Brodie

Happy, it could well be sport cos it wouldn’t be people opening accounts to bet on racing. You only need to look at the pools for the Ozzie Harness Racing at the moment, not sure whether the pools are comingled with Oz at the mo! Often there is less than $1000 combined for win and place. The TAB should stand on their own as far as operating. Why should a monopoly like the TAB need money to operate. They are going to make money for the year, if not then they should go into liquidation just like every other business. We can not continue to just give money away to everyone that puts their hand out and also those that don’t! This government has not got a clue about business, and how we are going to get out of this mess. Twyford, who was Mr KiwIMess I meant KiwiBuild is the minister of Economic Development, so seriously we are stuffed!!!!!!!!

Rita are delusional if they think there are more punters on horse racing than there used to be. Tote turnover has been down for a long time, but we don’t know how much is being bet with the Bookies on fixed. RITA. Need to cut their employee no.s and justify why so many are on whopping salaries as it is just blatant uneconomical and then they have the cheek to want a handout from the taxpayer????

Happy, you have done very well to write all those not so positive things. Some of things can be altered and improved but very few unfortunately. The whole system needs to be overhauled as there will not be enough horses to race as owners will not wanting to be paying out thousands per month to race for bugger all. There are very few new punters being attracted to the game and without new punters, then racing is stuffed. Galloping trainers are saying that they are looking to move to Australia in the future but that has been happening for years. There is a helluva difference between the ability to win money in Oz and NZ. The Ozzies are still racing and people making money, however we have been totally closed down by a government who has over reacted, but then they wouldn’t care about that. Racing is stuffed for the foreseeable future, and will be doubtful if it will be able to recover to where the existing stake money is! Can trainers afford to drop their training costs to make it somewhat not as expensive to race a horse? Would doubt it except for the blue and silver, but then many of the extras would need to be dropped.

FFS, most people that test positive in NZ have no or very minor symptoms nd others say it is not as bad as the flu!!!!!! Of course there are people dieting of it overseas but there are 8 or 9 strains of it and NZ and Oz have not got the bad strain clearly. Does trying to protect people who are vulnerable in rest homes warrant effing the country and its population, when every year there are just as many people killed by the flu?

Ranga, you must be the hardest person to understand ever! What the hell are you on about? The media has scared most, so much they think it is this virus that is going to kill them. There have been 18 deaths. 16 were over 70 years of age and all had u dearly I g medical conditions. The other 2 were in their 60’s and had medical issues. 10 were from the Rosewood home and most we reform the dimentia ward and were resuscitated by instruction which meant they were waiting for god!!! The government has totally over estimated the virus and panicked and now have brought the country to its knees by their actions. The effects of their actions are going to play out over the next few years.

Basil, the truth of the matter is that our leader is a control freak and is being followed like a cult! You only need to listen to the way she speaks to us at 1.0pm as if she is speaking down to everyone. Of course we had to close things up initially to slow things down, but it just blatantly ridiculous now that they have scared the living daylights out of everyone. People cross the road when you are out walking as if you have the Black Death, where walking past someone is not going to give you any bloody virus. We have had supermarkets open and as far as we know not a single person has contracted the virus from there!! Random testing of the public and not a damn positive!! FFS the sooner the sheep realise that you have had scammed and killed your livelihood the better. There was absolutely no gain for anyone but this government for keeping NZ closed for another week, except it is just her way of showing her control of the NZ public!

To be fair I am not blaming the current government for their business decisions or lack of business decisions! the fact is that none of them have any business sense or success, so we couldn’t expect much!

Was not meant to be insulting Mehe! The point is that elective surgery has been put on hold and people who need surgeries are in limbo, because the government says so!!! There is not going to suddenly be all these people being wheeled into the hospital wards for Covid19, therefore this government should’ve given the hospitals the all clear to operate on people that deserve them. With respect, I don’t believe that most of the country should be suffering emotionally or financially because we have 15 people from Rest Homes catching the virus and dying when the nurses have been told to keep them comfortable but don’t resuscitate. I can assure you that there are many people that die each and every week in rest homes without Covid19. Anyway, I hope your wee operation goes just fine next week?

Anything to do with the brain?

Mehe, don’t intend to get into any to and frying as just can’t be bothered. Yes we needed to be locked down, but the govt. was slow in locking down the borders. They have made many mistakes and couldve done things better including the way the wage subsidy was rushed thru without a lot of thought. Hospitals should’ve been doing surgeries now rather than having surgeons twiddling their thumbs! We should’ve been allowed to go to open spaces outside rather than being coupled up as more chance of catching the virus from affected people inside. Reality is that there has been about 1500 positives including probables and really no deaths caused by the virus to anyone without any underlying conditions and old age!!!! You can be a sheep if you want and go with the flow and believe everything,personally I like to think about things! Anyway, just hope things go good after we are out of home detention but I believe the cure of being locked up will be far worse than the disease!!! Anyway, Ozzie trots on !

Brodie does get the facts! There are far more deaths every year due to the normal flu! 800 deaths in NZ every week and not locked down! Will be heaps of deaths due to the consequences of being locked up! Generations will be indebted due to the lockdowns, The situation should have been monitored and when numbers were what they were, things should’ve been amended. Telling us everyday the no. Of positives and probables is a waste of time when most of the positives had very minor symptoms at worst, many with no symptoms. The random tests in Queenstown, ChCh, Waikato and Auckland had ZERO positives! The fact that many positives have no symptoms shows that it is not a killer virus at all! The virus strikes vulnerable people in Rest Homes but the standard yearly flu kills them every damn year without the country being locked up! You can believe what you want, your prerogative but the fact is that the modelling of having 28,000 dying from Covid19 just shows what a load of BS it is and stating g it is because of the early lockdown is a cop out! Adults have to be locked up but it is ok for school kids to go,to,school, that is because the virus in NZ is no worse than the flu. Are we getting locked up again when the winter flu hits? Why haven’t the hospitals been doing operations when the hospitals are so empty? So much scaremongering by the government and media!!!!!

Noodlum, there are more killed every year in NZ from the flu every year. There are about 800 people die every week in NZ from a variety of things and we are in lockdown because we have a few elderly frail vulnerable people pass away with the instruction not to resuscitate? When influenza hits and people catch it, are we all going to be locked down like this every year because vulnerable people have been admitted to hospital? Seriously, this has been overplayed by a leader that is power crazy! Australia haven’t been in totally lockdown like us and yet their death rate is less tha. Hours percentage wise! Oz was told that they could have 150,000 deaths and they have had just over 70! The damage has been done to the country due to the decisions that the government has made, although so many have been totally brainwashed by this virus!

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.