Brodie

As long as it isn’t Aaron White, as he will only be able to say “the city of shakes” and would need to rename our drivers down here! I am sure he could come up with plenty but we don’t need that crap down here.

Let’s not go into any details on here in respect to Mark, who did a bloody great job for us all commentating in Canterbury. We were very very lucky to have him and unfortunately we are going to be losing him. I am sure Matt Cross will do a great job if he is afforded the opportunity!

Shhhh!!

Hunter, don’t do a MH on here! Secret squirrel!

It was extremely dense for many races and as I say on a very tight track, and still not called off! The abandonment at Addington was unnecessary and many trainers, drivers and owners were extremely annoyed! They have races on nights that had thicker fog and no accidents as far as I am aware because of fog, so in hindsight they should’ve carried on!!!!

Johnny, yes no one knows the truth apart from the ones accused! What the police and RIU have have as evidence I am not sure about, but there is a difference between fixing races and discussing tactics I would’ve thought! What I wish would happen is that the evidence of race fixing etc. is put up now as it is now becoming less than funny with what is going on! The RIU would have buggerall money to cover the innocents legal costs and I know that the police certainly won’t as I believe they ar out of their depth on this one!

Would not know Ranga, I don’t associate with those circles sorry! What I do know is that there are many people that are paying huge lawyers bills and feel that they have done nothing wrong! If this is the case why on earth should they be having to pay out for false charges? If there is evidence then it should be put up now rather than delaying, time after time!

To be fair she has not beaten anything that has been much good, and hasn’t had to to anything in both of her starts! Wouldnt think she would be worth anything like $200k at this stage as no big stakes races available for her!

If these charges are proven to be false then why should those charged have to foot the bill for false charges? HRNZ a and the RIU should’ve had this sorted before the police were brought in, that is why the HRNZ should foot the bill for those that are not guilty!!!!! This is just a mountain out of a molehill, and the sooner it is heard and sorted the better, as it is doing no one but the lawyers any favours! jonny, who would you want to pay your legal bills if it was you that was charged falsely????

Jonny, why is it a bizarre thing to say? Why should people be that are falsely charged be up for legal costs to defend themselves?.

Nothing any good obviously Ranga! So, If these men that have been charged are found not guilty, you believe that they should cop the cost of their defence, which is pretty prohibitive compared to what they earn and are likely to earn from racing? I have heard that legal bills are in excess of 100k which is a lot of money for some of the charged!

Ranga, they should not be carrying on the way they are over there! Most people have an opinion on the topic but it shouldn’t be discussed the way it is as it is just hearsay at the moment. The Sooner the damned cases are heard the better, although the lawyers wouldn’t be seeing it that way! If the charged are found not guilty, I believe that their legal costs need to be reimbursed to them by HRNZ!!!!

Launceston in Australia are racing tonight, and I happened to switch over from other channels and noticed each time that they are still racing despite the fog totalling covering the track and thick as Pea soup as they say! The fog is so much thicker than what Addington had a few weeks back when the races were called off!!!! Obviously the officialdom and drivers over in OZ have a differing opinion when it comes to how dangerous fog is to drive in bearing in mind the Launceston track is a lot tighter than Addington. Still believe that the abondonment of the second half of the program at Addington that night was totally not necessary!

Off course Nowornever. I have a look just to see what the deep topics that all 3 of the posters are commenting on. I can not believe that the current Topic is being allowed to continue!!!!!!!

Totally agree, Chief! There is no way Michael!house would be stupid enough to be answering those questions the way he is! He would be told to keep his mouth shut, and if I was him I would be keeping the lowest profile I possibly could! It is just blatantly stupid the way the current questioning and answering is going over on the Darkside, and is making a mockery of it all! Yes I do believe that there is not going to be a helluva lot of benefit going to come out of the charges that have been made by the police against many horsemen for so-called race fixing. I have watched the races in question and I can not see anything worse than in many races that are run at most meetings. Mointain out of a molehill, and certainly costing harness horsemen bigtime with both reputation and financially.

I note that That’s Bettor is having his first start back in well over 2 years as last raced back in March 2017 Not that unusual a horse having a start after over 2 years you say? However, Thats Bettor is one month off being 12 years of age!!!!!! Thats Bettor is going to be having its 130th start and had been a reasonable horse a few years ago. Originally trained I believe by Brent Weaver and raced a lot at Palmy and Nelson and Blenheim circuits. Robbie Holmes has also trained him for many starts and now a Mr D McKenzie. Must be a bit of a story about why the horse has been brought back to racing and will be a good training effort for the horse to be competitive ! Does anyone know the story??

Hunter, are you sure you don’t want to slightly change that last part of your statement?

Totally agree Galah in regards to the 3 races and the 3 drives you mentioned. not sure what Johnny Morrison was doing on Smoke nReactor as he should’ve gone rather than just sat and get out in the last 100metres at best. The drive on her last Friday night was also very poor! All 3 horses you mentioned were driven by our better drivers, so yes very puzzling indeed.

Certainly the standard of the racing is inferior to the South Island Racing by a long way. With the good stake money up, you would wonder why so many just sit and don’t get Serious till far too late! That race 8 was a shocker, as if you haven’t moved before the home bend you have got next to no chance of winning. Yawn!

The improvement of both Johnny Morrison and Ben Hope both juniors has been big for me!

Just watched race 8 and as exciting as paint drying to watch! The 2 favourites The Moonshadow and The Bull Pen, Both just sat out the back and ran on but out of the money. The leader was given an easy time and nothing moved! If you backed the favourites you would be a bit peeved! Will The Stipes ask the questions that need asking? Maybe, but they will just get BS! No wonder there are a shortage of horses and owners up there!

As I say someone puts on $100 to win at $10 so collect $1000 and they have to show their stupid card to be able to collect their winnings. Someone betting $100 is hardly a money launderer! It is about control for the TAB not money laundering as the statement clearly says that they don’t think we are money laundering!!!!! The TAB are doing it to PROTECT US!!!!! Tonkatime, please tell us all what we as punters need protection from???? I can tell you now that the NZ TAB are a law unto themselves and give certain punters total unfair treatment which I won’t go into on here! The NZ TAB have a totally flawed business system and it continues to bleed. I have said it before, but I am fortunate that I don’t need to do it for the money, it is about the challenge! The truth of the matter is that if this punters card comes in so that Big Brother knows everything about many punters, I am just going to give it away, and leave racing to go further into the doldrums! Wont worry the TAB but it will when all the other punters get restricted by being controlled by the NZ TAB!

Tonkatime, are you aware of how little many punters are now allowed to net on their accounts? Now they are going to be able to monitor a helluva lot more punters by way of amounts they are putting on and winning! If you bet Fixed Odds and you win a few times they will restrict your amount you can get on, because they have your details coming thru to them of the stupid punters card!!!! It just gives the TAB total control over who can bet, the amount wagered and how much you can win or not win! If you think that is a fair go then clearly you are delusional. The TAB wants to increase the turnover on racing, they have to be kidding?

Because you are using a punters card, they will know anyone who is putting on over $1000, and so they will be able to monitor everyone at agencies or oncourse and if that punter is winning, they will be restricting them, just like the already restricted punters. I can tell you that it is not much fun being treated like a damn crim trying to get a bet on! If you think it is to do with money laundering solely, you are seriously deluded! Why should someone that puts $100 on a horse to win Fixed at $10 have to present a stupid punters card to collect your winnings of $1000??????? The statement says that it is not that they think we are money launderers, then why the hell are they introducing this pathetic card??? They are doing it supposedly to protect us! Prey tell us what this protection we all need is??? This is just another evasion into what we are able to do without government intervention!!! They are going to lose punters in massive no.s.

Reality is that it is getting harder and harder for the young ones without new owners.