Brodie

We hear from trainers saying that they are looking forward to this day from HRNZ that has the $60k finals for horses bred by stallions under $5k! Of course if you win this then it is good for the owner and trainer obviously! This is only able being run due to the cash being injected by Entain otherwise it wouldn't be run and it seems that HRNZ dont understand this somehow? Anyway if they think they are going well then they are the ones in power but Who would be wanting them to run their business if they were wanting to stay afloat!

We need a representative from the TAB and HRNZ to provide info and support for their employer as to what they are doing and why! personally believe that we get very little out of either organisation!

Thanks Gamma for your thoughts always appreciated and you are indeed an enthusiast. CEO Brad Steele has said that everything is positive with harness racing. He should know as he has all the relative figures so We need to just get on with it, knowing that we are being told the truth. Not sure why they called the Committee then and where it has got to? Mustve thought it was not required after all? What a relief 😅😂

Thats great then we can breath a sigh of relief. Onwards and upwards!

I still waiting to hear what the big committee has come up with or was that just a load of hot air? There is no way pm earth they can keep spending big for another 4 years losing money. There has to be someone that pulls the plug before the time Entains 5 years is up. They need to act now or harness will never recover but then again everything is said to be positive apparently?

TAB For Ever, so you do work for the TAB now!

Still overseas but note that Cambridge have got a good meeting coming up Thursday night with 7 races and 45 starters at the moment! I am questioning the rationale coming from the CEO of HRNZ that states that everything is positive with harness racing? What happens when the cash from Entain dries up for the North Island? It must be all good nothing to worry about, Entain will be more than happy to continue to put in each and every year to keep the stakes up and bonuses going! Flawed business decisions are very puzzling.

Do we really believe that this 5 per cent breeding bonus is going to really be an incentive? Good they trying but we no it won’t be anywhere enough to entice the average harness breeder to continue to breed foals. It also says it is for 5 years providing there is a budget for it! We know that there probably won’t in 5 years time

TAB, I thought the Ohoka Poker was a shocker, but you take the cake with you serving one of the mares at least once?

Only got to Oslo today and only here for a couple of days and seeing several other places in Norway. Yes pretty clean but expensive and wondered how pdople could afford to live here? Google says average income is 720,000NOK, and exchange rate to NZD is around 6 to 1 so approx. over $100k NZD! You would need it sith the ridiculous price of stuff here! A cotton shirt I saw in the window, nothing that flash, 1699NOK, so just under $300NZD lol. Think we should stay in NZ even though we do have issues 😂

“Auckland continues to be rated in the top 10 liveable cities in the world” Probably is rated highly due to the state of other countries around the world! Travelling Europe at the moment and have covered a fair bit of territory and havent been to any country that I would consider living in!! If you think that NZ is expensive then think again! Currently in Oslo Norway and just ludicrous how expensive it is. A hamburger meal at a fast food place is around $30NZD and a pint of beer is around $16NZD with the conversion, Great Britain is horrendously expensive as well and full of the wrong sort of immigrants, am I allowed to say that Chief?? To be fair for liveability Chch leaves Dorkland for dead and for harness racing as we all know. Harness racing in Auckland is perilously close to being obliterated as it is impossible to see how it can be fixed!

You are on the money there! The truth of the matter is that they don’t treat punters equally in NZ!

Unfortunately they ate not exactly endowed with a great business sense, and that is why they continue to need to falsify figures! They need people at the helm with business success who will do their best to right things! While they are all on big salaries and the money from Entain keeps rolling in then all is good, once that stops it is going to be a shit show!

Am on Daily Roaming! Comes up with TAB isnt available here!! No problem though,

Does anyone know the betting figures for Auckland last Friday night? Note that the average field size for 8 of the races was only 6 starters?? Seriously how on earth anyone can think that Auckland should be getting heavily subsidised and has a rosey future has to be deluded surely? Things are just getting worse for Auckland and no promising signals apart from HRNZ saying that things are positive!

They don’t allow it now everywhere that I have been! A lot of gambling shops, Paddy Power and several others but no one seems to be going into them or coming out when I have seen them?

They don’t want turnover from anyone that has intentions of winning or do win! Reality is that he will be back bigger than ever and onwards and upwards while the TAB provides fixed odds on harness racing in NZ

Far too busy to spend any time doing homework. Makes you realise that NZ with a half sensible government is not s bad place to live. Couldnt live in Great Britain 😂

So why is it that we are not able to access the NZ TAB website?

Currently overseas and can not get the TAB website up due to the new policy brought in by the TAB and Entain! Just looked on HRNZ site and they are now showing the fixed odds on that! Think this is a great initiative and great to see how much I am missing out on while unable to wager when overseas! Do the odds get updated or is it only the opening odds?

Is there such a thing? Never be let out!

Yep I can now. where I was I wasn’t being allowed to play the replays .

Wouldnt allow Brodie on for $1k in one go Gamma! The AML law they adopting is $1k which the TAB is not abiding by the law! they probably wouldnt take a $1k top 3 from Brodie without slashing the odds They would more than likely let their preferred punters on though!

Gamma, the point I was trying to make is that many punters nowadays just won’t bother punting into tight class racing with The Purdon’s dominating a 6 horse field. We will survive if we can keep the grass roots owners and trainers industry alive! The industry will not survive if we continue the way things are going at the moment. When HRNZ states that he believes that things are all positive on a recent interview, we know we are in deep trouble! Good punting.

Gamma, always appreciate you comments even if they conflict with mine. Not sure that they are doing their best to bring attractive racing to us all the time? Whether Mark Purdon Barry Purdon etc. win in Auckland is irrelevant andnot important to most punters, and punters is what we need! We also need the smaller time owners and trainers participating or punters and other owners are going to be lost to the industry! Yes it does cost a lot of money nowadays to race any horse but currently HRNZ are living beyond their means and it is only due to the Entain cash splash! This will end and before we know it and then they will realise that Brodie and others were certainly on the money. Reality is that Entain share price is nothing to do with harness racing in NZ and they will be more than happy not to have it! They are not a gambling agency that is into harness racing and unfortunately that is going to play out! Gamma, you come from the angle of being a racing purist, nowadays I see it from a business point of view! Personally think it is going to take a lot more than a splurge of cash for 5 years to make harness racing a viable venture for the TAB! They are going about it the wrong way in my humble opinion and time will only tell?