Brodie

Her U.D.R. Is .2343 so that would not make her the worst driver in NZ? Personally think she is pretty good, however I dont back her as I dont wager on Auckland harness and havent for a long time! Forbury, why do you rate her so lowly ? I thought Sharee T was your worst? Lol

The big worry that people with any level of business sense can see the writing on the wall and yet the ones on the salaries just dont seem to be able to? There are 34 races over Invercargill, Auckland and Ashburton and the stakes paid out is $1.62 million average of approx. $47,000 per race! How on earth does this make any sense when there is only a few thousand in the tote pools? They are going to be getting a hiding financially, but why worry everything is positive according to The CEO of HRNZ?

BOAY is the Premier site, and it is not boring! We talk about issues that affect racing whether it is good or not so good! The other site has posters that tend to just want to get on with other trying to get self affirmation. Not overly stimulatory but then again a lot of people like that by the look of it?

Fat fingers, $150m per year

It is absolutely mind boggling at the moment with the stake money being offered when we know that they are losing money with the amount of wagering occurring. Invercargill has a minimum if 20k and other races are significantly more! Auckland tonight are racing for 50k minimum, Ashburton Sunday $60k minimum! Highly doubt any of these meetings actually cover stake money let alone the other costs of running the meetings! Entain is not currently tracing well at all and yet have to continue to chuck in a cool $250m to racing. Seriously this can not end well with this totally inflated stakes!! Still havent seen a single poster stating that they have confidence in the decision making of HRNZ!

Just Terrible races to bet into, maidens racing race winners?? Short distance racing in NZ Just not attractive to anyone that takes wagering seriously. Too many shorties and not worth the effort surely?

To be fair the intelligent posters are on BOAY! Reality is that the ones that genuinely care about harness racing are mostly on BOAY, and tell it the way it actually is! Some of us were banned from the other site due to telling the truth about things without the rah rah bs!

you sere lucky you got an email from them lol They are pretty gutless are the Bookies but it is to the detriment of racing.

Never had a rebate as it is only on tote betting if I understand correctly. I would prefer that as the TAB has a monopoly on gambling on racing that they actually take the wagering that punters want. They put up the odds and yet are not prepared to allow some punters to bet reasonable amounts. Not sure how much the Entain owned Ozzie Bookies restrict punters to over there, but are the Ozzie’s restricted as much as we are here in NZ?

I believe they open too many too short and that does not encourage wagering! Then when you want to wager, they dont let you on for much and then slash the odds too much to encourage others! They talk about wanting to increase turnover, but they dont!!!

Does anyone know where the Fixed odds are being set? Is it Kiwi Bookies or Ozzie Bookies? The TAB needs to come out and publicly explain what their betting policy is, as it is going to drive punters and wagering away!

Hearing from other punters now that 5hey are not getting on the bets that they are wanting. The TAB Bookies put up the odds but are not prepared to allow punters on for very much, unless you are a known losing punter or Out The Gate presenters, TAB Entain need to come out and explain why they are not prepared to take wagering at reasonable levels?

Geez, it is just so frustrating for us to see just how poorly managed harness racing is at the moment! If things arent working he will step in and change things? Seriously, does he really not realise the consequences of poor financial decisions? At the end of the day the free money is going to stop and then what? Read the article on the thoroughbred site of BOAY and anyone with half a brain will be able to see what is going on with Entain, and it is not going to be pretty for harness racing in two years time! Its ok though we can afford to pay out $60k for a 4 horse race that is going to generate nothing. Crazy stuff, but its all good, Brad Steele says things are positive for harness 😂

They need to be squirrelling away money as they will need to reduce stakes significantly when the funding is slashed. just read the article on Entain on the galloping blog site, and if goi read that and still believe that Entain are this White Knight, then you have a very low IQ! McAnulty should never have sold out to Entain, as I have been saying since the start, as they have no interest whatsoever of helping out racing! I believe that if they could sell now and cut their losses, they would do so! HRNZ CEO Brad Steele hopefully has read this article and taken it all in, and then he should come out and apologise!

Think we will find that in a couple of years $8k for s harness race will be s good stake! the owners and trainers are needing go make hay while they are getting the Entain cash splash. There would be very few races being run at the moment that are profitable from wagering and this is accentuated by the stifling of wagering by the Bookies!