Brodie

Basil, calling Brodie an Ass, is very upsetting for me. I have not got a hard skin and I will now need counselling. Are you not aware things like that to people could have consequences? Basil, from your comments You would be one of the Dickheads that think by reducing speed limits is going to reduce the road toll!

That’s my point, serious punters would desert harness racing if whips were banned!

Personally would be far more concerned with the increase of deaths in humans over the past couple of years that is being hushed up! When did we ever have ads on TV about heart attacks, and shingles etc? Never until after the Pfizer jabs were given to most of the population and for what? Locked the country down gave away billions and now we are paying for it! Why are they now not worried about all the positive tests and deaths when it was so worrying to them before? Why? Because it is the biggest scam in human history and the ones getting crook or dieing are the ones that believed that they were being vaccinated by an approved substance!

Have “The Race” if you want to but all the media BS on Trackside etc. is just blatant annoying! The corporates and wealthy owners put the money up to pay for the stake and all we get is this The Race by Groms for flipping months! So much more than the NZ Cup and force a race that lasts for less than 2 minutes. Promote harness racing to the public not this novelty race for the elite as it does nothing for the benefit of harness racings future unfortunately!

Lol, Colin De Fillippi is one of them that they are continuing to hammer for not using the whip according to their stupid rule! Do not agree that they should ban the whip whatsoever. Ozzie Chief harness administrator brought in banning the whip and that did not get off the ground! The Ozzies did not accept that BS!! The ozzies use the whip more than what the Kiwis do. I definitely believe that if drivers were not allowed to carry a whip or persuader harness racing would be a thing of the past! Serious punters would not bother offloading their dollars at all!!! Seriously would decimate the industry! There are far more bigger issues in harness than the whip and it would take next to nothing to change the rule back to what it was and what worked!

Interesting! Not sure there is a lot of integrity currently coming out of the RIU, although they are probably following a very bad rule in regards the whip rule! The thing is you would hope that the Stipes would have enough common sense and go to HRNZ and have a full discussion in regards the lunacy of the current rule? Obviously they havent, they appear to not want to rock the boat and keep claiming their salary for doing a very job! Unfortunately Brodie has seen too many poor decisions that affect our horse people to have any confidence in this lot!

What are that actually saying Chief? They did allow Brodie to post for quite awhile, not too sure why I was banned, think It was telling the truth and always being on the money, some dont like that? Not sure what Happy Sunrise is saying, he seemed a decent person when he was on this premier site for years?

HRNZ need to own up and admit that the current harness whip rule is just so wrong!! The Dickheads that brought it in need to totally reassess it and go back to what it was and actually worked before Rennell brought the last 2 amendments in! The decisions being brought into harness racing is crazy and doing far more harm than good! You only have to look at the Stipes Report from Mot yesterday to see that it just does not work and needs to go. The Stipes are unnecessarily affecting the livelihoods of very hard working drivers. It is long overdue that the association stand up to HRNZ and tell them that enough is enough and we want the whip rule changed back to what is was, or are they too weak to do this???

Yes the rules for harness Junior Driver qualifications has just been changed. There are several drivers who have rejoined the Junior ranks including Andrew Fitzgerald, Jack Harrington, Andrew Drake and Fergus Schumacher. It is to encourage young ones to stay in the game

“The Race” over hyped and not to the benefit of harness racing only to the ones that dont need the money. Weird the way they promote this “The Race” for months and yet the rest of the year they do very little promotion of harness racing to attract newbies???

Think The Allstars originally trained Sicario when in Canterbury. Whisky Cavalier was pretty tough when he raced here. The thing is most reasonable horses here can go over to Oz and win races, our horses are just so much better than theirs on average. NZ has lifted the standard of their racing due to our exports. Far easier to at least break even racing horses in Oz as far more opportunities.

Who is Nancy Delaney? Nathan?.

FortunatelyI have blocked his posts as he never has anything whatsoever of any benefit to say! Brodie will post what he thinks, whether O’brien agrees with it or not! The problem we have had in NZ over the past few years is citizens of NZ believing the BS that has come out of our current incompetent lying government! Do I think i know everything? I have an opinion on everything and how does that make Brodie wrong? People have the right to an opinion unless they want to be continually controlled as they have been over the past few years!

Think he is getting mixed up with raging Chief!

O’ Brien, I am a rager and not a raver! Geez it is good not being able to read his posts!!! I thought you had given up caring?

Lol, “on the money” too much for the Darkside anyway Chief! Do I care what they think? Nah! Brodie keeping it real and telling it the way it is! BOAY, a far more interesting and enjoyable read without the ravers!!!!

You are correct Mickey. In this day and age you have to be professional and give great customer service to retain customers in any business! The TAB is lucky that it has a monopoly on racing wagering, however their performance is not great in trying to retain customers! They do do an excellent job in trying to deter customers. You are correct no punter actually needs to offload, however racing can not afford to keep losing and not attracting new customers. The paid employees from the NZ TAB do not seem to care as long as they retain their salaries.

Lol you are correct Amateur races are a nightmare and think best I leave alone. To be fair Had a few goes after Xmas and this was the first and only one that I haven’t got a collect on.

It didnt go much at Omakau, and didnt go much in a maiden trial recently either. Not much when Andrew Stewart had it either. It did have a good run today but on what it had shown up to today there is no way it couldve won today even though the field was weak. Something going on here when the Bookies opened at only $3! Thank Christ they only race on that track once a year!!!!

What a shocking track to bet on is that Roxburgh. Only fit for trials! How on earth can an unplaced maiden in 12 starts that went average 2 days ago beat race winners? It couldn’t even win a maiden trial . It is great for a holiday venue but as for worth betting on it is a shocker! Yes I had an investment in that race which did miss due to a poor drive but we should all know by now that amateur racing should not be tote betting! Never again will I have a go on that saucer track.

How on earth would the Bookies open a 12 start all unplaced maiden as favourite in the amateur race at Roxburgh on Wednesday, opened at $3! Went only fair in a maiden race at Omakau on Monday after having an economical run. Now trained by Cheree Wigg,, Previously by Andrew Stewart, and has not shown that much ability so far!! Has drawn 1 against race winners including an out of form 7 race winner Change Around! Does seem very odd but there have been many unusual bits of odds settings over the holiday, but this has suited me down to the ground. It is not a strong amateur race but I can not see this horse winning on what it has done so far and to be opened at $3 is very strange. There was a horse that was opened over what it should have been and I think it has a massive chance of victory.

What Davis is saying is that fixed odds could. E brought out earlier than they currently are! They bring out gallops odds earlier than harness generally. Yes we do better than Ozzie, but they need to be enticing punters to get on early so it will Increase turnover and that is what they need!

Personally think that Trackside has potentially been the major reason for the huge drop off of oncourse patronage! It is so easy just to watch on TV now, you bet to watch the preview, and reviews of the race from the comfort of your lounge. Drink you own drinks without paying bar prices and do what you want between races! There is buggerall atmosphere oncourse now due to the low attendance and js going to be very hard to entice people back oncourse. They were going to just have the self service terminals going without the operators to save costs, so why bother going???? The $1k socalled Anti Money Laundering Bill BS, has also been a major negative for racing and needs to be DONE AWAY WITH!!!!!!!

Lol Harness Racing Unhinged is about the only bit of harness promotion that is occurring at the moment! Mr Unhinged, Nigel Armstrong started it off his own back, and I do not believe gets the accolades he should get. I would have thought there should be far more harness promotion coming out of the promotions division and relying on Nigel to keep doing this as an enthusiast is unfair on Nigel Armstrong! It must be very time consuming and even though he probably enjoys doing it, he should in my opinion be given some compensation of some sort! The ones employed by HRNZ are financially rewarded and do not appear to be doing a lot in many cases! Apart from the time and costs to drive to meetings away from Christchurch to do the interviews it also must not allow him much opportunity to punt, which to my mind must be frustrating. I am sure Harness Racing Unhinged is appreciated by many enthusiasts in NEW ZEALAND.

Did not know that Galah. If that is the case then she is a welcome addition to the Canterbury training and amateur driving ranks. Writing on the wall for Auckland as I am sure trainers like Ray Green will be giving it away in the next year or two. There just is not any new ones coming into the industry up there, and stakes are far too high for what we are getting!