Brodie

Preferential treatment to one group of punters is just not on! All punters should be treated equally but the NZ TAB do not treat all punters the same!!! NZ Bookies, rethink your business plan and allow ALL PUNTERS to have the same rights as BOYS GET PAID! You are costing the racing industry big time with your narrow minded thinking!!!!!

The shorter races are a lottery and you are correct, frontrunners dominate. So many horses are lining up with no show as drivers just go thru the motions!

Suit and ties are just “so yesterday”Chief! What is the point of a stupid bit of material tied around our necks with the top button to the shirt done up? Smart casual is far more accepted now than people dressed up in a poncey suit with the hem around the ankles.

Seems like a rather cumbersome way of doing it? Surely would be far easier for the stud to put the $1k credit on the invoice to the broodmare owner? Then the stud puts in a claim for the total amount of all the services supplied with the broodmare and owners name??? Would seem to be a far easier system but lets make it more complicated! There probably is not that many studs with stallions nowadays anyway?

Geez $400k plus costs takes a lot of winning, although there have been some success stories in Perth from NZ horses. Some people have no issues paying big money for very promising horses although Regazza Mach won most of his races away from Addington so it was a bit of a risk for the purchaser. Many horses that race at Addington would have no problem running around in the tighter class races in the major cities in Oz. Think there are going to continue to be a big number of sales to Oz in the next year if things do not get more viable for owners!

No idea what a horse like Cranboune would sell for to the States nowadays but bear in mind the exchange rate is not too bad for them! Personally think that Nathan Williamson is a consistently a better driver than Matthew but Just my opinion and UDR shows this! No point debating but Nathan us a very very good horseman!

All good! Personally do not believe that $1k will make any difference to whether broodmare owners breed or not!

Auckland race on Friday night again and once again it will be another loss making venture for harness in NZ! 6 races carded, 2 have only 7 starters and 3 have only the 6 starters!!!! Surely this can not continue and needs addressing as it wont get any better with the way things are being run! Turnover will be poor, oncourse attendance will be low and the racing will be boring you would think? It will be OK though because we can talk about “THE RACE”!! HRNZ need to address the elephant in the room that is the cost of racing horses to what you can earn with stakes. We know that the stakes are going to be reduced and training costs will continue to escalate! What is HRNZ suits doing about it???

Are you sure about that? I have been led to believe it comes by way of a credit on the studs invoice to the owner??

always on the money!! lizzie Richter has barely paced a full race in its career, although it has improved recently with ANOTHER TRAINER! Havent seen the race yet as the miles arent really worth watching, anything can win and clearly they can with the galloper Lizzie Richter today!

Lol that lunatic won again? havent seen it yet, mustve not galloped and a weak field? Mark Jones now training it would help!

Lol you are right, he did say “ you know me” Got $2?

Brucie, he was the bloke that always asked for $1 lol. Harness needs those characters back!

Galah, were you one of the regulars that went around picking up the discarded tickets and taking them home to check to see if they were winners?

Carters UDR is .4889 Sarah’s .1792 currently Says it all really? Carter Dalgety would have the best UDR ever I would say and he is only going to improve Certainly as good as Dexter at the same age !

Sorry Gamma, Sarah is very good, however Carter is the better driver the UDR clearly shows this now and he hasn’t needed to go to Palmy for easy kill! Sarah has more drives than Carter at the mo but young Carter is going to be picking the drives left right and centre soon. You will admit in the future that Brodie is on the money lol Anyway it is good for the industry and we need more of them. Dunn benefit day at Nelson.

News to me lol

Far from old! Fit as a buck rat as they say, so wont be getting rid if me that easy! Just coming into my prime!

It was a false market Mikie. From The TAB they took 2 bets of $100 and 1 of $500. The horse had shown very little and should never have shortened into $4. Reality is that unfortunately the TAB are so restrictive and conservative it is affecting the bottom line.

Yes I know, been discussed before! Mile racing from the mobile is bad enough, but why on earth do they plan mile races from a STAND??? Absolutely crazy, your horse misses away slightly and it is game over, when they are going so fast over the shortest distance!!!!! There will be some that wager on such events, but as a betting option , forget it, absolute lottery,

Carter going just as well. I have never put Sarah O’Reilly’s driving down, but I will still maintain that Carter Dalgety is the best Junior since Dexter if not better at the same stage. Look at his last 2 drives today. Beaten by the bad draw of of 9 and then a $15 winner! I will guarantee that Carter will be far more successful whether it be NZ or overseas. You can just tell by the way he drives, cool as ice and nothing phases him for one of his experience. Are you up for a wager Gamma, on whose UDR is better at the end of the year? Lol

Lol according to Craig Thompson from the TAB lol $100 at 14 another hundred at $10 i think and $500 @$6 ffs.Absolutely criminal shortening on that pitiful amount. Bookies are very poor! That horse went shocking!

Was told it went well in a trial at Addington in early November! Started in a qualifier and was 3 back and got bowled. Started many races later against qualified non winners to try and aualify which it did running fourth! Thought it went only fair, so it mustve grown another leg in training to warrant such support you would think?

Someone knows something alright but you couldnt have it on its run in November! Seems it might have gate speed but leave me off that one, but where there is smoke there is fire! Harnesslink tipster tipped it out, so you wouldnt know how much went on? Do like one in that race that I thought was overs!

The whip rule is so WRONG and needs changing! Tim Williams did not deserve a 3 day suspension, there are far worse drives that never get mentioned!! Racing Integrity?