Minister announces emergency $72.5 million for racing

[mikenz 1,088]

14 hours ago, Ohokaman said:

The yellow area is where the new track will go.....

Is that extra lane on the left a shortcut for those not handling it too well?

[Leggy 4,076]

11 minutes ago, mikenz said:

Is that extra lane on the left a shortcut for those not handling it too well?

Maybe the right lane is for those that can't make the tight bend of the inside lane?

[Leggy 4,076]

2 hours ago, Phillipe said:

Really??

then where else is the conduit from the industry to Shane Jones?

Peters

[Red Rum 1,833]

15 minutes ago, Stables said:

And the result of the race was?

The thing is UK and Ire lose weeks on end sometimes due to frost so they pay their way through betting revenue , some of these  all weather tracks race at night under lights , they are night out venues now , restaurants , bars , somewhere people actually go of a night .We don't lose weeks on end here . 

Iam still gobsmacked Riccarton has 3 mill , they should buy a few pots of paint once in a while and repair the crumbling walkways .A sand track in middle of turf track at Riccarton , there's no getting people there , and no gain I can see through extra punting revenue .

[Ohokaman 5,831]

They say it will go inside the main track....looks pretty tight from this...

[Red Rum 1,833]

4 minutes ago, Ohokaman said:

They say it will go inside the main track....looks pretty tight from this...

The run home from turn might put punters off , not so much the surface . If you've done your dough if you not got a position by point of entering bend in most punters not going to be overkeen I'd guess .

[wobbly 76]

What about when the bean counters shift Oaks day to Awapuni due to a dodgy forecast.

Pitty and co have to take half their team home cos they can only run 10 per race in the velodrome...and a falsely rated 50-1 shot by Dalghar leads all the way to win the Oaks,  thereby quadrupling the value of her siblings.

[Phillipe 81]

1 hour ago, Leggy said:

Peters

Peters is Jones and the industry is RITA.

now tell me who said yes to these tracks?

 

 

[Leggy 4,076]

1 minute ago, Phillipe said:

Peters is Jones and the industry is RITA.

now tell me who said yes to these tracks?

 

 

NZTR and presumably the 3 clubs concerned.

[Pam Robson 1,547]

1 hour ago, Ohokaman said:

They say it will go inside the main track....looks pretty tight from this...

what track are we looking at?

[Ohokaman 5,831]

18 minutes ago, Pam Robson said:

what track are we looking at?

Awapuni obviously...

[TurnyTom 1,535]

27 minutes ago, Ohokaman said:

Awapuni obviously...

I thought it was a mock up of Riccarton with the new National grandstand and the new trotting track inside

Bugger, got excited 

[Ohokaman 5,831]

1 hour ago, TurnyTom said:

I thought it was a mock up of Riccarton with the new National grandstand and the new trotting track inside

Bugger, got excited 

You’re an optimist Tom....

[We're Doomed 4,855]

2 hours ago, TurnyTom said:

I thought it was a mock up of Riccarton with the new National grandstand and the new trotting track inside

Bugger, got excited 

Easy mistake to make. It looks like a typical Riccarton crowd.

[Berri 2,131]

I'll say it again till the cows arrive in the barn. The only way an all weather will work properly (looking forward for the next 30 years) is that the tracks should take 20+ runners and the straight needs to be at least 600m long. This is not rocket science. I've been to so many all weather race tracks with short straights and the racing is wrong...very boring and very predictable because if you get slightly out of your ground, you're no show. So barrier draws seriously important. So when people understand this, they don't run from out wide, therefore small fields, therefore lower betting.

Why aren't they looking at alternative surfaces (tapeta comes to mind) so that you don't need to make it all weather only?

 

[meomy 971]

$40m betting platform, plus $17m more every year - and now we can’t even afford the lollies

By Barry Lichter • 17 May 2020

https://www.lincolnfarms.co.nz/stories/40m-betting-platform-plus-17m-more-every-year-and-now-we-cant-even-afford-the-lollies/

Scientific Games Digital who is mentioned in the aforementioned article website

https://www.sgdigital.com/

https://www.scientificgames.com/about/

https://issuu.com/atsg/docs/company_overview_2018-6.6?fr=sYjRmZDg1OTUx

 

Scientific Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Games

 

Who authorised this contract and signed it off?

 

Is there a copy of that contract readily available for those who are paying those who arranged it?
What overseas travel and expenses were incurred in the process of this contract?
Board of Directors have legal obligations and must be held to account

[Crow 228]

On 5/14/2020 at 9:59 AM, mikenz said:

Is that extra lane on the left a shortcut for those not handling it too well?

Extra lane takes out all the other working tracks and takes out the$350,000 new inside bend. They must be flush with money to waste that or has John Allen taken over as CEO

[eljay 1,719]

On 5/14/2020 at 2:39 PM, Ohokaman said:

You’re an optimist Tom....

Remember Mooney Valley!!!