Brodie

Poor Petes Dash has gone very good races at its last 2 starts! Had he been driven by a professional driver rather than a graduate driver Petes Dash would be very close to winning! Surely Denis will see the light and put a decent driver on Petes Dash! Although I believe he will be sitting in the stands for a long time shortly, as the Stipes have no choice

Mark did not send horses to Victoria on a regular basis Ranga!!!!!

Has anyone heard from the HRNZ in regards to the shocker of a drive on Petes Dash? Surely it is an open and shut case, so why does it take so long, as it is not a damn court case? What could be a defence for such a shocker, and then another incident in the straight at Methven on the same horse and not mention!!!!!

Wonder why there is no mention whatsoever of Petes Dash cutting off Swap Over in the straight????? Clearly moved in without any concern for anything inside of it!!!!

Not much chance of that!

Had an account with Beteasy as they took over Centrebet! Now Sportsbet has taken over Beteasy! Thing is I also had an account with Sportsbet, but they didnt like paying out if you were winning and I couldnt get a bet on harness racing after a few months!!!!! Ladbrokes Australia were just about the same, couldnt get much on at all, so closed the account! So now only got The Sportsbet account, and will be interesting to see if they are wanting punters now???

Prolific at turning out horses at Victoria Park! At least 2

Another shocker! Seriously if Denis gets to keep his license then the RIU is just a joke. Another drive another poor drive! He sat parked and Petes Dash went huge, sticking on very well! In the straight, Denis moved inwards without checking and chopped off the horse along the passing lane! He will get done for that I would think? Denis, seriously, your horse is having his spirit broken by his runs he is being given! Sit in the stand and Put on a professional driver and your horse will win!!!!!!

To be fair, this has been happening for many weeks, that several horses have been shortened in and nothing at all lengthend! I didnt bother working out what the% was, as the TAB does what it wants to! Amounts able to be won is pitiful and when you do get on, they slash the odds several times, so it looks like there has been a big go on it! It can take a couple of hundred dollars on to basically halve a fixed price, both win and place! The TAB seems to want to drive punters away in big numbers, and they will achieve it bigtime!

Yes Richie, punting today is a real gamble, grass is long and many slow horses will be placed! Geez even the Spitfire ran 4th! Hard when there is no recent grass track form, and so the real one paced horses have their chance. Note the AllStars dont line their horses up as I believe it must be very taxing on the legs of horses when the track is slow!

The Brodster, still always on the money! If it was ever going to pay a dividend it was today! Sat in the trail, race run slowly and still couldnt finish off, and wouldve been 5th if Khal Drogo didnt gallop which is where I thought it would finish at best. If they went harder it wouldve been down the track! Yeah some will say it went good, but 49 starts no placings and the saga continues! Hopefully it proves me wrong just for perseverance!

Totally agree Whiplash, trying to get the TAB to be progressive rather than regressive!

Runners Chance? It is in the field and a great draw and probably trail, but can not see it in the money on the way it was flat out and Heavily whipped in the trial and just about the slowest last quarter of the day!

Lol. Move on? Brodie is here to point out the error of the NZ TAB’s ways!

Happy, the things in Averos Spitfires favour is the one draw and Jonny Cox in the cart! You still have to have the ability and it will be reasonably hard going on the Methven track tomorrow! It was full out last Saturday and on the time it ran last Saturday it would finish 200 metres behind on what it will need to do tomorrow to win.

Laws are there to be changed, just like the whip rule that is being changed! Phil Holden says that he is going to be driving turnover on Harness Racing? Why is he not going into bat to improve harness turnover by having a word to the TAB to allow punters to be allowed to wager and advise the NzTAB that harness punters are not money laundering when they are collecting or betting $1k!!! If Holden allows these socalled rules that have been adopted, nothing surer is that the stakes distribution to harness racing will drop!!!

Would not think so Mr Tard! On what basis do you think it can run its first dividend bearing placing, the fact that it has drawn 1? The horse may have won at the Methven trials but it was not impressive, went a slow last quarter and was driven harder than any other horse on the day, to win a trial? The odds the Bookies are offering at $7 and $2.30 is just blatant massive unders, for a horse that has never run a place in 48 starts!!!!!!! Brodie is on the money

CHief, could you interpret it for me? Am I meant to have egg splattered on my face because John Dunn is going to fix the race so that a 48 start non placed maiden can run a place? Yeah nah!

You are probably right CP, it may well trail For Today! However, its race record Is diabolical and surely does not warrant being in work? Yes it is not a strong maiden field, but It is also not a strong horse. Yes it won at the trials last Saturday on the Methven track but the time it ran for the last 400m and being under sufferance from that point hardly gives me encouragement that it can go any quicker on Sunday, and it will need to by quite a lot! You have to realise that the driver wouldve been done for excessive use of the whip, had it been raceday, and it was onLy trials! There are others in the field that are just far better horses. From the draw if it trails and they dont go too quick in front, it could run 5th probably at best. Hopefully it does run a place, as it would put my statement that it wont run a dividend bearing placing at rest, however just can not see it! Go the mighty Spitfire!!!

To be fair, Brodie must clearly be on the money as usual! This posting has so far had 6,700 views which seems to be the most viewed topic for a long while! Everyone will be cheering the horse on so that it does run a place sometime, so that Brodie has egg on his face! Is there anyone out there that thinks it is going to happen? If so on what evidence, certainly not on its Trial win last Saturday at Methven? If it was raceday, Andrew Faulks Would have been done for excessive use of the whip!!!

Lol. To be fair, unfortunately Averos Spitfire would need a helluva start for it to run a place at Methven on Sunday even though it has drawn the ace and should get a pretty good run! Yes it won a trial there last weekend, but it did beat anything of any account, and it led up and was the only one that was heavily under the whip!! Ran no time and was flat at the finish, Counter Punch can you really say it ran them into the ground? Lol Big step up from trials to raceday at Methven on a testing track! Look, I honestly hope that it goes a great race for the connections, but will it pay a dividend, Nah!

Fair call Happy, however both are bereft of good leaders, and need help!

JAKH, you may be a Spritely old fellah for your age, however normally wouldn’t you normally be tucked up and lights out?

Think I should get a start, Would be a good day down there if we were allowed on the course! Just an absolute shame for the club when we have to stay home and be safe, just because there is absolutely no cases of a virus in the South Island for months?? I see that Cup Day tickets have been released! If Ardern is still in control, there is a better than 50% chance that there will not be anyone oncourse, and therefore I would say NZ Cup Day will be cancelled! There is no way there is going to be no cases by then, and of course there are going to be Aucklanders flying down and spreading their nasty killer virus bugs all around the course. There will be no masks being worn and can you believe social distancing taking place? Not on your nelly, and I believe there are going to be one helluva change in opinion of Ardern and co.next year!

To be fair Arderns handling of Covid19 since level 4 has been very poor. Personally dont believe that National are dead set wanting to win this election as there is such a mess that this nil lot have got us into. Yes they had to lockdown early as we didnt know what we had, but it has now become such a costly overreaction to a very average virus as Brodie has stated many times. Personally the mishandling by Ardern is effectively giving us one helluva lot of money due to the historically low interest rates. I do feel sorry for the many people who are going to be out of work, those that will lose everything they have worked for, the elderly who relied on deposits for income and the many that will decide that life is not worth living for! Ardern and her useless cohorts are going to be taking one helluva lot of flack over the next few years!,