Brodie

God help us when the yearly flu virus hits us in Winter! More people will be infected by influenza and kill a lot more from this. We have a stuffed NZ economy because of this!

Well they have made a blatantly stupid call again!

Prey tell us why horses can not be fast worked at the moment? If someone wants to,work their horse at any speed they like, why can’t they by now. They are hardly likely to be spreading any virus to anyone! If it was the fact that all these trainers and drivers if they weren’t hurt, would put pressure on the hospital, then that is just BS! Hospitals are barely half full and nurses and doctors have never been so quiet!!!!!

Frustrating is the word I would use Ranga. How We allow one Person to dictate to us all what we can do or not do is hard to fathom. There are just so many businesses that could be operating now and yet we put up with this lady of no business acumen whatsoever dictating and killing more people by her actions than this virus will ever do! Financially doesn’t affect us but it will affect millions

We Still in lockdown and government causing people to need food banks and business going broke?? Worst prime minister for Country wellbeing ever! Open the bloody country up Ardern you are killing everything!! She talking about duck shooting season, this country is stuffed with this control freak at the helm

Businesses should be open already. Not a single death in Nz to anyone with normal health Ranga. How they can be counting the deaths of 90 year olds with dementia who they are not treating as Covid19 is unbelievable. 8 from the one rest home and all the others were over 70 with issues! We are closed down for business for this? Are they going to close again when the flu20 comes? Lets just all stay at home and this socialist government can just support everyone indefinitely!

Very difficult to decide what was the weakest of those 4 cup fields! However, Monkey King came from 17 and went as slow as any of the 4 races. The deciding factor for me is how could the pony Lord Forbes run in a NZ Cup and be only 6 lengths from the winner????

Seems an absolute crazy situation that Oz haven’t missed a single days racing and we are having none! Racing to most of us would be classed as an essential iNdustry and it is BS that the TAB can not have skeleton staff in a wee BUBBLE working out of the TAB office. How can anyone have any confidence in this Government to help business get back going?

Needs to buy a decent iron!

Sorry, but a bloke wearing pink?

Graham Bruton bought Noble Mistress? How the mighty has fallen if that is the case!

What was the fridge gas horse?

Must have broken down and not persevered with? Wouldnt have been sold, as Bruton would’ve bought it to race.

Graham Bruton several years ago purchased a horse called Glass Half Full off Michael House. Possibly the last horse Graham owned and looked extremely promising but very erratic. Dont think it raced after it raced on Cup Day a few years ago, I believe. Think it may have broken down , but does anyone know if it was ever brought back into work as Graham would’ve paid a lot of money for it? ,

Has anyone heard anything about the Darkside Site, as it looks like it isn’t still operating, going by the fact that no one is posting!!

The crazy thing is that there a a lot of people who are crying out for the lockdown level 4 to be continued for longer??? WTF??? The so-called experts were stating that there was going to be 28,000 deaths here and something like up to 150,000 deaths in Oz. We have had no deaths in NZ or Oz to anyone that has not had underlying issues as I understand it and the average age would be in the 80s in NZ and most with dementia and havent been resuscitated due to instructions. Personally on the financial front it doesn’t affect us, but for most invested into the racing industry, it is going to affect them and that will flow onto the racing industry! Are we going to be able to ride this out if lockdown is extended and business doesn’t happen? NO!!!!!!!!!!!

I think they have got a lot more to worry about than paying someone a wage. Been watching the tote pools on win and place and they are extremely abysmal, but with all the agencies closed here and in Oz they must be losing a helluva lot of money on every single race. Ozzie still racing and yet we are all closed and yet we have not had a single death that has happened to a single person that had reasonable health to start with. This is just blatantly ridiculous and if we are not let out shortly there is going to be hell to pay.

We used to get the tote divs. to be paid Appearing on Our TV screens very quickly after the race has finished. We now don’t get them for ages after a race! Anyone know why the change has occurred??

Oz has certainly got it right! Harness NZ certainly made a major stuff up by bringing in stuff a blatantly stupid rule that had no logic to it whatsoever. How do they expect a driver to count up to 10 ea who,e concentrating on driving their horse? HRNZ change the rule back to what it was And admit you erred badly!!!

The Ozzies clearly saw the light and have certainly not banned the whip as they originally wanted to do! They now have no number of hits with the whip in their rules, which is what the ru,es in NZ should be as well. It was just plain stupid when HRNZ brought the rule in with no consensus of support whatsoever and now it is such a confusing and hard to fathom rule! There are injustices involved with the way it is monitored or not monitored! The ship rule is just as Stupid as the other plainly stupid rule they introduced in regards to being able to lodge a protest when there as been interference!!!!!!

Does anyone know what the whip rule currently being used in Oz is, or is it a free for all. Some of them are hitting at least 20 times which is good if you have backed that one. Most drivers are not as meek and mild as our ones are. After we get racing back I imagine our drivers will be wanting to make u for lost time, to try and get some money back!!!

With no racing on in Nz have been watching with intent the harness racing in Oz for the last few days. The whip rule that they have just seems to work! Is there actually a limit as to how many times you are allowed to use the whip over there nowadays? I can tell you, it is refreshing to see that most of the drivers aren’t shy to use the whip to encourage their horses to do their best! Does make for very good punting when you know that they aren’t counting and scared to do anything! HRNZ bring in the rule that they have over there and it will improve the racing and encourage punters to offload, and lets face it, you need punters badly!!!!!

The lights at Forbury have never been any good!

God it’s cold down here at Forbury!

Should have your eyes tested! Go,and do something constructive instead of acting like a goose on here!