lamour 663 Report post Posted January 5, 2020 Haven’t had one of these competitions for a while. Cost cutting measures by HRNZ ? JJ Flash 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Rioli 26 Report post Posted January 5, 2020 Dream team/super stable was ruined when they changed it from points to $$ won. Took the fun out of finding a few unknowns that could win a few and made it solely about finding the winners of the big races JJ Flash 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty 575 Report post Posted January 6, 2020 On 1/5/2020 at 2:51 PM, lamour said: Haven’t had one of these competitions for a while. Cost cutting measures by HRNZ ? Has to be cost cutting. Surely. They had to fork out over a grand in gift cards for the most recent competition. I was fortunate enough to win some decent coin 3 or 4 times over the years, it was a good concept and provided some extra interest during the season. It would be good to see it come back sometime in the future. lamour 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelli 426 Report post Posted January 6, 2020 My husband and I enjoyed it and we'd get family to enter too so we had our own little competition even if not in the hunt for the main prize. Good way to get wider group of people following horses round the country. Did prefer it when went on divvies as then it wasn't just picking AS team. Rusty 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljay 1,711 Report post Posted January 6, 2020 Surely they could get sponsorship? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty 575 Report post Posted January 6, 2020 21 minutes ago, eljay said: Surely they could get sponsorship? Pretty sure Macmillan Feeds were involved in one part of it, but that may have been back in the "Harness Racing Weekly" days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim vince 985 Report post Posted January 6, 2020 U and Glen Lloyd put devenpot on the map. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljay 1,711 Report post Posted January 7, 2020 We are too busy Tim building a wall to keep people like you out Setting up pill boxes to shoot down orange cones Long live the Republic of Flagstaff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim vince 985 Report post Posted January 7, 2020 Touche Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john legend 735 Report post Posted January 14, 2020 Agree in general with it being cost cutting. I did win some over the years especially the early ones 20years ago.The prizes certainly reduced year by year to a point when participation dropped away. It did get a return as I always backed my stable and I am sure most entrants did.But as Pink Floyd said just another Brick in the wall.... Let me think of accountant driven initiatives in harness racing ………….no competitions,no harness racing weekly, make it harnessed only1 per month then withdrawn,no help keeping racing supplements in newspapers, no teletext gone,no free to air tv or advertising... no Friday flash race booklets not at supermarkets (in TABs that's great for attracting new punters (not) )cut down or out picnic grass racing over summer (cut out thousands of potential owners and bettors) so lets not be alarmed at fewer owners ,fewer bettors , fewer trainers and breeders. all because of very few entrepreneurs in HRNZ SAD but true. hedley, Pam Robson, eljay and 2 others 3 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...