use there today.Earth to Traka-where are you?! Tom will get the sack for that sort of carry on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbow 50 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 15% Final Field deduction for winner Sardaaj.This situation is making Fawlty Towers look like a serious documentary! on a lighter note maby we should give these starting gates a jolly good thrashing hedley 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOANCRUSHER 39 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 Here we go again.Ruakaka Race 2.Gates11/12 very slow to open.Indian Giva and Who's Queen will be late scratched.Deductions again! Float trips from Pukekohe for both runners wasted.What next? check out where the stalls were. the official time is 1min 10secs but was more like 1min 6 secs so the stalls werent even at the 1200m. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedley 1,900 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 on a lighter note maby we should give these starting gates a jolly good thrashing elbow 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted October 1, 2014 Priceless Hedley! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Smallhaussen 3,226 Report post Posted October 5, 2014 another instance today at Waipa deja vu all over again ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camici 60 Report post Posted October 5, 2014 I hope the NZRB freeloaders at the Arc tonight observe the starting gates.I GUARANTEE they will work properly! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
