Brodie

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

We all know that the information on the new TAB website is now diabolically incorrect! Unfortunately a helluva lot of the information they are giving coming out Ozzie is totally misleading and is it on purpose?? When wagering on Sunday at Addington check the name of the race to see if it says MBL in the name which means it is a MOBILE START! There are several of the mobile races they quote as STANDING STARTS when they are NOT!!! This info coming out from Racing and Sports is shockingly poor and they claim that they have been trusted for 20+ years FFS! Delusional!!! We deserve far better than what they are offering, but hey apparently they want to improve turnover etc. well with this crap they are. far from impressing many! Hopefully this Brad Steele the new CEO from Ozzy and a mate of Dean Shannon, will sort it out?

Fair enough and Luk does seem to throw the reigns at the rather than whip, but still maintain that a bIt more urgency earlier in the straight and Luk wins. It is what it is and we can criticise some driving in every race. We need more Luk Chin’s going around.

Not trying to castigate Luk at all, although he should not have been beaten by the stablemate . Luk only tapped the horse once in the straight with the whip and that was very late in the piece. If he had shown more urgency earlier on then he would have have been further ahead, but he obviously felt he had the field covered! I have seen cases where a driver has been done for doing exactly what Luk did last night and less

Luk Chin is great for harness facing in the North, not only his age but the no. Of times he lines his trotters up. He has a lot to do with the Cambridge Club but he does get favourable treatment up there from the Stipes. There have been occasions before where he has received preferential treatment that others would not have got!

Come on Newmarket, thought you would be better with the Maori language and spelling? Whanau not Whanua 🥲

You couldn’t really say that they were looking for long shots! Speaking of long shots! The Cambridge meeting tonight had 8 races and there were only 6 horses that paid over $2 for the place on the tote! Hard to see how punters are making money when so many are not returning your money if you are wagering each way on the tote??? Admittedly the fields were generally small and unattractive but not sure where Entain are going to be getting enough horses to race on the mid week meetings up North?

Do you really believe that Entain or whatever gambling agency buys it, is going to be propping up harness racing in NZ after the 5 years?? They got what they wanted and that is the Sports and other betting for 25 years! if they gave an ounce of interest in harness racing, they would be having a spokesperson coming out and talking about what we are talking about!! They are raiders and not the white knight!

Going to be interesting what he gets? Yeah he did button off when he saw it was the stablemate and showed no urgency, but maybe that is ok with the current whip rule?

Yes have heard that many have already gone! So much for 2 Years!!

You will be right, that it is Sports Betting that will be where the turnover compared to costs is for Entain. Entain seem more content just to have wall to wall racing going on and do not seem concerned in regard to local racing turnover. There seems to be no communication from anyone at the TAB as to what is going on as they have got what they wanted for 25 years. The racing industry in NZ is going to be stuffed, they just do not care! Not sure why you are betting more than before as I can not see they are offering better odds than before fixed?

Turnover on local racing has to be down unless they are taking much larger on Fixed! The pools on NZ harness are now pathetically low and I would wager that not showing the place odds on Trackside is also affecting things! It does appear that Entain doesnt give a rats about increasing turnover on NZ racing! Would definitely be interesting to hear from the current employees of the TAB here in NZ and especially the Trackside Presenters? They wont be saying anything against Entains actions, otherwise they will get the DCM!