Brodie

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!

Anyone know what the turnover was at Rangiora today? Didnt watch any of the races live but did look at so e tote pools a d they werent that flash! Can not see where anyone posted how the $1.1m turnover was made up, or was it made up?? Punting on harness racing is losing its appeal with many people due to the Bookmakers attitude.

Ranga, go and take a Covid19 vaccine shot! You get no lies or dishonesty from The Brodster.

Go and take your meds Ranga/PEDANTIC!!

FFS! Ranga it should’ve been more than $20!! You need to change your non-de-plume to PEDANTIC!

You would need a good horse to win a quarter of that racing in NZ with the stakes the way the stakes are and the costs! People cant be racing horses nowadays expecting to be making money, it is a bonus if you do.

Lol yeah good one Ranga! Bit like your one picture of Mark Purdon at Greymouth!

Gamma, the NZ TAB offers fixed odds by the Bookmakers! They are in the business of gambling and therefore if they put up odds for punters, they need to be accepting the bets from all punters and not just from known losing punters!!!!!! They are so risk averse that it is costing them big time by not accepting bets from many punters. Reality is that the odds are always in the TAB’s or Bookmakers favour, and yes sometimes they may lose! However restricting punters to pathetic amounts is costing the TAB as many of the bets they restrict will be losing bets! If they can not take the heat then they should be getting out of the kitchen!

Because the NZ TAB always had the Mitch Kerr stable horses very short and if he was trying to punt them he wouldnt be getting much on!

Galah, the NZ TAB do want punters like Mitch! They want losing Punters and no winning punters!

Certainly wouldnt be classed as a successful one, that the NZ TAB would be scared of. You wouldve thought that he shouldve cleaned up going by the success of his stable. Obviously the NZ Bookies werent letting him on for much which seems like a mistake on their side! This is exactly my continued point, that the NZ TAB should bd accepting begs from all punters as it is costing them big money!

Averos Spitfire looked to be going well in the last until the last 200m when he chucked in the towel. Think he is really more of a grass tracker rather than allweather. Amber Hoffman did a great job to win a couple of races on the grass which is a helluva lot better than he did in hls first 50 plus starts. Something she did improved the horse incredibly you would not think it was the same horse Well done to the owners, but time to retire The Spitfire!

Not sure, he did get time. He does drive a helluva lot better from the grandstand though!

Previous post was meant to read would not rather than would! Racing employs a helluva lot of people and race horses are bred to run believe it or not! So Ms Chambers expects people to breed standardbreds for hacks or she just wants the standardbred breed to become extinct? So when pets get crook or old they are very often euthanised, and this is known as being humane! Does the SAFE Campaign Manager Ms. Chambers have any problem with vets putting pets down? I do not condone cruelty to animals like most people, however what a blatantly stupid and naive thing for a Campaign Manager to say in regards to banning racing!!!! Once a racehorse is finished racing who is going to be able to afford to keep every horse as well as paying for the racing horses??

O’Connell does a very good job training old horses down south. He is doing a good job by not driving as well which I applaud him for!

SAFE’s Campaign Manager Jessica Chambers, is she for real? She states that the only way to protect racehorses is to ban racing altogether???????????? YOU WHAT?????? FFS, Jessica Chambers, if there was no horse racing then there would be horses to race!!!! Is that too hard for her to understand? The horses would not be alive in the first place as they would not be getting bred in the first place!!!!!! No one is going to be breeding a Standardbred unless it is going to be racing! Same as Greyhounds!

They say that Mitch Kerr lost a helluva lot of money betting sith the Ladbrokes Bookmakers in Oz! You would think that the Bookies there would know who was losing so much money wouldnt you? So the fact is that the Bookmakers didnt have any worries at all about a young NZ trainer losing huge money! The NZ TAB advertises that they care about punters losing money!! They also care about punters winning money as well, as they chop them off at the knees by restricting them to pathetic amounts! So what punters do these Bookies actually want? Yes Mitch was responsible for his actions and they were very bad actions and I dont condone any of them whatsoever! What I do know is that the Bookies and the TAB’s are ruthless and do not care about their customers at all, or something would’ve been done to restrict Mr Kerr, who clearly was in trouble with his gambling!!!!

Martin V B wrote this article again, has he slipped up? Just wondering why he hasnt mentioned, Jesse Alford, Nigel Mcgrath, Blue Magic etc.? Just doesnt seem like a complete article without them included in it does it?

To be fair JJ, you couldnt really be called an excitement machine! Not sure why you say that Unhinged has got my number? I am still waiting for the numbers in regard to the $1.1 million turnover, how much on And offcourse? How much on win and place and the exotics etc. What I guarantee is that turnover would be a helluva lot better if the accountants allowed punters to actually offload. As for the TAB not giving a toss about me is irrelevant I wouldve thought? Financially I dont need them but they certainly need to continue to attract new punters!

Is that Prince Andrew on the right??

Has anyone got access to the $1.1million betting figure breakdown that Methven has stated occurred?

I dont believe a Communist would have much sympathy for a Capitalist somehow?

JJ, all the thumbs down is very upsetting! Do you have an agenda??

Ranga, I want to see what they are taking and how much they are taking on the horses. They take money from some punters and not others! Hardly KIND!!

Personally dont give a rats about small bets at big odds! Want to see what big bets that they are actually taking! When they are not accepting bets from certain punters it is blatant BS!