Nowornever

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.

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.