mikeynz

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.

Team Orange Seems this site is pretty dead recently, might be with the weather warming up.people are doing other things or just running out of oomph.

Gamma bit busy and havnt kept up with things. I will put picks for first 4 races and get the rest on later. R1 3 8 R2 6 8 R3 4 9 R4 7 16

Sometimes it looks like the grass track needs demolishing too and having a makeover.

My thoughts are simple, geo block aussie, until we can operate freely between both countrys, at present they cant bet off shore, we can, if our lot could accept aussies,(and that probably means a lot of ex kiwis) at the TAB then that seems a fairer playing field. As for online casinos, dont worry about them, banning them wont attract new race punters but if the TAB want to run one fine, many betting sites do. But being stuck on one site only, yea nagh, this is a racing issue, should they control everything that people in NZ do as regards to their gambling, No. Might be fine for Russia or China to control people, not in godzone.

Gee I thought my thread had died lol. Might have to post a song later. Kevs off to the UK now, most of his concerts are all sold out, his music will go on well after he stops going, the magic and longevity of music, never underestimate it.

Will go team 7, just a pick but better than nought. Gee you've done some research here Gamna. Galahad think you might need to go again.