Nowornever

I say bring back a big 20K+ bonus for any horse winning a maiden on the first day, another on the second day and the Reefton Cup. Added a lot of interest to the circuit.

Bigger fields at Westport than in recent years and a lot more first starters.

Well that's good news. We will not see whale again until the middle of January.

Lol good call.... They are so predictable.

They might get the turnover to pay for one of those 100K races if they are lucky.

I didn't think it was possible to get parked out all the way in what was literally a field of five but Mr Trotter proved me wrong.

Yes it was a great drive until he let her back in.

Got a decent Brodie sized multi with the NZ horses Tact McLeod, The Falcon and Cantfindabetterman. Couldn't believe the $3.80 on offer for Tact McLeod. I had it priced at $1.70 in that field.

The annoying part is there is no accountability by the idiots pursuing this from the start. They should be sacked and publicly denounced as the most incompetent bunch of no hopers in the business after the waste of industry resources.

I think I can now say I told you so. Quite easy to see the outcome very early on.

Yes I prefer Matt to the whale. He tells it like it is. Although I do like seeing the look on whales face when one he has a had a big bet on finishes down the track. Its hard to put on a brave cheesy grin when faced with such disappointment lol. The bookies have that face he makes pinned on the wall of their meeting room I heard.

Lighting was terrible. It was dark and then when they turned the spot lights on later was hard to see the TVs. Food was great. You are right sound was terrible. I never heard a word the MC's were saying. They may as well have been not there. On a brighter note the punting was great.

Like I said previously the people making the comments also do greyhounds, gallops and probably also guinea pig racing and god knows what else. They will be a data entry service probably run from overseas. Outsourcing will be a cost driven thing probably and from Entains point of view the less people know about the horses the better. If they did care about it there would be a better service. Just get your info from somewhere else.

Whale, Oconnor and Cross mention half the field every race and when one of the six or seven wins they slap each other on the back for tipping it out LOL.

Yes good on him for all he has achieved in his career but if he just wants improved success on the track he should give up the driving side of the operation. In my opinion he would have double the training wins and double the prizemoney if he wasn't doing the driving.

At this stage it might be more good luck than good management

Auckland trotting club seems to make bad decision after bad decision. Is there ever any good news for them?

You are right but a mark of a good bookie is one who should get the opening prices as near to the closing prices as they can. What you and I are hoping for is some odds setters who struggle with this and get it totally wrong in which case that is where you get the value on your runner if you are lucky. Those races at Addington on Friday night are helped by the fact there are a number of stables who have burnt the bookies in the past. When you have Purdons, Telfers and Dunns in the same race with multiple horses where usually they like to have one of those stable runners sub $2 the recipe is there for a complete mind fuck for a non confident bookie.

Yes as predicted they are trying to keep all horses tight in the market. The 2yo fillies sires stakes already a few moves in the market so they got the prices wrong straight away. Gone Surfin $9.00 on opening LOL. No way the Purdon horse closes at 8.50 I am picking they got that one wrong as well.

Get ready for a good go this week Brodie.... Bookies will have absolutely no idea at Addington. Picking some good horses will be at insane odds. They can not keep them all at low odds 😂.

Demon Blue biggest overs I have seen for a Purdon runner for a while. Christmas came early this year

Yes I was keen on him as well thought he would do a good job in Australia with his mobile speed. Will be a four legged walking money machine if he goes over there.

This newly created position is a bit of a con is it not. Every man and his dog knows bigger even fields are the key to getting punters to open their wallets and produce higher turnover (Just look at the grass tracks) so unless this Peden guy can find some new horses especially in the North then he is pushing shit up hill. Even if he pulls these new horses out of his arse the hierarchy have disillusioned a lot of the smaller owners and trainers who have in turn given the game away and no amount of begging will get them back so who is going to own and train these new horses we do not have.

No good putting place odds up if you can not bet on them?

Yes a lot of the turnover related figures are not printed like they once were. Mainly because it does not make good reading. You can not pick holes in woeful decision making if you can not see the data. They used to publish the average dividend prices year upon year but that seems to have disappeared as well. Why? I am betting that also does not make good reading.