Brodie

The reality of it all is that a blatantly stupid whip rule is of no benefit to harness racing! There was nothing at all wrong with the rule where drivers were charged if the Stipes thought the whip use was excessive. Rennell seemed to be the one that changed the rule due to his personal thoughts where there was absolutely no pressure from SAFE or animal activists! Harness is totally struggling and the judiciary system just does not help things. Watched a video at the weekend where John Dunn stated that probably within 5 years he will be no longer training in NZ. Purdon and co. Will pull the plug well before that time as well! Come on Where is the leadership and fairness from harness officialdom? Drivers should be standing up and be in support of Colin De Fillippi and tell them they have gad enough of this stupid whip rule!

They continue to show their total incompetence ! Lightweights with no ability whatsoever, but that see s to be the prerequisite to be a Stipe! There is no one coming thru with the ability either!

The Harness Racing Officialdom comprises of a bunch of EFFWITS!!! The whip rule is an absolute ass and needs to be GONE!! FFS what the hell is wrong with HRNZ and Racing Non Integrity????? CJ Ce Fillippi has devoted his life to harness raciNg and has had his ups and downs! One of the nicest blokes in the industry and qualifies a horse for the Cup and this incompetent effwits want to destroy him due to a horrific pathetic rule. The drivers at the cup meeting if they had any BALLS should be in support of Colin De fillippi and tell HRNZ to stick it up their date, we are not driving! Obviously they wont do this because they keep allowing the RIU to get away with BS for many years now! They are incompetent and they continue to employ people who are not up to the job! What I have learnt over the last few years is that many Kiwis are not prepared to stand up for what is right! Most stood by and allowed Ardern and Her useless cohorts to get away with horrific acts against the NZ citizens! The drivers association need to stand up for Colin De fillippi and not allow these Dickheads to continue to make stupid decisions!! where is the leadership from HRNZ, this is just so WRONG! No wonder the industry in NZ is stuffed, get rid of the control freaks that are ruining things!

LongOwner, gone thru to the keeper! What is this about?

Yes Blossom Lady up with the best aged mares ever. I remember the great days of harness racing when there were thousands on track on a Saturday night at Addington. People enjoyed the competitive nature of the racing with no stables dominating the card! Owners and trainers had a chance of making racing pay! Cup Day is now about how much the Club can take off people from their grossly overpriced packages! Yes of course they need it to keep racing viable.

Lunar Chance?

Davis unfortunately the industry is already in trouble. Michael House has kept Palmerston North going for many years and once he stops campaigning up there, it is very hard to see harness being semi viable as there are next to no horses in the area. House also enabled the Junior races to be run albeit with not enough horses for all Juniors to drive, Not convinced that the 2 day meeting actually works, as since it started the fields are watered down significantly. Great for the locals and trainers but for racing not so much! There are only a handful of trainers around now in the South Island that are training sufficiently large enough teams to make training financially viable on its own! With costs involved compared to potentially returns, it just does not add unfortunately.

Forbury, we do need Stewards but we need ones that have above average intellect! Unfortunately we on the whole have had a very poor bunch over the past decade. There needs to be accountability for the decisions that they make and with the current laws introduced, they dont seem to give a toss about their decisions or lack there of. The industry is in big trouble and not much of benefit is being done about it! The fields at Kaikoura over the 2 days were on the whole terrible and nothing like what they used to be! Punters are not going to waste their time with 6 horse fields and the dividends today were pathetic in most races. What happened to the Brain Storming that they held??

Yes very well done to Sarah O’Reilly for winning her 3rd Junior drivers championship. All you can do is win! We need all the females we have in the industry especially Juniors or a lot of the races would not be run. Personally believe that Carter Dalgety is every bit as good, he did a great job with the horses he drew in the champs!!

Crazy idea! You have got absolutely no chance if you arent in the first few in the running! WHY DO THESE CLUBS CONTINUE TO RUN MILE RACING WHEN IT IS JUST A TOTAL TURNOFF FOR PUNTERS? That’s right they do not seem to want to encourage new participants including punters!!! You can not follow form whatsoever and they will say their turnover is good but seriously deluded if they think this is good for harness going forward!

Robalan, yes it is a harness racing site but if you want to contribute on the Darkside where some of the contributors contribute nothing whatsoever to the industry then that is your perogative! Reality is that what the citizens have had to endure due to government directions is far more important than harness racing that is struggling ! Why on earth is Methven persisting with this blatantly stupid mile racing?????????

Unfortunately people were too believing in the BS that they endured for years and still are. Yes it is very divisive and shame on those that ridiculed the ones that did not agree to be injected with the unproven so called vaccine Spoken to many people and most now are aware that they were badly conned and won’t be having anymore! You would have to have rocks in your head if you still believe that Ardern, Bloomfield etc. had your best interests at heart. Know two more people personally that unfortunately recently passed away prematurely! 😢

It is repugnant that the media still advertises to go and get your booster to protect yourself and your Whanau!!!!!! FFS reality is that it is quite the opposite in that it is harmfull to your health. Constantly hearing of people with heart issues, deaths, cancers and many other health issues and anyone that has educated themselves know that it is from the toxins from pfizer. Those that took the injections should be very very angry with the ones that advised you to be injected with an unproven concoction of toxins!!!!!!

How on earth can Fitzthebill go very average at its first start at Oamaru after having an economic run, come out second up sitting parked all the way, and WIN?? Seriously one of the biggest improvement in a horse I have seen! It cleaned up horses that beat it by many lengths last start, and sitting parked this time on Ashburton? There is no way on earth this horse ran true to what it had shown previously and no way you couldve considered it as a chance to run a place in that field! What is going on here, going to be interesting to hear what the trainer Andrew Faulks has done to show so much improvement!

The facts are that the Pfizer toxins were bought by the NZ Labour Party without any checking of the Pfizer Company and its checkered past! If the truth about what the so called vaccine trials showed there would not have been anyone actually get the shit injected into them. What it shows is that people are very easily led without looking into things properly. The truth is that the Pfizer jabs were of no benefit to anyone, in fact millions worldwide are currently having health issues due to the toxins and will in the future. Not going to scare people but the consequences are massive from listening to these incompetents! Here we have all these people saying they got their free jabs for the sake of NZ people and unfortunately it has come out recently saying that the jabs did not stop transmission at all! People who didnt have the jabs were stopped from going many places and doing things because they didnt succumb to the BS! Hopefully those that did get jabbed have learnt alot from this and wont be sucked into being Guinea Pigs for the biggest over reaction to a virus in history and the biggest cost to the planet ever. NZ is going to suffer massively due to our incompetent Ardern’s actions!

The Auckland harness racing is stuffed, no two ways about it! You can put any spin on it but how many were aware just how dire the situation is? Yes they could sell Pukekohe but that is going to see heaps drop out of the industry as there will be no where to train from. Reality is that the racing industry in NZ is going into major headwinds with the huge increase in the cost of living currently, and is only going to get far worse. Brodie has always stated that this lot in control of New Zealand at the moment are the most incompetent bunch of losers we have ever had!! Another year of them and so much more carnage all due to people voting the clowns back in after performing dismally in their first term.

Power Plays are a great initiative by the NZ TAB! However, not as great as you can not invest in them at betting agencies or On Course!!!!!!!! The point is that they want to try new things but they are CONTROL FREAKS!!!! Nothing worth having s crack on tonight apart from some Power Plays and they are not worth the effort when you can only win a pittance on Account!!! Come on NZ TAB your controlling nature is stifling the industry big time.

Blatant BS that continues to plague NZ! What has happened to this country when we have just so many Dickheads making idiotic decisions! They want to kill the livability of the country for its citizens! The Effwits now want us to be crawling around the streets at 30KPH and 60kph on motorways!!!!!!! very interesting that a Pfizer executive has confirmed that the Pfizer Toxins that most people were sucked into getting injected were never proven to stop transmission!! So you Guinea Pigs that think you were doing it to protect others were foolish inded. The problems from the Pfizer injections are continuing to occur.

Would be good if they would let punters on for decent amounts! $30 is not a decent amount! Give them an Option No. and allow punters to bet oncourse and outlets!!

Anyone that can watch a video could see most of what was stated. Why they still bother with having betting on amateur races is hard to fathom. What do they expect from Amateurs, but yet they always get treated like the fulltimers! Pointless even asking Sarah O’reilly the question!! If the Stipes had any professionalism, they would know that Sweet Belle has ability and wasnt a run out of the ordinary!!

Just read the Stipes report from the meeting today at Timaru. Geez I dont think I have read a bigger one ever, mustve taken a while to write it all up lol. A lot of it is a load of rubbish and worthless really! They really are not that flash and many people could do what they do nowadays with bugger all training. An example is that they questioned Sarah O’Reilly on the improved performance from Sweet Belle That finished third! Apart from the stupidity of asking the question, they accepted Sarah’s explanation that the horse had been racing without much luck from bad barrier draws in recent starts!! She also stated the horse had been able to capitalise on an economical run today lol! THE HORSE SAT PARKED OUT FOR THE WHOLE RACE!!! Since when has sitting parked without any cover for the whole race been classed as an ECONOMICAL RUN??????? This lot are not that flash !

Personally think they are shocking fields to be punting on! Too many Allstars around to make it worth the risk or effort! Bring on Timaru, far better betting proposition.

it has now been corrected

Not sure what us going on here? Watching the video the horses to my mind do not look skinny? What does Mr Boyd say about this lot coming on his property and nicking HIS horses? Has there been any Court Case ?

This is what I had last week and the TAB said that they had no problems??? Maybe you have been banned from Punting Ranga?