Brodie

Less of the idiot and more of the other!

Take your blinkers off, and look at what is happening! The stakes races are never full Fields nowadays and always dominated by the one stable. Most owners and trainers hate this domination by the one stable, and why wouldn’t they? Very hard for trainers to attract new owners which is going to affect the industry in the coming years as the oldies move on! It can not continue the way it is!

Greg, No they don’t win all the BIG races! They would win the majority of them that they compete in!!!! Very rarely do their horses get beaten in the big races and mostly fill the first few placings! We realise that you are a total supporter and that is your perogative, and I won’t knock that! What anyone with a vested interest in the game outside of the stable realise that the domination is not good, whether you like it or not!!!!

It is always good when the stake money is shared around different stables! Domination of anything is never great! Would be great if the bigger stakes races in NZ this year has winners coming out of many stables! Itmisnt going to happen, we all know that, and so the deterioration in harness racing will continue unfortunately! Sad, but very true, and becomes a yawn fest to most except the very few AllStar flag bearers!!,

CP, wasn’t going to debate about it with you, as I know you will be pretty busy! I realise that the TAB bought into this new platform to try and increase turnover thru increased sporting betting! It has been brought in and obviously has got teething problems that we would expect there to be some. However, you would have thought that many of the complaints about the system would have been addressed prior to it being rolled out? Hopefully the TAB improves things and retains its existing client base as well as attracting new punters whether it be racing or sports bettors!!!

Raphoe!

Counter Punch, don’t agree it is user friendly, but then again I haven’t slent hours trying to work it out! Apart from the TAB giving sports punters far more options, what do you see as being a positive for harness racing punters???

Barry, much appreciated!! You would wonder why they don’t advertise on Trackside how to,use the new system?

Newmarket, it does affect me! Yes over the past few months I have been pretty quiet on the punting as I have said! Havent been sitting on my wallet at all recently and doing pretty well! Newmarket, you didn’t respond to my answer to your posting in regards to the response from SAFE? Egg still on your face!

You are definitely on the money! I don’t come on here to have to prove anything in regards to punting, and those that know me, know that I don’t tell porkies!!

Ask where the FIXED ODDS NO.s show? They don’t show, and the agency operators are even pissed off with the new system! You would think tha the brains trust at the TAB would be able to have sorted, COBBER!

Hilarious Tonkatime! Of course it is a valid point, all of my points are always valid! You would have thought that with all of the time that the TAB had to launch this new betting platform, simple things would be easy to implement? As for affecting Brodie, of course it affects me and everyone else that wants to bet the day before a race meeting! The reality is as I say, the NZ TAB does not give a rats about racing in NZ now! Australian Gallops they love because it doesn’t cost them much and SPORTS betting is where it is at for them! They wouldn’t care if racing in NZ didn’t exist and it shows! The fact now that live sports betting is what you now get first clearly show this!!!!

You would have thought that with $40m being spent on this new TAB site, it would have had very few teething problems? The reality is that the TAB doesn’t give a rats arse about racing In NZ, they just want to scoop as much as they can from Sports Betting so they can Pay themseves a huge salary!!! Where on earth do you find the FIXED ODDS OPTION No. for the harness racing races? If you want to have a wager on a harness race for the next day, there is no option no. showing so you can go to a TAB agency and have a go!!!! The agencies do not have the fields up on their boards for the next day and so you have to go and ask them what the FIXED ODDS OPTION. Is!!!!!!! They then come up with some random no. Not aligned to anything whereas previous there was a consistency with win and place but not now!!!!! Whoever the whizz kids who made the decision to bring this system in, should fall on their swords!!!!! Blatant ridiculousness'!!

Of course they will be back. Normal transmission will resume as soon as Purdon is back in the country.

Then leave!

Riteur, not that impressive so far in career, as most of its form has been Forbury and South and don’t give much credence to that. Bookies had it as massive unders this week from fair run last week,

Yeah probably not his best work! Jerry Garcia was as good as any and place money wasn’t too bad either! Not sure why it is still unruly, as galloped few starts ago when tight space on the rails. Came off unruly and then Went back! Gait has improved a ton to what it was, and he is an iron horse!

Ladbrokes Australia stopped me even placing a bet after about a month and very few bets!

Yep

Ranga Stirra

They should treat all punters equally! They advertise that they are concerned about punters that lose, so they should be happy for punters that win, on that basis!!!

Newmarket, how did you know that I was restricted? Yes, had accounts in Oz and they restricted amounts and also had accounts where I couldn’t get a bet on, I havr told you this previously!

Typical Newmarket and Ranga laughing at my post! Wonder why?

If the whips are banned in NZ then harness racing will be finished!

Box Seat back on again tonight, and was worth watching! Very interesting points made by Michael Guerin several times! What he did say was that the TAB BOokmakers were too tight with the amount of money that they accepted on harness racing compared to the Gallops. The fact that the Bookmakers restricted the amount harness punters were allowed on was detrimental and was putting punters off and they were at risk of losing the punters! He encouraged the TAB Bookmakers to allow punters to be able to put more on and let them win more! Michael Guerin you are totally on the money as they are losing punters who are getting the stitch and won’t be bothered in the future! Couldn’t agree more!!!!!!!