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Cup day and show will be worth watching but I much prefer Ashburton on the Thursday for punting. Cup day and show day are good for the punt for getting more on Brodie! With more liquidity in the pools you can usually get a few thousand on fixed close to start time even on the $10 shots without the TAB batting an eyelid.

You have completely missed the point here which is the stipes can be fed any old story and they swallow it hook line and sinker. Dexter said in the inquiry he didn't want the horse to do any work midrace in the early stage of its career, but 10 days previously he made the horse do exactly that in much faster time. Good drivers use the uselessness of the stipes to their advantage and good luck to them. In this case Dexter not only pulled the stipes pants down, he gave them one right up the back passage as well.

No! Purdon and Rasmussen don't have one in there.

Last year the second placed in Methven Cup Self Assured won the NZ Cup. Traditionally a few of the better horses in the rankings usually turn up!

Weakest Methven Cup field I have seen for several years, but great undercard.

Yeh I think that's where you went wrong mate! In her mind you gave her half a chance to think she had the front so she had to keep pushing for it then!

Perfect summation right there!

I agree with all your points here. The Robbie Holmes drive on Miss Markle was like they didn't want to win or that horse only has a 50 metre sprint. The day it firms in on the betting market instead of drifting like it had already lost, that is the day they put it in the race. The questions stipes put to the drivers and the excuses given are ridiculous sometimes. As to the stipes being taken for a ride by drivers, one of the funniest ones I ever saw was Dexter getting beaten on Master Moonlight paying $1.20 to win on fixed odds in 2017. MASTER MOONLITE - held up final bend. Driver D Dunn was questioned regarding the tactics he adopted passing the 1100 metres when electing not to improve his position outwards. Mr Dunn explained that he was reluctant to improve three wide without cover as he felt at this stage of the horse's career it was not best suited to racing wide and without cover over such a considerable distance. After considering his explanation, Stewards were satisfied the tactics adopted were not unreasonable and no further action was deemed necessary. Now this might seem like a logical excuse until you see how the horse won on it's previous start. I kid you not. The previous start the horse was improved three wide without cover and parked from the 1000m winning easily in a much faster mile rate on a slower track. I emailed the stipes at the time asking for answers about Dexters explanation and his tactics on the horses previous race but never received a reply. It looked pretty black and white to me. Check out the two races in question and see for yourselves.

FUUUUUCCKKKK! And that is putting it mildly!

Yeh going to Addington in the 80s and 90s as a kid was great fun and usually had large crowds in attendance. There used to be a short little chinese man that rolled up to the windows before every race and used to yell out his trifecta combinations to the teller...He would be there a good 15mins at the same window 1-5-4 $10 dollar .......1-4-5 $10 dollar 4-1-5 $10 dollar and so on and so on. I used to see him at every country meeting as well around Canterbury. One of my better collects at Addington was the day they had the first six pack (Pick the first six in order) on the trots on the 13th May 2006 on the Nevele R Fillies Final. I spent $50 with 5 x 10% tickets and on all of them anchoring the favourite Western Dream (Herlihy) who couldn't get beat. I took Affairs Of State (Mark Purdon) and Alingi (Jo Herbert) for second and third and then had a ton of combos for 4th 5th and 6th. Anyway the TAB put a up a guaranteed pool of $100k for this new Six pack bet but I don't think it was widely advertised. I managed to get the right order on 3 of my 10% tickets and thought I might get a couple of hundred dollars back as the trifecta only paid $31.50 with the hot favourite winning. I waited for the result but it never came up on the screens. I headed for the counter and gave the first 10% ticket to the teller. I nearly shit my pants when the 1st ticket showed $6250.00 Yes the payout for a full unit was $62,500. I ended up collecting $18,750 for $50 Bring back the Six Pack TAB.

Had a drive on the Motukarara surface a few years ago and couldn't believe the size of some of the holes in it in some places hope it has been smoothed out since then!

Another not so good drive again today(Took too long to get the lead, and then went for the horse far too early) but he has been driving like that since he started driving and butchered many other drives in similar fashion to his last start indiscretion, so par for the course really. The dividend you get for his drives is usually priced in and reflects his ability as a driver. Saginaw would have been 1.80 today with Orange driving and would have won.

Thanks Jason Romeo Foxtrot was a good price early thought the bookies had that one badly wrong.

Cambridge Romeo Foxtrot $3.60 Addington Luminosity $3.30 Mabalene $4.00

Woo Hoo! The bookies have got no idea at Addington tomorrow. Some great prices on offer there. Time to make a killing Brodie.

The media are pulling the wool over your eyes and the rest of New Zealand. Yes the cases dropping by 64% is great news. What they don't like you to work out is that the number of tests also dropped by over 60% so false advertising is more likely the case in this situation!

Not sure about lockdown ending but getting sick of the PR feelgood crap coming from JA on the podium every day! Why do we have to listen to the covid vaccination stats every day starting with now for some good news. Everyone knows NZ stuffed up with getting the country vaccinated early so no good trying to put a spin on it how we are doing so well now!

Think they are pushing shit uphill with that one! I hope it still goes ahead but this outbreak looks like a biggie and the govt is all go hard and go early at this stage. My guess is lockdown in Auckland for minimum 3 weeks and will be same here if any positives found in South Island.

Yes it's a pain if you want to launder money now you have to do it $999 dollars at a time.

Should be right up your alley with less tight class races. A) You think group racing is boring as the same old trainers win every time. B) Premier harness racing is not a good investment. Now you are complaining there is not enough of them! Until breeding numbers are on the way up harness racing will stagnate or decline. Maybe you should breed a couple and help the industry grow again!

Always had the ability but dogged with bad draws here and questionable driver tactics in a lot of its races. I thought it could run close to 1:50 in aus and will do that when it is fully fit.

Thanks for winning the last Ben Hope.... A great pick six result and made my multi....great drive too!

They are not prepared because why would they want to lose 100 Million in a couple of years if they let winning punters on for 100K a bet. Fairly easy to beat the bookies but tricky to get a lot of money off them when their liquidity is so low and their risk management is so reactive to anyone beating the system. You are never going to do be able to do it on your account lets face it! Put your 2K a place on a spread of 20 $100 dollar bets or lower at various agencies is the best you can hope for. On the plus side the odds have been getting juicy lately on a few. Glenthorne at 8s on opening wow. I have never been to so many TAB's so quickly in all my life.

Why they would put 20K on a horse with a decent chance of galloping for a start is beyond me. Money laundering?