Brodie

Lets have some 752 metre stands and some 923metre mobiles! Yeah lets have variety, trotters against pacers, good drivers against poor drivers! What about races run in reverse, the world is our oyster, If they are going to program these short races as a way of attracting punting, they are delusional!

Gamma, not exactly. Brodie has profited financially from both the TAB and having Labour in government. I dont need to profit from the TAB it is just the challenge nowadays and the fact that they are ethically and morally wrong with their treatment of their customers. Yes I dont like the Labour Party and its socalled policies and their total incompetence. However having them in power has been unbelievably good for our business, which wouldnt have happened to the same extent under National. So Brodie 2 Labour 0 TAB 0

They will never be given ID by “The Brodster” Control Freaks are never going to beat me hopefully

Everyone is a potential money launderer Ranga! If you spend $2 and win $1k on a trifecta then the NZ TAB want to know who spent that $2 and won $1k because they could well be big time money launderers! I can advise them that it is highly unlikely that that $2 punter is a money launderer, but maybe they are??????? It is just a load of bollacks but they just want control, but it is going to backfire on them!

Ranga, we are all suspected money launderers, were you not aware of this? Produce your ID when you are collecting over $1k, that is what money launderers do isnt it? They put their money thru the NZ TAB or oncourse a whole $1k and hope that they win! Is is just a load of BS, TAB wanting total control!

Thanks Karrots To be honest, I do not really care if anyone thinks that I am racist, sexist or anything that is not correct nowadays! The world is a far worse place culturally and politically sleaking to what it used to be! Blatant BS not being able to use the word woman instead it has to be person! Golly Wog is racist etc. etc. Crazy shit that I just do not go along with, so maybe I am racist, sexist etc. Just calling it the way it is!

Jonny, Lol taking the piss out of Brodie by calling him racist? To be fair I would say each and all have opinions that are not politically or culturally correct with the nowadays BS!!! No I wasnt being racist, I see so many people from Asian countries whether it be Chinese, Japanese, India, Pakistan or whatever at the casino! Wondering why they do not go to harness tracks ??

Geez, isnt it long overdue for Barry Ford to jump out of the cart and put a driver on his horses? Blink N Bones, a certainty beaten and wouldve shit in if Barry was not in the cart! This horse has had 40 odd starts and most of the time Barry has been in the cart and mostly has a SHOCKER!!! Not sure why Gavin Smith has not been put in the sulky as he used to drive Barry’s last decent trotter! Yes I Know it is his perogative to be able to drive his own horses, but serious, does he really believe that he is doing right by the horse and punters? Yeah/Nah

Gamma, it is a blatantly stupid decision made by someone that is of no appeal. Chief is correct in that a horse will get a phenomenal undeserved mile rate for winning a race. It is a shocking idea and Rangiora should be ashamed of putting on this crap! Good to try things different but seriously Pointless trying this pathetic short Racing on to appeal to whom? If you enjoy this, then you might as well join the greyhound fan club!

Ranga, no you dont need to love short course racing at all! It is garbage programming this shite! Even the U.S. dont program races less than the mile and their racing is crap!

Opened several accounts in Oz, Gamma. Centrebet, Sportsbet and Ladbrokes. Ladbrokes and Centrebet didnt take any harness bets from me after a couple of months, so I brought money back. Sportsbet I have open but dont bother now

Gamma, people die each and every day with or without Covid19! NZ has a total of 25 or 26 put down to Covid and yet half lf them actually were never tested for Covid as they were so frail and so they were never positive. Every week in NZ roughly 800 people die of a variety reasons and yet 25 dying warrants shutting down the country and far more people dying from the lockdown rather than the virus. This Covid19 is a mild virus and this socalled deadly easily spread virus has no one in hospital. How many people that are testing positive at the border have symptoms and or end up in hospital???? No one as far as I am aware, if any then it is a minute number. It is absolute BS!!

They pick up on it pretty quickly Gamma as $200 registers as a BIG BET!!! They freeze it and kill the div! They want control of all punters just like our Labour Government want control of all people living in NZ! They did have 50% of the sheep at the last election and many are now realising that they are the most controlling useless govt. NZ has ever had.

Gamma, Great to have people travelling between countries and hope it continues. The deadly virus that kills no one that has no underlying conditions, but we cant be complacent so keep being fearfull everyone.

Gamma, you have to identify yourself for collects or bets over $1k in NZ due to the Anti Money Laundering BS! I refuse to do this as all they do is restrict the amounts to pathetic amounts. Why should people who want to wager on a horse have to identify yourself to the TAB for a collect of $1k, and they say it is to identify everyone as they could be MONEY LAUNDERING!!!!!! BS I say, it is about control so that the TAB knows who is winning!!

Ranga, correct, it is about the challenge and also the ethics of the TAB!!!

They have actually done it the Rangiora Trotting Club FFS!!!! Who is the Dickhead from the club that programmed 1390metre races, you are delusional if you think that ks the right thing to be doing to retain and attract punters, but perhaps you just don’t care!!!! Even got a 1609m/mile race as well on the card, so yes it must be starting on the worst part of the track for starting any race for fairness!! Yep, racing has got some clowns that have no idea of what they are doing!!

Ranga, not sure what you are on about? If the TAB did away with the restrictions then Brodie wouldn’t need to waaaaaaaaaaawaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! All he asks for is that all punters are treated equally! Should be no restrictions or restrictions on every punter!!!!

They were good days when punters and enthusiasts turned up oncourse and there was atmosphere. The days at Addington with the manual dividend board with the red and yellow win and place being altered. That was exciting for very young enthusiasts. If there was a roughy win there was often heckling from the public as the trainer or driver had the long walk back to the stables! None of this nowadays and next to no punters oncourse. Basically only owners and stable employees and people socialisimg for a few drinks. Punters have been turned off by a variety of things and this is a huge problem in the future for an industry that is on the slide! Larger wagering Punters can not get sufficient money on to make it worth going, what with this crazy AML policy which is just blatant BS!!!!! The clubs need to wake up to this and get the $1k limit removed as it is costing them big time financially

We all know that if you go into a Casino nowadays and in the past, that you will see heaps of people that come from Asian countries! Nothing rascist about it, but the Asian people have always loved to gamble. Not going to point out any particular countries, because it now seems to be most of them going by the people who now frequent the Chch Casino and I know Auckland as well big time! My question is why do we not have the same people wagering on harness racing, as this would seem to be a good market to target to get more money into harness by both owning and punting!! I have never seen many oncourse and very rarely do you see them wagering at agencies. Do Asian people enjoy the immediate result that a bet at the Casino offers or is there some other reason? Off the cuff I can only think of Luk Chin as being the only Asian trainer in NZ over the years!

Why would “ The Brodster” ever need to take Maori Medicine??

What on earth Ranga? You having a crisis??

They don’t refuse bets from losing problem gamblers Galah. They take large bets from certain punters that they know who are consistently losing! They refuse to take bets of any significance from certain punters who show any sign of consistently winning! The affairs of Mitch Kerr shouldve been investigated by the RIU long before he handed in his license.

First race had bit over 6k in the tote win pool when I saw it when race started before abandonment!,, Ranga, have you got access to the tote pools and fixed odds amounts? I am still waiting for Methven figures!

Jj, harness racing decline in turnover has nothing to do with integrity/reputation. The racing itself leaves greyhounds and gallops for dead! The TAB is losing tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue due to their ridiculous policies towards harness punters! I have got no idea how many punters on harness that they have on restrictions but I am sure it is plenty. Without restrictions I would turnover at least $1 million per annum and so you can see that if they restrict say 50 of us that is $50 mill that they are not getting in turnover. Then you have the ones who would turnover say $500k and the huge amount of turnover being lost!!!!! Yes harness racing is suffering bigtime and will continue to into the future with the policy that they current operate under! It is just blatant BS that they say that turnover is increasing, they are manipulating figures!