Reply With Quotehttps://peterprofit.com/why-i-would-...or-pigging-it/Originally Posted by aussiebreno
Second last sentence "young bird with the tidy boobs"
Just when you think he has no integrity left to lose PP goes and proves you wrong.
I believe you. I never passed on PPs comments from a couple of days ago because it was just another article of no interest
ps If anyone wants to listen to it, it is during an ad at the 8.30 minute mark of Burning Questions
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...ing-questions/
Last edited by Messenger; 06-11-2023 at 04:28 PM. Reason: ps
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
https://peterprofit.com/why-i-would-...or-pigging-it/
Second last sentence "young bird with the tidy boobs"
Just when you think he has no integrity left to lose PP goes and proves you wrong.
Is that in the clips audio Brendan? (Deaf guys don't bother with most audio stuff)
We know PP is the opposite of an angel but sometimes he supplies good news
Do you subscribe?
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
No - nothing to do with Bonno I just piggybacked that comment because of the sexist relevance.
That tidy boobs comment is PP describing a girl in the Jamie Kah cocaine video.
The hypocrisy is incredulous.
Yes am a subscriber.
I never said anything about Bonno. I was asking about the boobs reference - where it was, now I see that it was in the written text (my reading is a worry)
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
Sorry thought you meant from Bonnos audio.
Yep - written.
JB is back alright
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/the...ighter-future/
It is a propaganda piece (somewhat understandably positives only come from our administration) but it has some good points
Why, oh why, however does he finish with
And that aspiration, not compliance, will dictate going forward.
I am clearly not as learned as JB for I am sure I have never written 'aspiration' in my life and quite possibly have never read aspirations more than a few times
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
On Saturday night at Melton Park, early markets suggested two horses in particular would start at “red figure” odds, that is, shorter than $2 or, in layman terms, less than yours for theirs.
Those horses were Yambukian in the evening’s open class contest, and Stir Me Up in the final event, which punters often reference as the “get-out stakes”.
Ultimately, Yambukian started at $4.40 and Stir Me Up $4.
Importantly, both runners drifted desperately soon before their races were staged.
More importantly, Yambukian finished last while Stir Me Up defeated just two of 11 rivals home.
What, in real terms, are the consequences of these markets flucs and the results which followed them?
That’s simple.
For those that follow harness racing here and there at best, it’s tough to think they wouldn’t feel both frustrated and manipulated.
How can they wager on this product with confidence when one-time market morals suddenly blow out late and subsequently finish well down the track?
As is normally the case, however, truth and perception lie many miles apart.
And the truth is this.
Neither Yambukian nor Stir Me Up should ever have opened at such prohibitive prices.
Both runners started somewhere near their correct quotes.
And both horses encountered burdens which they could not overcome.
This discussion isn’t intended to marginalise or pillory those price assessors that made the markets referenced above.
Setting prices is the toughest task in all three racing codes.
Nevertheless, without greater competition, these errors will always occur; and while smart players will leverage them, we’ll also lose peripheral punters the game so sorely needs.
Like most complex problems, there are no easy answers.
Nevertheless, that should not preclude us from searching for solutions.
Punter confidence – and existence itself - depends upon finding them.
This is a decent article BUT I have removed the first third of the article which a superior to JB should have done - who oversees his warble
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/the...markets-right/
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
Herald Sun today we get a little article tucked away by Bonno on the Eureka. His point was we need to sell the narratives about the horses in the Eureka and engage the general public with them. Which is true. So why he did an article just saying we need to sell the narrative, instead of an article actually selling the narrative is mind boggling.
I now see what Brendan was talking about (only read it just now)
Sports journalism, like so many iconic industries, has somewhat involuntarily endured an exponential evolution in recent decades, and, particularly, recent years.
In the ‘good old days’ there were rules. In the halcyon years, there was structure.
Back then – with ‘then’ representing an undefined construct as this revolution was rendered via stealth, not force – sporting scribes followed similar rules to their more ‘serious’ contemporaries.
Being right was infinitely more important than being first.
Accuracy superseded splendour.
And the journalist accepted their role as what one might call a consistent conduit.
Never the hero, always the messenger.
While many hold fast to such virtues, the gluttonous nature of sporting fans ultimately demands those previous principles – noble as they are – simply won’t cut muster.
Marketing terms like ‘agile’ should, and do, make most self-respecting humans’ shudder.
But sad it may sound, that very term applies when discussing media and broadcasting approaches across different sporting disciplines.
On one hand you have pervasive products like AFL, NRL, NBA, NFL and some other acronymic sporting bodies which thrive across the globe that have subtly adopted the concept of ‘narrative’.
Different folks will carry different opinions on this subject, but most dedicated zealots that religiously follow these gargantuan industries – locally or otherwise – care precious little for narratives.
If your world shifts and shapes by whether Carlton, Manly, Miami or New York win or lose on a weekly basis, manufactured storylines about their seasonal journeys mean near on nothing.
Harness racing, however, that’s a different yarn.
While those that love the trots are probably more passionate about the game they relish than any other single sporting fanbase we – unlike the behemoths referenced above – need narratives to thrive.
And fortunately, we have them in tonight’s inaugural edition of the world’s richest standardbred contest, The Eureka.
For myriad reasons, harness racing was painfully slow to leverage slot racing’s many benefits.
In retrospect, however, the results of said tardiness may represent more blessing than curse.
Against significant odds, The Everest has courageously paved the path for races of this nature to garner unexpected respect in record time and greyhound racing’s Phoenix has only helped that cause.
This means The Eureka, which isn’t Australasian pacing’s first crack at this concept, yet certainly it’s most ambitious, finds itself following triumphant footsteps.
And, as outlined, it also delivers the narratives that smaller sports require to capture broader interest.
Firstly, we have race favourite Leap To Fame, whose narrative is all about his Queensland bona fides.
Then there’s Catch A Wave, this season’s mercurial Miracle Mile champ who races to the beat of his own drum.
It doesn’t end there either.
The Lost Storm symbolizes youth and excitement, the three-year-old wunderkind tackling older rivals while Captain Ravishing encapsulates the very nature of flawed genius and unlimited potential.
Those that don’t live harness racing need these stories to engage.
And, once they engage, the rest is up to us.
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/the...f-opportunity/
Everything in red is superfluous and should have been cut by his editor
I cannot tiptoe around this due to rumours about JB's health, his superiors are not doing there job and keeping him on topic!
Media is so important to our industry's survival and this waffle has to stop
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
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