Brodie

What was the amount HRNZ is shelling out to subsidise this event?

Think it is a sign of the times now, that we have lost a generation of potential punters coming through! How many know of new punters of our kids age that are now betting on harness racing? Personally do not know any really and this is why the industry is going to be up the creek in years to come. New owners apart from syndicates are also few and far between due to costs to race a horse and returns. Personally do not like large fields to bet into like Addington are currently having, where so many of the fields are just too even and therefore it is gambling rather than investing! Still opportunity to make $ but just not as many as there used to be as the Bookies put out too many “unders”

Brodie has a “never say die” attitude! Where there is a will, there is a way!

Entain may gave coughed up money to buy the controlling rights to the NZ TAB, however they have yet to show that they are successful at what they do! There are things that they have brought in that has reduced profitability without doubt! Yes they are spending massive amounts on advertising on TV, so will be interesting to see how many new accounts are being opened! they need to put the place odds back up on Trackside, but they wont cos they have got a very amateur site from Sport and Racing, Trusted for 20plus years apparently??

Are those blokes from BGP? Interesting that they are restricting galloping punters lol

The racing at Auckland is very average compared to Addington!! Think it is because it is only 1000m2 track and the design. As a punter, I find that it is just not worth the effort!

There is a few things going on tomorrow night, but the betting figures for Auckland I would say are pretty poor nowadays on a Friday night! Saturday night would be a far better night to race in Auckland father than competing against Addington any night! The fields and racing at Auckland now is pretty average so far better on a Saturday night when people csn make a night of it at the weekend.

Far better idea running in a Saturday night anyway! Racing at Alexandra Park against Addington on a Friday night can not be advantageous? Does anyone know if the Auckland turnover has increased since going head to head with Addington?

Gamma has nothing at all to do with me returning a profit! Hardly wager on Cambridge Auckland nowadays. Just trying to point out just how idiotic the decision to race on a Tuesday night as a financially viable decision to keep harness racing alive in the North. They should at least be a Thursday night mixed in with some Friday nights! The nights to race should be Thursday thru to Saturday nights if they want to retain punters and try to attract people oncourse. personally think it was lunacy to race on a Tuesday night, yes good for owners if only a few horses in each race but disastrous for the harness industry going forward. Anyway doesn’t affect me at all but do have grave concerns for the clubs in the North if the hierarchy continue to make poor decisions.

Sounds like bollacks to me! If this is the case that they can not get the money out of China, then surely they must’ve known this ages ago? Surely there would’ve been plenty of dialogue about this and yet ATC are still holding out hope of settlement? Hopefully they do settle or it is probably going to be pretty desperate trying to find a buyer at the level with Mr Li!

Haven’t been in the country for the past month so haven’t been watching harness! However the muppets that decided to race low class racing on a Tuesday night need to own up and admit that they have no business or financial ability! Seriously is a total failure when you have such pathetic size fields and is costing the industry big time! If Brad Steele was in agreement with this total failure then I wouldn’t be having any faith in the bloke whatsoever going forward! To race on a Tuesday night was never a goer and it needs to be stopped now as it ain’t going to get any better. When you have only 46 horses and poor betting then what is the point? Does Brad Steele still maintain that he is happy with what is happening at Cambridge as he did a few weeks ago? It isn’t funny what is happening to our once great harness industry and people are being paid to make these dumb decisions that is making things worse.

Help! I am totally confused as to what race we are actually talking about where some shenanigans has supposed to have occurred?

Not good if buyer name is We Lie?

Does anyone actually know who this Chinese buyer actually is, and are they financial? It does appear that it could indeed be very shaky, hopefully they settle or the shite will hit the proverbial!

Seems like the only time we hear about these Maori Kings and Maori Queens are when they pass?

Wouldn’t mind actually knowing why exactly is there a Maori King or Queen? What is their role, and do Maori not operate under the NZ monarchy of the King or Queen from Britain? Genuine question as I am not sure why Maori need a king or queen in NZ? Do other nationalities that live in NZ also have a monarchy other than the British one? Does seem a bit weird as Maori I believed was under British rule?

There are heaps of drives that were worse than that drive! Betting on mile racing or 1700m always going to be a risk and probably even more so at a track like Cambridge. It was more the way the sprint race was run rather than the drive , in my opinion! If these Clubs are going to continue to program these sprint races and punters are prepared to wager on them, there are always going to have unlucky runners.

I have just watched the replay of the race as currently not able to watch live, as overseas. personally don’t think she hooked it or it was terribly incompetent. Think it more the fact that it got too far back from the gate over a stupid short distance! To be fair the sprint racing that these clubs continue to program are just not great races to be betting into on the whole, in my opinion. Any qualified horse can run a mile and therefore you have to be so much better if you have a bad draw! Driver drove the horse for luck trying to save ground along the fence but the gaps never came. North Island harness racing is not great betting into compared to the South Island.

They have harmed my gambling more, I would’ve thought? To be fair they have appeared to have loosened up a bit, which is good for racing!

Too much administration, the TAB would be better off bringing back the old website rather than the very poor Ozzie one. There are things that they have introduced which to my mind is not a positive move! I would donate the $50 back to them for them to play fair

If I have, then I haven’t seen it? I would be looking forward to free things and all Betting Restrictions gone?

Quite Senior? Not so much, just about to come onto my prime time in life without doubt! Anything that gives the punter more opportunity to wager is good for racing!

Good to see that the general admission on Cup Day has been reduced this year from $40 to $25. $40 to get in is just too much for what they actually receive, so well done.

I would say that Entain are ripe for the pickings as a takeover target by another betting agency! They do not appear on the face of it to be a successful business which is clearly showing in a lot of their decisions that they have been making! There is no way on earth that Entain will be still solely owning the NZ TAB in 5 years!

Du Val were always going to go bust! Directors had been bust before and the business model they operated under was extremely poor and you would have been financially illiterate to have invested with them!