Nowornever

Giving the Race For Grins $150,000 is crap. How is that helping the hobby trainers or increasing the horse numbers and field sizes? I think the trotters got a raw deal as well. Anyway in two years when Entain starts restricting anyone who wins $100 the horse racing in NZ will quickly go downhill if it isn't dead and buried before then.

I wouldn't be surprised if the TAB sold Entain the business using highly inflated figures. The number of account holders in the TAB system would definitely be inflated. Most of them have joined just to get the $10 deposit bonus for joining, spent it and buggered off never to be seen again.

Geo blocking is a waste of time. So many ways to get around it it is not effective at all.

The field sizes need to be kept high from a punters/turnover perspective but on the flip side tricky to do that with the current horse population and maintain a fair handicapping system? Keeping everyone happy is impossible I would have thought.

Your guess is as good as mine on who gets what penalties. Are you sure they don't just spin a chocolate wheel in the back ground?

I got a nice collect off a horse ted trained called Randall one day at Methven when it won. I was privy to one of Ian Camerons earlier in the day that had won and paid plenty and I put most of the winnings on to Randall in the main race of the day as we got word that horse was working the house down. One of my better days on the punt at Methven.

Probably not a great look either when the stablemate wins the race at relatively long odds

I can not comprehend why the driver would drive like she did when the horse had the speed to win that race by many lengths against that field, but it looks like sheer incompetence and the stipes agree. I can't see her getting out of this one lightly either. What is her excuse going to be? Oh sorry stipes the horse didn't want to move wider on the track and I thought it would break up if I pulled the rein. I don't think the horse would be paying $1.65 if the public knew it was going to be driven for luck up the middle in the run home in a seven horse field. 😂

CLASSIE LINC - held up near the 200m and locked wheels with the weakening BOLZANO. Driver J Buckland-Stevens (assisted by S Tomlinson) was questioned regarding the manner she drove near the 300m when electing to shift ground inwards. After hearing her explanation and speaking with trainer B Negus, Stewards issued driver J Buckland-Stevens with a charge under Rule 868(2) alleging that she failed to take all reasonable and permissible measures near the 300m when allowing her runner to shift inwards resulting in the horse being held up. Mrs Buckland-Stevens defended the charge with the Adjudicative Committee electing to defer the hearing to a date and time to be fixed.

I heard Mark Jones tell someone this horse was very quick one day at the trials before it had had its first start and have been on him ever since. Bit of a heartbreaker at the start but definitely has the speed. I got a decent collect off it in its first start mainly because the first four paid 15K and then again at Nelson but can't see me getting rich off it again because the bookies must have got a hiding off that first start and have always kept it safe ever since. Predicting it opens a short favourite at its next start.

How heavy will the track be this week?

Lots of questions in that race - Mark Purdon pulling back and letting the stablemate back onto the fence in front of him - Zachary Butcher saying he had not been disadvantaged at the start when it looked like he was. - The start not being declared a false start when Kango went straight sideways into other runners. Would make you want to give up betting if you were on Old Town Road. - Tony Herlihy not putting The Big Lebowski into the race and then being desperately unlucky in the straight.

Freedom of speech is on the out. You are living in start of the authoritarian era now.

Yes he always had the size and the faster they go the better he likes it I could see him winning a Hunter Cup if he got to the front and rolled along.

Top five and will run track records in Aussie around some of those quicker tracks. Lets see how it plays out 👀

Being set for something else. Got told owner was wanting Copy That to win.

The drive on The Big Lebowski by Herlihy would have to have been one of the worst I have seen him do. He definitely did not drive to win. That horse would have monstered them if he had have been put in the race. I think he could be one of the best horses in Australasia on his last two runs.

Fantastic money wish I got more. Run not as good as her last couple though. Slower time over all and slower last 800m

Probably half of those 250,000 have joined up to get their 10 deposit bonus spent it and never touched their TAB account again. Great marketing by the TAB but the numbers are grossly over inflated and do not tell the real story.

Yes I was livid and that got me going. I sent off an email that would have made their eyes bleed reading it. They did send the money out of the account back to me pretty quickly😂.

All geo blocking is beatable with the right software

Yes I have been banned from every one of their bookmaker companies in Aussie. We wish to advise that following a recent review, we have decided to close your account.Please advise your bank details (incl. Bank Name, BSB, Account Name and Account Number), and we will arrange for payment of any outstanding balance as soon as possible.We appreciate your understanding in this matter. You can look forward to that in coming years Brodie 😂

Those Entain guys will have 10s of millions less in outgoings the day they shut the Wellington head office and good riddance.

I have a gut felling that the allure of a promising partnership paints a rosy picture, but behind the facade, it will reveal the grim truth: an unsuspected alliance with an evil dictator who wants only one thing... to wring as much money out of the New Zealand Punter as it is humanly possible. They will not be doing this out of the goodness of their heart.