Brodie

Just watched Harness Unhinged video on the race! It clearly shows the start as being a tolling start, with all horses rolling forward! Nigrl asked Colin about the 2400 metre starting point and he commented that it wasnt the best!! So why did they program 2400metres and call it a stand when it wasnt??

Do they call that a standing start?? They were all on the move. What constitutes a standing start now? Lets have more of these 2400m races but call them what they! No they didnt use the mobile start but seriously calling it a stand??

Surely that comment was not aimed at Brodie? Greg and Craig both know that it is so stupid to be having races at 2400metres???? If it is such a great idea, then let us run all our mobile starts from the 2400metre ark rather than 2600m. The fact that they had 12 nominations doesnt mean it is a great idea, they wouldve had at least that at 2600m!!!! Anyway I look forward to them having a lot more 2400m races from there including mobiles. Why do you think they altered the trials decades ago from the 2400m? Cos it was stupid!!!!!!!

Fair enough Curious. Have always had whips in racing and I believe for the sake of keeping punters, I believe we need to retain them. I do not believe that we will retain punters if the whip was banned, and that is what we need more of, Punters. This Brad Steele who is a mate of Dean Shannon, is probably the last hope for harness racing in NZ! If he does a poor job then in 4 years we are in the shite, as Entain isnt going go be bolstering stakes! You can believe what you hear from Cameron Rodger about more people opening accounts etc. but the proof will be in the pudding! All I know is that they have moved the TAB operations to Ozzie, they have made some stupid decisions and they still restrict punters, when they state they want to increase turnover!

If whips were banned, racing would be finished in NZ! Serious punters would not participate if they knew that their horse they had put their hard earned on, was not going to be given its best chance! Far more things to ban than the whip! Ban the Woke BS Lefties, that is the main cause for the state of the world at the moment!

would be far better banning Green Party members! Am I allowed to say they are LOONIES?

It looks a bit like a whip but it is a ehip!

They say there has been increase of customers opening accounts? If these 21% opened accounts solely cos they now have free Trackside and coulldnt before when they had to pay, suggests that they may not be wagering too much! I hope that this Cameron Rodger is speaking the truth and the turnover does increase big time as he said if this 21% had not come on board they were in trouble! MR Cameron Rodger, if you want turnover to increase and by a helluva lot more than your 21%, then drop the betting restrictions that you the TAB have imposed, on certain punters?

How do they know that Trackside audience is up 25%? have they asked everyone in the country if they watched Trackside on Saturday? Make up the figures as he goes along?

Brodie isnt attacking anyone personally. Just think that they must have spokespeople for TAB and HRNz that could at least come on and put their point of view forward! The fact that neither do just shows contempt or a lack of confidence in the decisions they are making!

The thing is when posters start a topic and it is about something that seems wrong or puzzling, I find it very hard to comprehend why a spokes person from HRNZ or the TAB dont come on BOAY, and defend their decisions? They are paid by the punters in NZ, without them they have not got a job! I reckon it is in fact very poor indeed and quite ignorant really!! If they have not got the guts to defend their decisions, I would be thinking that they can not defend their decisions and regret them? There are normally 2 sides to every decision but the fact that they are not prepared to discuss these things shows that they are more interested in their own financial interests, moreso than the interests of racing?

And the 1980metre races are close to the small crowds that actually go out now?

Decades ago they had the stands there at trials with a few horses in each heat. If it is ok as a starting position lets run all them from there? Some weird and dumb programming going on and I look forward to having many more of these 2400metre stands at Addington each and every week. crazy this time of year!

So Norman, you are a believer in having a standing start just short of a sharp bend at Addington? What is your reason for supporting this 2400metre stand in the middle of Winter? How about a 1700 metre mobile at Addington then?

What is interesting is the Auckland fields this week! There are 9 races and 5 for pacers and 4 for trotters! Used to be so many more pacers racing than trot races a and yet in Auckland this week they have 43 pacers and 36 trotters? Without the number of trotters around up there, the race meeting may not be going ahead?

Do you really? Crazy, they are not Quarter horses! Who would want to bet into them? Only a few lineup in them so buggerall punting on them!

They had a few of them at Forbury many years ago. Crazy!

The 1700m would be near the bend and would be a shocker just like the mile start! What on earth inspired them to program a 2400m stand this week is hard to fathom?

Noticed that Addington has a 2400 metre stand on Friday night for 35-50 class! Now I appreciate that they have one every year in December when the weather is warm and plenty of newbies drinking are there! However I am not too sure that in the middle of Winter there are going to be too many of newbies or regulars standing on the wet grass at the 2400metre mark to watch the horses close up? Is there really any reason they are holding this standing start race just prior to the Showgrounds sharp bend in Winter?? why not have a 1700 metre mobile, now that would be more interesting,

Inconsistencies from the Stipes. Lol. Colin Defilippi was warned for using the ehip with more than a wrist action! Colin one of the good guys has been fined and suspended many times fir the same stupid thing and they warned him this time? Go figure? Brad Steele, if you want to improve harness racing in NZ, overturn your totally stupid whip rule and put it back to what it was and worked a decade ago!

A lot of harness horses need the persuader, Ozzies use it more than Kiwis do, and it was temporarily banned in Oz, but that rule was overturned. There are a lot of other things that should be banned before the whip, such as COVID VACCINES that we now know maimed and are still killing people!!

The North will struggle and Entain will realise this and some meetings will be cancelled. Know what you mean in regards to same horses and small fields especially on the Thursday and Friday nites. The low class meetings at Addington provide the best punting opportunities!

If Luk did become more urgent earlier in the straight it would not have been beaten by a nose! It is what it is, Luk got the quinella!

You dont get much sense from out of there unfortunately! The ones in Wellington that remain wont be too worried about much, they know they will be gone along with all of the others.

The TAB dont seem to hold cash Ranga! Betting voucher and credit account