RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.
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2200m Open Hcp $60,000 - 5 nominations

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5 minutes ago, Contentious said:

Wellington Racing Club - any alarm bells ringing yet?

If you want horses at your meetings do something to look after the owners, trainers and stablehands of said horse!

I think its more the lack of open class stayers. Surely a $25,000 boost to the stake would more than make up for not giving the owners a free Tui.

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13 hours ago, Contentious said:

If it is the lack of open class stayers - why programme the race at that stake?

The extra stakes is from Masterton racing club for our 150th jubilee meeting, pretty disappointing field alright for that money....so I guess stakes money isn't the real problem in NZ racing 

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52 minutes ago, Aaron Bidlake said:

The extra stakes is from Masterton racing club for our 150th jubilee meeting, pretty disappointing field alright for that money....so I guess stakes money isn't the real problem in NZ racing 

It's a bit sad that Masterton gets allocated a winters day at Trentham for their day in the sun. And money into a race that was never going to attract a decent field. Opaki was always a chilly place for a racemeeting though. I had some cold days there over the years.

And as Aaron says, the stake has only a minor affect on the field quality so we do need to start looking beyound stakes as the blunt instrument to solve all Racing's problems.

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My understanding is that Masterton chose this day to run the 150 Jubilee Cup.

 They could have run it at the Tauherenikau New Year's meeting in front of a massive crowd and attracted a good field while there were plenty of stayers racing. 

 

 

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46 minutes ago, tripple alliance said:

The noms are left open until the following morning when they are small .

Some might throw their hat in the ring after seeing the low numbers of noms  nothing to lose, but some of those late noms were probably in other fields

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