Brodie

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.

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??