Brodie

Not a great field but Chaat is not much of a horse.

Interesting how a horse can be improved by swapping trainers! Jamies Bad Boy won its second race tonight at Forbury now trained by Mark Jones. Craig Buchan trained it for many starts and mainly raced at Forbury always against maidens As it couldn’t win a race for him in excess of 35 starts. Showed a little ability every now and then but didn’t really look like it would win a race on many occasions. Mark Jones now trains and won twice and has looked a very fair horse when it has done everything right! Amazing really how they improve when a more professional trainer does things differently and get them fit and keen to race!

Not nasty at all. He is under the non de plume of Spatch Cock, so how is that nasty. Anyway go and watch Forbury.

Think it might have been pacing a lap out

Not nasty at all Ranga! Half of the time you are quite sane, but then you go off like a nutter! Seriously, you lose the plot and I get concerned for you!

Seriously Ranga, for your own sake, you should get a check up! Something not right there!

Mr Cock, Bit Of A Yarn is a forum where we get to express opinions. I express mine which is my perogative! The fact is that I always consider my opinion to be right, just like you should consider yours right! However, I am not too sure what people like Ranga and now you get out of coming on here and saying that Brodie is wrong or telling lies about something! Can not be bothered with clowns just trolling for the sheer hell of it Mr Cock! you were not clever by posting what you did, quite the opposite and a total waste of everyone’s time reading it. If that is the best you have got, then you aren’t worth replying to Mr SpatchCOCK!!

Your name is appropriate Mr Cock!!!

You what??? Ranga, you would be better off back on The Darkside, if all you want to be is an eff wit!

Get a life Ranga! You are the trollster!

It is blatantly obscene that salaried workers at the NZ TAB are earning far more than the Prime Minister of NZ. Could someone please advise us as to what they do to deserve the massive salaries that come from punters losses!!

He did win a probationary or junior drivers championship at Addington! I remember reading about it, and he didn’t come from a racing family from what I recall

Yeah he was. He won a probationary or juniors championship, what exactly not sure but he was a very good young driver. Not going to debate it with you anymore Ranga, cos you just trolling however he clearly has not carried on to any degree in racing. My point is a very good and championship winning driver is basically out of the industry, unless you can advise us all of him training a big team or driving plenty of horses!

You may well be right Flag, It was awhile ago but he did win something and it was not lotto. He clearly had ability to qualify if it was an interdominion probationary drivers comp and basically lost to the industry.

It was awhile ago but I am pretty sure he was the leading probationary one year

Not taking any piss Ranga! Brodie tells it the way it is

Boobybec, yes you are correct, and that has always been the way in harness racing. There are many trainers and drivers that come from racing families that haven’t been as successful as they should’ve, but not going to name them on here. There are many Junior drivers that were very promising but have more or less left the industry as not able to make a career out of it financially. Graeme Ward, is the first name that comes to mind. Our top Junior many years ago and was promising and think he has only had one or two horses at the races as a trainer. Once out of his time as a Junior or probationary driver seemed to be lost from harness. There are others as well but they know that there is not enough money in it for them unfortunately. Ben Hope has improved immensely from when he first drove and yes there was some talk, but I believe he has a good future in the game as he is keen and forever learning and pretty grounded I would say. We all should wish him and all our young ones coming thru the very best as we need them to continue in the game

It is interesting just how many ex South Island horses are now racing in the North Island currently. It is a trend that has come in more over the past couple of years. Very few horses come down from the North Island to race in the South Island and stay. The amateur race at Cambridge race 1 has a field of 10 and at least 6 of them started their careers in the South Island. All of them had probably met their mark in the South and so have been sold to race up north where they would be more competitive, which is good. Without them there wouldn’t be amateur races by the look of it in Cambridge, although Tim Vince is a great supporter of them.

Meant to be Kopia, sorry.

Tough crowd on here, criticising young Ben Hope. Considering Ben won the Junior driver best UDR award last month, would tend to suggest that the criticism is not really warranted. Anyway, not worth arguing about, our young drivers don’t need negative talk about them, when we need more of them in the industry, for it to continue. I aM sure Ben will continue to drive plenty of winners and let us see in a years time how he has gone?

Reefton if you are an accountant then you will know the lingo. However, you are both correct but saying things differently. Yes the amount wagered you class as turnover but it is not the amount that the TAB receives to pay out their expenses, so I would tend to agree with the others as the total wagered is not the TABs to claim!!!!!!

Dark Beau, you are entitled to your opinion but I totally agree with Konica! This Coalition government has done nothing positive to help racing in the 2 years that it has been in power! No need to use expletives in reply either.

Centaur, do you know what Mr John Allen did for his $650k plus salary? Yes he may have gone to meetings around the country but what does he actually do to warrant that amount of money? Punters that are allowed to offload with the NZ TAB pay his and other execs salaries from their losses. What is it that the TAB executives actually do each and every day?

Thanks for your reply Galah. I have not bothered at all with the KPC online comp at all this year but I see it was $200 over 10 races and a minimum of only $20 per race. The fact that it was over harness, dogs and gallops possibly took the gloss off it for normal harness punters. I agree that it would’ve been possible to start on the 1st or second race at Methven, although when Addington had the punters comp often the first race was often pretty early and difficult for some punters who work to at least 5 pm, so you won’t suit everyone. When Addington held the KPC oncourse there were often bets of $1k plus put on which totally changed the odds dramatically and not worth the risk. Does anyone know how successful the online KPC has been this year as I have not heard anything about it! One issue I have with it this year is the small amount of $200 for the heats and then the qualifiers I believe have to stump up with $5k and spend $500 on each and every race in the final which some may well find difficult!