All Star Mile Vic Autumn

Red Hare wrote: I hope they vote in Vianden, or some other country slug.

I only wanted one. Not eight.

You did not

Sadly Vianden wont be getting any votes, he died.

Passing Through wrote: Yes I did.

Okay, I’ll bite. Why did you?

Passing Through wrote: Shrunk in the Wash wrote: Passing Through wrote: Yes I did. Okay, I’ll bite. Why did you? Because I own a part of him.

So greed or self interest?

Shrunk in the Wash wrote: Passing Through wrote: Shrunk in the Wash wrote: Passing Through wrote: Yes I did. Okay, I’ll bite. Why did you? Because I own a part of him. So greed or self interest?

Passing Through wrote: ExceedAndExcel wrote: Passing Through wrote: Shrunk in the Wash wrote: Passing Through wrote: Yes I did. Okay, I’ll bite. Why did you? Because I own a part of him. What are the arrangements for mounting yard tickets at Flemington? Obviously can’t accommodate even 5% of the owners. Some kind of random ballot? Chaotic I would imagine.

Yes I imagine so.

So no discussion by the syndicate manager as to who gets the 20(??) mounting yard tickets? I imagine there would be plenty wanting a guernsey which of course is not possible.

I have not read any post here. But I get a feeling this race was an ill conceived idea by RVL . They are spending 5mill on prize money and prob another 2/3/4 mill on marketing and extra prizes !! Is this all pay back because of the Everest which is self funding and successful !! And also interesting and becoming part of the Australian landscape in racing? Do not get me wrong I'm all for VIC racing. But who has come up with what seems to be a foolish idea? Something like this works in Japan! But if you have ever had anything to do with Japanese racing, it's a completely different beast!! Young people come to races and buy all sort paraphernalia on there favourite horses / jockeys/ yards. They are like teenage groupie's . Oz racing is nothing like that and is made up of syndicated horses. Goes beyond belief RVL let someone waste this much money on what seems to be a frivolous idea. I know no one who is the slitest bit interested!! As a person that has been to a lot of racing centres around the world! Great if I'm wrong? But cannot believe somebody or bodies have been able to sell this stupid idea. Of course RVL will release a statement over there own run press station what a grand success it all is!! But it's throwing good money down the drain!! Could of boosted prize money were it's really needed? In maiden and class racing were all these silly votes are coming from

Straight arrow wrote: Goes beyond belief RVL let someone waste this much money on what seems to be a frivolous idea. I know no one who is the slitest bit interested!! As a person that has been to a lot of racing centres around the world! Great if I'm wrong? But cannot believe somebody or bodies have been able to sell this stupid idea. Of course RVL will release a statement over there own run press station what a grand success it all is!! But it's throwing good money down the drain!! Could of boosted prize money were it's really needed? In maiden and class racing were all these silly votes are coming from

I guess, in this day and age, it is the way of the world that everybody looks after their own self interests.

Your post indicates you race horses that are only good enough to win maiden and class racing.

As a punter, I hate maiden and class racing. It is my belief that the focus on maiden and class racing to increase the number of races to meet TABCORP requirements under the terms of the joint venture agreement is what has caused the quality of Australian Racing to diminish.

To make it even worse, Racing VIC and Racing NSW random approach to just selecting certain races and also creating new races with huge prize money boosts like the Everest and All Star Mile just make it worse.

The authorities have totally got it wrong.

The focus should have been on less racing, more quality.

Prize money should have been focused across all races and instead of races being downgraded or Disappearing or being moved in the calendar, Group racing overall should have been strengthened, meaning you would have needed to breed a better quality horse to be competitive.

Now we have thousands of ordinary quality horses being catered for, and the elite horses just pick and choose where they want to race, and avoid clashing with each other.

They quite often pick up easy money racing against small fields or little competition.

There will be Punters that love benchmark racing, so to each their own.

One thing is for certain.

The first rule of business is build your asset base and build your company.

A lot of the money that is now being thrown away on prize money should have been spent on infrastructure.

We have no choice but to bet at home, because the food, the facilities, the betting auditoriums, the media and data facilities etc... are either c.rap or non existent on track, and even worse, at times, so is the condition of half of the tracks.

Absolutely.. the people’s race is a great play on the open market

Yep, I think they have removed your dog's vote now djebel.

You do have to submit a mobile phone number. Your wife's phone, your kid's phone, your work phone, your next door neighbors phone will do.

Really just shows the flaw with racing - these industries need to hire younger tech savvy people not only for incredibly obvious stuff like this, but just for different thinking in general.

Passing Through wrote: This race is a 3 year project directed at bringing new interest and new owners into racing. If this was marketed as a $5m race for Alizee, Land Of Plenty, Grunt, Happy Clapper et al, it would be a big yawn and nobody would give a rats. They would not be engaging their families and friends as well as strangers to look at his race and be involved, if nothing other than a chance to win $250k for nothing.  There are hundreds of thousands of people engaging with this race that would otherwise not cared, in part because of the publicity horses like UR, MOHW Moss n' Dale and others have generated.How many average Australians would know what a Group One race was? All they know is that their friend or family member has a runner in a $5m race, and that is a big deal to them.