firepipe 70 Report post Posted December 26, 2018 This must be the most piss poor Boxing Day ever. Look at attendance, fields . Turnover. No one infield, The brain surgeons that think this is the future, you have fucked this industry. Can anyone reason why moving the carnival helps. Huey, Baz (NZ) and crustyngrizzly 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crustyngrizzly 1,682 Report post Posted December 26, 2018 Don't know what the turnover was but once upon a time Boxing Day was a must attend event now it's an every day run of the mill event. They mucked around with history and its been downhill ever since never to climb back to its lofty heights of years gone by. In saying that, Racing isn't the only sport experiencing similar outcomes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasman man 11 979 Report post Posted December 26, 2018 The torrid rain storms over previous week ,especially the last 2 days saw predictable scratchings at Ellerslie.....yes shocking fields at Awapuni ...but Ellerslie was buzzing from where I stood.Excellent crowd enjoying pretty good weather with plenty of food and drink sales and a bit of punting as well. Quite a buzz to the place......over 5,000 pre-sales for food and beverage ,and the crowd on lawn and in public stand pretty good there plus in the tents around the back by the impressive new stables area. Cant be too many days in NZ racing these days where that sort of crowd attends ,paying good coin to attend. Even several hundred in in field.....not the thousands like the old days with BYO booze and own food but looked profitable to me. The Place looked fantastic ,most dressed up with plenty of lipstick and the track held up well I believe. Much to like about the day IMO. Steve Paul, DatoStar and Memphis2 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
firepipe 70 Report post Posted December 26, 2018 Tasman man You are completely deluded. No one in field m, bunch of wanks posing. The future for nz racing, Take time to look at what Xmas racing was. The buzz ,? Keep that to your self barryb, bloke and Huey 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckenzie 600 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 They would be smart to move one of the good races from New Years Day to Boxing Day e.g. Auckland Guineas, because at the moment it's lacking depth for what was once one of our premier racedays. Why have a carnival/boxing day races if you're going to put all the main events on Jan 1. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastern whipbird 82 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 Trentham, my home track for 40 years, now has wrecked its January carnival. 3 consecutive Saturdays with a final day without one decent race. Who is responsible for this fiasco? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanthegreat 1,123 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 The enormity of what they have ruined can only be realised if you consider that the Xmas racing week supported enormous crowds at Alexandra Park for 3 nights as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonkatime 323 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 1 hour ago, eastern whipbird said: Trentham, my home track for 40 years, now has wrecked its January carnival. 3 consecutive Saturdays with a final day without one decent race. Who is responsible for this fiasco? In my opinion they had already recked it before they changed to the 3 Saturday format. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohokaman 5,763 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 3 hours ago, eastern whipbird said: Trentham, my home track for 40 years, now has wrecked its January carnival. 3 consecutive Saturdays with a final day without one decent race. Who is responsible for this fiasco? Come in Insider...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohokaman 5,763 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 2 hours ago, ivanthegreat said: The enormity of what they have ruined can only be realised if you consider that the Xmas racing week supported enormous crowds at Alexandra Park for 3 nights as well. Quite right Ivan. With the old programming of the Auckland Cups on New Years Eve at the Park and NYDay at Ellerslie, everyone knew where they stood and planned their visit accordingly. We used to get significant numbers from around NZ and particularly from the South Island who travelled up religiously every year. Once they started playing around with dates, because they "knew better " it stuffed up that whole Christmas holiday period. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insider 3,882 Report post Posted December 27, 2018 5 hours ago, eastern whipbird said: Trentham, my home track for 40 years, now has wrecked its January carnival. 3 consecutive Saturdays with a final day without one decent race. Who is responsible for this fiasco? Not the Club! The Date Committee is the answer, but I know most of you won’t accept what I say. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewandjo 129 Report post Posted December 28, 2018 On 12/27/2018 at 2:44 PM, mckenzie said: They would be smart to move one of the good races from New Years Day to Boxing Day e.g. Auckland Guineas, because at the moment it's lacking depth for what was once one of our premier racedays. Why have a carnival/boxing day races if you're going to put all the main events on Jan 1. the day had a Group 1 WFA, a quality Group 2 fillies race. 2 other Listed races including the Uncle Remus which drew a smart field and one of the Dunstan Feeds finals......how is that lacking depth? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...