mikeynz

Strange you say that ,i actually broke out of my comfort zone and thought for interest sake to have a go after the Hawera quaddie, first 3 winners and had Victor Bravo and the House runner in the last, always the way.

I heard Guerin yesterday waffling on about his picks yesterday, seventy percent on this and 30 on that, hard to follow but he did get some wins and as usual some losses too, but did he win more than he spent ?

BG0 would have done nicely if they had of stuck to just win and top 2 3 4 bets but the TAB will love them. This is the thing with punters clubs, they seem to want to want multis, and most of them come up short.

Think after race completed they may have nose in front, their big double with legato though has gone west.

Some of the ideas of the Messara report would best be printed into nice little squares of paper and hung up in the wee room.

Switching everything online isn't the be all of everything, I was reading a article on David White from Cricket when it signed to stream Cricket with Spark, it's the way of the future he said, look what happened there. No different to racing, streaming is OK as a option but jamming two trackside channel's into 1 for audio don't work, still important to have racing on radio just as it is for Cricket, not everyone has access to good internet or is working, driving etc etc. I note tomorrow's racing show on Senz starts at 3 o clock from Ellerslie, does that mean Riccarton don't matter . I should add that Cricket left Radio Sport because NZME offered Cricket a lot less to broadcast rights for radio, I suspect Sky will do same when negotiating tv rights in a year or two.

I think Entain/TAB takeover operations on Feb 1, Senz had potential but didn't reach it.

And The Wizard, seems all the good drivers are in Auckland lol.

Saturday arvo for gallops, Friday night for trots, Sunday one of each, not sure about Entain wanting Mondays and Tuesday mini meets but I did notice in draft calander for next year hardly any Saturday meetings and mostly Thursdays for Southern harness. Be nice if they could find a Friday and Sunday in June maybe to reinstate the Nelson meeting, gee maybe even follow up with a day in Blenhiem too just to add variety.

For what's it worth I do think the idea of 2 friday night meetings would produce a better tv viewing experience, cut out all the crap in between races.

No.if there are no horses there are no horses but nice for the few left I guess, but who's paying for it, maybe Entain.

I guess Tony Lee is happy he didn't drive there for nothing, probably knows the road like the back of his hand.

Norton, wasn't he owned by people in Southland ,?

1976, Forbury festival meeting, raced twice after a 3 or 4 year break. Chief Walk.

Chief Walk, maybe.

So what's bothering you man.

NZ Trackside 1 and 2 are broadcast through the NZ Harness website in N Z, maybe you can't see that in OZ, as for the Albion Park race taking out Nelson, that can happen, many times they just have a delayed coverage but sometimes they can't be bothered perhaps, never easy though when they don't stick to time.

Can you not access nz racing on Harness Racing site, they screen trackside, it's not a betting site or is it blocked.

I must have missed something , R4 Packing Rockstar has already had 3 starts for 3 wins according to TAB website.

Team C plz.

$20000 plus 7 carried over for the late quaddie at the Mot, nothing like last week but still not too bad. Quaddie at Cambridge just over 4500, that's poor, don't matter when Cambridge run, not much interest, won't be long and Northern Harness will be passed by some of the Greyhound meetings.

If you look at the calander for next year, West Coast could have 2 Saturdays next year. Can't see Kumara racing on the 4th, probably the 11th, who knows what the experts will be thinking.

And remember those who wanted Omakau to stay where it was, it would have raced today, but as no one went there latterly they canned it, if you go back many years Vincent raced same time as West Coast circuit, not all the changes made have been bad, Riverton on Jan 1 seems a good date, Kurow has no southern horses, Riverton basically none North of the Waitaki, the way the days fall sometime don't help with some dates.

One wonders if Pitmans had those 15 runners at Waikouiti if they had of raced on Jan 1 , if they would have turned up at Greymouth, they didn't go to Riverton, sure no Meyers horses this year but fields are fine, no four horse races as yet.

Just a correction, one trainer from Timaru at Riverton.