Brodie

Galah, a 120mcg is hardly intoxication! Blair is such a skilled reigns man that he could drive with a reading many times that and he would be less likely to have difficulties than most out on the track. Stewards should be standing down the incompetent drivers that are totally sober before someone with a microscopic reading with Blair’s ability

With a reading of 120mcg it would not have affected Blair’s driving detrimentally at all even if he was driving with the microscopic reading of alcohol on his breath!

Yes I appreciate that he was obviously slightly over the 100 mcg limit in place! However he was legally able to drive to the course! Reality is that he if he had jumped in the cart for the first drive of the day, his reading wouldve been ZERO!!! If it is about safety, then due to the low level he shouldve been retested 30 minutes later, as he clearly was not pissed when tested!

Clearly Bob and Blair had some drinks on the Saturday night! Blair probably drove his car to Mot, which he was legally able to do, going by the very low MCG reading when tested! Blair obviously thought that seem he had a sleep then the alcohol was out of his system or he would not have put himself in a position to be tested! Was every driver on the course pre meeting tested, or has someone potted Blair and Bob, which does on the face of it looks likely!

Yes he is back! Wednesday night at Forbury drawn the outside at 8 behind the mobile. Everyone will tune in for the continuing saga! Brent Barclay has been enlisted to drive Spitfire in his first of many wins at start no. 58! Plenty of gear changes this week, will it be enough? Yeah/nah! One of the owners is the High Hopes Racing Syndicate lol!

I thought they are having time off?

I was not condoning drivers being on the piss during the day if that is what you thought? I was pointing out that if you are tested prior to the first race then quite feasible to have a beer or two up the hill at Mot or hidden away somewhere if there is not testing during the day

What the hell has made this Martin Van Beynon such a hater of harness racing does anyone at all know? The plonker obviously sits there on his computer ready to tap away Every time someone in the industry does something! Some will say that he is just printing the news, but FFS he is totally over the top every time. He is out to castigate everyone involved in harness for some unknown reason, and the indiscretion on a national scale is minute but he wants to try and ruin participants lives!!!!!!! Harness participants are not role models as far as I am concerned, so why is he wanting to eff some lives! Martin Van Beynon how about you write about the injustices that the NZ TAB are putting in place on their loyal customers??

The Clown that runs the other site removed many from his site! Reason being because they didnt lick arse! The other site most of the time has boring topics and used to wank on about the AllStars goooobooooyyeeehaaa! Iraklis!!!

My point is that 120mcg is approx half of the legal limit you are allowed to drive a car!!!! No I do not condone pissed harness drivers out on the track, however someone having a reading of 120mcg is barely a reading of any accord! Yes of course there are rules in place, but surely with the 120mcg probably from drinking Saturday night, would be ZERO by the time Blair was driving! Why are the punters who had already backed Blair Oranges drives penalised, as they didnt back the horse with another driver on It!!!

So on a hot Sunday afternoon, what is stopping any driver having a couple of beers after they have been tested before the first race? 120 mcg, you could just about get from just being in the bar with some of the known heavier drinkers! By the time the hour was up, the reading wouldve been ZERO!!! I reckon the Stewards would be having the odd one, and if they dont, then maybe they should be?

Lol! JJ, I would be the furtherest thing from a bull shit artist there is!! You are losing the ploT by defending the NZ TAB for unfair practices! You are grabbing at very short straws if you think that Basil has any credible standing on BOAY! I would not be using Basil the SAFE representative and spokesperson as a supporter of yours! The TAB needs to retain punters whereas the Brodster certainly doesnt need the NZ TAB!

The site that bans the intelligent posters? When has the CEO from the TAB answered questions on there? If he is forthcoming with answers, then why is he not answering questions on the Premiere Harness Racing Site, Bit Of A Yarn? Because that is where the questions that they dont want to answer appear! None of this GoooooBooooooyYeeeeeHaaaa go the AllStars BS!!!!!

Please enlighten us on what the forum is that we can ask a question and have it answered by the CEO of the TAB????????? I have some questions for him!

How do they test the drivers for alcohol consumption do we know? Is it the same breathalyser that the Cops use? Who actually does the testing? What is the limit they use or is it Zero tolerance?

I have got a major gambling problem as well Gamma! Just can not get a decent bet on!

Blair would drive a helluva lot better well over the limit than most of the drivers anyway! must've been a bigSaturday night session to be over the next Morning!

“Groundhog Day”, “Bit Slow” not on your nelly Roman. Been out and about this arvo enjoying the weather and helping people make financial decisions! So, havent caught up with any of the new postings but no new topic re Blair going missing! More to life than watching racing at The Mot. when you cant get enough money on to make it worth having a go! Far easier ways at the moment to clean up!

Blair was nowhere to be seen today at the Mot! He had accepted for drives and punters wouldve backed him on various horses, on the Fixed Odds! Does anyone know what the reason for his non driving today was??

Basil, you support the right for the NZ TAB to treat punters with preferential treatment over others!! Gambling is a business that the NZ TAB should be treating everyone the same as they all have the same opportunity!!! To trade as a gambling business and putting up odds and then not accepting them from some people and giving the same odds to other people is blatantly just plain BS!!! Reality is that they are an outfit that is operated very poorly! They should be encouraging punting and not turning business away. The more they take on the more profit they will make overall. To offer odds and then only allow people on for amounts of less than $100 is just crap!,,

Come on Ranga, this is a family show, no need for too much smut on BOAY!!

Can we ask why BGP get preferential treatment? Yes they wager a lot of money, and that is all that the restricted punters want the opportunity to do the same! But no, you are only allowed to put on pathetic amounts! Could someone from the TAB please come on BOAY, and advise us why they get the special treatment????

I repeat Ranga, Brodie is always in his prime! As for a perm, not much chance of that, but bell bottoms was the go!

WTF were you trying to do on Silk???? If I was Ivan Court, you wouldnt get another drive from me!! Why would you want to kill your horse when you were inferior to just about every other horse in the race??? You deserve a holiday from the RIU if there is any integrity! Sorry to say Robbie but that was a SHOCKER, and you certainly didnt drive the horse to to give it any show whatsoever! You mustve had a brain fart to go out so fast without pulling back for a trail, what on earth were you thinking??????

Chief, apparently according to Basil and a couple of others it is perfectly OK in their eyes!!! I say BS, the NZ TAB is a betting agency and yes they make the rules!! However, I have never been able to see how it is possibly not in breach of some ACT, to be able to show preference to some people over others!!!! If the NZ TAB want to have betting limits or restrictions then they should be on everyone whether they are winning punters or losing punters!!! The TAB does not play fair and I hope one day that they get severely fined for their unfair practices!!!!!!!!