Nowornever

yes and we would all be richer but I am not sure if racing would be better off or if TAB could cope with the loss if you kept putting U May Cullect out at $4.00 a place.

That would be logical, so the odds are pretty short that they did not!

No confidence at all!!!!! I mean how hard would have it have been to get a couple of hard core punters to do a once over on the new website before it went live and point out its shortcomings. For 50mil and to produce this shite ranks right up there with the day: France orders 1,860 trains the wrong size! Imagine you were in charge of ordering new trains for your country. You would surely check your budget and examine all the possible trains you could buy. You would also, no doubt, allow yourself to be wined and dined by various train manufacturers and perhaps be tempted by a backhander or two. Along the way, though, you would surely ask your engineers to confirm what size trains would actually fit into your nation's platforms. Sadly, it seems that this last logic escaped those who ordered 1,860 new trains for France's very fine railways. As Reuters reports, France's national rail company, SNCF, confirmed that there had been a measure of error in its ordering. The new trains are too big for many of the nation's platforms. A spokesman for RFF, the national rail operator, told France's Info radio: "It's as if you have bought a Ferrari that you want to park in your garage, and you realize that your garage isn't exactly the right size to fit a Ferrari because you didn't have a Ferrari before. We discovered the problem a little late...We are making our mea culpa." The only element his analogy omitted was: "It's as if you're a garage maker who bought a Ferrari." According to the Guardian, France's Minister of Transport described the situation as "a comic drama." It was certainly comic, as the fact that the new trains were too wide for the platforms was revealed by France's satirical newspaper, Le Canard Enchaine. It squarely put the blame on the biggest brains: "The clever engineers at SNCF forgot to verify the facts on the ground." It seems that the RFF's engineers sent the SNCF the measurements of platforms built in the last 30 years. However, many of France's platforms were built longer ago than that and these have different dimensions. The SNCF's engineers took the data verbatim and ran with it. Until they got stuck. The mistake was discovered in 2012 and has only just squeezed onto the public platform. Now, 1,300 of France's 8,700 platforms are being re-engineered to accommodate the new trains. The cost will be some 50 million euros (around $68.4 million).

I have a 1Gig fibre connection and the website is still so painfully slow, I do not know how anyone with a slower connection must cope with this abomination. Pending bets! Why can I not search by bet type like before and instead have to trawl through pages of bets to find what i want? It is a database for christs sake! Make it easy for the customer. Why does information I want to view after the race disappear? Some of us still want to view the pool information after the race has jumped even if you don't.

In fact it is getting worse in my opinion. More often cuts you off in the middle of putting a bet on and you have to go through the 50 clicks just to get back to where you were. The win/place, trifecta, quinella and first four pool amounts disappearing after the closing time is just ludicrous. They can get rid of the pools after closing time but a bloody betslip from five races ago can sit there on the side and bugger up other bets you are trying to put on. A lot of my friends have ditched putting a bet on via internet and will go to the TAB instead or not bet. This must be hurting the turnover and heads should roll if it is!

I agree. I believe they threw the book at him as a benchmark for future cases to come.

http://www.harnesslink.com/New-Zealand/Dowding-resigns-from-Auckland-Trotting-Club

Can you write Get F$@#ED and send it back?

I am on the side of Saliesh here. It is not compulsory to talk to the media or a right of the media to interview every horseman if they don't want an interview. Good on him!

Not sure which is more embarrassing the news or the tweet!

Well done he found the favourite or second favourite in the last seven races. Bold tipping indeed. Almost as good as the whales video tips who usually pay around 1.50 for a win but get beaten more often than not. Mark McNamara I think the best tipper of the presenters and he is not afraid to put his balls on the line and tip out a horse paying $20.00

Remind me who the two horses it passes again were? The only two horses I saw it pass were One Over The Skye and One Over Dover who were in a full gallop and being severely restrained. One Over The Stars actually lost 10m and ended up back with the 10m horses.The rest of the front line went clear of One Over The Stars as did Trick Star and Spotlight the Valley from the 10m.

WTF it only galloped for 30m or 40m! No issues there from what I saw.

Noooooo! The stats must be wrong because brodie is always on the money?

You can put a negative spin on it as per usual but the stats don't lie! Turnover up $900K on last year with 85 less horses in the sales. The average and median were $41338 and $30000. Clearance rate of around 85% in Chch

You can get away with utter bullshit with the stipes over here. Any excuse will do and does!

Both horses are shorter than I thought they would be.

Dont think it will be that long could even start fav in that race. I like Sun Swinger

Pretty confident it would not hurt Brodie as he is so thick skinned.

There have been a few occasions when drivers have gone over the limit of 10 and nothing has been said as well, so as usual no consistency

You forgot pig-headed!

You know the odds now try and a have a bet on them!

2018 7 starters 2017 7 starters 2016 9 starters 2015 7 starters 2014 5 starters (No All stars runners)

I was just giving you some facts debunking your theory the All Stars have ruined the race and made the numbers so low. The facts are this race has always had lower than usual numbers and I would guess the time of year has something to do with it.

You are as usual not on the money. The race seems to attract an average of 8 runners through out its history so not sure what you are on about. Previous years numbers have been just as bad and the All Stars were not dominating back then. 1993 Tower Of Strength 6 starters 1995 Ginger Man 7 starters 1997 Sam Malone 7 starters 1999 Chistian Cullen 7 starters 2000 The Tough Nut 7 starters 2001 Holmes D G 7 starters