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Speaker 1: It's very big day for the old hometown. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Addington fires up for Cup Day. Addington Raceway CEO Brian

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Speaker 1: Thompson's with us. Brian, Morning, good a Mike, Ho are

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Speaker 1: you doing very well? I stated very boldly on the

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Speaker 1: program yesterday. I think I'm right on this. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's ever rained on race day, has it?

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Speaker 2: No? I think the first year I was here, back

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Speaker 2: in war twenty eleven, we had a bit of a

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Speaker 2: sprinkle before eleven, but that was its day was a cracker.

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Speaker 1: And today's today's gorgeous.

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Speaker 2: Today's a typical Canterbury spring day, full of sunshine, eighteen

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Speaker 2: nineteen degrees, light breeze, perfect day for racing.

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Speaker 1: Are you in the fashion in the field this year? Brian?

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Speaker 1: Have you dressed yourself up a bit?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I'm cranking a pretty good suit at the moment,

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Speaker 2: but it won't be entering. Got to make it fair

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Speaker 2: for everyone else.

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Speaker 1: Very good. I like a man of confidence. What's this

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Speaker 1: twenty five dollar versus forty dollar thing? Was that a

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Speaker 1: cost of living idea?

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Speaker 2: And clearly it's worked, yeah, one hundred percent. So I

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Speaker 2: think these days there's so many choices out there for

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Speaker 2: people to go to events and experienced it for entertainment.

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Speaker 2: I think what we try to do is just to

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Speaker 2: give everyone the opportunity to get here and enjoy the

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Speaker 2: racing aspect of it, and it has definitely worked.

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Speaker 1: How many people are you expecting?

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Speaker 2: Odd, We're set up for about fifteen thousand, so if

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Speaker 2: we can get near to that will be pretty happy.

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Speaker 1: Nice stuff. Will you go well and enjoy it? Brian

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Speaker 1: appreciate it very much. Brian Thompson, who's cranking a pretty

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Speaker 1: good suit this morning. I like his style.

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