Good sized fields at Trentham last Sunday with heaps of Northerners' descending on the place.
They won their share of races too.
Who said that the Northerners' didn't want to travel to the CD as it was too expensive, especially for Group Races?
1 + 1 doesn't = 2 does it guys?
If the Entain guarantee expired tomorrow we would be screwed!
For the first 6 months of the season, the Gross Betting Revenue returned only 72.2% of the cost of running the races.
When the guarantee expires, half of that revenue goes to Entain, the other half to TAB NZ/Racing NZ for distribution to the racing codes, which means that only 36% of our current Stakes & meeting expenses would be covered, that leaves a big gap for Sports Betting and probable Geo-Blocking to cover.
Yes, the basic premise of most of my posts is that HRNZ are not putting the funding towards the areas of Harness Racing that will enhance the sustainability of the racing product, and the people and horses that provide it!
So the thousands upon thousands that have been laid off are suddenly Trump voters that have second thoughts and regret
Come on Hoki yr getting desperate
You can’t help some people….particularly those who cannot read….
Thousands being fired by Musk, thousands more losing benefits, unemployment and prices rising….and no one being affected ?🙈
Think it was predicted on this thread or maybe another one a couple weeks back that we wouldnt have enough 3YO's to fill the card. Shouldnt be a surprise to them that the noms are light, but never know these days... Perhaps it is indeed a surprise to the powers that be.
The programming has just had a major revamp. That is why we have ended up with several small fields. Which was always likely to happen. Horses can only race once a day. If some of those races had been spread over a couple of days a lot of horses would have raced in two of those races. The F/M s into the Bonecrusher. The 3yo fillies into the Derby etc.
My understanding is that the HKJC as the operator of the totalisator pools deducts 17.5% from win and place bets and different deductions from other bet types (these are explained on their website). But what is not clear is how much of that deduction makes its way back to New Zealand? The pool sizes are huge, as we saw on Karaka Millions night, so you may not need a large % share to make it all worthwhile. BUT, it should be disclosed.
My first thought when I saw the nominations was that I was underwhelmed. But thinking about it, for example the Bonecrusher we have got 3 topline horses and 4 reasonable horses that are capable on their day. Would you rather a small select field or a field of 14-16 where half the field have no chance of winning?
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