Brodie

Gallops yawn, trots still on at night!

Thru to the keeper on that one? What you mean u can’t have nothing? Only second day Ranga, you might be losing it already?.

You reckon? Integrity not shown All of the time!, We would be better off having a common sense unit

RIU hardly an essential industry, at the best of times!

No one will get thru this unscathed, but we fortunately will be fine. It is a matter of everyone riding it out and we will get thru it, some better than others tho.

Chief, thanks for that re salaries! 136 employees over $100k! Wonder what these 136 employees actually do for their well above average salary? From the outside looking in, it appears that their costs are exhorbitant and the industry can not afford to be paying this amount of money for a battling industry.

I read something that said that there heaps employed that were on far more than $100k!!! FFS, what on earth are all these employees doing that warrants a salary in excess of $100K? No wonder the costs are so high and the stake money being paid out to the people that actually pay to race horses is now no higher than what the stakes were 30 years ago!!

Yeah I better than nothing I suppose, but I now feel sorry for the TAB as they need all the money they can get, so that the employees can retain their large salaries!

Whiteman, I think there will be many owners that will say to their trainers, turn the horse out. What is the point of having a horse in full work when there is no chance of earning any stake money in the next month? Might as well give the horse a break and see what happens in the next month or so? Many owners will not be able to afford having a horse or two in work anyway, with many will be looking to get out of owning and racing horses in the future! Yes, it is a very unfortunate event not just for racing but for all businesses and people’s retirement. .It is going to take a helluva long time to semi recover from this and all because of the health standards of an overseas country!!!!! Fortunately we haven’t had any deaths so far, and touch wood they are few and far between now. Problem is that there are going to be so many people without sufficient income to survive without major assistance. Most people have a mortgage or rent to pay and that isn’t going to go away. Brodie will be fine although he may suffer bouts of boredom without racing however, at the end of the day, keeping everyone safe and alive is far more important! Wishing all BOAY bloggers and supporters a safe time in our time of exile!

Na can’t go to housie! Can’t hear the caller, can’t see the numbers and my hands shake too much to be able to mark the card! No racing now so have to stick to annoying the nurses!

Have to keep our sense of humour the way things are! So many are going to be affected by job losses and loss of capital thru share drops!

Are you still having afternoon naps?

Too slow Ranga clearly

A heck of a lot more on opening in NZ

Saw that Greg, but for the two mares still to be racing they must’ve been served after approx 24th November last year that seems pretty late doesn’t it?

Racing them in foal when they are 3 or 4 months, you wouldn’t think would be that comfortable for the embryo! imagine being the foal and having your mum running aro7nd the training track and then the race track every day at speed. You would think it would be kind of upsetting wouldn’t you! Its a wonder the animal rights activists have not co e down on it? Bugger, RIU might now do that! Na, do busy chasing their tails, while they have got jobs! Think they will be eliminating some of them soon!i

Months ago it was announced on Trackside that RocknPop and Vinnie Rulz we’re both racing in foal! I note that both are still racing and in at Waimate today. Wondering how long they were allowed to race for before they were retired from racing in NZ? We all know that mares normally race better when they are in foal, but you would think that if they were 4 months or so that the embryo would’ve grown sufficiently large to be a hindrance to the mares racing ability. Certainly couldn’t see a human female sporting ability improving when she is 4 months pregnant, quite the opposite!

The NZ TAB have an absolute cheek to be even asking for anything from the taxpayer. Every week they take money from the NZ taxpayer and are not actually providing a helluva lot for it! it is a betting platform where people offload money and they just take a per centage!! Why on earth are they going cap in hand to the taxpayer asking for them to just give them money ?? It beggars belief that they need money, when they will make money each and every week by the way they operate! Is the NZ TAB saying that this costs are higher than what they are netting and are therefore losing money??? I seriously doubt it and if it is then do not expect the taxpayer to give you anything! Hardly an essential service, button down the hatches and ride it out with all of the other businesses!!!!!!

What a shocking indictment for racing when the TAB is asking for a government handout after a couple of weeks of the Coronavirus issues!! FFS, this monopoly have basically been arseholes towards many of their loyal customers over the past few years!!! The staff that are employed by the TAB are mostly on extremely large salaries and have no problem with taking their large pay home each and every week, while the racing people that provide their incomes struggle. Now as soon as things change they want the NZ taxpayer to give them money so that they can keep operating!!! You have to be kidding don’t you? Seriously, TAB do what all other business around the world have to do, and sort it out yourself!! Now you will realise that it is not that nice when things change and you are not receiving as much income as you were previously, and yet you want others to just give it to you!!! The NZ government hopefully shouldn’t give them a cent and let them operate like all other business has to. Staff take a wage cut and get paid what is more like what you should receive!

Not sure who you are referring to? If it was “The Brodster”, no he won’t be On course as currently overseas, due to be returning soon and then I have to hide at home for a couple of weeks! Hopefully racetracks won’t be closed for racing as nothing on TV to watch as totally over the media in Oz with this virus thing!! Apartment we are in hasn’t even got Sky Racing 2 which has the trots on and can’t be bothered watching the gallops or dogs on Sky Racing 1!!! Yawn! As bad as watching mile racing!

Personally I love the slow class races more so than tight class racing, selfishly though due to easier to punt on! Unfortuntelyfor Waimate and the other clubs that are going to be racing without oncourse patronage, they could well be losing a lot of money by running them. Not sure why so many owners and trainers want to run their horses on the grass, as it always appears a lot more of a gut buster racing on the grass! There are always stragglers on the grass that you do not often see on the Addington surface. Yes I know they go a lot harder on the clay tracks, but for some strange reasons trainers line up horses on the grass when clearly the horses action doesn’t warrant it!

The virus restrictions and rules and regulations effects haven’t come in yet. Hopefully things will come right sooner rather than later, or the industry just like all businesses will suffer! Many owners with investments in the sharemarket and with business interests will not have the disposable income to be able to shell out thousands of dollars per month, to have horses racing for stakes that make it totally uneconomic to do so!!!!! There will be many trainers who just won’t have enough horses in work to make it pay unfortunately.

There is a place for a harness program and it would not need to be that expensive to produce. Personally don’t know why they would need 3 presenters like they had and the cost of airfares etc. every week wouldn’t have been that cheap. Canterbury is the Mecca for harness racing so why was it not filmed in ChCh where the knowledge is based and has the most interest? Whiteman, you are correct, this virus thing is going to be hugely costly for the industry and whether it can recover successfully when things settle down is questionable, especially in the North Island where owners are few and far between.

Why was The Box Seat canned does anyone know? was it due to the cost of production or because most of the content was a yawnfest, or did the AllStars pull their sponsorship of the show? Trackside promised a better service when they started to charge and yes we are lucky nowadays to have 2 channels dedicated to racing! However, Trackside could be run a helluva lot better than it currently is and has been since being charged for it! To retain the current punters Trackside needs to put all the crap meetings with no turnover from overseas on the one channel or even dispose of it as it is not required.

Basically no trainers there nowadays. It does make sense to race at Addington. Will save the TAB some money I would say without having to pay some staff however I would be surprised if people are going to be offloading their hard earned on horses with many of them on very suspect incomes over the next month or two. Not much else on so watching the harness might be quite popular though. Let is all hope that this nasty virus gets sorted very soon as it will not end well for the racing industry if it isn’t.