Brodie

It is a bit confusing that Blair did admit the charge, but then who are we to question the leading driver in NZ? Looking st the replay it did appear as if Blair was one off and had every right to maintain his ground? Anyway gives Blair a bit of a break after a very busy driver patch! Think the ones that backed Light MeUp were hard done by ?

Fair enough, but do you actually wager on them? Black print is overrated nowadays as anything that wins can get black print on all weather tracks. All the punters and enthusiasts I speak to do not like this short trsck racing. The U.S. mile racing is just a yawn fest in my humble opinion.

Always on the money Tonka! It is not be that hard to have horses standing behind the tape as the trainers surely all spend plenty of time on this? The fact that certain starters do not give a stuff about standing starts paints a very poor picture of professionalism for the industry. All starts should be fair for all horses, but almost every standing start in Canterbury is just a raffle and unfair. Drivers know how lax the starter is and that they can get away with almost anything including full blown run up. HRNZ if they have any concern for the industry progressing should be coming down on the starter and not allowing AMATEUR HOUR STARTS! Are they standing starts or not?? If not then change the name to NON MOBILE START, ANYTHING IS ACCEPTABLE!

Box Seat this week had the second part of the interview with Dexter Dunn. Very interesting listening to his thoughts. He suggested that we might be overdoing the Standing Starts and should be more mobiles, which I agree with nowadays as the starts are just not good enough. There has been no improvement with them and just turns the punters off, not that it seems to concern HRNZ though as they allow the crap to continue. How come the Stipes dont mention the poor starts in their report, cos they are all mates! The second very interest thing Dexter said was that he thought people in the industry seemed to enjoy the short track racing??????? Personally think that serious punters hate the mile racing that the Clubs have brought in in recent years. He is used to the boring racing that he drives in, in the United States so will not be aware of what is going on here. Would be good to know whether this mile racing does actually attract punters to the races and is there more wagering on them? I would be extremely sure that it does not encourage wagering at all and is a turnoff for most serious punters and enthusiasts.

But seriously, they should have some credibility with comments being somewhat appropriate! if this is the best they can do then they would be far better off not saying anything as they are pathetically inaccurate. I appreciate that they are running s business and therefore trying to msje as much ss they can for shareholders and have made changes to things. Entain are a gambling agency that I personally believe have made several decisions that are detrimental to retaining and attracting punters on harness racing. Hopefully Brodie is wrong and what they are doing works for the good of the industry. Some things I like but others not so much but then again I dont own the business, so its Entains right for 25 years, if they havent sold it off, which I would be betting on.

Can someone please advise me why Racing and Sports who according to the TAB has been trusted for 20+ years is allowed to advertise such? Some of there info and all of their comments are just so pathetically inaccurate and hilarious that there is no way in the world anyone could actually be trusting what they produce. If Entain were serious about racing then they would be getting rid of this lot! Randel Huston P in race 5 tomorrow night and it is starting from the Unruly 1 ! Racing and Sports states” has drawn the rails” ???????? Every race has such poor comments and info that no you are not trusted at all, despite what you say!!!

I see HRNZ has updated its website today. seems to have more colour about it but not sure the fields etc. are easier to read, but just as many winners as before! What does seem a really good initiative they have included is Trackside 1 and Trackside 2, so you can watch the racing on that rather than having to go to the TAB website. well done to someone for bringing that in.

32 horses going around today, which is not flash! when the no s came out it mustve been touch snd go whether they ran the meeting and now with 32 horses over 5 races is going to be a waste of time for most. Yes owners get stake money easily but not a good sign for the future.

TAB, the stake money holding up is great obviously but it ks only for a limited time and the intelligent are aware of this. Great work by syndicators to get people in for small shares but that is probably the way it will stay, with most sticking to small shares and they have as much fun that way. Unfortunately the cost of ownership nowadays just does not make it economically viable to own a racehorse with the cost of living in NZ. We just have to realise that things will never be the way they were in harness racing heyday.

Seriously, Cambridge is running a meeting next Monday on Anniversary day for them! What is happening with racing in the North Island? This meeting is being run with only 5 RACES???? 2 races has 6 starters so turnover will be terribly low once again and these meetings in the north continue to lose money. Harness is in very serious trouble in the north and yet some some in the industry are saying things are positive??? Does anyone know what is happening with the sale of Franklin track as it has gone very quiet once again after the ATC came out very excited a couple of months ago? The interest will continue to climb!

The new TAB website being run from Australia is often hard to understand! Since the new website for the TAB was taken over by Entain, Sports and Racing have brought out some different features! Does anyone know how this Money Tracker thing actually works? You look at it and it will show that horses have more bets and more money wagered on them and yet the bookies price lengthens?? Then other horses prices get slashed and you look at the Money Tracker and according to them very few wagers compared to others and far less money and yet they slash the odds?? Seems a crazy situation and no explanation apart from them taking the proverbial and having us on??

Missed the decimal point. The thing is that even if you actually got on at those odds, they would cancel the bet. Been there done that!

Pointless them making comments on the horses as the info they put in the comment is already showing? They make a comment such as, has been going poor recently, win chance! 😂

Yes you get this crap in every single race. You just could not make it up! Whoever or whatever writes the comments are just hopeless and Entain are telling us that they Trust this outfit for 20+ years? You can tell that they do not care a rats about harness punters!

It is not a matter of being scared to collect cash, it is more that the agencies and pub tabs never hold enough to be able to collect!

You are right that the tapes were not released at the exact same time, I have seen worse. The winner snd the transgressor that went through the front tape was meant to be UNRULY but when the front tape was released that horse was effectively on the tape snd not back from it. The 2 horse was well behind the unruly horse and that is the point that I have made previously, that we should seriously be not holding standing starts if they continue to dish out unfair starts.

It beggars belief that they are just so unbelievably bad! Many do not make any sense whatsoever, so What or who is capable of writing such BS? Yeah right, “Trusted for 20+ years” apparently lol. I suppose it is there to give us a laugh, but seriously, Could someone from the TAB/ Entain come on here and advise us as to how they have confidence in what is being dished out to the NZ punter!

Who is actually setting the Nz harness odds? Is it Nz or Ozzie do we know? Yes they are pretty erratic and always opportunities lol The website TAB comments are just so unbelievably poor and info is nowhere near as good as we had it before, but then again Entain doesnt care!

Ashburton tomorrow race 3, Major Linc I see is in s maiden race. Commentary comment from Sport and Racing trusted for 20 plus years for racing, said that it won by a nose at Phar Lap Timaru racecourse! I thought that is odd that it won by s nose and yet it is allowed to race in a maiden race?? Na, it didnt win by a nose , it was a dead heat! Does anyone actually know why this Sport and Racing produce such inaccurate info and comments in every single harness race in NZ? They just do not seem to give a rats about harness racing in NZ or they would not be so useless!

The rating system is clearly had its time. When horses that have won 10 races is a Ratings 35 and a maiden is a rating 50 there is something majorly wrong surely? Horses who have won $100k racing horses that have won $5k seems to be a wee bit out of sync!

Clearly Moran breached the rule and he wouldve known but I had never ever heard of it being done before and making horses run quicker! What I find a bit interesting is the number of times Moran used the whip with force and nothing mentioned????? He would have no doubt got done for excessive use in NZ!

Reality is that to my mind and other people I know that wager on harness racing, they are mostly turned off by this short distance racing! I do believe that the fields are affected at Nelson by having the second day racing over a mile. It is costly to send a horse to Nelson with all the expenses incurred and I think owners are saying just not worth it now with the second day mostly over the stupid mile distance. If they draw bad or miss away then they are not going to get any money, so they do not think it worth it now. If the Clubs insist on putting on these short distance races then they do run the risk of poor size fields.

He has been back for a few weeks as he was here for the West Coast racing as well! Poor marketing by HRNZ?

Mile racing is horrendous! Harness racing is not not in good hands! Any Club that thinks that mile racing is good for the industry is just deluded!

I try my best always Paleface, however I can not possibly apologise for incompetence from others surely??