mikeynz

Alls not lost though people, racing tonight at the mighty Manawatu as that stuck record Aaron White used to repeatedly inform us.

Covid changed people's habits, and yes it's true, once you disengage it's hard to reengage. Exactly the same with radio, was always a listener to trackside, knew every meeting, since it's gone, changed habits, dont care now but how many others have been lost in the shambles ? Speaking of radio I believe Hosking is finishing up tomorrow for xmas, really, 2 questions, how will the country survive without him and what the hell would you do with so much spare time, maybe he is getting his political party under way or will he just talk about all the lazy people around and actually be one himself, seriously most of us have to work, knocking off on Dec 9, unreal. And yes that Oamaru meeting has been reduced to a non event,Ashburton boxing day the same, Invercargill next week racing in competition to the aussie gallops will probably be lost in the wash as well. Little old Westport will probably keep punching above its weight. I watched the last race from Kaikoura a week or two back and I thought why not race on New Years days there instead of Rangiora, just seems the type of place that might be a winner, lots of holiday makers there, was just a thought. I dont even buy into all this xmas at the races shit, Ascot Park Saturday yet xmas is more than a fortnight away, fuckin bullshit.

Tuepeka harness racing at Ascot Park instead of Roxburgh seems a odd setup, one wonders how many trekked all the way to invers for another ordinary days racing that might have gone to an actual local course that is still actually open. As I have stated before, what do I know anyway.

And i thought the trainers went out jogging with them. Some of the young female handlers, well they are a different subject completely. While im no dog racing fan most probably do what they do because they enjoy it, sure the animal rights lot go about it and sure there are some bad eggs, there are many instances where animals might not be getting a fair go, whether its right or not it is what it is.

Brodie one cant deny the fact that some of these horses winning are very very good, they dont run those times by being crap but so much of the racing is so predictable, some are backed down to a dollar, they must actually cost the TAB to make up the difference, just like so many of the guaranteed quaddies that dont go over the pool. So many issues for harness racing, roll on the mighty Manawatu,(as Aaron White seems to say over and over). I reckon that fat cunt at the dogs may have been eating too many hotdogs, or maybe some of his slow dogs or their nice steak they probably get, he just seems to pop up every race, mind you he probably didnt pop up at the Ascot Park dogs lol Just to add, BD Joe won, that horse deserves a major win, kind of got the poor draw at cup week.

Just had a break so watched the just run race from Addington, dont look like much of a crowd. That guy on trackside is a poor speaker and that fat cunt walking his greyhound gives me the fucking shits as well, every race he seems to crop up lol. I got work to do so I'm done for now, have a good days punting all, hope you can get one of those 3 dollar longshots

I often check out the quaddie pools, some very poor totals, not just for Auckland, Southland ain't much better, so many races being won by short priced favourites but reality is the product harness is mostly putting up is poor, poor fields produce poor turnover, simple. Grass tracks seem as popular as ever. Invercargill might well produce a good field for its cup race, but it's a twilight meeting on a saturday, most people's racing interest at that time is centered on aussie racing, today a feature meet at Addington, sunday, trackside 1, I'd say the figures should be quite good, Invercargill I suspect a different result. Senz are at Addington today till 5, not even broadcasting Self Assureds race, I dont even think they broadcast the trots on saturdays no more, I stand to be corrected though, harness racing is just fading into insignificance mostly.

Gamma, I will go 8, might get 1 win, Akuta, lol.

Interesting comment that losing 500000, is not ideal it's still been a lot of fun and good to see what BGP are doing for NZ racing, very interesting. Simple reality is there are not enough people losing enough money by betting more and more, if they were that would be great for NZ racing, what a strange business gambling can be😄

Madness now rules in HRNZ,even Guerin on the box seat suggested that if people and trainers want to go to Orari then let them or words to that affect. Also stated when discussing the big meeting at Addington,its a sunday, it's on trackside 1, on saturdays harness racing gets poked on to 2, and the big races from ozzie get priority, yet Invercargills big race is you guessed it on a saturday, just another HRNZ cock up. Getting back to Auckland, we all know two meetings in two days dont work, no reason why they couldn't just have 1 meet with more races, maybe if its after 10 it might be too late past everyones bed time, rarely does a meeting go after 9 30 these days.

Winston i think has stated he wont go with labour, dont leave many if any options, maybe he should just be a expert commentator like Hosking, all talk but no action.

How many trainers left in the top of the south?

Ok Mr smartarse lol, I was merely pointing out in the article written it stated that cup day was the biggest turnover for 10 years, which is newsworthy I would have thought, I'm done on this thread, have a happy day all.

I'm not interested in Mr Mcgrath, but I did note that cup day turnover was the highest for any meeting in the last ten years, that's worth some news but I ain't seen nought, maybe it's been reported, I ain't noticed.

I cant see why if Orari finished why they couldn't race on the grass at Washdyke, just a thought.

One wonders what some would say if I expired. If I ain't posted for a month then better start come looking for me, probably no one would notice.im not circulating. And yes condolence to the Cubas family, one never knows what life is gunna hit one with.

Going from grass to all weather, harness does it but the gallops, seems a different story.

Some of the stuff I posted on my free for all forum, in political yarns would have been frowned upon on another site, sometimes I just try to jazz it up, nought wrong with a bit of humour, music or comment to add a new dimension to a website. I note Djockovic is welcome back to aussie for the tennis despite no vaccine, good on him for standing up for his principles.

6500 yesty the late quaddie., I checkout all the quaddies, I note a lot of the 25000 guaranteed or whatever dont go over, the commingled pools are large from Vuctoria and West Australia but some of the doubles, place 6 etc etc from aussie are very small, I dont think there is as much bet on aussie racing as we may think there is.

Doomed is in the UK, was just wondering what a NZ block of cheese is worth, or put another way, what it is selling for.

What is a block of 1kg cheese priced at where you are ?

On labour day,that mini meeting,the late quaddie at palmy was over 10 grand which compares well to a lot of other harness meetings and a lot of gallops too,(southern Fridays spring to mind) but on a Tuesday afternoon, the Melbourne Cup or the trotting Cup may do ok but palmy today, probably not.

I think Forbury gone has taken away a dimension that added interest, the Canterbury and Southlandes meeting in the middle, I'm sure if some of those good pacers were racing there as once before then the interest would have stayed. Invercargill have scrubbed 2 meetings this season, not even a mention of the second one, it's all becoming a bit uninteresting., seems the bigger tracks are more popular, yet the North only have two pokey tracks, spouse they have no choice but just take it or leave it.

Gamma, team Orange was taken, no team banana sadly lol, anyway which team won.

R5 10 13 R6 2 8 R7 4 10 R8 3 8 R9 2 15 R10 1 8 R11 8 9 R12 2 3 R13 1 5 There ya go Gamma take it or leave it, would have gone BD Joe if he had better draw, anyway good luck all.