Brodie

Very young when he was racing but you are only as old as you feel, Paleface lol

Manaroa! the ugly duckling!

Interesting, never heard of this Entain outfit before, but googled them! You are probably right that I will be culled if they do get the nod . It could will be the death knell for harness racing in NZ as well because they will be ruthless by the look of it and concentrate more on the Sports. Plenty of people will be outside the WINZ office looking for work which is what the Reserve Bank Governor is wanting! Anyway “The Brodster” made hay while the sun shone and all haymakers eventually put their feet up. Back to the SLEEPERS I would say lol

It is a pretty good bet to say that the NZ TAB will be outsourced to one of 3 overseas betting agencies if McAnulty gives his approval in the next week or two! Initially apparently they are going to retain all current employees for a year but then many will get the DCM! Will this help harness racing to survive or will it be the death knell for it? Hopefully it will be for the good of the industry as the TAB have been in the whole doing a less than average job. They have suits that are being paid massive salaries and on the face of it unjustifiably, so this is going to change you would think if it is being run from overseas. I can see the new owner wanting to slash costs and wanting punters to be betting on account thru their phones or computer with no betting operators. They will no doubt be wanting more sports betting etc. as that is where the growth is from the young ones rather than racing! Will the new owner allow punters to offload the amount they want to or are they going to KNEECAP punters that they do not want?? Interesting times indeed!

Gamma, we send over a lot of horses who have met their mark in NZ! Ozzie bred horses generally are inferior to NZ bred horses and that is the basic reason that our exported do very well in Oz! Yes there are some Grand Circuit horses bred in Oz that go good.

Personally believe that our current group of Junior drivers are not a bad lot, by way of talent in the cart and personality wise! Ben Hope is certainly one of these! From my perspective, Ben is what the industry totally requires for it to continue. He is always enthusiastic, great with the media and a totally hard worker! If his father Greg and mother Nina were not happy with his performance in the cart then they would not allow him to drive so many. Yes there have been times when he may have caused issues but that I reckon comes from youthful exuberance and he is always wanting to give his horse the best possible opportunity. There are many drivers that do not drive anymore and allow the more professional drivers in the cart, which is great for racing. Most of us know there are still some that should not be allowed to drive but it will always be the way. We will not always agree with each other, which is the beauty of any forum, but Ben Hope is an asset to harness racing that we can not afford to lose. The Hope family are so professional, hard working and appear as such lovely people you could possibly meet.

Spatchcock will suggest he is a KNIGHT in shining armour !

SpatchCOCK is only here to be antagonistic, clearly by his lack of ever posting anything apart from attacking posters! You are correct, if he is so unhappy then he needs to either not read anything or actually post his opinion. Brodie will post his opinion whether SpatchCOCK agrees or not, but he needs to express his opinion, however doubt he is capable going on recent events!!

True to form SpatchCOCK! So you confirm that you are loopy, so obviously you enjoy my posts! Come on SpatchCOCK give us something worth reading instead of attacking posters!

Yes an absolute borefest was the race with six starters and a stake of $27k!!! Was a great result to see Nicholas Cage win due to Akuta letting him away with a 65 second half!! Deserved to get beaten and Copy That was not put into the boring race. Stake 27k and only $5k in the win pool just shows that Alexandra Park racing is a turn off for punters as the racing is shite there nowadays! Turnover is going to be very poor so something needs to be done about this course!!

I personally dont, Richie. Six horse mobile, be a borefest and punters surely wont engage. Turnover will be very poor the whole meeting, a continued drain on harness financially

SpatchCOCK, seriously if you can not say anything that has any semblance of worth, we would have to question your intentions?

It was with sadness that I saw on Trackside today, of the passing of Trevor Wilkes. Seemed to be liked by everyone and was a commentator of the dogs for something like 43 years and only recently retired from calling. Was a very good commentator of harness as well mostly did the West Coast circuit years ago, but also had stints at Addington . Enjoyed life and will be missed by many and left us before his time😩

Elite customers are customers who are losing punters a d that is why they like to look after them. Punters that win are not welcome by the NZ TAB, and they are not treated with any sort of fairness! Yes the TAB would love to be able to bet rid of harness racing and some of their policies is totally in line with achieving this!

Craig would be paid by the NZTAB seem he is on Trackside. Do we really think that it would be in the TAB’s best interests for their employee to actually be tipping out horses that punters would offload on with the Bookies so that the Bookies lose???? Total conflict of interest and questionable that people should be paying a TIPLINE for the same picks that he shows on the WHALE WATCH! Anyway, I suppose if you are not clever enough to do your own research and want to pay someone who also tips the whole country the same tips then it is your business! Just does not make a lot of sense.

There are often very poor drives that go on, when someone wants the lead and the leader does not hand up. Generally on most occasions when they go to war, they both stop! There is a lot of crazy stuff and even from experienced drivers, for some reason they seem to want to stay in front at all cost. If I had backed the one in front, i would prefer to hand up and get the trail than have a speed war that gives the horse less chance! I

Surely John Denton alone shouldve been able to advise that the track was not able to race on? Why on earth they would need to ask anyone else if what was identified was true? We are so spoilt with officialdom nowadays!!

Ross Cameron lol

To be fair, his name says it all! SpatchCOCK hardly ever contributes except wants to have a crack at someone! Wouldnt lose any sleep over it though.

I just think it would be great if the NZ TAB actually took bets that the NZ punters want to put on! When they announce on Trackside that amounts of $200 are worth mentioning then we are in trouble!!!! Hopefully if they do outsource the fixed odds to overseas company, they may actually let punters on for worthwhile amounts?? Firstly they need to raise the ludicrous socalled AML limit from $1k!, Money launderers are not cleaning money by gambling $1k or less on a harness horse! Wake up NZ TAB you are killing the industry but as long as you keep getting paid then you are happy!

Wet track will trip up some today but he has picked form horses. Craig does does do a lot of analysis obviously but It is interesting when he picks a horse and then shows a video of the horse on a grass track when the horse is facing on an all weather track or vise versa?.

If UDR’s matter for anything, then young Carter Dalgety is right up there! Sarah has a lot of drives and wins, however nowhere close to young Dalgety! Nas to be the most talented Junior since Dexter Dunn without doubt! Unbelievable UDR for someone so young

Most know that you will not make money long term by backing favourites, and that is basically what Craig tips. How can his tips pay fair money at race closure time as Craig backs them at odds opening, he tips them on his paid tip line and then on Trackside????? Personally dont know why anyone would subscribe to a Tip Line as part of the fun of punting is picking the winners yourself! Making good money from punting has been made a lot harder nowadays by the TAB Bookies and the unfair policies they have brought in and the treatment to punters that have ability to WIN! However these draconian unfair policies are part of the major problems that is going to kill off racing in NZ!

How long can the harness racing industry allow Auckland racing to continue to be a drain on the coffers?? A $12k stake for a pathetic 4 participants is just taking the piss isnt it? It is just a sad indictment on the sad state of affairs that Auckland finds itself in and it is not getting better anytime soon, due to the economic state kf affairs! NOt sure how they can only get 4 starters, but absolutely pointless running the race although the owners of the starters will at least be happy. Even Michael House has ventured up to assist the hapless club somewhat with numbers! All Costs need to come down dramatically for the racing to be able to continue in Auckland.

You are correct Galah, the results are the same around the world with the countries that conned people into getting jabs of toxins into their bodies that were proven to be detrimental to health. We are not hearing this on mainstream media for obvious reasons! The Covid19 was the biggest media beat up and over reaction in history and the reason why the world is in major trouble and things are going to get worse for many this year. They now are promoting another so called vaccine for Omicron and something else that is supposedly better that they forced most into having ffs!!! The repugnant thing is that it created a big divide between people and families and pjt a lot of pressure on finances and relationships,! Most people do not want to believe that they were conned, however the intelligent ones do now realise that they have been, even Pfizer have admitted this! Unfortunately we had the worst possible people to be the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in charge!