Reply With QuoteWere noms extended?
And they have got the hide to put up a mile rate and silly people believe the mile rate.
Have whoever you want on but don't ever have yourself on
Were noms extended?
Tuesday fields were up yesty but not monday's so they must of been extended.
There up now Breno.
Is today the funeral for the Flying K?
When Darren Binskin comes out in the Trotguide and gives it a thumbs up straight away you know it's gone for all money.It's like when someone from a sporting club does a piece to camera on the nightly news and says "The Coach has the Board's full support".
Last edited by Triple V; 07-23-2012 at 07:43 PM. Reason: spelling
Love it or hate it and I am happy to sit on the fence, however I will say a couple of things.Originally Posted by Triple V
When Darren Binskin comes out in the Trotguide and gives it a thumbs up straight away you know it's gone for all money.
1.The shorter races from other seasons at 1300m were a much bigger success than anyone thought they would be.
2.The industry gets bagged for just running mile races.
3.The industry gets bagged for running longer races because nothing happens.
It is easy to never make a mistake, never make a decision.
It was tried, did it work, it seems not but if we are going to bag the people who try something every time they try .... they will stop trying... both equine codes are losing turnover money to the dogs so are trying to make their product more appealing to the very casual punter who back dog 1 because he knows it has a red rug.
One thing I am sure of however is the Adams family like the concept one of our best young horses from 2007/2008 season FLITE DYNASTY has found form, I am tipping they will not be thinking its a massive wank when they spend the $9,500 the series has made them.
Be that as it may VOR, if I hand on heart had any measure of trust in the TAB that they would not continue to push our Industry to institute that which is nothing more than an equine version of Dog Lotto, if I had any measure of trust in them that they will not continue to attempt to mindlessly debase Harness Racing by way of shortened races and the use of Greyhound Colours on drivers and that they will not continue to pass off that which is a thinly veiled copy of the dishlickers as 'genuine innovation'...I'd let it pass as the abject folly it is, giving it no more thought than a previous day's bowel movement.
Unfortunately I suspect that's nothing like their plan for the future and so in response I'm not planning to take my foot off the neck of this subject any time soon.
My information is that far from this being a one off at a time of year when noms are not that easy to come by, there is a 2nd tilt which has already set down for December, a time of year when there are plenty of horses around to fill most of the races carded. How about them apples eh?
First it's a one off, then it's once every 6 months, then once every 3, then before long it will be once a month, once a week, more than once a week.
Nah, they can take that and jam it up their individual and collective clackers...sideways.
Give these imbeciles an inch and it will be an across the board kilometer before you know it...day in, day out, week in, week out, churn and burn...like the Dishlickers.
As if the TB's would ever entertain the possibility of having this sort of crap shoved upon them, even for a second. Neither should we.
2.The industry gets bagged for just running mile races.3.The industry gets bagged for running longer races because nothing happens.
I would like to know who these people are that are bagging the mile races AND bagging the distance races because nothing happens,are we talking about people inside the industry or just random people because for as long as i can remember whenever i have had a bet in a pub i don't EVER remember the conversation of distance coming up before or after the race,they just move on to the next race and let's not forget these are the people that are betting on our product,ask any of them (normal everyday punters i'm talking about)about distances and i bet as they are looking up at the screen for the race to start they wouldn't be able to tell you if it's a 1000m,1609m,2100 or 3652mtr race. Form is what i hear being talked about the most, definitely not distances.
Sorry about my rant but having spent alot of time in Europe you realise that trotting is number 1 and gallops and dogs run 2nd and 3rd and i just wish the same respect could be shown for it here instead of us being told what we need to do to make certain parties happy,i know that's how it is but it still p......ss me right off
G'ay Rosario,
If I were to place all of my other objections and suspicions to one side for a moment and just focus on one aspect, that being the distance...then geeze, the thinking behind the shortening of a race from 1609 to 1000m and thereby some 45-50 seconds less...is nothing to me if not staggeringly stupid.
If the difference between maintaining a Punter's interest and not doing so actually does lie between the 1:07-1:08-1:09 bracket that it took them to scoot over the 1000m yesterday & it is unable to be sustained for the extra 48-49-50 seconds it would have taken for them to race over the traditonally shortest race distance of 1 mile (1609m) then let me tell you something mate, we are well & truly rooted and far from home.
Of course, you and I and everyone else knows that is not the case BUT that significantly is also an integral part of the bullshit line that the TAB dishlicker plagiarisers who like to be seen as inovators have been running in order to support this ridiculous concept and force it upon Harness Racing. A Pox on all their houses.
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