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  1. curious

    Weigh In Feb 26

    Exactly. They just got a windfall for five years and at least $100m of that needed to be allocated to track infrastructure. Great opportunity for Guerin to ask the question but he either doesn't have the wherewithall or the balls.
  2. curious

    Weigh In Feb 26

    They spent 180k on infrastructure last year and transferred zero to the infrastructure fund which stood at $10m FY 23. Think that's mostly committed to the Awapuni restructure
  3. curious

    Weigh In Feb 26

    The handling of the track infrastructure issue is awful. Cameron says the main reason is that we don't have enough tracks available to fix the existing ones but they keep closing tracks? Really? Wouldn't that have been a good follow up question. Or why when we've had decades to do this? Or wrt to resourcing, they get distributions every year but don't have the money to fix the tracks? Because they put it all in stakes. What about the cost of horse injuries, notably and contemporaneously, those from Karaka Millions night?
  4. curious

    Weigh In Feb 26

    What hard question? Did you see the grossly uninformed question at 37? Then Cameron says there's probably two answers to that, dives into some hype, doesn't answer the question and neither of them follow up. In fact Emily changes the subject. Complete waste of time.
  5. curious

    Otaki

    The last time I was there was 3 or 4 years ago. mardi was actually there that day too. Haven't looked at the track for years though. When they fixed the drainage system some years earlier they tried to get water to run uphill. It seems that plan still might not be working very well. I doubt over watering during the week is the issue if as reported 11mls applied Monday, 10mls Tuesday, then 5mls on Wednesday and Thursday. Given the temperatures, that would hardly match the evaporation rate and shouldn't have created runoff to the inside.
  6. Has there actually been any general communication from NZTR that they've scrapped the SNS and what they are changing to? I mean other than Sharrock's announcements at the roadshows.
  7. OK. That's a possibility then. I'd like if they would just say so briefly in their communications in that case though to make them understandable. I've used Access on and off for maybe 20 years. It's the only DB software I know anything about but that's because it's what was provided to individual users in my organisation and supported by our IT team. Seemed fine for those purposes, so as you say, individual to SME use. I think it also can be given a bit more grunt when linked to or overlaid on an external server such as SQL? It may be that was the problem.
  8. It seems a bit odd to me given mardi's comments that they would now be reverting to Access since they have decided to scrap the implementation of the Racing Australia SNS. The quote in the headpost is originally from an April 2021 release by NZTR. As far as I can make out it is wrong anyway, as MS never suggested they would withdraw support for Access. It looks to me that someone at NZTR got the wrong end of the stick when MS announced withdrawal of support for Access 2016 which had long since been replaced by Access 2019. Don't see how they could stop supporting the current version when that remains part of the widely used MS365 package. If it is true that NZTR are reverting to Access and that is inadequate for their DB needs, then it sounds like we may be facing more problems with the NZTR system in the future. As noted, this has nothing to do with the TAB software that failed at the weekend and that Entain are replacing this year.
  9. A few million dollar races aside, the rest of the shit show continues to go from bad to worse.
  10. curious

    NZTR track update

    Has me beat.
  11. curious

    TAB

    I was logged in and couldn't get a bet on.
  12. curious

    TAB

    It's pretty weird. People seem to have randomly got zero, $10 or $20? No explanation how they decided that?
  13. curious

    TAB

    As usual, I got zilch.
  14. curious

    Entain targets

    No, I think he was just reporting it. Sounded like it came from the new government and the TAB has gone along, though NZTR no doubt didn't object. Just my take on what I heard though. Might not be gospel. Likely be some kick back though if that is the case.
  15. curious

    Entain targets

    I'm pretty sure the TAB said they'd remove them and the government said it would be a condition for geoblocking or similar legislation. My memory may be deceiving me but I'm pretty sure Sharrock was indicating that would no longer be the case. Hopefully, someone will correct me if I mistook that.
  16. curious

    Entain targets

    On that note, it sounds like the removal of the class 4 gaming business ain't going to happen and they are confident that legislation will be passed making gambling with overseas providers illegal for NZ residents. Not so clear whether that will include geoblocking or similar.
  17. curious

    Entain targets

    Sharrock said they were looking for pots of gold wherever they could find them.
  18. curious

    Entain targets

    From yesterday's NZTR roadshow. Just scribbled these down but think I have them right. Yr1 Yr 6 % incr. Average bet 13.2 13.2 0% Account customers 280k 380 36% Bets per customer 545 600 10% Revenue per active bettor 950 1050 10%
  19. curious

    NZTR track update

    Yes. It's hard to work out whether it's a lack of advice from Strathayr or a failure of ATR in following that. Wilcox has already said that there was a discrepancy between what they did in the week leading up to Millions day, from what Strathayr said they should have done. Wilcox also said the track needs resting for the winter to allow further development of the surface. Regardless, it seems very risky to ATR, NZTR and the RIB to proceed with racing there given the limited testing and actions that we know about since the poor performance of the track. Hopefully, the weather complies and they don't have to discover whether it is safe in the face of any light rainfall again.
  20. curious

    NZTR track update

    My sentiments exactly. Going round at jumpers pace is not exactly a test and Wazza is quoted as saying the track is only as good as it was before the Millions, but needs more work which he suggests should be achieved by racing on it? Phantomcoring removes 1% of organic matter. Sounds like a more significant renovation is needed.
  21. Give Butch a ring. He's the CEO.
  22. I passed after ticking quite a few buckets!
  23. curious

    turnover info

    I think one of the main reasons was that they thought they were losing punter spend to off shore FO bookmakers and that would accelerate if they did not offer a competing product.
  24. curious

    turnover info

    Are they still paying Betfair/Paddy Power $40m a year for that, or are Entain/Ladbrokes now providing that?
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