Has Peter got an Order of Australia?

Perhaps that’s why he’s so, so bitter

TODAYS DATE -- JUST SIX YEARS AGO


APOLOGY TO PETER V’LANDYS

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Peter Mair
3 March 2014

Ok, PM. That clears up a few things regarding why I see RVL mentioned a lot with your posts but not much of Racing NSW.

Catalyst is out with a bruised fetlock and going home.

Also from the Australian Guineas......Soul Patch's career finished with a tendon injury and Alabama Express at the vet clinic .
The absolute carnage on Melbourne's metro tracks continue.

Six years is a long time -- things change.

No need to name names -- no one-person is responsible for what happens .

RVL went from top-dog in Australian racing to failing -- across the board -- in terms of management and racing policy. Victorian race clubs squabbling for the spoils was up against a coordinated monopoly in NSW.

...... after Rob Hines left in 2012, RVL was a downhill racer ... over the cliff  paying big-bucks for10th.

Conversely, RNSW was going, in a canter, from 2nd to 1st -- putting lengths on RVL.

Some of it was about 'additional funds' for NSW racing but it was mainly about superior tactical  management at RNSW, then effectively 'working' with a one-club ATC.

It was a 'united' front  -- up against a rabble .

I am inclined to discount 'headline names' when the board of RNSW is so bi-partisan politically stacked and coordinated by a former ABC CEO -- the power in the background has been a government determined to buy the racing industry -- probably begging RNSW to ask for more.

All this while RVL was on a road to perdition -- shortening stride dramatically in the run.

RNSW did follow 'over the cliff' with big-bucks for 10th  -- but that did not work to inflate fields as it did in Victoria.

Both RVL and RNSW are to be derided as unbridled monopolists exploiting a captive market -- people like me addicted to racing gambling.

The exploitation is on display day after day -- but especially on Saturdays.

In NSW, highway-robbery races are delivering rough-results in the early quadrellas   -- and the 'get out stakes' is usually a low-grade benchmark event inducing punters to over-bet on the main quadrella.

Even so -- using the Monty benchmark for tipsters --racing in Sydney on Saturdays is a far superior gambling entertainment for most punters.

.............. the contrast with the situation in Melbourne could hardly be more stark .......... the main beneficiaries of RVL policies on inflated fields contesting low-quality racing, with predictably rough-results, are fixed-odds betting operations and betting syndicates.

..... properly advised  most punters would shun Melbourne metropolitan racing ... but most Victorian punters seem to be slow learners  -- unable to grasp that races will not run true to disclosed form.

I now go overseas to avoid 'cup-week' and most Melbourne racing in October. Just a rort!

Occasional Saturdays to the contrary -- like last Saturday -- are rare exceptions.

I don’t think Alligator Blood is a shoo in as people think. Streets of Avalon might kick up to lead and depends what happens then. The barrier draw will be important for this.

The field is not bad based on what is available in Australia at the moment except for Te Aku Shark and a few from the Chipping Norton field.

.......kennel kids excel!

'I don’t think' ...............says jeunes --  as if we did not know!

...... and the not wily one is proclaiming a 'ripper of a field' even as it falls away with connections avoiding a run.......... and bradburys hanging in hoping for a bradbury field.

There is no 'breeding value' attaching to the winner of a corrupted race ... as distinct from wining a race for properly qualified runners of lesser value.

Could not agree more -- dare-to-be-great promotional stunts are to be deplored.

My views on the stunts pulled by RNSW are readily accessible -- the Everest, as a race, does have some credibility even as the hype and 'free-tickets' stunts reflect poorly on those responsible .

The special offense inherent in the some-stars-mile is the inclusion of runners 'elected' being paid $50,000 for running last and very likely to be an impediment to a fair race.

....the story will unfold over the next two weeks.

Catalyst out of the All Star Mike.

https://www.racenet.com.au/news/catalyst-taken-to-ballarat-vet-clinic-20200303

Bugger, can’t make that 8mage bigger


Cracking good field. Can’t wait for the  race

WA dominate.  These are two very good horses. 


Pike finally salutes away from home. 

What’s wrong a Mair, you couldn’t find the winner?  

Go you good thing