OLDWHITEMAN

I am disappointed in your HP. We know that Noodlum is a yellow-bellied stirrer but I did not expect you to stoop as low as him. I did not say Matt should be gone for 10 years. You and your loudmouth mate Noodlum have yet to show where I said that. And the reason you cannot is because I did NOT say it. Get your facts right!

I repeat quote where I said "10 years" you tosser. Your comprehension skills are zero, stirring 100%. I agreed with Honest John that his sentence was light. I never said anything about 10 years. Get your facts right you lily-livered cretin!

Whoa... hold the horses. You are talking bullshit, again. Where did I ever say he should have "got 10 years"? Don't put words in my mouth or accuse me of things I have not done or said.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/122166943/champ-to-cheat--the-fall-of-trainer-nigel-mcgrath Some interesting comments in this story, particularly from Ms Smolenski. Unfortunately, this is more bad publicity for harness racing. The industry is already struggling and stories like this will not help the industry to survive.

Six months is not long to be on the sidelines my old mate. Mr Anderson is young and he has time to rebuild his promising career. He has made some bad choices, like most of us do when young, but he can put this incident behind him and be successful again.

I expect the All Stars to dominate even more my old mate. I think the lockdown did Purdon/Rasmussen a favour. The horses out for a spell, rejuvenation for both horses and stable personnel. Horses then bought back in and prepared in a more leisurely fashion than usual? Also with no racing it would give them more time for hands on training with those horses with issues. The All Stars will clean-up in the new season.

My understanding is he was charged because he supplied the drug to others. In other words he was dealing. That is a different issue than using it for personal use. Mr Anderson may have been a user too, but that was not why he was charged.

Agree, Honest John. I think he got off lightly. We have all made mistakes when young like Mr Anderson so hopefully he will have time to reflect while on the sidelines and put the past behind him. Do the crime, do the time and come back and resume his career.

Too right HP. Miss S. Tomlinson and Miss S. O'Reilly are the best junior drivers in the country presently. As good as they are if they are driving a slow or weak horse there is not much they can do.

Cut and paste is easy Happy. Reading it is not so easy... ?

Thanks Greg, a sensible answer at last. What will Mr McGrath do now? I guess he is in luck because the Communists are promising to retrain people for free. Perhaps, Mr McGrath could retrain as a pharmacist? He has allegedly had experience with drugs so this will give him a head start on others looking to pharmacy as a career. ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/122053331/harness-trainer-nigel-mcgrath-banned-for-eight-years-over-horse-tubing-and-obstructing-racecourse-inspectors Nigel McGrath gets an eight-year ban. Is this sentence too harsh? Or lenient?

On the money, mate! Why were New Zealanders not marching in the street about the pakeha cop who was shot down in the street like a dog? Where were the protesters when another New Zealand toddler was bashed to death two weeks ago? Marches held in places other the U.S. are copycats, sheep. The whole movement is driven by social media, most of it is full of untruths, stories edited to suit a narrow agenda. Unfortunately, today most believe everything they see on social media and on the television news (mostly fake). It is good to see that you can think for yourself my old mate.

On the money, mate. Sack him.

Is that your Mr Lamb? Surely, you are taking the piss mate? Lamb doing a good job? Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I have watched harness racing at Addington for 50 years and Lamb is the worst starter I have seen. How this guy still has a job is beyond me. He is incompetent. The number of poor starts he has been involved in must be in the hundreds yet he is still there. I am baffled to why Lamb still has a job. He has stuffed up so many starts, including New Zealand's premier harness race the NZ Trotting Cup, countless times but nothing said. Lamb does a piss poor job. Blind Freddy can see that, Stevie Wonder too. Sack him!