Numbers Don’t Lie (Part 2) – Show Me the Money
Tell me what is wrong with this picture. In financial year 2017 Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW) earned approximately $56 million, most of it from wagering. Four years later, in financial year 2021, HRNSW revenue had risen to approximately $79 million. On other words, harness racing pulled in an extra $24 million. You would expect the […]
Numbers Never Lie – So Look at These, and Remember Them While You Are Listening to JD’s Long Reign Lauded
In 1980 the Melbourne Cup carried total prizemoney of $300 000, plus trophies worth ten grand. This year’s Cup is worth $8 million, plus trophies valued at $270 000. That is an increase of 2670%. The Golden Slipper prize purse in 1980 was worth $250 000. Today the prize pool is $5 million. The Slipper […]
Updated Betting Market For the John Dumesny Replacement Parkes Spacemen Stakes (Group 11)
Report on the Parkes Spaceman’s great victory against Canowindra, after they cheated by sending the opposition’s linesman off There has been a flurry of early betting activity on the John Dumesny Replacement Parkes Spacemen Stakes (Group 11) so we’ve had to revise the market. We have also taken some bets by request on punters not […]
Ding Dong, the Kitsch is Dead – Here’s the Betting Market on His Replacement
Thousands of harness racing participants around NSW are popping the champagne corks tonight at the news that long-standing harness racing administrator John Dumesny has announced a date for his retirement as the CEO of Harness Racing NSW. The bad news for them is that he is not going for almost a year, meaning no doubt […]
Is Gangles Actually Going to SA?
Well our mail that Greg Gangle is leaving the CEO’s role at Wagga is rock solid. It’s not a matter of if we are told, but when. The only question left is where is he going. We said Albion Park, but now with the departure of Nick Redin from the top job at Racing SA […]
Well, Well, Well – Was There Really Ever a Vote or Not?
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has backed down on it’s plan to make this year’s NZ Cup and Dominion Handicap handicap stand starts this year. So they should too. But just to illustrate the problems with conflict of interest on the board, I wonder how HRNZ Directors Colin Hair and Robert Dunn – the owner […]
Um, Ads – Chris Lewis Has Driven a Few More Winners Than That
Alan Parker in WA is one of Australia’s greatest harness racing historians. The man is a genius. He says that Chris Lewis has driven almost 5900 winners. Only a fool would disbelieve him. Adam Hamilton is no fool, he just got it wrong. It happens to the best of us. We expect to see the […]
What a Lovely Break
The word is that Mark Purdon had to go home early from his usual winter sojourn in Queensland, and that Natalie Rasmussen’s friend Olivia Thornley came over to replace him. We hope that Livvie didn’t hang around too much with Nat’s great mate Scott Steele. The word is that you would never want to accept […]
