Brodie

Just noticed that Auckland Friday night has 10 races and all are being over the 1609metre distance even a stand is over a mile! What are they thinking, if they are trying to attract punters and to retain punters? Worst type of racing for punting on as any horse can run a mile and leads to form reversals! Each to their own but as a racing distance to punt on, leave Brodie out of it, and I know many others that wouldn’t waste their time either! Thank god Addington in their wisdom has given it a miss! Yes some will think it a good idea but if it was so popular, then why don’t they do it every week?

Great to see that the race is going to happen on Friday night. They let the 2 highest rating horses in and 2 more nominated. Well done.

Dexter is killing it in America, Dexter when he was here won that many premiership in a row it wasn’t funny so to say that Blair is the best is not that accurate. Blair is phenomenal and consistent and hardly ever drives a poor race. The Thing is though that if Dexter was here you would be able to compare the two, the reality is that Dexter was always driving more winners when he was last here.

It is a shame, as in principal it is a good idea, and a chance for horses down south to race while the Deep South has closed up. We do need variety with our race planning, like races for colonial bred horses, more races for fillies and mares, and aged horse races. Be great to get some claiming races at Addington again, I know it has been tried, but with training costs being what they are, it might well be worth having another crack at it.

The South Of the Waitaki Final for 13k is on this Friday, or is it? At this stage when noms were meant to be closed they have only 4 nominations plus 2 outside qualifications, however these 2 will probably be included. Will they still run the Final with only 6 starters for 13k? Not too sure why there is such a pitiful no. nominated, but maybe the others that have lined up have now gone home? Would be a shame if it wasn’t run, but certainly with only 6 starters, it is a bit of a fizzer and a loss for the club.

Don’t think the presenters are there to tip out winners, rather to get punters to offload, if the TAB lets you on! They don’t really want the presenters to give out horses that are going to get in and clean the Bookies out I wouldn’t imagine. No real point either when some of them are tipping out 8 or 9 horses per race like Davey Mac!

Ray is back driving in amateurs.

Any of them except this useless lot we have in the coalition!

Wouldn’t think there is going to be too many out there! Addington would’ve been a better bet at this time of year.

Yeah, Ian did seem to make a bad decision to pull out from the trail, if he had stayed in the trail he probably would’ve won! A certainty beaten was in the first race the amateur race. Kruizr, should’ve been put in the race, and it would’ve won. It was an amateur race so we come to expect that!

Rangiora is Racing on Sunday and they have only 7 races! Has a Canterbury Harness meeting ever raced before with so few races as 7? The fields are pretty small as well, and not too sure how the club is going to make a profit?? I know it is winter time but nowadays Harness Racing is an all year thing! Disappointing for the Rangiora Club and wondering whether they would be far better racing at Addington rather than Rangiora itself? I am sure there will be bugger all that go out there on Sunday as it is probably going to be wet, whereas Addington is undercover and gives far better viewing! Not too sure how financial the Rangiora club is but hope they have as good a day as possible.

You beat me to it Happy. Had an account with Sportsbet off the record! After a time they stopped me from betting on harness, all of a sudden, no warning, no correspondence!!!

Hope you had your punters card on you?

I consistently win Ranga! Got great bloodlines

Hunter, it just won’t win a race on ability, while being trained in Westport. Possibly could If it had its blood spinned by you know who!

Talking of great horseflesh, I note that Tim Jellyman is lining up Little Miss in Race 4 at Addington on Friday night. 9 year old maiden who has had 47 starts, being driven by Johnny Morrison rather than Tim himself. Why on earth you would bother bringing this horse over from Westport to race at Addington is beyond belief really, as she has got a chance if she started now!

The betting agencies do what they want! You can take a Fixed Odds bet in good faith by what the TAB offer by way of odds! They can then cancel your bet if they don’t like it, without giving any reason for doing so. They don’t have to take your bet, and then when they have done so, they can cancel it prior to the event! And they wonder why punters get passed off with them! Yes, it has happened to Brodie several times!

Ranga, I asked the question, not stated anything, read the question!

Ranga, , being restricted may be foreign to you, due to your punting ability, however it is not uncommon to many, therefore it is common to many!!!! It is not a one off, many are totally restricted and others are now having their bets restricted to microscopic amounts out of the blue. They are either Bookies or they are not!

They are trying to, but it won’t work. The bigger punters will just not bother, they will go elsewhere with their money. Why bother when they continue to shaft you? The Owners If TAB agencies are also suffering big time due to punters not getting on what they want, and in the future there will be next to no TAB agencies outside of pubs around. TAB has lost the plot!

TheNZ TAB advertise on TV that they are worried about punters having a problem with gambling! How many punters that lose do they restrict? Alternatively, if punters were successful punters you would think they would be happy if they didn’t like having punters that couldn’t afford to lose! However, no they restrict them to next to nothing, so who is their customer base if they stop the winners and the losers? The truth is the NZ TAB love losing punters only and will have nothing to do with winning punters and don’t play FAIR! There are many cases where they have treated winning punters differently and unethically! As for saying that any business can have terms and conditions, it doesn’t damn well mean that your terms and conditions are legal? You could T & Cs that say that you won’t serve Australians but that wouldn’t be legal, or religion etc You should have no right to be able to not sell to someone just because they are better than someone else, as the NZ TAB is meant to be a gambling business, which tends to meant to have winners and losers, but no the NZ TAB only want losing punters!

How can Thaddeus be restricted as to what he can say? The TAB is a government agency isn’t it? We have all been told many times by this government that they were going to be transparent, so how can Thaddeus not answer the questions?

Rusty, ask him what act they are breaching. By treating their customers differently? If he says they aren’t breaching any act, ask him why they accept 10k bets and yet other punters can’t even get $50 on? By accepting 10k bets are they assisting some with money laundering? Ask him how many punters are now restricted to $150 and how many are harness punters and how many Gallops and dogs? Doubt he will answer them fully if at all!

So Ranga as you can see, $150 restrictions are common. How would Mr Thaddeus Taylor like it if his boss called him into his office and said that we are cutting your overpaid salary by 85%? Even in Oz I believe a law was passed that $1000 was the minimum restricted net collect that the betting agencies had to abide by. If they are accepting these 10k bets, those are the punters that Should be looked at for money laundering and to show flippen ID rather than punters who are collecting 1k by putting on $100.

What was the 10k on Ranga, do you remember?