Marvelloue achievement, Samantha, hearty congratulations. Your drive on Piccadilly Pete was an absolute peach. Re an earlier comment, it was February 8, 1954 when Douglas Clifford (D. C.) Watts drove 7 in a row on an 8-race programme. A record that, I believe, still stands today.  

My first ever New Zealand Boxing Day and I watched a fair bit of the Trackside 1 coverage. Overall, not too bad and certainly no worse than you’d get from the specialist racing channels in the UK. Good move to have only NZ racing in the early part of the afternoon ensuring as much time as possible but if a race goes off five minutes late it does throw the coverage - it shouldn’t and in the UK the BHA would tell the other courses to let the start times slip a couple of minutes. The drone coverage at Ellerslie added a valuable dimension to the early part of the races - if you were playing in running, you could see how badly MALT TIME fluffed the start. Obviously, they wanted to give the Ellerslie races as much time and coverage as possible but it was good to see the on-track presence at both Otaki and Wingatui and they made a good fist of trying to build up the atmosphere at Ellerslie - the stewards’ enquiry after the dead heat added a nice layer of drama. In the UK, we hear the testimony from the jockeys and the questions asked by the stewards - that would have been good to hear. The woman at the start on her horse isn’t something we have in the UK - usually it’s Leglock Luke Harvey keeping you up to speed at the big meetings but it’s incredibly helpful for punters to know which horses are sweating or edgy behind the stalls. How to deal with the betting side? The BBC tried to ignore it for years back in the day but following the market moves is vital information for players and while hearing everyone’s quaddie in each race a little over the top, keeping the information about the market (would be nice to see liquidity) is helpful. Nice to get a word with the groom (not “strapper” please) as well as they convey the emotion better than the jockey, trainer and owner on many occasions.

Wexford concentrating on NZ racing now instead of being a feeder stable for Paul in Hong Kong. Hence why the stable is firing.

Tudor Fisk, race 4 👍

Only at Hokitika!

For some reason not only does Taranaki have poor fields every Xmas but they get 2 days of it, one wonders why.

Small fields too😵 Just had a look......two races with 8 runners all the other races between 4 to 7 runners.  Everyone gets a cheque for running today even if last. 

Is it just me or is the Ellerslie carnival now missing a bit of the buzz? The Zabeel Classic was a good race but with the Railway moved it feels like New Year's Day is far from the raceday it once was and that they're throwing everything at Karaka Millions night when the overseas buyers and corporates are back in town.

I saw the interview. Rodley looked terrified - I thought he was interviewing the Almighty and questions so soft you could have made them into a nice cushion or pillow. Contrast with the far more assertive questioning of Michael Tabor, Geoff Smith or anyone from Godolphin in Britain. They’ve gone up to Aidan O’Brien and Charlie Appleby after the race and asked why their horse ran badly and that’s before the trainer has spoken to the jockey. There’s a line between obsequious fawning and tough questioning and Trackside are presumably too terrified people will stop talking to them if they ask tough questions but that’s what the punters want, genuine information and opinion.

Dreadful fields. And if Rosetown Princess doiesn't win against the motley crew assembled against her, the game's crooked.

Pure speculation here but has Paul got anything to do with it. Great yearling selector and trainer. Wexford seem to have done very well since his return

Sharrocks day today

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Masa leading jockey’s premiership …now that’s cool

As did I.  Thought it was clear as day that Yaldi had won from that camera angle, only to find they called it a dead heat.  Surprised it wasnt talked about more on air at the time.  The report Mrbigstuff was referring to: In post-race Trackside coverage, the photo finish footage shown included coverage from the inside camera which was not correctly aligned. The result of the race was judged off the outside camera which is located in a permanent mount inside the Judge’s box. Steward’s concerns regarding the inside camera not being correctly aligned were raised with Club Officials for follow up.

So you're complaining that the "experts" results aren't up to par, but also complaining that they didnt show you some of their picks?  Strange. In regards to the results appearing, I think you will find they don't have time to fit everything in on a feature day.  Reading the comments from most on here, I think you would find that most here just want racing coverage without all the numbers and flashy graphics taking the limelight.