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Peter Mair

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Original Post 2011-Jan-16, 08:09 PM

NZ Racing -- the predictable goss

The NZ Racing Board will soon release an extensive report into the scale of the industry and its benefits to the economy in a bid to improve understanding of its importance.

[Hopefully these assessors will appreciate that people employed producing racing that 'no one' wants would be more usefully employed producing anything thta the community does want. No Australian assesors paid to tell the truth do so.]

Work is also under way to boost public confidence in the integrity of racing. Last year, the Racing Board commissioned market research which found 41% of people think racing has problems with corruption, 40% think it has problems with drugs, and only 39% thought racing was professional.

And there's a growing awareness that the industry has to work harder to rationalise the large number of expensive to maintain racetracks

NZedders probably do not like being regarded as a 'seventh state' but the reality is reality when it comes to racing. Like NSW, NZ is an exporter of well bred horses, but when it come to actually racing the new crop, NZ is more like those states and regions in Australia hoping to find a useful one to bring to Melbourne in the Spring.

While I have no factual basis for the feeling, I would be surprised if the 40% of NZedders thinking that NZ racing was all 'hunky dory' was even close to the balance of public opinion in Australia.


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Beachy

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2011-Jan-17, 02:43 AM

Peter Mair writes ... 2011-Jan-16, 08:09 PM

While I have no factual basis for the feeling, I would be surprised if the 40% of NZedders thinking that NZ racing was all 'hunky dory' was even close to the balance of public opinion in Australia.

So not much different to your other opinions/feelings then Pete?


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Peter Mair

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2011-Jan-17, 06:26 AM

Has similar market research even been done for the Australian racing industry?

Survey data for Australian racing industry some time ago suggested that only 7% of the adult population 'regularly had a bet on racing'.

At the time, I understood that translated to about 1 million people -- mainly males presumably.

It is interesting to consider the possibility of a broader market base being built on a national program of 'tier one' racing supported by a commitment to first class infrastructure and integrity management -- and the best 6 or 8 races telecast free to air.

If that approach were successfull the next questions would be about a national funding framework (as proposed by the Productivity Commission) and either lowering TAB takeout rates or reducing the share of TAB taxes distributed to the racing industry.

Some of these issues are inherent in the current inquiry into racing in the ACT (as well as NZ).


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Jim Pike

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2011-Jan-17, 02:26 PM

as far as corruption is concerned it makes absolutely no difference to why anyone has a bet, in fact a lot of small owners get involved because they think there is corruption and want to get in on it!! they are sadly disappointed, not that there isn't corruption, just they have no chance of getting in on it, in fact they are the mark! Just kiddn' again,
what a waste of time and money doing these sorts of market research

who thinks that where ever there is money and power there isn't corruption??
Politics, Business etc would both have infinitely more corruption than Horse racing, do Politicians ever have market research to boost the public opinion of their integrity or find out how many of them are Corrupt?? they are smart enough not to ask questions that they don't already know the answers to, the last thing politicians want is for the public to think it may be endemic, they may throw mud at individuals but not into their whole house
do they have market research to find the level of corruption or professionalism in business?? they do plenty of market research but not into their own integrity, why would they want to raise the spectre of corruption??


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