Nowornever

WTF! I can't even open the fields at the moment.

He is a bit under rated and gets a few up at nice odds. I like the House runners they quite often fly under the radar but can race well when they want them too.

Are you basing this on Johnny Mac who sat back on the fence then popped out for a late run from the back with 100m to go?

Is this feature working for everybody. It has not been working for me for the last few months now? Pointless having it it there if it does not work!

Was that a dangerous move by Ben Hope barging out like that in Race 9? He just went straight sideways even though there was no gap.

You hit the nail on the head there.

More of a side on drone rather than the overhead straight down view. Better but still prefer the one camera from up above the winning post.

Unless you know they got a price wrong and it is going to cave in, the way they have the prices set you are better off backing outsiders late (because often they can nearly double their price in the last 15mins) and favourites early (because they are keeping all horses safe the favourites are often paying overs the way the percentages work).

I think that's called "the bookies haven't got a clue so we will try try to keep every horse safe." Have been seeing that more and more over the last couple of years. Closing prices miles away from opening again. Good for the punters.

Think I spotted the problem.

5mm of rain today in Methven. Think there is 7mm forecast for Wednesday it's off again.

Nice

Any luck with a replacement date yet Nigel?

I would suggest they didn't want to risk damaging the track more than anything else. If the track can't handle less than an inch of rain over a week then it is in trouble and any future meetings are in doubt with any rain forecast on the day or in the days before.

More like sleety showers early this morning but hardly any rain and track good enough to run on. Lets call it off anyway because we don't want to even risk damaging the track might be a better description.

FFS they have only had 20mm of rain yesterday and bugger all today. Getting worse than the gallopers with all these abandonments.

Pussies! Ran in mud up the knees in my day. Fine day forecast as well from midday.

Hopefully! Nothing better than seeing a good old fashioned setup sneak under everyone's radar.

The pools at Methven tomorrow will be nowhere near as good as a Sunday meeting and the mile racing will kill the interest as well. Bring on Cup day for those good fields and big pools.

I wondered why Matthew Williamson didn't come off the fence at the 800m and then got shuffled back to last on Lime In A Bottle when he labeled it his best bet of the day. When his other horse in the race won like a $2.00 favourite and paid $20 I realised why. Well played sir.

That was quick fixed now!

The HRNZ website is becoming almost as buggy as the TAB! I can not even open up the fields for Winton today for some reason. Anyone else got the same problem?

How about the Methven mile day? Should be right up your alley Brodie 😂

Even the finishes were panned in too close to the leaders and not the usual panned out view where you could see the whole field down the straight. Are they trying to get people back to the track by not showing the horses people have backed at the finish? Or maybe stopping whale from clocking the horses that finish further back than the first half dozen. Pretty hard to clock a horses times if you can not see them finish. They tried this zooming in thing years ago and failed dismally when the night they tried it at Addington, Franco Enforce came right down the outside of the track to win the main race and the only time you saw him in the finish was about 20m out from the post and you only saw his head. The TAB publicly apologized in the Harness Weekly after someone wrote a damming letter. I didn't like the drone view either. Just give us the normal action and stop fucking around trying to make the races look more interesting. I would concentrate on getting your useless website fixed to increase turnover before tinkering with camera angles that don't work and never will.

J Dunn jumping off his own horse in Race 7 to drive A Fine Patrick. Is that a good push for that runner? Bookies had it short early.