Brodie

Boxie, Yes there is betting on amateur driver harness racing nowadays. I also didn’t mean to say that the 2 drivers should have been put out, I meant they probably should have made a move before the bend. You see this all the time and yet nothing is said! Hammering the Amateurs is rubbish!

I note that 2 amateur drivers John McDermoot and Sue Blake have had their AMATEUR licenses suspended for about 3 months yesterday at Rangiora. They lost their ability to drive on Raceday for 3 months due to them both not giving their horses the best chance by basically not hooking out at the 300 and 350 metres after they were having good runs in the running line. Yes agree that they probably should’ve gone, but 3 months? They are AMATEURS after all! The issue is that it once again seems extremely excessive and that there are POOR drives in every race that the so-called professionals are in! Nothing is ever said to those drivers in the Stipes reports! It is the poor AMATEURS that consistently seem to be getting hammered!