1 00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,547 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine 2 00:00:10,707 --> 00:00:12,627 Speaker 1: from newstalksb. 3 00:00:12,787 --> 00:00:14,987 Speaker 2: Not smart, but there is a lot of other sport 4 00:00:15,067 --> 00:00:18,947 Speaker 2: going on, including the world's richest horse race surprise pool 5 00:00:18,987 --> 00:00:23,227 Speaker 2: of twenty million Australian dollars the Everest over twelve hundred 6 00:00:23,267 --> 00:00:26,147 Speaker 2: meters jumps at six fifteen this evening New Zealand Time 7 00:00:26,507 --> 00:00:30,467 Speaker 2: at Randwick in Sydney. New Zealand Herald Racing editor mcgarren 8 00:00:30,547 --> 00:00:33,427 Speaker 2: joins us from Ramwick. Thanks for your time as always. 9 00:00:33,587 --> 00:00:35,547 Speaker 2: First of all, this is a slot race. Can you 10 00:00:35,627 --> 00:00:37,427 Speaker 2: just explain that concept to us? 11 00:00:38,307 --> 00:00:40,547 Speaker 3: Yeah, High Piney, big high at all your listeners and 12 00:00:40,867 --> 00:00:43,747 Speaker 3: good luck to AWK on their severestros game today. It's 13 00:00:43,747 --> 00:00:46,067 Speaker 3: the great thing for the city and great for forty 14 00:00:46,067 --> 00:00:50,387 Speaker 3: in the country. A slot race means that basically people 15 00:00:50,427 --> 00:00:53,187 Speaker 3: can buy a slot that is the right to race 16 00:00:53,387 --> 00:00:56,147 Speaker 3: a horse. Not a human could buy it. Often it's 17 00:00:56,187 --> 00:00:58,827 Speaker 3: a corporation because these slots are very expensive. The are 18 00:00:58,907 --> 00:01:02,227 Speaker 3: six hundred thousand dollars and there's only twelve of them, 19 00:01:02,547 --> 00:01:05,347 Speaker 3: so anybody can go out and buy one. And then 20 00:01:05,427 --> 00:01:08,107 Speaker 3: you say I have slot, so I need to find 21 00:01:08,147 --> 00:01:10,547 Speaker 3: a horse. Now you may have your own horse, in 22 00:01:10,547 --> 00:01:13,787 Speaker 3: which case you race. Or for example, you and I 23 00:01:13,827 --> 00:01:16,307 Speaker 3: buy a slot together and then we think we want 24 00:01:16,467 --> 00:01:20,507 Speaker 3: to get Jolie Star, so we negotiate with the owners 25 00:01:20,547 --> 00:01:23,987 Speaker 3: of Jolie Star and say the top price, the first 26 00:01:24,027 --> 00:01:27,827 Speaker 3: price today seven million, if because we paid for the slot, 27 00:01:28,387 --> 00:01:31,067 Speaker 3: because obviously it hasn't cost the owners of the horse anything. 28 00:01:31,427 --> 00:01:33,147 Speaker 3: You say we might go fifty to fifty, Well, if 29 00:01:33,147 --> 00:01:35,347 Speaker 3: you've got a really good horse, you might go sixty forty. 30 00:01:35,587 --> 00:01:38,707 Speaker 3: So that's seven million dollars, which is the first prize. 31 00:01:39,467 --> 00:01:42,267 Speaker 3: The trainers and jockey's percentage comes out, so takes it 32 00:01:42,307 --> 00:01:44,987 Speaker 3: down to six. If we're fifty to fifty, you get 33 00:01:44,987 --> 00:01:47,547 Speaker 3: three million, as we do as a slot holders, and 34 00:01:47,587 --> 00:01:51,427 Speaker 3: they get three million. Now most of the big corporations 35 00:01:51,427 --> 00:01:53,347 Speaker 3: are involved, and this can actually use it as tax 36 00:01:53,387 --> 00:01:56,787 Speaker 3: deductibility as a marketing expense, so the actual six hundred 37 00:01:56,947 --> 00:02:00,827 Speaker 3: won't cost them six hundred much my marketing expenses. But 38 00:02:00,867 --> 00:02:02,947 Speaker 3: they're still negotiations to be done, and you're still going 39 00:02:02,987 --> 00:02:04,947 Speaker 3: to find a horse. And if you find a horse 40 00:02:05,107 --> 00:02:08,227 Speaker 3: three months ago and it loses form, you might have 41 00:02:08,267 --> 00:02:10,787 Speaker 3: to go point another horse. So there's a whole array 42 00:02:10,907 --> 00:02:15,427 Speaker 3: of politics and interesting machinations around the entire thing, and 43 00:02:15,507 --> 00:02:17,347 Speaker 3: people who want to work with each other and don't 44 00:02:17,347 --> 00:02:19,547 Speaker 3: want to work with each other, and Howard aligns with 45 00:02:19,627 --> 00:02:25,267 Speaker 3: their brand. It's really fascinating. It's part election, part nrl 46 00:02:25,467 --> 00:02:29,467 Speaker 3: AFL draft type thing and part horse race. And then 47 00:02:29,507 --> 00:02:32,507 Speaker 3: once all of that's happened, Piney, then we get to 48 00:02:32,587 --> 00:02:35,347 Speaker 3: quarter past six to night. The horses don't hear, they 49 00:02:35,387 --> 00:02:40,027 Speaker 3: get in the barriers and inside sixty eight seconds they 50 00:02:40,107 --> 00:02:43,107 Speaker 3: did the up twenty million dollars. So it's one of 51 00:02:43,107 --> 00:02:46,147 Speaker 3: the world's richest sporting events but also one of the 52 00:02:46,187 --> 00:02:46,947 Speaker 3: world's quickest. 53 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:50,827 Speaker 2: Indeed so quick. Now. I read your piece this morning 54 00:02:50,827 --> 00:02:53,027 Speaker 2: in the Herald and you pointed out that the Everest 55 00:02:53,467 --> 00:02:57,147 Speaker 2: was set up to showcase Australian sprinting prowess. But there 56 00:02:57,147 --> 00:03:00,147 Speaker 2: are a couple of Kiwi horses who are probably favorite. 57 00:03:00,227 --> 00:03:03,307 Speaker 3: Meck, yeah, they are the favorite. So there's two New 58 00:03:03,387 --> 00:03:06,187 Speaker 3: Zealand owned horses in the race, I Wish I Win, 59 00:03:06,707 --> 00:03:09,267 Speaker 3: which races in the tab slot and they have an 60 00:03:09,387 --> 00:03:13,627 Speaker 3: enormous array of promotions around him. And then there's a 61 00:03:13,627 --> 00:03:17,587 Speaker 3: horse called Jolie Star who's owned by Cambridge stud Brendan 62 00:03:17,627 --> 00:03:20,627 Speaker 3: and Joe Lindsey, who didn't race that many horses. Ten 63 00:03:20,707 --> 00:03:23,787 Speaker 3: years ago. Brendan Lindsay, famous for setting up and then 64 00:03:23,867 --> 00:03:28,107 Speaker 3: selling Systeamer the Plastic found business for six hundred and 65 00:03:28,147 --> 00:03:30,907 Speaker 3: six million dollars. He bought Cambridge start off there now 66 00:03:30,987 --> 00:03:34,107 Speaker 3: late Sir Patrick Hogan, and has tipped an enormous amount 67 00:03:34,107 --> 00:03:37,667 Speaker 3: of money into rebuilding it. Now. This will be a 68 00:03:37,867 --> 00:03:40,347 Speaker 3: huge coupe for the New Zealand industry because if I 69 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:44,907 Speaker 3: wish I win, wins his father Savabiel the Stallion stands 70 00:03:44,907 --> 00:03:49,347 Speaker 3: in my cutol If Jolie Star winds, she'll return home 71 00:03:49,387 --> 00:03:51,267 Speaker 3: to New Zealand to become a brood met. It's one 72 00:03:51,307 --> 00:03:54,587 Speaker 3: of the most valuable horses on Earth. Female horses anyway, 73 00:03:55,027 --> 00:03:59,547 Speaker 3: So New Zealand horses are basically breed more to win 74 00:03:59,667 --> 00:04:03,027 Speaker 3: sixteen hundred to twenty four hundred or thirty two hundred 75 00:04:03,067 --> 00:04:06,227 Speaker 3: that been the Melbourne Cup distances. The European horses a 76 00:04:06,387 --> 00:04:09,307 Speaker 3: bread for twenty four to thirty two. But the Australians 77 00:04:09,307 --> 00:04:13,067 Speaker 3: are speed mad. They love fast, quick horses who run 78 00:04:13,107 --> 00:04:16,107 Speaker 3: up two and three. So for us to be first 79 00:04:16,147 --> 00:04:20,067 Speaker 3: and second favorites to win a race set up for 80 00:04:20,107 --> 00:04:24,107 Speaker 3: Australian horses would almost be a little bit like I've 81 00:04:24,147 --> 00:04:27,827 Speaker 3: mentioned the NRL World Cup soccer for league, so the 82 00:04:27,947 --> 00:04:32,347 Speaker 3: League World Cup, it'd be like the Kiwis playing Tonga 83 00:04:32,467 --> 00:04:35,267 Speaker 3: in the final and all the Australians and the Kangaroo 84 00:04:35,307 --> 00:04:37,547 Speaker 3: supporters having to watch. That's what it will be like 85 00:04:37,947 --> 00:04:40,907 Speaker 3: if we manage to pull this off today at Randwick. 86 00:04:41,507 --> 00:04:44,907 Speaker 2: How strong is the competition maker? Who are the big 87 00:04:45,107 --> 00:04:47,267 Speaker 2: threats to our two Kiwi horses? 88 00:04:47,827 --> 00:04:51,227 Speaker 3: Well, you're talking about big boys here, but the people 89 00:04:51,267 --> 00:04:53,307 Speaker 3: involved in this stuff make the people who run the 90 00:04:53,307 --> 00:04:56,467 Speaker 3: America's Cup look like they we're going to store like. 91 00:04:56,587 --> 00:04:59,787 Speaker 3: You've got Godolphin, who are the Arabs who not only 92 00:04:59,827 --> 00:05:01,987 Speaker 3: own most of the oil wells in Dubai but also 93 00:05:02,027 --> 00:05:05,307 Speaker 3: Emirates they own the airline, so there serious people. Then 94 00:05:05,347 --> 00:05:08,067 Speaker 3: you've got Corball, who are the world leaders and horse 95 00:05:08,187 --> 00:05:11,307 Speaker 3: racing who were set up on the back of Magna's breweries. 96 00:05:11,387 --> 00:05:14,147 Speaker 3: And again they're talking you're getting involved with the billionaires. 97 00:05:14,427 --> 00:05:16,947 Speaker 3: And then you've got a guy called mister Jiang from 98 00:05:17,067 --> 00:05:21,067 Speaker 3: China who owns you Long and he has been buying 99 00:05:21,067 --> 00:05:24,027 Speaker 3: horses like Imperators, the New Zealand horse he paid six 100 00:05:24,067 --> 00:05:26,947 Speaker 3: point six million dollars for this year. He'll buy horses 101 00:05:26,947 --> 00:05:29,667 Speaker 3: for a million dollars on a woman. It is. These 102 00:05:29,667 --> 00:05:34,667 Speaker 3: are serious, serious players and the money involved is astronomical. 103 00:05:35,187 --> 00:05:36,947 Speaker 3: So not only I know some people think, well, that 104 00:05:36,987 --> 00:05:39,667 Speaker 3: doesn't affect me. It's not just about them. There's other 105 00:05:39,707 --> 00:05:42,187 Speaker 3: horses in the race who are owned by syndicates. One 106 00:05:42,187 --> 00:05:44,227 Speaker 3: of the horses is owned by a syndicate which has 107 00:05:44,747 --> 00:05:48,707 Speaker 3: a childcare worker involved. Just some normal lady who's enjoying 108 00:05:48,707 --> 00:05:50,827 Speaker 3: her life, had a couple percentage points on a horse 109 00:05:51,267 --> 00:05:53,627 Speaker 3: and now she's going head to head with Sheik Muhammed 110 00:05:53,707 --> 00:05:56,067 Speaker 3: who owns Go Dolphin, and are all in there in 111 00:05:56,107 --> 00:05:58,827 Speaker 3: their boxes today. Each horse and slot gets a box 112 00:05:59,507 --> 00:06:01,787 Speaker 3: and the horses don't know who owned them. That's the 113 00:06:01,947 --> 00:06:05,347 Speaker 3: majesty of racing is once you've got the horse, no 114 00:06:05,387 --> 00:06:08,587 Speaker 3: matter how much money you've spent on it, they don't know. 115 00:06:09,147 --> 00:06:11,107 Speaker 3: This race could be won by a horse who costs 116 00:06:11,187 --> 00:06:12,987 Speaker 3: ten million, or it could be one by a horse 117 00:06:13,027 --> 00:06:15,867 Speaker 3: who cost one hundred thousand dollars. So the horses the 118 00:06:15,947 --> 00:06:18,747 Speaker 3: key we have to beat. I think the three year 119 00:06:18,787 --> 00:06:21,707 Speaker 3: olds are the big danger and they are owned by 120 00:06:21,707 --> 00:06:27,467 Speaker 3: the superpowers. Stormboy owned by Coolmore Traffic Warden owned by Godolphin, 121 00:06:27,667 --> 00:06:29,707 Speaker 3: and the horse I like each way in the race 122 00:06:30,027 --> 00:06:34,147 Speaker 3: Growing Empire owned by you Long, which is out of China. 123 00:06:34,627 --> 00:06:36,907 Speaker 3: So the New Zealanders are up against it. But at 124 00:06:36,907 --> 00:06:39,227 Speaker 3: this stage, about five hours out from the race or 125 00:06:39,227 --> 00:06:42,027 Speaker 3: four hours out from the race, they are the favorites. 126 00:06:42,387 --> 00:06:44,547 Speaker 3: The weather is good in Sydney and the track is 127 00:06:44,587 --> 00:06:47,867 Speaker 3: a soft five piney, so that means it's pretty much perfect. 128 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:50,507 Speaker 3: No one will be disadvantaged or advantage either way. 129 00:06:51,107 --> 00:06:56,267 Speaker 2: Now, the TAB res also giving punters here a chance 130 00:06:56,347 --> 00:06:59,467 Speaker 2: to win ten million dollars if we can pick the 131 00:06:59,507 --> 00:07:02,347 Speaker 2: correct finishing order of all twelve runners. Now that sounds 132 00:07:02,347 --> 00:07:05,307 Speaker 2: difficult mat but I think last year somebody did. 133 00:07:06,027 --> 00:07:09,747 Speaker 3: Yeah I do for Morgan got it remarkable. So it's free. Basically, 134 00:07:09,787 --> 00:07:12,987 Speaker 3: if you're a TAB customer, it's free. If you're a 135 00:07:12,987 --> 00:07:16,507 Speaker 3: TV customer, you can log on to your website, you 136 00:07:16,547 --> 00:07:18,627 Speaker 3: don't have to put any money, and you can open 137 00:07:18,627 --> 00:07:20,867 Speaker 3: a TIB account with two dollars. This is not just 138 00:07:20,907 --> 00:07:23,427 Speaker 3: about gambling, and if you don't feel like gambling, don't 139 00:07:23,467 --> 00:07:26,227 Speaker 3: get but you can enter this competition for free. It's 140 00:07:26,227 --> 00:07:28,787 Speaker 3: like a free Loto ticket and you probably won't win. 141 00:07:29,067 --> 00:07:32,107 Speaker 3: But it's good fun. I entered and I can win 142 00:07:32,147 --> 00:07:34,907 Speaker 3: on I do some work for the tab, but Piney, 143 00:07:34,947 --> 00:07:37,187 Speaker 3: you can anybody listeningers can need to just go to 144 00:07:37,267 --> 00:07:40,827 Speaker 3: tab dot co, dot MZ and you've got to pick 145 00:07:40,907 --> 00:07:43,387 Speaker 3: all twelve horses in the correct finishing audit. If you 146 00:07:43,427 --> 00:07:46,307 Speaker 3: don't know anything, look go and favoritism or to go 147 00:07:46,347 --> 00:07:49,307 Speaker 3: in your favorite colors. It really doesn't matter. It's a 148 00:07:49,347 --> 00:07:52,427 Speaker 3: free loto ticket. As I said, somebody pulled it off 149 00:07:52,467 --> 00:07:56,667 Speaker 3: last year and an Auckland man got ten million tax 150 00:07:56,867 --> 00:08:00,747 Speaker 3: free Piney, so ironically he won more money than all 151 00:08:00,787 --> 00:08:03,307 Speaker 3: those people were talking about who actually had a horse 152 00:08:03,347 --> 00:08:03,707 Speaker 3: in the race. 153 00:08:04,347 --> 00:08:07,467 Speaker 2: Incredible. I thought I was going to do it then 154 00:08:07,547 --> 00:08:09,347 Speaker 2: MC I'd go. I wish I went in Jolly Star 155 00:08:09,427 --> 00:08:11,907 Speaker 2: one and two, so i'd have that for starters. Would 156 00:08:11,947 --> 00:08:13,307 Speaker 2: I be on the right track. 157 00:08:13,947 --> 00:08:16,627 Speaker 3: Look the market that that's the dividends for the horse, 158 00:08:16,667 --> 00:08:20,227 Speaker 3: and suggestion would be I like growing empire off back him. 159 00:08:20,587 --> 00:08:23,667 Speaker 3: It's one of those things with gambling. Not everybody should gamble. 160 00:08:23,707 --> 00:08:25,707 Speaker 3: If you have no disposable income and you and the 161 00:08:25,747 --> 00:08:28,467 Speaker 3: family are doing things stuff, then don't you. But if 162 00:08:28,467 --> 00:08:30,387 Speaker 3: you have got twenty dollars, which is what it cost 163 00:08:30,467 --> 00:08:32,347 Speaker 3: you to go to the movies, and you want to 164 00:08:32,387 --> 00:08:35,147 Speaker 3: have a bit of fun this afternoon. What would I do? Well, 165 00:08:35,587 --> 00:08:37,987 Speaker 3: you're already going to be riding the kiwis I wish 166 00:08:38,027 --> 00:08:40,027 Speaker 3: I win and Jolie Stark because you're a New Zealander 167 00:08:40,187 --> 00:08:42,307 Speaker 3: and you want them to win, because it's a big deal. 168 00:08:42,987 --> 00:08:46,307 Speaker 3: So what I'd do is back growing empire. He's eight dollars, 169 00:08:46,707 --> 00:08:48,787 Speaker 3: did your ten dollars each way on it and again 170 00:08:48,907 --> 00:08:50,907 Speaker 3: bit responsibly. But if you've got that sort of coin 171 00:08:50,987 --> 00:08:53,427 Speaker 3: in your pocket, it's not a disaster. It rolls on 172 00:08:53,547 --> 00:08:56,667 Speaker 3: the wins. You turned twenty into one hundred, and all 173 00:08:56,707 --> 00:08:58,387 Speaker 3: of a sudden, you're not going to the movies tonight. 174 00:08:58,427 --> 00:09:00,867 Speaker 3: Maybe you're going out for dinner. That's what I would do, Poney. 175 00:09:01,267 --> 00:09:03,347 Speaker 3: It's a very even race and by no means an 176 00:09:03,387 --> 00:09:07,267 Speaker 3: easy race to pick. But I can't for estimate to 177 00:09:07,387 --> 00:09:10,507 Speaker 3: you how difficult it is to get a horse into 178 00:09:10,547 --> 00:09:14,107 Speaker 3: this race, like you are rarely playing with the world leaders. 179 00:09:14,507 --> 00:09:17,027 Speaker 3: So to have two New Zealand horses not only in 180 00:09:17,067 --> 00:09:20,547 Speaker 3: the race, but to be favored and knowing that could 181 00:09:20,587 --> 00:09:24,147 Speaker 3: have future impact on our breeding. As I said, to 182 00:09:24,187 --> 00:09:25,987 Speaker 3: explain it to people, who are listening to this who 183 00:09:25,987 --> 00:09:29,067 Speaker 3: don't care about racing. It's a little bit like if 184 00:09:29,107 --> 00:09:31,387 Speaker 3: we had two guys who played in the EPL, We'll 185 00:09:31,467 --> 00:09:33,787 Speaker 3: keep the soccer thing for today. If we had two 186 00:09:33,947 --> 00:09:36,707 Speaker 3: kids from New Zealand who ended up playing in the 187 00:09:36,747 --> 00:09:40,267 Speaker 3: EPL and then they ended up in the Champions League, 188 00:09:40,307 --> 00:09:42,347 Speaker 3: you're up against the best in the world. I realized 189 00:09:42,387 --> 00:09:45,747 Speaker 3: soccer is by far bigger England horse racing, but the 190 00:09:45,907 --> 00:09:48,787 Speaker 3: chances of doing it are that difficult because there are 191 00:09:48,907 --> 00:09:51,987 Speaker 3: so many horses bred and any horse in the world 192 00:09:52,067 --> 00:09:54,787 Speaker 3: is eligible for this race. Horses have come from overseas 193 00:09:54,787 --> 00:09:57,187 Speaker 3: for it before, so that's how hard there is to 194 00:09:57,227 --> 00:10:00,427 Speaker 3: get here. Then, Piney, you've got to win. 195 00:10:01,787 --> 00:10:04,627 Speaker 2: You've painted a brilliant picture for us. What's what sort 196 00:10:04,627 --> 00:10:06,467 Speaker 2: of crowd will they get at RAMD with today? 197 00:10:07,147 --> 00:10:11,227 Speaker 3: Sold out forty six thousand people. That's all they are 198 00:10:11,387 --> 00:10:14,227 Speaker 3: actually allowed to have because of the logistics of the 199 00:10:14,267 --> 00:10:16,187 Speaker 3: place and how many bathrooms they need and how many 200 00:10:16,187 --> 00:10:20,307 Speaker 3: security starts and all that needs sold out three days before. Now, 201 00:10:20,307 --> 00:10:23,827 Speaker 3: when you think about sport in Australia, there's only about 202 00:10:23,907 --> 00:10:26,787 Speaker 3: three sports that ever sell out. Rugby no longer sells out, 203 00:10:26,907 --> 00:10:29,627 Speaker 3: not really maybe the All Brick Keise might, but only 204 00:10:29,627 --> 00:10:33,267 Speaker 3: if the Eulbricks are playing the Willies. Obviously NARL can 205 00:10:33,387 --> 00:10:35,347 Speaker 3: sell out a final, they didn't sell out their recent 206 00:10:35,387 --> 00:10:37,347 Speaker 3: final because of the makeup of the two teams not 207 00:10:37,387 --> 00:10:41,787 Speaker 3: being Sydney based teams, and soccer can sell out clearly, 208 00:10:41,827 --> 00:10:43,867 Speaker 3: particularly when you play in Melbourne or Sydney a CE 209 00:10:44,027 --> 00:10:47,227 Speaker 3: they can sell out a big event, and obviously AFL 210 00:10:47,827 --> 00:10:50,307 Speaker 3: can sell out something, but obviously they actually play their 211 00:10:50,307 --> 00:10:52,947 Speaker 3: biggest games at the G. It's incredibly hard in Australia 212 00:10:53,027 --> 00:10:55,227 Speaker 3: to sell out a sporting event because there's so much 213 00:10:55,427 --> 00:10:59,547 Speaker 3: sport on here, So in Sydney to sell out three 214 00:10:59,627 --> 00:11:02,827 Speaker 3: days beforehand for forty six thousand tickets. And racing's a 215 00:11:02,907 --> 00:11:06,027 Speaker 3: varsity different animal from other rays. From other days. You 216 00:11:06,067 --> 00:11:09,467 Speaker 3: can to any ral final when your jeans and your boots, 217 00:11:09,707 --> 00:11:11,867 Speaker 3: you don't need to prepare takes. It's a lot goes 218 00:11:11,907 --> 00:11:14,867 Speaker 3: into racing today. The amount of money this day would 219 00:11:14,947 --> 00:11:18,147 Speaker 3: pour into the Sydney economy is staggering, just through people 220 00:11:18,147 --> 00:11:21,787 Speaker 3: who buying suits and buying stuff and going out for 221 00:11:21,867 --> 00:11:25,747 Speaker 3: dinners and breakfast and staying in hotels. Every economic study 222 00:11:25,787 --> 00:11:27,867 Speaker 3: you see about major racement Engton. We're about to have 223 00:11:27,867 --> 00:11:30,427 Speaker 3: one in christ Church for the carnival down there. They 224 00:11:30,547 --> 00:11:34,587 Speaker 3: have significantly more impact on the city economically than an 225 00:11:34,667 --> 00:11:37,707 Speaker 3: Ordex test because not only do more people travel for 226 00:11:37,787 --> 00:11:40,507 Speaker 3: it behind it, but they stay for longer, they spend 227 00:11:40,587 --> 00:11:43,707 Speaker 3: more money when they're there, and that's why these huge 228 00:11:43,907 --> 00:11:47,187 Speaker 3: cities like Melbourne and Sydney have these huge carnivals because 229 00:11:47,227 --> 00:11:49,267 Speaker 3: the money goes back into them and that's one of 230 00:11:49,307 --> 00:11:52,027 Speaker 3: the key things. Anybody who works in christ Rich's hospitality 231 00:11:52,307 --> 00:11:55,467 Speaker 3: will tell you the biggest week of the year is 232 00:11:55,547 --> 00:11:57,507 Speaker 3: cut week in christ Church and that's the same for 233 00:11:57,707 --> 00:12:00,987 Speaker 3: many many towns and cities around New Zealand and Australia. 234 00:12:01,067 --> 00:12:03,947 Speaker 3: So racing is not everybody's cup of teeth on it. 235 00:12:04,027 --> 00:12:07,867 Speaker 3: I absolutely get that and respect it. There is undeniably 236 00:12:08,387 --> 00:12:13,187 Speaker 3: a huge economic driver for that type of stuff, even 237 00:12:13,627 --> 00:12:15,147 Speaker 3: in a place as big as Sydney. 238 00:12:16,067 --> 00:12:17,547 Speaker 2: MC. Great to get the chance to chat to you. 239 00:12:17,627 --> 00:12:19,747 Speaker 2: Thanks for painting such a good picture for us. All 240 00:12:19,747 --> 00:12:21,667 Speaker 2: the best this afternoon. Catch up again soon. No thanks 241 00:12:21,707 --> 00:12:22,267 Speaker 2: for taking our. 242 00:12:22,187 --> 00:12:25,827 Speaker 3: Call, Binnie. We appreciate the chet made and asty congratulations 243 00:12:25,827 --> 00:12:29,067 Speaker 3: to open the seed. Everybody involved. It is no small undertaking. 244 00:12:29,067 --> 00:12:30,547 Speaker 3: I hope everybody enjoys liten. 245 00:12:30,427 --> 00:12:33,547 Speaker 2: This game, Tom Man, mcthanks. Indeed, that's New Zealand Herald 246 00:12:33,587 --> 00:12:36,987 Speaker 2: Racing editor mcgarren absolute authority on horse racing, with some 247 00:12:37,107 --> 00:12:41,427 Speaker 2: very sensible messaging there as well. Yeah, the everest it 248 00:12:41,547 --> 00:12:45,147 Speaker 2: jumps at six point fifteen this evening, New Zealand time 249 00:12:45,147 --> 00:12:49,507 Speaker 2: at Ramwick and Sydney. I wish I win one of 250 00:12:49,507 --> 00:12:53,667 Speaker 2: the favorites, the other Kiwi horse, Jolly Starr, A couple 251 00:12:53,747 --> 00:12:57,307 Speaker 2: of keiw horses up against up against some of the 252 00:12:57,347 --> 00:13:01,067 Speaker 2: fastest in Australia. What it makes a sixty eight seconds 253 00:13:01,667 --> 00:13:03,267 Speaker 2: incredible incredible stuff. 254 00:13:03,867 --> 00:13:07,027 Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Paine, listen live 255 00:13:07,147 --> 00:13:10,427 Speaker 1: to News Talks it B weekends from midday, or follow 256 00:13:10,467 --> 00:13:12,067 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio