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Yes big caver late in betting and driven accordingly

The drive of the night award must go to Gavin Smith on Star Magic at Addington. He did well to have a couple of goes at pushing Tim Williams down onto the fence on the second favourite Elite Styx and succeeded. Sat three back on the outer until the home turn. Made sure he didn't get locked in by making a move when runs started coming wider. Hell he looked like he was driving a truck down the straight and not a horse! He was aggressively flicking switches and pulling cords on both sides of the sulky before getting stuck in with the whip and winning by half a head. Great drive Gavin.

Well played John Dunn. Well played.

Under the banner of TAB Racing Club but the Entain CEO was doing the bidding when they bought that horse.

Does the TAB know that spending $340,000 does not guarantee the best horse or actually a horse with any ability at all. For that sort of money they could have purchased several and had them trained for a year.

Yes makes a complete mockery of the system. I don't see how the harness racing in Tassie makes enough money to survive. Surely no one bets on those races with all the Yole runners in them. The turnover in that state would not generate enough income to keep the industry going, or are they funded differently to NZ?

Nothing surprises me anymore with the TAB. Not the first time they have used underhand tactics to screw the punters.

Trackside comes through just as well in the middle of the Vietnam jungle as it does back in NZ. I recently spent a couple of months travelling in Australia, Vietnam and Japan. Had a bet at every harness meeting and never had a problem getting connected at any of those countries.

The salaries most CEOs are on does not match the amount of work they do. CEOs are pretty much glorified delegators who get their managers to do all the heavy lifting while they sit in their flash offices thinking up ways to spend company money on schemes that make them look like they are achieving something.

NZ TAB is a bloody disgrace. Took the afternoon off work to have a bet on and watch the Rangiora Trots and can't even get a bet on. Seriously TAB for a billion dollar company you are fucking hopeless.

Meanwhile in the same race Crystal Hackett was gifted the fence run behind Cold Chisel which was the best spot in the race but chose to sit parked and was then unlucky. Cost the owners 10K in prize money doing that.

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What a great campaign the teal pants is but whose bright idea was it to have two or three teal jackets the same color replacing the trainers colors in a race. Complete turn off for me and not necessary when the teal pants are so easy to see in a race. Three jackets the same color on different trainers just makes it confusing. I have given up on the number of times the commentator has got the names mixed up on them when commentating and you know it is bad when down at the local pub they are trying to look at the number of the horse on the screen on the teal jacket runners to see what horse is what during a race.

The horse that won had raced well against the best mares in the country including Millwood Nike while Woodlea Jewel had been beating one and two win horses and had drawn wide on a leaders track with a ton of gate speed inside. I would like to thank the BGP for raising the dividend on the Advance Party 😂. Once upon a time win movers were a good indicator to horses chances but social media has pretty much killed that train of thought. Following random guys picks that get plunged in by a group of sheep following along is a compete waste of time. But it can work to your advantage and today was a good example. I had Advance Party around 1.90 and to get $5.00 was unbelievable.

Of all the meetings this week I am looking forward to the Hawera Friday/Sunday double. Great fields and I reckon I can give a the bookies a blood nose looking at the fields.

Yes not many gallopers surprisingly, considering how rough it was. Saw a few drivers leaving their seats going over it.

The crossing at Riverton looks like a death trap for trotters galloping. Good luck getting over that. It is a lottery!

He was never going to be a chance today with all the speed inside him. Made a pretty penny backing against him

Yes thinking about buying a slow donkey off gavelhouse for $500 that has had 100 starts for nothing and sending it to Grimson so it can run a 1:51 and possibly win a miracle mile

No good bringing them out early if you can't get on.

Bookies would have been running for cover if that one had just run a place for my multis. Easy day on the punt and still can't believe they gave 3.50 for Tokyo Rose.

Had the gap 50m sooner but decided to wait until he only had 50m left to wind up to full speed. Stiff again.

They do. Turn over more than 120K a year on tote and they will give you a rebate on tote betting. The more you turn over the higher the rebate which on top of the profit is a good chunk of change if you are good enough.

R3.......ALTA SHOWGIRL is the best horse in the race and with JD driving in an average field, should win. Miley Ace a good place bet from the draw I had a go on that. R6.....MIDFREW LUCRE ran very nicely on the first day. Bob takes over. Should go very close. Watch That Man better draw with driver change I had a go on that. R9......JACCKA OPA drawn ice. Just getting warmed up on Friday. Can win. Tokyo Rose looks the best in that race for me thought it might have been shorter than 3.80 R10.....MOSSDALE BEN is my bet of the meeting. The distance suits and he just wins. Dashing Major I like for a place in that and over the odds at $4.50