Brodie

By the way things are going racing in the north will cease prior to the so called animal welfare agencies calling for racing to cease!! Ms. Wigg and Tim Vince are going to be a massive loss to North Island racing!! No harm was caused and yet a disqualification of trainers license of 17 months which is one month less than was applied for someone who used Blue Magic on a regular basis!! Go figure, it just doesnt seem right!!

So Ms. Wigg got 1 month less than what Nigel got for administering Blue Magic, when she administered nothing that was giving her horses an an advantage, and was legal!!!!!,,, Go figure!!!!!!

Fair enough Robalan and she clearly broke the rule which is just one of the plainly stupid rules that we are unfortunately being forced into on a daily basis! Just because it is a rule does not mean that everyone has agreed to it being sensible and not requiring looking into it if no wrong harm or advantage has occurred surely???? We as citizens of NZ have over recent years have become very complacent and accepting of so much BS it has become a pandemic! Ms. Wigg has obviously broken a rule but on the face it has not gained any advantage from what she did!!! Does she really deserve such a harsh disqualification from being able to train horses for what she did? Could you kindly advise us all what the disqualification was for the ones that were guilty in the BLUE MAGIC cases where they were clearly administering illegal substances for GAIN? At the end of the day it doesnt affect any of us really, however what it does do is just put another knife into the back of harness racing in the North Island which it well can do without!

Mr Cock, if that is the best you have got then keep whatever you are on going!!! What would you actually think I would possibly be embarrassed by? If you got nothing to offer then why bother?,

Do not know Sheryll Wigg apart from knowing that she is probably the best amateur driver in NZ even allowing for the fact she is from the North Island. Yes I know there are rules in place for everything,and the citizens of NZ are supposed to comply with them whether they are good or totally crazy in line with what our Communist Leader has put in place. However sometimes there has to be some commonsense applied and once again I personally believe from the facts given, that the Racing Integrity Board should d certainly be changing their name again!!!! The Dickheads that are making these stupid decisions seriously need to look at the damage they are doing to the harness racing industry. Last week a young Junior driver Jordan Crawford gets done for doing nothing wrong, and obviously Mr Breckon is not prepared to stand up for one of his employees, when they have been harmed!!!! This week our best Amateur, yes broke a rule, but yes the RULE IS JUST SO BLATANTLY STUPID, which is just one of the STUPID HARNESS RULES that need changing. Come on HRNZ get your act together and let us see that you actually do care about the industry that actually pays for your lifestyle! Doubt whether anything will be changed as the industry has been going backwards for years and no signs of improvements despite BRAINSTORMING!!

Dave, you are totally correct on the face of it! I also dont see any logic to the rule whatsoever if it is non performance enhancing? Maybe detrimental as you might have sneezing horses from the Black Pepper? I am sure Turmeric and Black Pepper is nothing close to what some stables give to their horses! Anyway, the loss of Tim Vince and Sheryll Wigg from Auckland harness racing, possibly for good, is massive!

And yet the BOOSTERED politicians are testing positive to this dangerous virus? And all the unpoisoned I know havent had anything! Go figure!

Ranga, as if I need attention! Like to be in the limelight, yeah right!

Viagra? What the hell is Niagara’s?

Think it used to be judged by a certain no. Of people putting forward who they thought was the best and the majority of votes was the winner for each section. Not sure if. this is the way it is decided still, but probably the best way as always subjective and could be seen to be biased otherwise.

More horses gone from Auckland racing. Tim Vince and Ms. Wigg were certainly an asset to Auckland harness racing that they can ill afford to lose, Tim will probably give it away now you would think? Obviously she breached the one day rule and rules are rules even if they are stupid rules it seems! Not sure whether what she administered was performance enhancing on the day of the races, but it doesnt really seem to be the equal of “Blue Magic” or the other stuff that we know are used as performance enhancers by a certain stable! As I say I do not condone it on the day of the races if that is the rule, however it seems a day earlier then it wouldve been legal! Really in trouble is our Auckland racing and we can only surmise what is likely to happen in the future!

Bettors Delight would not still be serving naturally would he? Wouldve thought all be frozen semen from the top stallions now and less risk? Anyway never involved in stud work with horses, so think I will stay in my own paddock, might be safer!

Lol what is that meant to mean Ranga? I am just asking a question, are stallions being exported back and forwards between countries nowadays? Wouldve thought there was no need now with all the mkdern systems available! Do you know the correct answer Ranga, or do you just want to have a crack??

On looking thru the exported horses list for February I note Lazarus has been exported back to the United States! Does anyone know if this is going to be an ongoing thing with Lazarus? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought with frozen semen etc. that stallions tended to stay in the one country, but obviously this is not the case as I also see Sweet Lou also exported back to the United States. I am not up with the play clearly with how the stallion system works now.

This is appalling for harness racing! Racing Integrity where are you? The industry is being run very poorly and yet the public have to play by their rules!

Lol takes a bit more to entertain me nowadays Gamma. Here is a major stuffup by several paid employees and yet RIB are prepared to fine a you g Junior driver Jordan Crawford when he did absolutely nothing wrong!!!!! Fair toss of a soss, it just doesnt seem a fair deal does it?

To be fair Hunter, you would wonder how everyone could not have picked up on it! Matt Cross obviously goes by colours and driver, rather than looking at no.s!

if that is the way it is then why didn’t they say this? It is hard to understand how it could possibly happen when u would think that the drivers would have looked at the fields?? What are the starting crew and stipes doing?

But they had an enquirey into itand it took some time! and then came back and told us BS! How can anyone have any confidence if they come up with this? They haven’t put up the replay yet on HRNZ going to be interesting how they going to explain this Admit the wrong drivers were on the horses but they said otherwise

It defies any sort of logic? Doesnt the stipes check each horse and driver before they go on the track? Maybe the mask was covering his eyes, seriously? Then they tell us all untruths Ranga! Ridiculous

Thought so Ranga so they are telling Porkies! Why have they lied to us? Racing Integrity? Yeah Nah!! Has anyone got any explanation how this happens?

Waiting for the replay to see who is telling porkies? Does anyone agree with the Stipes or is Brodie on the money as usual?

They must be kidding how did 8 start from 5? Think wrong drivers on wrong horse surely?

They say that they started from the wrong positions? Looking forward to the replay cos it looked like the drivers were on the wrong horses and started from the right position? Looked like no. 5 started from 5 and sat parked and 8 was back on the fence. Am I wrong ?

Ahh they have now picked this uP! Shocking!