Brodie

Its called eyes, Spatchcock!!!! Believe it or not Trackside actually shows pictured of the crowd in the stand and outside the stand!!!!!

Thats exactly the point!!! The rule is an ass!!!!

Sorry but not that funny for Philippa Wakelin who is an enthusiast that lost her horse due to this! We can not have any confidence if this is the best that they can do! Blair is an extremely talented horseman and harness racing can ve a very dangerous sport for the participants. By allowing the drivers to become reckless in a race at all costs is just not good enough and yet no ENQUIRY?????? Go figure, the STIPES are not performing!

Does anyone know who is setting the odds for harness racing at the moment? There seems to be quite a few nowadays including today at Motukarara that have opened at well under what they should be! Probably end up with egg on my face but examples are 1. Slainte. $6 2. Whakarehu $2.70? 11. Artatac $2.10?? Slainte won a trial at Ashburton allweather only 3 in it and used to gallop down south. Where there is smoke as they say but drawn one on the grass! Whakarehu? What has it done to be so short, apart from Blair in the cart? Artatac. $2.10 seriously? Been going poor and it is $2.10? There are a few that are good chances that are at good odds so is anyone prepared to back the above at those odds?

Blair tried to take a gap that wasnt there to shat I can see, forcing the tiring Prince Teka inwards. Yes There was the Townley galloping horse, but it was the fact that Prince Teka was barged down that Ready I am ran out of room. Not even a damn enquiry into the incident makes it a farce! Racing Integrity, load of BS!!

Would like to see the head on of what happened in the last 100 metres!! From the replay it clearly appears that Blair took a gap that was not there! If this is the case how ln earth is there not an enquiry into what happened and the winner ousted???? The interference rules needs a total overhaul and years ago Petronelli Gee would have been put out! The fact that there were checked horses shouldve at least had an enquiry into this! The fact that the driver got suspended just makes an absolute mockery of the current rules which are absolutely stupid. It shows that you can play dodgems and get away with it!!!!!! HRNZ get your act together as you are delusional if you think your rules are correct!

Think Tony was there at the same time and I heard it may have been too many cooks!

You what??

Blair actually trained with Ken Barron but didnt make any difference!

Not really Gamma! Grant Payne and Blair Orange sorked for Allstars for many years! Are you saying that they are not bright enough to pick up all the special ingredients to be a top stable?

The Michael House stable has approx. 15 horses to race at Addington tonight! As far as I can recall Michael has never had so many starters at Addington before. This team is the ones that he has had racing at Palmerston North and Southland where we all probably think the class of horse is inferior to Addington class! It is going to be very interesting to see if his horses are competitive as a lot of them were probably past their best in Canterbury before, but they will be very fit. Good on him for lining them up!

Gamma was stating that the Allstars would improve the Dunn beach trained horses as well! It can not be just a straight track! Is is different feed, different work or different supplements and remedies?

So the question needs to be asked? What are the AllStars doing differently that can improve a horse even trained by the a premiership winning trainers the Dunns?.

Gamma, no it is not just about the money, there is also the enjoyment of the sport! However the harness industry has gone backwards over the last few decades and the erosion seems to have set in! Auckland was once a very strong city with strong fields but now it is stuffed due to many decisions. As I have said many times the $ is not the most important thing but I enjoy the challenge as per the previous slogan, “you know the odds now beat them”.

Not the tote though! Well done Marky! Depends what you call significant The thing is why should a citizen of NZ be treated like a criminal when they are doing nothing wrong ? The TAB business plan is flawed and needs amending. They would make far more by encouraging the wagering on harness rather than discouraging!! They are being kept profitable by overseas racing and sports betting! The younger ones are betting on Sports nowadays as there is no incentive to have a crack at harness racing!

Are you serious Marky? So prey tell us all how putting $2k or so into a tote pool of say $8k is going to be the answer???????? Yeah a lot of common sense in your statement!

It is not getting $20 on, it is netting $20 profit lol

Yes of course I would rather watch a non winners race as I would more likely have had an investment on it, as I would never have one on “The Race by Grins”. Rising Star I didnt think had to be a young horse does it????? I am pleased you get some humour from “The Brodster” we sure need it after the last couple of years.

The restrictions on punters is a handbrake to harness racing. Why dont the TAB advertise the fact that they will only accept bets from losing punters and be transparent. When they restrict punters to netting $20 on a Top 2 or Top 4 bet then they may as well get rid of the option. The TAB is a gambling agency that offers odds but only to people they want to! At the end of the day they are causing more harm than good as they are not encouraging new punters to the industry and without the punters, racing is going to die. They may well restrict winning punters from winning large amounts however they will never stop them from winning and they are driving people off the industry

“The Race by Grins” on the face of it was advertising for this GRINS drinks company that personally had never heard of before! The funding of this race to my mind did not make much sense financially for owners being almost certainly a way to lose money. I could not see how some of those starters were ever going to win against the AllStar horses. Stylish Memphis even though she drew one was always going to struggle as she has not been beating much in Oz, and mares struggle against the boys!

To be fair many of the holidays have very little meaning to us Mikey! This new public holiday that Labour is bringing in matariki or something like that is not needed, especially at the moment with business struggling! No we probably dont need racing every day but was just pointing out the more enterprising the Australians are allowed to be.

Why would I be oncourse? Was out helping a Christchurch hospitality business! Was it worth being oncourse?

very interesting that Mark Purdon got a hefty fine and a pretty long suspension from driving! The whip rule at the moment continues to be totally stupid and unrealistic! Self Assured won due to Purdon giving the horse extra persuasion which broke the current rules and yet the horse gets to keep winning position! Personally do not think Purdons whip action was excessive and why wouldn't you when there is a total stake of $900k it was the same when Rasmussen won the NZ Cup a few years ago! The current whip rule is still stupid and needs amending but we all know that HRNZ wont do anything as they rushed out and changed it when there was no pressure whatsoever to do anything!! They need to grow some and start making the right decisions before it is too late.

Southwind Ardern is not the same horse under Mangos training compared to when AllStars had him last year! The Ozzie horse went phenomenal and is certainly a rising star by the look of it. At least it was put into the race, the ones at the back had no show unfortunately !