Brodie

I certainly will have more time on my hands Tonka, as there will be many of the bigger investors in NZ just give the punting away! Just another nail in the coffin for NZ racing, but then many making the decisions just don’t care!

They would be more constructive if they protested about the rights of punters being able to put on $1000 or collect $1000 without having to present a damn punters card! This is a breach of the privacy act that everyone quotes!!!! If there weren’t jumps races, many thoroughbred horses would be put down earlier!

Gumboots! Infirmary?

Butt, no offence intended

“The NailMan” Brad Williamson “The Behind” Kimberley Butt The PeelMan” Blair Orange ”Sit Back” Brendan McLellan “The Restricted” Brodie “McLovin” Andrew Fitzgerald

That is very cruel Ranga, I am quite upset that you say I was a wee bit over weight! Was a great ad though!!

Newmarket, leave it, Mark is a good fellah and doesn’t deserve shit on here!!!!!!!

JimmyCurtin would be the Colonel

“Blue” Mark Purdon, please none for Nat, as that could be libellous!

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??