Strange, I haven't watched a lot since HB abandoned but one part I did see was a throwback to the studio and Guy made reference to a Dundeel winner no doubt making Emily happy and there was some good banter between the two. You need some decent chemistry and awareness of your co-host to be able to pull that off.
Exactly, nzracing was on life support and people have been very quick to forget that. Perhaps it still is on life support, but without the Entain injection we would be a whole lot worse off.
Ironically the post come directly after another post from mckenzie demonstrating the failures of the same carnival in years gone by which were well before the Entain days..
"Since Entain took over in this Country with their big bag of money everything has turned to custard".
Really imagine where racing would be without their money bag, $5000 mdns mid week seems likely,.
Think I've had enough of Guy's constant pen twiddling and reading from the laptop .. having just discovered that (Insert Winner's Name) has now won (Insert # of wins) from (Insert # of race starts) ..."
There''s no on-screen 'chemistry'/ between him n Em at all at all at all IMO
Suggestion for Trackside: keep showing the visuals of the race wot's just finished instead of cutting back to the Dullsville Duo and let one or both of them talk over the visuals if they must.
Since Entain took over in this Country with their big bag of money everything has turned to custard.
Standards have slipped, presentations and new initiatives are vanilla at best. It appears amateurish, boring, AI form guides, some AI presenters who aren't racing people reading off a script. Abandonments galore etc etc.
I have been a racing man for 50 years and have never been so dismayed.
In the last eight years this is the third time a Hastings Spring G1 meeting has had to be abandoned (2017 Livamol Classic, 2022 Arrowfield Plate, 2024 Tarzino Trophy). Not a great strike rate.
Me too Scooby
It's great that Ellerslie is 'seemingly sorted now' but the corporate BS we put up with along the way was so painful 🥹
When I typed Ellerslie in to our Whatsapp group I put one too many L's and the spell check suggested lies 😄
This is how incompetent NZTR are , I have just an email from NZTR informing me that the meeting has been abandoned , but unfortunately for them it is a bulk email which shows me everyone's email address . 800+ .
Thanks NM - Possibly a breach of the Privacy Act - lawsuit incoming?
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