Brodie

Carter is a great driver Blair’s UDR .22 Carter UDR .52 Says it all really?

Chief, you are correct, the trainers do it to show who is in control and would be done by most trainers at some time. Not going to name names, however there are leading stables in the country that do more than the odd impact to the horses stomach!

All the NZ TAB is doing is driving away the punter! Anti- Money Laundering my XXXX! These people who are living overseas maintained accounts in NZ! The NZ TAB will be able to easily determine whether these punters living overseas has been laundering money thru their accounts and if they have been then the right channel will be notified! The amount of BS that we are required to accept nowadays is just colossal! The money laundering I see is the NZ TAB staff accepting payment for performing poorly! Things are going to get very dire for harness racing in the next few years! Mark Purdon whose stables has plundered most of the big stakes races over the past couple of decades, thinks that harness is stuffed, then it is STUFFED! He is off to the Gallops Darksid!

Personally Brodie doesnt condone violence per se! However parents nowadays do not seem to be allowed to discipline their own kids, as the government has put out laws to prevent this happening! The kids have now got the upper hand over their parents as they know that the law is such that no level of hitting to discipline is acceptable. The reality is that things have deteriorated significantly since the anti smacking law cane into force! Who wouldve thought that there would be these blatantly abhorent ram raids occurring and robberies during the day in broad daylight in front of people? Time for the KINDNESS to these thugs and horrible humans who do these crimes ceases, and harsh punishments brought in to stop this BS once and for al!! But it wont happen as we have so many limp wristed politicians in government!!!

The horses probably know that they arent allowed to be hit or slapped or they can press charges against the trainer! The world has gone mad and needs changing quickly. The dirty lowlife scum that are doing the crime and ram raids etc. actually do need a damn right hiding from their parents, to scare the living daylights out of them. What part of the “anti smacking laws are not working” do they not understand? The youth need some serious discipline as things are out of the control from the “lefties”!

Geez the Stipes had a field day at Methven yesterday trying to fill the coffers! A couple of charges as Cross Codes pointed out in regards to socalled cruelty to animals! Over the years I have seen other trainers do this to horses as a way of showing who is in charge, and it is very common but probably shouldnt be done in front of the general public. Once again the current PATHETICALLY WRONG WHIP RULE that was brought in by HRNZ and Edward Rennell without much thought whatsoever, was broken by many drivers!!! Many drivers have had their licenses suspended and HRNZ WAKE UP, you have stuffed up, admit it and change the rule to what it used to be decades ago, was common sense, and WORKED!!

Not sure with this one HJ? Andrew Faulkes certainly hasn’t been using it on many of his horses including the Averos Spitfire!

Probably best to turn the lights out at Palmy!

Na, they are full of termites now!

Many reasons for harness decline Forbury. There has been a lack of promotion to get new people into harness racing for decades and is now even harder to attract them. The existing enthusiasts and punters are turned off by the actions of both the TAB and HRNZ decisions, so much needs to be changed or the industry will continue to suffer!

Alexandra Park track is stuffed from all of the rain Forbury! Going to be awhile before anymore racing at Auckland. Great to see big fields at Cambridge.

There has to be some system that encourages Juniors to get drives so they get experience. Maybe more Junior drivers races being held but it won’t work in the North as they haven’t enough going ones with licenses. The point is that there are several Juniors that are far better than many of the Senior drivers and will continue to get heaps of drives. This is great that they can get drives but yes it does come at the expenses of the other drivers. Maybe the concessions should be for Juniors under say 30 wins or such.

The handicapping system they operate with at the moment doesn’t work. when you have 10 win horses racing 1 win horses seems crazy. Yes it keeps some horses racing and earning money but it also drives owners to sell overseas.

I am sure Mark will be a good trainer of galloper’s and it is likely he will eventually have quite a few in his stable. Gallopers are not that hard to train and he is looking to take things a lot easier as he isn’t getting any younger!! No doubt the galloping enthusiasts will not agree that training gallopers is easier than harness.

Well done if you got onto him. I dont bet into the tighter type races xo havent been following him at all, however Looking at how he had been going snd opposition I couldnt have had him.

Brodie always gives the honest truth !

To be fair though, she had a nUDR over .3000 last season and was in the first 3 on 41 from 95 drives, so that is really Good even if she is driving the AllStars horses. Do not really think Purdon would put Olivia on if he didnt rate Her?

You aren’t rating Donnelly?

You could not back Warloch at all with the way it had been going! Same when it won at Kaikoura! Form book is thrown out the window when horses that have been going poorly, actually come out and win!!!

Why on earth would I be looking at the TAB website for gallops, Ranga???Wash your mouth out!

Have seen the Option no. On Trackside Ranga!

they are brought out far earlier and they did have option no.s

Seriously, they are meant to be Bookies. The odds are always in their favour and if they continue to drive punters away then harness will suffer bigtime. They need to either step up or open it up to competition from overseas, as their current performance is very poor. Nowornever is probably on the mark when he says that the bigger punters are pretty rare now! A big bet worth mentioning on Trackside seems to be $200 now!

Where is this race being run?? NZ? They are almost all Kiwi horses, doesnt Australia breed Standardbreds over there??

So why are the gallopers headies treated differently?????? If you can not get decent money on, then they may as well wipe having them again!!!!!!