Brodie

Mehe, do you have trouble comprehending anything? Where have I ever said I could only offload $100? Net $100 at times was less than that a couple of times awhile back!!!! WTF? Me ring the TAB to see if I am restricted? I effing well am you so why would I ring and ask them for christs sake??? Of course you are a damn liar and we all know that! You are lacking a bit of intelligence Mehe, when you are advising me to put thousands thru the tote rather than the Bookies!!! You really arent worth debating with as you have no comprehension of what is going on!

Mehe didnt speak to anyone at the NZ TAB who said anything, he just made it up, to try and show Brodie up. No idea who he is, but jeez he has serious issues that need addressing! Even Michael Guerin and the Whale have said that they were restricted so go figure!

Mehe, you are an absolute fruitloop and full of BS! It is a known fact that there are many restricted punters! You never spoke to anyone at the NZ TAB that told you that they had no restricted punters at all!!!! $20k to you if you show us a letter from the NZ TAB that states that there are no harness punters restricted in NZ! If you dont you donate to charity of my choice $10k! Otherwise apologise for your BS!

Sulk? I gave you a week to post stuff without any input from myself!!! You posted nothing! As for not being restricted Mehe, I wish You were right! Anyway can not be bothered with you as you contribute nothing of any value!

Mehe, what backup? People express their opinions on things it is their prerogative, I dont need any backup as you suggest. Reality is that you are being misled by an incompetent Government, and at the end of the day it is your naievity!

Not old enough nor need any giveaways

Bollacks! Labour coalition have been useless for the past 3 years. Acheived nothing except put it hugely in debt for all the future generations World Health is now saying lockdown is not the answer

You are totally on the money Davis! Unfortunately there is enough suckers to vote for her! It is interesting as you drive around the streets and see where her Labour signs are saying “Lets keep moving”! Many are on houses that are not that well presented and shows that Labour still represents the people that tend to have low work ethic and lower desire to be affluent!! How on earth people can think that the Coalition government is worth voting for, when in reality they have achieved not a single thing that they campaigned on?? I would bet my last million though, that the voters that do vote for her, will rue the fact that they put back into power the most incompetent government that NZ has ever had, bar none!

Yep she is all about jobs Jobs Jobs!

When I spoke to someone at the NZ TAB several years ago, It was only harness punters that were restricted! Not sure now, but rest assured that if you were a winning punter that backed gallops, you will be restricted! Thing is backing gallops is for gamblers!

To be fair Averos Spitfire over its past 10 starts or so has been going better than it did in its first 40 starts. However, it is still doubtful that it will run a place in its career unless it draws 1 in a weak Forbury Park field. Will it continue as a race horse for much longer?

The NZ TAB considers anything a big bet when it is coming from A restricted punter! When you have been restricted to being only able to net $100 at one stage, it certainly pisses you off when you hear on Trackside of someone that has been allowed $10k on a harness horse! Yes the TAB has a badly flawed business module in how they restrict punters to pathetic amounts, and then they say they want to increase turnover!!! At the expense of increasing turnover they reduced turnover and increased their yield on harness! What the dickheads dont understand is that they have lost punters and decreased their profit,

Yes. thing is that with the pools not being that big, you can not put much on the tote, as affects divs too much

In a 3 horse race it could well do, otherwise no. Needs to be retired as just a waste of time racing a horse that can not run a place in 51 starts.

more “not worth having a go “ driving options today! Odds not attractive at all TAB! Bring back the harness “head to heads” just as you do with NZ gallops and Ozzie gallops!!!!

Probably let me offload? The Spitfire is in again tomorrow at Methven, wont run a divvie for its 51st start!! There must be some story behind it why Andrew Faulks continues to race it??

Very hard to win much when they wont let you win much!!! It was not because I was losing! Anyone that shows signs of winning are chopped off at the knees! The TAB are absolute hypocrites in that they advertise that they are concerned about problem gamblers!!!! The only problem gamblers they worry about is the ones that win and then that becomes no problem for them, as they stop them!! No winning punters allowed at the NZ TAB!

Mikey, I also have had a gambling problem for a few years now! The NZ TAB wont let me on for much!!!!!!!!!!

Mikey, we are very fortunate that we have Trackside and able to watch NZ racing! However, you are correct the saturation of overseas racing is a real turnoff for many. The TAB expects punters to be be gambling on this shite, and I believe you have a gambling problem if you are betting on horses or dogs that you have no idea about. The NZ TAB needs to be encouraging punters to be betting on NZ racing rather than restricting punters.

Would seem very odd, as it has been the NZ TAB that has totally stuffed NZ Racing over recent years due to the suits very poor decisions. The TAB has stifled betting on harness racing in recent years and then now HRNZ would have someone go into bat for harness racing to hopefully increase turnover, so that stakes can be maintained! Perhaps, the appointee would see it from the other side and see just how poor the NZ TAB has treated its customers? Hopefully the appointee has got harness racing in their best interests and gets the changes done, that are required? There are many as some of us already know! The appointee would not have to be that flash to be better than our current part time CEO, that has not achieved a single thing for harness racing since keeping the seat cold! May HRNZ appoint someone who is going to make a big difference and earn their big pay salary! !

GW?

Just looking thru the drivers challenges that the NZ TAB have put up for tonights meeting at Auckland! Sometimes they have interesting markets worth a look, and other times just blatantly silly! There is no drivers head to heads tonight? There is the exact no. of points by the Winning driver which is not the easiest to calculate so most wont bother! The other ones is the no. Of winning drives by the drivers! How blatantly stupid is it that they would put up a market for drivers winning at least 4 races on the night? Josh Dickie is at $26 to win at least 4 and he only has 6 drives!!!! Seriously, they need to bring back in the head to heads just like they have with the gallops in NZ and also run them for OZ gallops!!!! Come on TAB change your game.

The vibe of harness racing has definitely gone oncourse nowadays. Trackside last night showed 4 people sitting in the stand 5 minutes before a race Reality is that something has to change for the better or harness racing will not survive. First and foremost we need to continue to have punters coming through! Yes we need owners and horses but without the punters dollar, we are not going to need owners or horses as there will be no one to fund the racing! The NZ TAB does not care about harness racing, the suits only need sports betting which costs them buggerall so that they get paid. Harness racing is in a far worse position than most will Be prepared to admit. There is next to no new owners coming through, as how could anyone justify racing a horse nowadays with the poor returns? Yes the ones that race horses will say they do it for the fun of it, but they can only do it while they have the funds to do it. That does not happen indefinitely and we need to constantly have new participants coming into racing, which is not happening! Sad but true, and are we hearing from our new temporary part time CEO??

Mikey, if you place a $1k bet or even collect $1k you have to prove who you are, irrespective of how much you put on!!! It is just blatant control by the NZ TAB who needs to concentrate on running their own business aNd not trying to pry into everyone elses business!!

I was very young and still am at heart Ranga! Went with my mother and the place had thousands there on a Saturday night. Manual dividend boards, 50c doubles, people booing horses occasionally! They were very good days for harness racing.