Brodie

North Island harness is stuffed. Not sure how they can continue to pay the bigger stakes in Auckland, and the racing is boring as well.

I hope not, wouldnt know what to do with the extra!

Could be the horse Covid21 virus a d may need isolation and mask wearing by all horses! Shit should we be worried?

I have raced several horses over the years, and have had wins! Yes it is a thrill winning races, however which part of Averos Spitfire is not going to win a race do the owners not understand?? Race a horse and pay the huge bills, but a suggestion for owners! You will have a lot more fun racing a horse that has ability to win a race, rather than just making up no.s!

Ludwig, are you serious or taking the piss? Owners get a thrill out of paying training bills for many years and then get a thrill out of watching their costly horse run down the track every start? If you would, then clearly it doesnt take much to give you thrills!

Galah, you are correct, if people are stupid enough to waste their money owning and punting on horses with the limited ability that Averos Spitfire has, then they deserve what they get! Fortunately Galah, I am in the financial position to be able to spend when and where I desire, without the need to answer to anyone!

Averos Spitfire owners need to realise that their horse just doesnt warrant spending thousands on to try and win a race now! When you have a horse that can not run a place in over 50 starts, you would think that you have a horse not worth persevering with? it has 2 3rds in its last 10 starts which is a major improvement to its first 50 starts but seriously, retire the horse as a hack, after its latest run! Who are these mug punters that back it and NZ TAB odds at under $3 to win is just lunacy!!!

Krug @$1.70

All Brodie asks for is that punters are treated fairly! I have often not been able to get anymore than $40 on and yet last night the NZ TAB took a bet of $10,000! How on earth is this fair??

More than what they want to offer currently, Mike! Do not consider TAB Bookies limiting punters to $40 being fair! They put the odds up let the punters have a chance. A reasonable bet would be $2k

Rule is not working. The original rule that was working for everyone, was working so why did Rennell bother to change it?

There is something in the Christchurch water that needs to go as well! Bloody chlorine!

The tote pools appear to be shockingly low tonight! To be fair, the fields hardly inspire betting into them, but how they can afford to be paying the stake money they are offering tonight is questionable! Think it would be a Meeting that loses money!!

The Brodster is no Lucille Ball!!!,

Just a total Dickhead! How they missed him is hard to understand as the jockeys didnt seem to slow down and the Dickhead can count himself very lucky! However if that is the mentality, then maybe the jockeys missing him didnt do the country any favours! He may have had a destiny to be killed but he has no right whatsoever to endanger other lives, Public flogging and then a few nights in the slammer in maximum security ! Dont think he will be thinking about doing anything again so blatantly dumb after that!

So Mark still there, driving, assisting, picking horses to buy, same colours! What has changed? Nothing! Hmmmm

Hayden Cullen may have the horses under his name, but he has as much say as he did previously! What is Purdon still doing driving the horses etc? It is a load of BS, this new arrangement! More to it than meets the eye, if they wanted a break they wouldve walked away! Hmmmmm!

More BS! Som e get fined for driving with too much vigour and anther gets done for not driving vigorously enough!!!! New whip rule is not working RIU, why on earth you changed it from what it originally was is nard to fathom? Thats right, you panicked and changed something that did not need changing!

Why doesnt he write stories about the dishonest lawyers and accountants and financial advisers as there are alot more of them! Na, harness racing as I have a snitch!

VB is a plonker! He is feeding off the titbits that some lowlife is feeding him! Who has told VB about the meeting with Gary Woodham? This is not something that is newsworthy at all!, Is is any wonder the Press is dead. The level of journalism nowadays is so low. Look at the crap we get every bloody day about the killer virus in NZ, they are in the governments pocket, scared to say anything against it!!

Maybe we should not be mentioning this Dickhead Van Beynon? Someone should dig up some shit about this clown! Did Matt Anderson win a National Premiership???

Gamma, a fair proportion of the Ozzie drivers drive like they have been on the grog for a long time, and I suggest that they drive a helluva lot worse that what Blair Orange would registering 120mcg!

No point answering each one, but to summarise, I have never once condoned Blair Orange or Bob Butt being over the current rule of 100mcg of breath alcohol! I am taking it that the 120mcg for Blair as someone quoted to be correct, if not I would have another opinion. I have no knowlege of what Bob Butt’s reading was! I reiterate, Blair Orange driving at the above reading would be no extra dangerous than someone who has been drinking lemonade all morning. Blair obviously drank Saturday night and clearly thought that kt would be out of his system by the time he was tested and it would’ve been under the 100mcg in short time after testing! By the time he jumped in the cart for his first drive of the day he would be recording ZILCH, so he was not endangering anyones life!!!!

Marky, you ask the question as to what level of alcohol should be permissible for a driver to be OK to drive? Personally, I believe a far better question on that basis is at what level of intelligence should a harness driver have to be able to drive safely on the track? It is not difficult to ascertain that many of the drivers currently licensed, should not be out on the track going by their consitently very poor decision making! Not picking on any one driver whatsoever, but the assumption that New Zealand’s top driver is not capable of making sound decisions on the track, due to having a minuscule breath alcohol reading is farcical!

The truth of the matter is that if Blair had his breath analysis taken 15 minutes later then we wouldnt even be naving this debate!! It is all about someone that enjoys drinking as most harness participants! I take it that Blair drove to the course legally as he wouldve been under the legal limit! Someone has tipped the stipes off that they should breathalyse Blair as he had been drinking the night before! Someone tested Blair, whether the recording machine was accurate is unknown! 15 minutes later Blair tests under the legal 100mcg which is a pathetically low amount that would not affect anyones decision making! This needs to be put into perspective and I believe that it is a mountain out of a molehill!!!!!!