Brodie

Apologies for the typing, big fingers and not tanked up!

Forbury, you are entitled to your opinions but personally think Brittany has actually makes pretty good comments on FNL! Surprised st how knowledgeable with the NZ product. Friday Night alive is a great initiative and well worth watching, with Greg and Brittany presenting. You dont have to agree with their tipping and if you were any good, you wouldve slready offloaded! Dont worry about what you consider are poor drives as you have no control over that whatsoever. There is plenty of money to be made at the moment if you put in the work, and best to put your efforts into that while we can!

Wonder why there has never been any betting on pidgeon racing? Would be very low cost surely for the TAB? Probably not a great spectator sport but there would be a market for it?

They out if luck there! People are becoming more and more aware of what is going on now, since the Covid scam!

To be fair Chief, is anyone worried about obesity in the Western World? it is more a pandemic crisis than this Climate Change thing!

Jason, Harness, Gallopers, Greyhounds? Is there anyone else who trains all 3 codes? There is always racing pigeons?

If it is a legitimate bet then it just endorses once again just how ethically wrong the TAB acts! They wont let punters loyal to the NZ TAB for decades on go win a reasonable amount! However another punter who is know to them to be a very poor punter, they allow them the opportunity to lose another $40k? And yet they advertise that they are concerned for those that lose a lot of money? Concerned my xxxx, they are only there to protect the yield and their own salary.

Brodie is one of many NZ punters that get treated very poorly compared to other punters! It is because of identifying myself that I am restricted as well as other restricted punters! Still very very hard to believe that they took this $40k bet on under the TAB’s current level of risk that they are showing?

Does anyone actually believe that the TAB actually accepted a $40k bet on a Telfer horse to lose $80k? Personally have major doubts as it just does not align with the amount of risk that they are currently taking. Anything much over a $1000 loss and they are dropping odds so $40k loss?? Smells very fishy to Brodie!

Nigel will bounce back no problem. Surprised he can be bothered getting back into training with what is looking like happening in a couple years ? Be interesting to see whether his previous owners are willing to go back?

Who actually is that?

Does anyone actually think that the lighting at Addington has improved since the new lights were installed? They werent happy with them when they were first installed, teething issues I suppose? But from watching on, there are still some issues with them where there is just too much variation of brightness, which you would have thought would have been easily rectified? A significant amount of money spent for what definitely appears to be inferior to what Addington Raceway had prior to the new install! Elektra King galloping almost certainly was from the dark shadow on the track!

The hot favourite in the last race at Addington yesterday galloped badly and out of the race at about the 1500m! Tim Williams stated in the stipes report that the horse shied at water! Yes their was water on the inside of the track but watching the replay it doesnt seem possible that the horse wouldve seen the water as it was possibly too far away and down low? What appeared to happen was it shied at a very dark patch of shadow due to inconsistency of the new lighting that has been installed? Personally think the lighting is actually far more inconsistent and patchy than what was there before! Came at a very large cost and do people think it is any better than before

Gamma, you say no big time punters? There are still some that want to wager larger amounts, but the TAB say NO!!! They have driven many people away from racing snd attending on course. Very few punters are going to meetings in Canterbury nowadays as there is not much at all to attract them! You can not get decent amounts on due to the AML limit of $1k that the NZ TAB has adopted, even though they are actually breaking the law by adopting this amount, and they know it! At the end of the day, if they think their policies are the correct ones then we will just have to wait and see! personally believe that there is going to be more personnel changes coming through after the Committee discusses what is going on!

Gamma, no point burying our heads in the sand and believing that all is rosey with the future of harness racing in NZ! We are going to be in dire straights in under 3 years if not sooner unless we see the TAB and HRNZ wake up to what is currently happening! as we repeat, you just can not be running things the way they are and expect it to be financially successful! The money is great for owners and trainers at the moment but that is only due to the money being gifted by Entain, and we all know that is going go stop! Personally believe that the industry is not being managed well and that is clearly proven by Winnie needing this committee to be formed. Is Cambridge financially stuffed like Auckland is? I would say yes and yet HRNZ are very quiet on the topic. Anyway those from the sideline have no control over what is happening at the moment but it is our prerogative to question what is going on, despite what is coming out from HRNZ. At the end of the day, hopefully HRNZ is telling the truth about everything being positive for the industry, but wouldnt be betting into that one! Interesting times!

Very negative Galah, but appears to be accurate unless David Branch can come out and state that what you are saying is totally false? I believe that we appear to have the wrong people making the decisions and to protect their careers, try to paint this rosey position! We need people who actually do care for the future of racing rather than there to collect a big salary. We apparently should all be very positive about the future but this is what is continuing to downgrade our once great harness industry. It is long overdue for those making these decisions to actually perform or walk and to tell us the truth if where we are at! So many poor business decisions have been made.

Chris Wood is a galloping trainer but you are right he is from Cambridge. It can not be true surely, as Brad Steele advised us all that things were all positive? Most of the TAB tote pools tonight were shockingly small but that isnt any worry as turnover is increasing apparently?

very interesting that the NZ TAB supposedly accepted a $40k bet on Captains Secret on race 7 at Auckland tonight! Wondering is this actually legit when they have previously been so risk averse and very hard to get much on, and they think that $1k is a big bet. you would wonder who approved it when it was a Telfer horse, and they are going so well? It was $40k @ 3.20 or close to that and someone was in the know! Anyway great to see the NZ TAB accepting such bets and now we can obviously look forward to them allowing all the restricted punters on for amounts more than they have been previously.

If you do not get patrons on course, you will not get them as new owners, end of story! We are really just going through the motions at the moment, with HRNZ putting the Entain money into stakes and bonuses! When the 5 years is up, they will finally wake up to what some of us are trying to point out, but seems to be falling on deaf ears! The ones in the suits that are making these decisions will be back in Oz long gone!

Not sure that having 4 meetings on in NZ is a great reason to have 40 minutes between races? Harness punters with any sense are not wagering on gallops meeting in Winter in NZ! Run the meetings on different channels so that they are not overlapping each other, it is not that difficult? Look at the way they do it in Ozzie, and we do not need to have all these crap meetings from around the world that no one has heard of!!!!

Just wondering why Addington Sunday racing doesnt start till nearly half past one and finishing after 6pm? In Winter wouldn’t those concerned prefer to start earlier and finish around 5pm? Must be a reason for it, but the first half of the card has 40 minutes between races? Very hard on those concerned and just shows just how dedicated you have to be nowadays to be involved with the horses in Winter!

According to HRNZ everything is going well so there us no point in being concerned with it. Everything is well under control and HRNZ believe that everything is heading in the right direction for the betterment of the harness industry, they told us this on Friday Night Lights!

Correct, the ones making the decisions are being paid large salaries so they are there to show that they are doing a great job or they will be moved on. I have seen it over many many years that plenty of the CEO’s get their jobs from who they know and not on ability! Many really have very little experience in actually benefitting business financially unfortunately. Is it not interesting that 3 of the Entain highest up ones up are now longer employed by Entain? How on earth can we believe what someone is saying about the positivity when this is happening? The fact that it has taken so long to begin this so called enquiry into what happened with the trot in Auckland shows that things are not flash surely? It shouldve been a few questions and then action but no, it tskes months and more wastage of money!

I am not sure exactly what the terms and conditions of Entains agreement with the NZ TAB is? It shouldve been ironed out prior to signing, giving racing its best options! The 900m promised should not be blown on stake money and bonuses indide the 5 years. it should be rationed out over a longer period, money held over for future years and proportioned . When the 5 years is up the owners and trainers are going to feel it dramatically as the stakes will not be propped up by Entain as they are currently. Auckland dire situation should’ve been sorted, training centres set up and punting being encouraged rather than stifled. Hopefully the committee will be helpful. Media propaganda saying how well things are going is not helpful! more transparency needs to be applied.

TAB, public forum to express opinion! If we agree or disagree with someone then we need to point this. Currently the money from Entain that was to assist the TAB and racing is being wasted and needs to change now! This is why the committee is being formed to sort out what is going on! Very poor decision making and by saying everything is rosey when it is not, is not helping!