Nowornever

Not really! Harness racing in the North will just vacate to the south if Alex Park goes under. North Island harness racing has been terrible since they got rid of regular Manawatu meetings and all the grass track meetings. Cambridge and Auckland week after week is boring as f@#k! James Stormont moved South recently. Telfer already has a barn here. Barry Purdon, Tony Herlihy, and maybe another half dozen trainers keep the fields topped up at Auckland and if another three or four of them pulled the pin it would be all over anyway. Sounds like Alexandra Park has been badly managed from the beginning of the new development.

They probably only wanting place money anyway at this stage but that horse is good enough to win a couple with a bit more experience.

Been there done that

At least have the hood off ready to go if there is a gap, not the other way around. A second lost is quite often the difference between winning and losing or in this case the difference between a gap closing and being in the gap.

Horse needs one run at them for best results but yes would have gone close if she moved earlier. I thought Kerry Hadfield's drive on Portelli was the worst drive of the bets I had today. I hate it when drivers take the length of the straight to pull airplugs or hoods or whatever and then the gap they should have been in has closed because of their snail like movements. At least he got up for third. I would have been spitting if he ran fourth. Trifecta paid unders in that race I thought. I was hoping for 3K

I would assume so.

Yes it is working now but you know what.

Having this image as a placeholder while you can not actually get in the game is another good example of the special qualities of the marketing team.

TAB have had no communication about the website issues on social media but had the audacity to post superlatives about Don't Stop Dreaming winning at Addington on twitter. The post got absolutely hammered so they deleted it straight away. Their marketing team reading the room is just about as bad as their tech team is fixing the website issues.

I can make more on the tote pools than they will let me win on fixed odds!

Even if you could get a bet on, why would you? Because of the issues the pools are so low it is a joke.

Openbet own the software I think. They saw the TAB coming and sold them a lemon that cost tens of millions more than it would have cost to get it done through other channels.

Entain are now probably just realizing what a piece of shit they have just purchased.

Obviously $50million for a shit website does not get you a backup plan either.

Loaded up my account this week for a good go on the harness tonight and I can't get a bet on. Fucking useless TAB! It's just not good enough on one of the biggest harness nights of the year.

My app used to freeze when I used it although I haven't tried it the last 6 months so maybe they have improved it. If I use my phone to bet, accessing the TAB web site through google is what works best for me but still prefer desktop as I am used to betting on that and it is much faster.

Because it is a terrible app to use. The desktop is barely adequate but way better than the app.

The TAB self serve terminals in Sydney put ours to shame. Easy to use and access to internet screens also available free of charge. NZ is behind the times. I hardly ever go on course anymore but if there was a private booth overlooking the track at Addington with free wifi and your own self service terminal that worked properly then I would pay money to book one every week. The track facilities at some tracks in North America you can do exactly that and it is brilliant.

If the system NZ are using is similar to the UK then risk will be all done by computer now and it is not a case of the bookies taking you on. Once the prices are set in the system, the computer algorithms will determine how much you are allowed to bet based on your previous betting record. Traders on the floor might get a popup if you try to bet over the limits and will have the ability to cancel the bet if the liability is too great. At least that is how it is done in the UK.

You say that like everybody is a winning punter. You have to remember only about 2% of punters are actually capable of making a consistent profit so if they cut those 2% out it is neither here nor there to them and they still have 98% of the punters still betting and the yield goes up by restricting the winning punters. I like your method of letting every tom dick and harry on for as much as they like, but if you and I and a few other winning punters load up and start taking 20 million a year out of the distribution to harness racing and the stakes get cut in half how do you plug this hole? What is the Brodie fix for this? How are you going to stop this happening?

Those bookies are pricing a lot of these races quite badly at the moment which is great for the punters. Can not believe they gave 1.30 for Millwood Nike. Closed 1.10 so opening 1.30 was miles away. Keep those juicy odds coming Entain

Reliant on turnover but anyone winning hurts the yield so they get cut. I can see where you are coming from but I can also see the business side from TAB. You can't have it both ways.

Will start 1.20 or less. Guaranteed winner with Purdon or Rasmussen driving, but bookies will have a chance with Olivia in the sulky.

If you are going to keep a horse parked three wide like that you better be sure your horse has the toughness to stick on for a top six position or have a decent excuse up your sleeve to get you off the hook. I would argue Ross Camerons drive in that race was just as bad and he gave his horse no show off winning by going up the inside into a brick wall on the turn when he would clearly have run 1st or 2nd going wide. Hasn't he been done for driving like that in the past? If there has been a lot of speed during the race, the inside of the track behind the tiring front runners is not the place to be. If it is just a sprint home the inside is the right place to be. The low UDR drivers seem to want to take the opposite approach to this.