Brodie

Actually where is Flagship? He was a very intelligent poster! I do know that there are alot of harness enthusiasts that do read our very intelligent banter, but do not post for so e reason? Maybe they all agree that The Brodster is “always on the money”. This is a great site that Chief allows us to speak our mi d and discuss things, whether you think it is important or a load of BS!

Mikey, you couldnt call it very average! It was absolutely incompetent and I believe there is a rule in harness that says the driver has to give The horse its best opportunity! Ray Reekie an amateur got a long time in the stands for a poor drive a few years ago! This drive was twice as bad as that one!

Yeah amateurs can only drive in amateur races. What constitutes a graduation driver? Someone who can sit in a cart and not have any skill? How on earth has he graduated from any academy when he can not have passed anything, going by that ? Not trying to be personal, however it is far from the first time and if that is acceptable then god help harness racing!!!!

It is a borefest When you can not get much money on and you have to put it on thru a self service machine.

That was one of the worst drives I have ever witnessed by a harness driver! I doubt whether you could have done any worse than that on Petes Dash, but to be fair it is not the first time!!!! You were in the trail and going to be following the pacemaker and yet you couldnt steer the horse and sat parked. When you couldve haded up and get a trail, you pressed on and were under the bat and driving hard a long way out!!! FFS, if the Stipes dont suspend Mr O’Connells license for a very long time after that shocking drive, then the RIU should all be sacked. That really was a shocker and harness deserve drivers on the track that have some sort of ability and Denis you fell well short of this again. Denis, have you not realised that your Horses go better when you arent on them?

Happy, the TAB would be happy just to have Gallops and Sports Betting. The gallops has all the extras and yes harness is the poor relation. I have been told several times from TAB employees that if harness didnt exist, then then the TAB would be better off! What this unnecessary extended lockdown is doing is keeping people away from racing and some may just never return to the course. Having a look at the last race at Addington tote pools and there is a combined total of $7k for the win and place pools! There is no way On earth that the NZ TAB can guarantee that stake money is not going to be reduced with this amount of punting!

I am not talking about Bookies, Greg!!!! I am talking about harness racing!! Harness racing is at a crossroads at the moment! If the TAB can not attract new punters, then there will not be the stake money to pay anything! If the stakes arent worth running for compared to owning, then there will be no new owners etc. The TAB does not give a rats about harness racing, in fact they would prefer not to have it!!! The tote pools are pathetic, the amount you can get on is pathetic and the thing that keeps the NZ TAB going is the sports punting!

I would be encouraging wagering and not trying to get rid of punters. If you are relying on losing punters to continue to offload, then racing is buggered. The NZ TAB need to be attracting new punters for racing to remain feasable. Unfortunately the industry is becoming less Popular and needs new blood coming thru!

Geez Boobs, someone that is anti Boomers, not that becoming of you. Baby Boomers are probably the reason you are alive in NZ! Reality is that jealousy of successful people is not an overly attractive trait! If you feel that you are not as successful as Baby Boomers, then go and do something about it! Moaning about the age of people is a waste of time!

Yes you will have to work till you are 80 if you can not provide for yourself! This has been made more certain because the Ardern led govt. have mismanaged the country over the last few months. Financially has not affected us, however I feel effed off because I know so many are now affected by the mismanagement and control unecessarily!

Boobs, lets just follow like sheep, people that havent got a clue what they are doing? You can not lock people down because there is a virus i the country! It is less of a killer virus than other influenza viruses, that kills 1000 people in NZ every year! What has the Ardern led government achieved successfully, what they campaigned on? Will be interesting what you come back with? They are totally incompetent unfortunately!

Boobs, that seems a bit over the top and rascist!! Why did you need to bring White Privilege into it?

Boobs, even if you get Covid19, it is not going to kill you, unless you are in very poor condition in the first place! Not a single death to anyone in NZ that didnt have poor health already! Clvid19 virus will never be eradicated in NZ, but what I do know is that people are killing themselves due to the consequences of the governments actions! We can not continue to act with scant regard to healthy people to protect people in rest homes and people already with illness!

So Ardern is caring by enforcing everyone to stay at home so that people in dimentia rest homes are kept safe? If people feel vulnerable then damn well stay at home. Meanwhile businesses are going to go broke, relationships are going to break up and people are going to top themselves!! Thats right we nave to continue to believe that NZ has this killer virus that most people that have tested positive to it, never even know they have it and have no symptoms!! Gee sounds horrific! What is staggering is just how many people in NZ have been suckered into believing that we need to stuff the country financially to eradicate it!! Reality is that we will always have virus that will kill vulnerable people, are we just going to stay indoors every time? You will realise in time that the governments handing of Covid19 has been very poor over the past few months!!!

LOL! Greg these suits are paid big money to perform! I dont need to be paid big money, and I could advise them how to run things!

And 80’s Ranga!, FFS there are over 100 die of other things in Nz every day and we dont close the country!!!! During level 4 lockdown they reckon over 200 females with breast cancer werent diagnosed due to there not being testing for that! Instead there is this ramming cotton buds up peoples snouts that were not even crook!!! We have approx. 1000 people in NZ die from influenza most years but no lets control these sheep! We have got far more people with depression and mental Illness now than ever due to financial and other issues! Thats right we have to be KIND!!! Reality is that this influenza they call Covid 19 is not going to be eradicated just like the common flu, but it is ok to stuff people so that they need to rely on the government! There is a word for it, and it starts with C!!!

Would be great if it could run a place due to recent circumstances! Would need to draw in close from behind a mobile on the grass to have much chance though. Would think the grass fields at Methven would be pretty strong so tou would need to be very brave to support it as it aint that brave!

FFS, there is no bloody COVID19 in the community in the wholeSouth Island and yet the public jsnt allowed kn a race course at Methven! It is just blatant bs scaremongering from a totally incompetent control freak! We have 800 deaths every week in NZ without Covid19 and yet this nas never been mentioned by Ardern or Bloomfield! Sheep are wandering around with surgical masks over their faces because they are scared! Every year people in the future are going to be walking around with masks because there is aLways going to be influenza. She has continued to control you so that it takes away the fact that the government has failed with Everything they campaigned on!

Greg, all I ask is that decision making by the suits is to the benefit of racing so that it continues. We have CEO appointed who is invisible mostly and so far has not achieved a single thing as he is part time in the role.

Na, money laundering according to the NZ TAB is people who want to make more than $1k. We just can not have this without knowing g who is collecting $1k and if they do this a couple of times, we are going to stop this! Hopefully once Glen Saville is gone, the NZ TAB will look at all thre stuff uls and encourage the punters back! The new executives surely can not be as useless as the last lot?

Greg, with respect, we all know the JCA always make the right call don’t we? To be fair they make a helluva lot of very poor calls, so the fact that CJ was found guilty does not mean a lot! When it comes to common sense and fairness, it does not register Too highly on the qualities of HRNZ unfortunately!

Actually big hooters arent all they are cracked up to be Booby, When they head south it is actually pretty grotesque! After child bearing age, there really is not a helluva lot of purpose in having them especially if they are not at their best! Saggy baggy bigguns aint flash!

Booby, forums are designed for people to offer their opinion on things! I could post many things that are positive but that becomes very very boring and does not garner opinion! Brodie, offers up what he thinks is right or wrong and always comes from the heart! There have been many things that have been done wrong by harness officials etc and without pointing them out, harness will continue to decline. Yes a lot of my posts may well be negatively based however there would be very few if any that I am wrong about! Yes I have several gripes as you will be well aware of, however I have never been one to sit back and accept things when they are clearly not right. Yes there are antagonists that want to have Brodie on just because they think they can get under my skin! I will never back down from making my point of view piblic and if people dont like it then so be it! Apart from Brodie being victimised by the NZ TAB, there have been many other decisions that are just not correct and has put harness racing in a very precarious position uNfortunately! There have been many participants picked on, there have been many suits making decisions that are plainLy dumb, from not only HRNZ but the NZ TAB! You can agree with Brodie or you can disagree, however I will never relent from expressing my opinion, as in my mind it is always “ on the money”

Spectators! What do they mean by TAB Store? They are self service only I wouldve thought? Ticket seller on race day or dogs on!

The Stipes are well known for making poor calls and this is just another! There are drives in every race where drivers do not give their charges the best opportunity! Are they going to suspend these drivers for their errors?