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Speaker 1: Big day in the old hometown, New Zealand. Trotting Cup

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Speaker 1: Day of course, first run in nineteen oh four to

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Speaker 1: thirty two hundred meters classic. Brian Thompson's the Eddington Raceway

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Speaker 1: Chief Executive ers with us Brian morning jet A, Mike

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Speaker 1: K Gamete very well. Has it stopped raining?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The rain stopped, the winds died down, and I

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Speaker 2: can see the sun starting to poke through.

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Speaker 1: Because that's what happens on Trotting Cup Day, isn't it. It

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Speaker 1: never rains.

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Speaker 2: Nah, once those gates open, it never rains on Cup Day.

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Speaker 2: He'd know that.

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Speaker 1: That is exactly right. So big crowd today, what are

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Speaker 1: we expecting?

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Speaker 2: I reckon? We're looking around about that fourteen fifteen thousand

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Speaker 2: number numbers are up on last year and we're really

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Speaker 2: excited about and happy with them.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, nice people. I was going to ask

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Speaker 1: you about the horses. What about the talent of the race.

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Speaker 1: Is it good? I mean, is the industry in good

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Speaker 1: heart horse once?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're positive and this race is going to be fantastic,

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Speaker 2: especially the itIt Trotting Cup. They're racing for a million

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Speaker 2: dollars at five point fifty three. Couple of Ozzies that

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Speaker 2: are coming over to try and steal the cup away

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Speaker 2: from the Kiwi's and probably leap the fame, which is

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Speaker 2: the I is probably favorite, but Republican Party are good

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Speaker 2: Kiwi horses pretty close, so it's going to be exciting race.

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Speaker 1: The reason I ask about the horses the people there

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Speaker 1: for the horses are they're there for the entertainment oh

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Speaker 1: better both.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, we give people a reason to dress up,

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Speaker 2: celebrate and have some fun with friends and family. There

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Speaker 2: are the infield, which we've got shape Shifter and Savage

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Speaker 2: starting after the last race, and plenty of DJs going

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Speaker 2: throughout the day. And we've got a silent rave k

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Speaker 2: for those people who have put some headphones on to

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Speaker 2: don effect the horse racing. But there's also a hospitality.

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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of new areas open this year

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Speaker 2: with the ned Lawn and Gray Goose Terrace. The hospital

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Speaker 2: numbers are looking really good. And you know, as we said,

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Speaker 2: we're just trying to give people from around Cantabrin and

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Speaker 2: probably further afield to a reason to dressed up and celebrate.

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Speaker 1: Well, you have the best of those, Brian, appreciate you time.

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Speaker 1: Brian Thompson, who's the Eddington Raceway chief executive, who doesn't

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Speaker 1: live about silent I love watching the Silent Rave Cave

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Speaker 1: on the news at night because you just have a

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Speaker 1: lot of pissed people with headphones on looking ridiculous, and

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