Brodie

Roman, yes you were well and truly on the money! It did go good. Matt Purvismis a young bloke that is making an impression in the training ranks! Great to see young ones coming thru because we need them!

Was nil in the straight for some reason!,,,,

Bushman is a former Hunter trained horse who was very one paced! However Hunter’s horses do go well on the grass for some reason! Baker Creek should win it with any sort of luck you would think?

Why do you see Ford Rule as a likely winner? Was it that impressive when it qualified at Rangiora recently? Maybe the grass will suit it and it appears to be a quick beginner, but $1.45 fixed to win seems ridiculously short for it first up doesn’t it???

Weak? Brodie is never weak! Read My last sentence for one!!,

Some good tips being thrown out there! I do not directly tip out horses on here for,obvious reasons! The TAB certainly haven’t enetered into the festive spirit with lifted betting limits and then slashing odds significantly so that there is no value!! Newmarket, is pretty astute with his tipping in a few of the races he has mentioned.

Fair enough! Was a weak amateur race though, but good luck, it might go good on the grass though!!

Why?

Basil do you work with Rangatira?

Merry Xmas to you Globe and every single poster on Bit Of A Yarn! It has been a big year for this site starting from scratch and now the premier racing forum site. Congratulations to the Chief and Hesi. Globe, the reason you think that I post negative postings is because I tell it the way it is! Not everything is perfect in racing or with the TAB, and if these things are not pointed out then no improvements or fairness can be achieved! Holefully we all Back many winners over the holiday season, but zi can see myself getting rather bored if the Fixed Odds remain tight! All the best to all!

Basil and Ranga, the reason I posted this is to get the Bookies to bring the flippen odds out!!!!!!! You two are know it alls, so why do you think it is ok for the harness odds to come out so much later than the Gallops??????

I note that the TAB Bookies have already got the odds out for all 3 Gallops meetings in NZ on Boxing Day! Westport is not out yet, so wondering why the harness odds are not that out yet? Leaving it till 5.30 would be a bit of a waste of time seem people are probably doing other things on Xmas Eve! Will be interesting to see if they do bring them out earlier? Why is Harness punters treated differently to the galloping punters?

Lightworkofit is far worse

He went for a break today. He played up shockingly and is clearly over racing for now! Seriously though Trevir should put a decent driver in it when it next lines up. No point having a horse racing if it is not going to get money!

Yes if Trev wasn’t on it! Should win it with any sort of drive, but you know what you get from Trevor!

Bill, Trevor, Michael, Steve etc

Of course Basil would not be in the betting as there would be no odds given! I would be far too short!!!

Very successful at most things I do Ranga!

The opening odds have continually got shorter for the favourites, to the point where there is absolutely no reason to have a go early! Why on earth they don’t encourage punters to offload as the more the turnover the more they will make! To open horses that should be paying $3 at say $2.20 defies any sort of logic as no one with any punting ability would bother! They seem to not be able to see this and it is to the TABs detriment! I was under the misapprehension that Bookies need people to bet with them ,to make money? Would be great to see the amount of money going on harness in the night before the meeting, but it appears for some unknown reason that they won’t do this!!

Harewood the odds for harness are out for approx. 6 hours on the night before the race meeting!!!

Wouldn’t call it ballsy! Buying money like that with big amounts will always break you! You need to continue to win just about everytime to make it worthwhile! Better to enjoy it with holidays or cars than blow it on stupid bets!!

Basil, compliments of the season to you! Ok so they dropped 100k on the last race of the KPC comp!, That is a once a year thing where punters obviously offloaded larger than normal amounts in the hope of winning the big prize so quoting that is irrelevant!,, If they are Bookmakers then they should be Bookmakers and not just toying with it! They are turning punters off big time with their odds and unless they alter things it is going to be a downward spiral for them! They need punters and should take the good with the bad and if they turn off the current punters then the next generation will not be bothering!, Obviously I have no influence over what the NZ TAB does but my right to point out the error of their ways!,, Enjoy your Xmas and New Year Mr Brush!

Yes, they are so wary of harness punters! Not sure how many gallop punters are restricted as I haven’t heard of any! There is no way I would back any horse to win when the odds are short or when there is a Purdon horse in the race and in form like Sicario was! I wouldn’t be able to get that amount on anyway!

Yes , but to announce that they take these bets makes out that they are these marvellous Bookmakers and yet they have got no xxxxx, and don’t give every punter the same opportunity! They continue to offer major unders on too many horses on opening, and they are hardly encouraging punters to offload! They don’t really care about harness punters I am aware of that, as they love sports betting, that is where they make their profits!

Happy, they have $9000 less now! The thing is that they supposedly take these bets from certain punters and announce them on Trackside as such! Where the eff is the fairness when other punters can not get the opportunity to win that amount of money, as every single bet irrespective of what the horse is, Or the type of bet, is restricted to a certain amount! Would be great to know how many harness punters in NZ have restrictions on them??