Jonny Longshot

Just taking the piss out of Brodie basically (settle down one and all).

Racist

For one thing, the cost of staff (time and a half) being public holidays was deemed prohibitive. Secondly, there are only five on site broadcast units and with Ellerslie, Manukau Dogs, Awapuni, Addington and Riverton today, there's no room for a further race meeting.

Can sympathize - it's a very difficult market out there, racing media. At least with Xpress there are no printing and distribution costs, unlike The Informant.

Yip - read this in the Race Form mag this week. Will do a good job over there.

Thanks guys. I just felt it was time someone showed Brodie who was actually the undisputed form king of BOAY. Top your accounts up with Hittheroadjack to place at $3 this arvo. Cheers

Multi R1 09 Special Way place ($1.65) R4 06 Dance Til Dawn place ($1.40) R5 03 Darling Me place ($1.55) R7 07 American Dealer place ($1.60) R8 01 Christianshavtime place ($1.28) R9 08 Temporale place ($1.30) Return : $9.53 (odds as at 4.51pm).

Where are you getting 120 from?

Well worth subscribing. They provide a nice point of difference.

Don't even bother dealing with him. He's unhinged.

Well attendance was down from 20,000+ to 12,000-odd so how was on course turnover ever going to be anything but way down? To turn an upswing on total turnover on the day is the best they could have hoped for.

Michael only has 25 in work and I would say is 50/50 to take a team north to Palmy.

I got home and had recorded 62 all day on Mysky. I can 100% guarantee all 11 Ashburton races played on Trackside 1 (62).

Brodie obviously isn’t as clued in on the TAB as he thinks. Regarding liabilities and restrictions, let me explain it for you as simply as I can. Lets use tonight’s Cambridge meeting as an example. And for now, we will talk about over the counter agency bets only. We’ll use Race 1, number 1, Express Play as the horse to talk about. It opened at $4 yesterday afternoon. Now, if I went in to a Tab yesterday and wanted to put a fixed odds bet on this horse, I could do this unabated until such time the collect went over $1000. So, I could put $249 on and the bet would go straight on. If I tried to put $251 on, to win $1004, the system would automatically refer the bet to a trader for assessment. At this point, the trader will accept the bet, adjust the bet (change it $120 at $4) or reject it. By race morning, this number usually doubles to $2000 and by race time, maybe around $4000. That’s not to say a higher bet to win more money won’t be accepted, but they are protecting themselves from potential stings. Now, lets talk about online accounts. You, Brodie, like many many other people are on a restricted account. One of the more common restrictions is ‘40%’. It goes without saying an account on 40% restrictions, could only get a bet on to win $400 the night before on harness, $800 the morning of, and around $1600 close to the race time. Different punters are on different thresholds, but in the case of Knight’s bet that was shared on New York Minute, where he couldn’t even get $20 on close to race time, his account was on 1%. I know quite a few on 20%, I know a couple on 5% and I even know one on 2%. Short answer is, if you are noted winner, you are chopped off at the knees. Now I am going to confuse this whole thing even further by saying that recently, trends have shown me and other punting friends that the ‘over the counter limits’ may in fact now be 50% of the online account limits. Currently, the max liability per bet for Cambridge tonight on an unrestricted account is $1500. I suspect at an agency, that might be only $750. Again, you could still potentially get higher bets on, but you will be subject to the hyper risk-averse trading desk. A couple of weeks ago, a friend tried to back one on the grass (Sunday meeting), the Saturday afternoon before the race. Quoted price was something like $8.50 to win. He tried to put $200 on. The bet got rejected (because it was over $1000) and they slashed the price to $6.50. He didn’t know it had been slashed, and when he gave the operator the $200 bet slip again, It processed and spat out at something like $153 at $6.50 (to win $1000) and then cut the price in to $5.50. This is the embarrassing way they do things now. All I can say is, if you do like one – never ever ever back it the day before. You will get on for a pittance and only alert them to a sting and they will crunch it in. At best you are going to win $1000. The better play is to wait deep until race time and have a real go at one late.

The Dickie stable released a statement on their Facebook page last week alluding to the positive swab, the horse in question and the timeline of events. They found out about the positive swab on the morning of last week's races, hence they scratched their entire team. The RIU have a policy of not releasing information about positive swabs though do seem to admit to them if asked by journalists. IE they won't make it public, but they don't deny it.