Brodie

The up to 75 rating class at Addington on Friday night has 3 nominations? The 2 year old fillies race at Auckland Friday night for a reasonable stake, has how many nominations? ZERO!! Breeding incentives are working good!👍

Didnt watch much of the racing today,! Note that race 6, being a race for horses that had won one race. They came home the last half in 61.4 and last 400m in 31.1????? Would that be the slowest last quarter on an all weather good track down south for a very long time???

Michael House scratched 2 of his 6 down to race in the 5th race! Wonder why, Not enough room in the float?

Do you enjoy the 1700 metre races on Ashburton track?

Does anyone at all enjoy the 1700 metre racing at Ashburton? To Brodie it is just so damn boring, and to run group racing over it is farcical! Nothing out the back has any chance, as the front runners dominate and home turn not banked enough. These races are just a yawn fest and that sort of racing is not going to entice people to go on course or wager ! There is no way on earth that the race stakes are being covered by wagering! A Purdon horse not winning or featuring in the Sapling Stakes, who wouldve thought that??

Certainly not Chief, Don’t believe I have been critical about aged horses still racing, providing they are competitive snd earning money! I certainly do not support aged horses racing, if they are not competitive and clearly showing that they have had enough! Race 5 could be made a Claimer, i believe it would bring s bit more interest to harness racing if they were brought back in! Why dont Addington put the feelers out again to see if it would work? Nothing ventured nothing gained as they say!

Who wouldve thought the 13 year old Take After Me would ever be the favourite nowadays in a trot in Canterbury? Ozzie fields are packed with horses over 8 years old!

Who wouldve thought that Michael House’s stable would consist of half the field of 12 runners at an Ashburton meeting? Yes Michael lines up 6 of the 12 runners in race 5 at Ashburton on Sunday in a 43-50 pace. Not too bad for someone that is dabbling in gallopers as well! Most are just battlers but giving owners a bit of a buzz and assisting Ashburton with no.s Doubt there be any team driving, all out for themselves.

Gamma, as you know if we do our money from a poor drive then clearly we can feel a bit aggrieved! Lol. I backed the driver in question twice in one night thinking that she was a good driver going by her UDR! I was wrong, her good UDR is due solely to the horse she won with again tonight, Sharkies Girl. Anyway, no use crying over spilt milk, live and learn and onto the next meeting!

Backed it first up at Cambridge and it was more of a cert beaten that night! It galloped away and made up so much ground and hard held! driver had a good UDR so I thought she must be able to drive, but Yeah/Nah!

The beauty of an open forum is to discuss things, and we have different opinions on things! personally dont think 2400m in June for what used to be the end of the season is too hard on 2 year olds. There are many 2 year olds that take older horses later in the season and is a 1700m race at speed any easier than 2400m at a slower mile rate? The point I am trying to make is that races that have big stakes and small fields is no good for the longevity of harness racing! It is costing the industry as it does not get enough revenue from wagering to cover anywhere near the level of stakes!

The Sapling Stakes used to be 2400metres and attracted good size fields! For some reason they think 1700 metres is better for the 2 year olds and yet they are only 2 months away from being 3 year olds under the old NZ season that had the horses age change! Reality is Gamma, that what they are doing is clearly not working, as only 6 starters and half the field coming out of the Dunn’s Woodend Beach stable! Where are all of the other 2 year olds wanting to race, if this 1700m sprint race is easier on young horses? Harness just can not be successful if they continue to be putting up reasonable money in age group and Group races and have only 5 or 6 starters. all those races are not attracting sufficient money to cover the costs and just turns off the people they need! PUNTERS!

60k and 6 horses is a continuation of the small fields in the races that owners/trainers wanted to win! Terrible races to punt into, a d why on earth is it 1700 metres? Sprint racing doesnt entice punting in harness racing, so why do they persist?

The smaller fields nowadays are the group races or tighter class races! The looser classes and maiden's tend to have much fuller fields and far better for wagering into in Brodies world!

Who is over the low class racing? Low class racing is what is popular for Brodie!

There are a lot of horses that arent paying their way and may not be saleable overseas. Put s claiming price on it and get rid to someone else!

We seem to have a lot of racing in the canterbury area nowadays, and would love to see the claiming races back in play! Michael House you would think could just about provide a whole field by the amount of claiming type horses he enters! Think it would give a bit of variety to the racing at Addington and would give the opportunity for owners to buy readymade horses! There are many horses that would be improved by changing trainers and drivers and also give current owners cash in their pockets rather than out! The claiming races would be better punting on than the Amateur ones surely?

How did you know Ranga? Have I mentioned that?

so the North Island Breeders Stakes is now not a Group Race, due to the fact that they allow class 35 fillies and mares to start? It was a Group Race previously! The fact that it has lost its classification, does not alter the fall from grace that this once time honoured mares race has endured!!!

Are you Serious TAB? when you have a tote pool of $2 to 4k, you think it would be worthwhile for a punter to put another 1k or more into it? 😂 And talking to Dean Shanon or this Cam is going to have the TAB treating all punters equally? At the end of the day they imposed the restrictions and have maintained the pathetic amounts for years! While they are there , I will continue to point out the error of their ways!!,

If your facts are true TAB, imagine how much more turnover could be achieved if the TAB actually allowed Punters to wager rather than restricting them? Maybe you could have a word in the ear of Dean Shannon if Entain want more TAB turnover? Restrictions must be costing the industry mega millions every year, but then again they arent showing that they have things under control!

Why hadnt it been run for 12 years, Spatchcock? Yes well aware what R35 means, but having class 35 runners in a Group race is pretty average I would’ve thought? Personally I would not say it was a nice field at all, but then we see things differently! Soatchcock, yes that is the problem the North havent got the owners wanting to race horses despite the larger population.

That’s right, no one can be a winning punter, so tell that to the TAB and get our restrictions dropped ASAP! I would’ve thought it pretty obvious why we dont tip on a public forum?

No one will be banned from tote wagering. Would be interested to know how many gallops punters were restricted! I was told there were none a few years ago, might be different now but the harness punters ate the ones that are victimised! People I speak with, can not believe that the TAB actually restrict some punters to pathetic amounts to win, and think it is so wrong! Many of these people will not ever be betting with the NZTAB!, Yes there are some successful punters but putting restraints on winning punters has major consequences for the industry! Come on Entain, how about coming out and advise us what your plans are for the racing industry after the 2 years us up and then when the stake money guarantee ends?

The Diamond Stables horses are racing well, but they are also taking advantage of the fact that they are racing inferior horses st the moment without many AllStars or Telfer trained horses due to the season! John is also outdriving most of the others, as they are allowing him to dictate most races he wins!