Brodie

Only got to Oslo today and only here for a couple of days and seeing several other places in Norway. Yes pretty clean but expensive and wondered how pdople could afford to live here? Google says average income is 720,000NOK, and exchange rate to NZD is around 6 to 1 so approx. over $100k NZD! You would need it sith the ridiculous price of stuff here! A cotton shirt I saw in the window, nothing that flash, 1699NOK, so just under $300NZD lol. Think we should stay in NZ even though we do have issues 😂

“Auckland continues to be rated in the top 10 liveable cities in the world” Probably is rated highly due to the state of other countries around the world! Travelling Europe at the moment and have covered a fair bit of territory and havent been to any country that I would consider living in!! If you think that NZ is expensive then think again! Currently in Oslo Norway and just ludicrous how expensive it is. A hamburger meal at a fast food place is around $30NZD and a pint of beer is around $16NZD with the conversion, Great Britain is horrendously expensive as well and full of the wrong sort of immigrants, am I allowed to say that Chief?? To be fair for liveability Chch leaves Dorkland for dead and for harness racing as we all know. Harness racing in Auckland is perilously close to being obliterated as it is impossible to see how it can be fixed!

You are on the money there! The truth of the matter is that they don’t treat punters equally in NZ!

Unfortunately they ate not exactly endowed with a great business sense, and that is why they continue to need to falsify figures! They need people at the helm with business success who will do their best to right things! While they are all on big salaries and the money from Entain keeps rolling in then all is good, once that stops it is going to be a shit show!

Am on Daily Roaming! Comes up with TAB isnt available here!! No problem though,

Does anyone know the betting figures for Auckland last Friday night? Note that the average field size for 8 of the races was only 6 starters?? Seriously how on earth anyone can think that Auckland should be getting heavily subsidised and has a rosey future has to be deluded surely? Things are just getting worse for Auckland and no promising signals apart from HRNZ saying that things are positive!

They don’t allow it now everywhere that I have been! A lot of gambling shops, Paddy Power and several others but no one seems to be going into them or coming out when I have seen them?

They don’t want turnover from anyone that has intentions of winning or do win! Reality is that he will be back bigger than ever and onwards and upwards while the TAB provides fixed odds on harness racing in NZ

Far too busy to spend any time doing homework. Makes you realise that NZ with a half sensible government is not s bad place to live. Couldnt live in Great Britain 😂

So why is it that we are not able to access the NZ TAB website?

Currently overseas and can not get the TAB website up due to the new policy brought in by the TAB and Entain! Just looked on HRNZ site and they are now showing the fixed odds on that! Think this is a great initiative and great to see how much I am missing out on while unable to wager when overseas! Do the odds get updated or is it only the opening odds?

Is there such a thing? Never be let out!

Yep I can now. where I was I wasn’t being allowed to play the replays .

Wouldnt allow Brodie on for $1k in one go Gamma! The AML law they adopting is $1k which the TAB is not abiding by the law! they probably wouldnt take a $1k top 3 from Brodie without slashing the odds They would more than likely let their preferred punters on though!

Gamma, the point I was trying to make is that many punters nowadays just won’t bother punting into tight class racing with The Purdon’s dominating a 6 horse field. We will survive if we can keep the grass roots owners and trainers industry alive! The industry will not survive if we continue the way things are going at the moment. When HRNZ states that he believes that things are all positive on a recent interview, we know we are in deep trouble! Good punting.

Gamma, always appreciate you comments even if they conflict with mine. Not sure that they are doing their best to bring attractive racing to us all the time? Whether Mark Purdon Barry Purdon etc. win in Auckland is irrelevant andnot important to most punters, and punters is what we need! We also need the smaller time owners and trainers participating or punters and other owners are going to be lost to the industry! Yes it does cost a lot of money nowadays to race any horse but currently HRNZ are living beyond their means and it is only due to the Entain cash splash! This will end and before we know it and then they will realise that Brodie and others were certainly on the money. Reality is that Entain share price is nothing to do with harness racing in NZ and they will be more than happy not to have it! They are not a gambling agency that is into harness racing and unfortunately that is going to play out! Gamma, you come from the angle of being a racing purist, nowadays I see it from a business point of view! Personally think it is going to take a lot more than a splurge of cash for 5 years to make harness racing a viable venture for the TAB! They are going about it the wrong way in my humble opinion and time will only tell?

You are correct Mikey. The Auckland population is now dominated by people born overseas/ immigrants who you never see on course or very much wagering on machines! It is the same around NZ, Asian/Indian just are not into harness racing! They are into the faster paced quicker losing Casinos! This needs go change otherwise it is pointless quoting this stuff about the big population in Auckland, as it is now not an overly attractive place to live lol!

Gamma, I do know how it works, but as I say the business plan they have adopted is extremely flawed! They need all punters for turnover! They place far too much reliance on yield, it all flows back into racing!

Gamma, does seem a bit hard to believe some of these big bets that they say with just how risk averse they are to other punters. They restrict some punters bets to netting $200 or $300 and yet they try to suggest that they are taking these large bets from others?

So the TAB is prepared to take a liability of $100k on one horse and yet stop other punters from being able to wager on other horses? Totally flawed business plan and is backfiring on them. Time the Committee came out with what they have been discussing or has it not met as yet??

Form is temporary but class is permanent as they say, Chief! Thing is they may well think they are achieving what they desire by heavily restricting certain punters. Reality is that it is costing them turnover and they will never be able to stop us making some sort of a profit, so why dont they let us offload??

Not looking at fields and can’t even watch replays at the moment, as over in Europe for many weeks. Most money to be made in the looser class racing in my opinion but then again everyone has there way of punting! Are we sure that the punter that gets preferential treatment on the Stonewall horses is actually Steve Stockman???

Gamma, each to their own with how you punt! Brodie doesn’t punt on tight class racing for obvious reasons. I would be surprised if there are many restricted harness punters that are betting on tight class racing, but you never know? Lol Anyway always money to be made even if TAB try to shut you down.

Na, not worth the effort, although they now have the $5k minimum payout fixed win! Never have and never will wager on shorties like that!

Certainly an Entire last time I looked!