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Basil I am not just talking about buses where they wear masks. In the street they wear them, just weird! Of course many got it overseas so does that mean that we have to act like sheep? Leadership is all about adapting and doing best for the situation Basil! Locking up everyone unnecessarily is not good leadership.

Galah, yes just more of the BS that is going around everywhere. The socialist lefty is a very bad thing. The u.S. is in a bad way with the puppet Biden there as Harris is a shocker. There is going to be bigger problems ahead for that country, with a geriatric as President.

Gospel, you are correct. Nothing personal! However, from what I have heard, Craig is allowed to bet early with the Bookies, not sure what his restrictions are! Secondly, he charges punters for his tips on his Whale Hotline, which you would imagine should be the same gorses that he has already backed and shortened the odds! Finally, he tips on Trackside, once again the same horses???? Personally believe that if he was so good at picking winners, he would just back them himself without the need to earn additional income from selling them! Working on Trackside as well is in my opinion a conflict of interest! On one hand he is there to make money for Trackside and yet he is earning income from tipping out winners so that people can take money off the TAB Bookmakers! Quite weird really!

The WOKE element around the world is quite sickening! The BS is continual! Black Lives Matter protesters are half thugs, out to cause trouble! This looting, rooting and burning in the name of a lifetime crim is just crap, and the army shouldve been in to sort the losers out, rather than go on for months! They march and loot etc.in the name of George Floyd, killed by a policeman! FFS there are heaps of dark skinned people in the U.S. killed every weak by dark skinned people, and yet no marching for that! That I say is racism!!!! Dickheads are now wanting cricketing BATSMAN to be replaced with BATTER, as it is sexist!!! We can not have Gollywogs as it is racist! No more Blackball lollies even though they are black and white! So much inequality going on apparently, well news to those clowns, there has always been people who do well and others not as well!! It is called life and the fact is, some make better decisions than others and will always be that way, unless you want COMMUNISM! If so time you left and got a flight to CHINA!

Karrots, rest assured we are all fine unless your health is severely compromised already. Does it not seem very weird that the fact is that no-one I know has ever had this Covid19 and everyone I have spoken to also knows no one! And yet here are these people or sheep walking around the streets with masks over their faces, as if this killer virus that is so catchy and yet we dont have, is suddenly going to blow into our faces.....? They also scan as many Codes as they possibly can as if it is some sort of contest. FFS there has been no community cases in the South Island as far as I am aware for a year, and yet!!!!!!!! We have never had thus virus and yet some want to be injected with the virus and make themselves possibly crook!!! GO FIGURE!!!!

The ones that come back from overseas and go into isolation at the taxpayers expense are paying nothing. They are meant to but they will never get it. Was meant to be laid inside 3 months and nkw they are allowed 6 months! FFS, Ardern and Co. which part of you are not getting anything dont you understand?? They come in and are fed and looked after and then walk out without paying! This lot are clueless. Am I allowed to say this Chief?? We have to be KIND!!

Ranga, you can not express those views! It is being racist, didnt you know?

Gamma, no the million per day is not the hotel charge for isolation for Covid!! They are blowing $1million per day on emergency and transitional housing for people who havent got housing whether it be private rental or state! Since they came into government less than 4 Years ago the queue for state housing has increased 500% thats right, 500%. They are a bunch of useless socialists that have never achieved anything successfully in life and yet 50% of the sheep in NZ wanted them to be their leaders?????? They have made some absolutely stupid decisions that continually make things worse, but they aren’t bright enough to work that out! Anyway, those that voted them back in are the ones who will be wearing the cost of their actions! I am not one of them!

Gammalite, the people the governments have been listening to have been so wrong so many times. Werent the Ozzies told that there would be 150,000 deaths and Nz tens of thousands? And we should be listening to these experts and taking their advice? We have had business failures due to this when it didnt need to be like this! We have 60 on average every day in NZ diagnosed with Cancer and yet this doesnt warrant a mention and yet every bloody day we have Covid this Covid that, seriously! 4 cases at the border today, none in the community, BLAH BLAH BLAH! Do we need to hear this shite every day????? How about our useless government concentrate more on the fact that every day they are wasting $1 million by putting people in motels in NZ??????? Na, why bother easier to keep the sheep scared of Clvid19!

Gammalite, of course we had to isolate, which we did! It is the crap and incompetence that surrounds this. Far more people will die due to the isolation and control than Covid19 ever was going to kill. There has not been a single death to anyone in NZ that had reasonable health. Even half of the deaths they included didnt even test positive to the virus yet was counted as a statistic. The financial loss in business is a far bigger worry than the Covid19 virus, that is so deadly in NZ that no one knows that have it. Be very scared though!

On the face of it, this Top 4 seems like a great initiative from the NZ TAB! You can wager now First, Second, Third or Fourth on the Fixed Odds! Yes the Top 4 might be pretty skinny at times but often could well be worth it! Wondering where you get the Fixed Odds option no.s for this option? Yes you can do it on a device, but if you were oncourse or an agency do you need to ask the operator?

Ranga, everyones freedom has been badly compromised over the last year or so, we all know that! CONTROL, of everything is what this lot wants! Well I have news For them and it is not good! The most incompetent government that NZ has ever had is going to fall flat on its face, however unfortunately a-lot of its sheep are going to be the ones far worse off over the next few years. Ardern wouldve been gone last time if it was not for the extremely contagious deadly disease that very few catchs and people do not even know they have it! How many from MIQ know they have it coming in from overseas? None!! and how many in hospitals from it? NONE!! We need to not be complacent and stay very scared!

Whiplash, yes tote pools! We never get told what the fixed odds wagering is! Transparency is the last thing this lot does. Lol yes they certainly have been very good for business. They think they are hindering us but reality is they have made some people plenty!

Gammalite, very good point in regards to Sheryll Wigg! If she is deriving income as a trainer then you would have to question the amateur driver status? She is the best amateur by far in the country by her stats! Some will say we are being negative and Sheryll is great for the industry and certainly need her! However now she has taken over Tim’s horses she couldnt be classed as an amateur

Yeah stakes and turnover is increasing!!!! Cambridge highest assessed horses racing for $8k!!!! Turnover on win and place only $3500k each! Pathetic and harness can not continue to be paying the paltry $8k with such small turnover!

FFS Basil. Stakes have gone nowhere over the past 30 years. $8k stake races is less than what they had races for 30 years ago. Owners are significantly out of pocket now compared to 30 years ago! What you think of Brodie’s financial nouse I don’t care, however I would back it over yours any day!!

Galah, bollacks that $8000 converts to 14k over the last 30 years!! The CPI is a load of BS always has beEn. What you are saying is that over the past 30 years cost of living has gone up approx 80%?????? I say that is so wrong!!! In 1991 the national average house was just over $100,000 nowadays it is $800,000 effectively an 800% increase. You can not tell me that food hasnt doubled over the past 30 years!!!! The horse training bill has gone up well over 80% over the last 30 years!!!!! Anyone that believes that the stakes being raced for nowadays compared to costs 30 years ago, are delusional if they think there is not much difference. Stakes being raced for in NZ are rubbish compared to 30 years ago, if not why are so many horses sold overseas and we have trouble getting new owners??? We have trouble filling fields in the middle classes of horses, why is this? Because owners costs have escalated and stakes have remained stagnant.

congratulations Ranga, you are the most pedantic person I have ever dealt with. I unfortunately havent retained racebooks going back 30 to 40 years from Addington Ranga!!! I still maintain that stakes of $8k were run at Addington going back 30 plus years ago. Stakes havent increased much at all in general. They were racing for $75k NZ Trotting cup 50 years ago! You are delusional if you think that stakes of $8k are worth racing for compared to what they used to race for and compared to costs back then! Ranga, as I say I havent got any racebooks but clearly you have so I await you backing up the fact that you reckon they did not race for $8k,

Ranga back your claims up with evidence that they werent racing for $8k at Addington!!! I say there were any races 30 years ago for in excess of $8k!!!!!!! We have debated this before Ranga and races being run over 30 years ago were in excess of what horses race for today!!!!!! Show us a program or racebook from Addington that shows that they werent in fact racing for $8k

They were also racing for far more than $5k werent they Ranga Convert $5k in 1991 to what it should be in 2021 Ranga to see how stake money has declined

Longer the races the better I say. 1700metres will obviously give a longer run into the first bend which is good. Mile racing just to get quick mile rates and black print is so yesterday, as most horses win in quick times compared to years ago. Drivers need to speak up, there couldnt be any that enjoy mile racing could there?

Jj, there is absolutely nothing wrong with backing yourself! The country would not be in the mess it is if people would grow a backbone and stop believing and following Ardern. Chief isnt arrogant, he just expresses his opinion which is his perogative. What I have learnt in the last year or so is that there are too many people easily led in NZ. Speaking your mind is liberating rather than being easily led.

Yes it was a different Board, but it was a board that lost something like $100 million in reserves? They are still very non transparent! No details on anything

Saint Basil, what solutions are you talking about? 1390metre races?

Davis, had one bonus bet in NZ years ago lol. You are right, winning punters dont seem to get them and their accounts are marked. Turnover would increase substantially if they allowed punters bets to be taken! They put up the odds and then say, these odds are only for punters we want to take money from. By these huge restrictions on punters they are costing themselves big by reducing revenue. I am still waiting on seeing the betting breakdown from Methven 2 weeks ago. I know the win and place tote pools are a fraction of what they jsed to be so where is this increased turnover coming from? I know no one who is new to punting on harness racing, however I know plenty that used to punt that now just can not be bothered!!!! The TAB is relying on overseas racing where it costs them bugerall and also Sports betting. They do not give a Rat’s about local racing as it is a liability to them with the costs involved.