Brodie

You shouldnt feel hurt Nina, you , Greg and Ben do a fantastic job for harness racing, always to my mind professional. As you will be well aware there has always been stable talk etc. and that will always continue. Personally dont think the Hope stable stable drive and Ricky is not normally such an aggressive driver as you would know better than most! Not sure why Ricky didnt hand up to Tim and in hindsight he probably be first to admit it, as he cooked your horse and Grant Paynes horse! At the end of the day the race is run and as in every race there is a winner and more losers. I backed Loyalist at it previous start reasonably heavily as I thought it would go well from the stand, however it missed away and was never in the race after that! That is racing and we move on! Keep up your great work, you deserve the great results that you get, but maybe a quiet word in Ricky’s ear to hand up if Tim comes a calling!

Just read an article on HRNZ that says they have employed Ollie Partridge to look at how to improve the GROSS BETTING REVENUE for harness racing! What a brilliant idea, finally they want to increase the GROSS BETTING REVENUE which overall will increase the NETT BETTING REVENUE! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? I have an idea that HRNZ could possibly put to the NZ TAB! I wonder if the NZ TAB let the punters bet on harness racing rather than stopping punters, whether this could possibly increase turnover????? The fact is that the NZ TAB didnt think that their gross yield on harness racing was high enough so they set out to improve the gross yield!! How would we get gross yield up the Suits who are paid big money thought! If we restrict certain punters to pathetic amounts and bring in the AML rule so we can control who bets with us, then the yield will increase!!!! So with this the gross yield did increase, however the amount of REVENUE they could get drops, but hey what a grest job we have done!! The TAB business plan is TOTALLY FLAWED and they should be increasing turnover. What they are doing is detrimental to harness racing by driving punters away from betting on harness racing! You only need to look at how many people you now see oncourse and betting on harness at the TAB outlets. Reality should have hit them by now they are flogging a dead horse with their current pathetic policies! Harness racing is stuffed totally unless they entice punters back in good numbers, and by trying to control punters by restricting punters to amounts not worth collecting is detrimental to running a prospering business! They will say they are doing harness racing a favour by increasing yield, but they would be far more successful if they increased turnover and increased oncourse participation! Makes too much sense, so hard to see them doing anything different as they are only concerned about GROSS YIELD rather than NETT PROFIT!!!!

Gamma why would I bag anyone for commenting on the Premier Racing Blog Site? None of us are getting remuneration for expressing an opinion! The Stipes and RIU employees are getting remunerated for their efforts and unfortunately I believe a lot of their decision making is very poor! They are a protected lot and never have to answer to anyone for these poor decisions that do affect the participants in racing that are keeping those employees in employment!

Doesnt matter how good your horse is if the driver is no good! A poor driver could get Sundee Son beaten! I offload on horses often that have drivers with very poor UDR’s on the basis that the horse only needs to be driven reasonably well to pay a dividend!!!!! However, this horse with the poor driver is driven poorly and is unlucky! What you learn when you back a horse with a driver that has a low UDR is that chances are your horse needs a little bit more than luck! There is a reason that Blair Orange, John Dunn, Tim Williams etc. have good UDR’s.

To be fair, you see poor drives in every race and mostly never questioned. Stewards turn a blind eye to most things including horses that gallop every start! Of course Ricky should have handed up to Tim as he would have trailed the rest of the race, as Tim would not have handed up! The runs of Loyalist from last start to yesterday’s run Was like chalk and cheese, and I backed it last start and it went poor! The thing with harness racing is the unpredictability of how a race is run by drivers decisions! The fact that Loyalist likes a fast pace is what the difference was between both its last 2 starts. The horse had a good run on the outside yesterday whereas the start before The different driver never put the horse in the race. Rangiora you can not come wide from the back, and be in it! Pointless questioning drivers as nothing ever happens anyway.

So is there any logical reason why the odds aren’t out yet?

So the Brains Trust have placed the perrenial galloper Lizzie Richter on the unruly list for Mobiles??????? WTF???? How stupid are these Stipes?????? Just another pathetically stupid decision from our professionals that are in charge of ensuring that racing is being run with integrity! Go figure, apparently you are allowed to gallop in every race and that is OK with our Stipes! Hopefully the owner of Lizzie Richter will retire the mare as it is going to continue to be a financial disaster continuing to pay training bills for a horse that would be far better suited racing at Riccarton Park! The decisions of the Stipes are mind boggling!

Yes she has got speed but she should not be allowed to race with her atrocious behaviour of galloping in every race but one or tso. Being sent to the trials to perform is just ridiculous as she only runs against a few nags! Be interesting to see what our so called Stipes do this time as she needs to be ousted for a lengthy period or indefinitely! How she has got away with her antics all her career is hard to fathom. She had all sorts of head gear and coverings today and still gallops and how is she going to win when she continues to have such bad behaviour? Some horses get put on the unruly with one gallop and yet this Lizzie Richter gets away with it every start!

If Lizzie Richter isn’t banned from racing for at least 6 months then the Stipes and RIU are pathetic. How on earth can anyone have any confidence in them when they have been acting totally irresponsibly by allowing this pig to race? Seriously a horse that has galloped in just about every race and is not unruly is just ridiculous! Retire the mare to the paddock before it causes harm!

Looks like she has to be running along in front or she gallops. Dont think the 2 trials showed that she is going to be able to race in a field without galloping. If she does gallop today needs to be out for 6 months and why is she not on the Unruly?

She is back, racing today at Rangiora and not even UNRULY!!! How many damn chances does this rogue of a horse get?? She has drawn out a bit which may help, but seriously what are the odds of her not galloping?? If she gallops today the Stipes need to pull their heads in and put her out for life!! Going to be an interesting watch.

Ranga, it is not their personal money!!! Yes they are paid to get the best result for their employer being the TAB! However their business plan is totally flawed. If NZ wants a harness racing future they seriously need to be encouraging people to enter the industry, i.e. Owners trainers drivers and PUNTERS! Without the $ from the punters in NZ the industry is totally stuffed and the TAB will only be operating on Sports and overseas racing! Any Dickhead can set odds that are UNDERS and leave them there, they need to be encouraging the wagering! The tote pools nowadays are pathetic and clearly shows that they are not getting the casual punter onboard!

Looking thru tonights Addington fixed odds, there are so many horses that odds appear far too short for what they should be, but we expect that from the Bookies! The thing is that if there is no money for a horse then they should be lengthening them out slightly to encourage wagering! By leaving them at UNDERS all it does is not encourage the punters to offload and by lengthening them out in the last few minutes misses so many would be punters! Yes they want to be SAFE however the odds are always in the TABs favour so to increase the turnover and therefore the profit, they need to alter their current policy of offering fixedodds that are under what they should be until the last few minutes!!

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Not sure nowadays Ranga. i do know that several years ago there were no restricted gallops punters! Reason being is that gallops form is impossible and people that punt on gallops are not exactly playing with a full deck!

I agree they could bring them out earlier than they do! Thing is the so called Bookies in NZ treat harness racing punters very poorly compared to the galloping punters! More restricted punters, no head to heads etc.

They actually bring them out earlier than what they do in Oz which is good. Just question why they bring the crap betting races out earlier when you would think they would want to attract early money on all races surely? When they do lengthen out the fixed odds it is often too late for punters to get on at the longer odds!!!!

The TAB often brings out fixed odds earlier than the night before on certain races!!! They have brought them out on the crap punting races, the Uncut Gems races!!!! most of these races are never great punting races and arent worth even looking at as the odds are always crap! If they are able to open the Book up early on these unattractive punting races then why on earth dont they use a bit of intelligence and open up early on all the races???? Surely they are wanting to attract punters to have a go, but by their actions it doesnt appear to be the case!!!!! Who makes these decisions in Wellington?.

Brodie is “always on the money” whether you want to admit it or not!

Brad is better that Matthew you only have to look at their UDR!

Of course I am the same person, just richer and wiser!

Nats were not wanking on for 2 years about being KIND and keeping us SAFE or telling us BS re the TOXIC JABS BEING SAFE!!!!! The Commies control the BS coming from the media! You have been conned big time, but you just do not want to believe it!

Ravioli, so you have watched Ardern’s communist comrade rant or NOT???? and NO I am not a pensioner and never will be in receipt of a Government pension, so never be a pensioner at all!!!

Ludwig, this lot are a controlling bunch of arseholes that want to meddle in every bit of your life! Robertson is so out of his depth with finance but he does not care and Ardern well she is the most UNKIND person of all time. The COVID BS is the biggest scam in history and had nothing at all to do with keeping people safe and well!! You only need to look at the state of Robertson, Megan Woods and co. to realise that they have no interest in keeping people healthy!!!

She won ok Chief for a trial run, but she would not be getting any of my $ until she could prove she can pace a full race without galloping! Surely she will be starting from the unruly when she starts again, personally believe she is a horse that will continue to be a PIG in a race, and she has not proven that she should be allowed to race, as she is clearly dangerous! Drivers should be saying to the Stipes that they are not happy to be on the track with it!!