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Cunnamulla

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  1. Not long after that Pakenham sandwich confrontation Crafty Cruiser won for him at Moonee Valley. He was much happier when he was presented with a full plate
  2. Great choice of music there. The Killers are my favourite band, and Mr Brightside, on that album, is my favourite song ever. For that reason alone I hope the horse does well.
  3. She's just another attention-seeking wannabe. Present on Trackside, date/marry a high-profile jockey, infiltrate TV rugby coverage. If she played in a netball team as a kid she would have wanted to be the captain, shoot all the goals, and take the ball home after the game. It's all about me, me, me ....
  4. It looks like Hastings is making a big attempt to get rid of the few on-course patrons they have left. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11896962 What a lovely day at the track that will be. It sounds like they are going to having 'smoking nazis' roaming the course ejecting anyone who dares to light up. Maybe during Heart Foundation week they will ban the eating of pies on course. Oh no, on second thoughts that won't happen, Castles wouldn't make it through the day.
  5. Hope you backed it boys ... won and paid $8.
  6. The TAB formline comments are sadly lacking in accuracy. A prime example today at Canterbury. Race 1- Manicure, the TAB formline says "8th inner, plugged straight" whereas the replay actually shows the horse badly checked at the 200m, and it goes to the line under a big hold. Talk about misleading, better off having no comments rather than misleading ones !
  7. The TAB's Australian form is a total let-down. Much of the time, out of a horse's last three starts, only one, or even none, of them will have a commentary. It's totally random. It's like the formline guy covers just the odd meeting here and there when he feels like it. It needs consistency.
  8. I heard that call, the guy had Hugh Robinson's mobile number and email address and wanted to give it out on air so everyone could contact him directly to complain. You could almost hear Coppins choking while he thought up a reason not to give the details out. The caller had already complained to Robinson about breeding being omitted from form guides but got fobbed off. Then Coppins reveals he knows Robinson well, and that he's a really good guy. Predictably Coppins refused to put the contact details to air. Talk about protecting your mates !
  9. Why doesn't Sarah Moody just shut up and be thankful her husband got off so lightly. She should grow up and act her age rather than acting like a spoiled teenage brat on social media. Didn't she once also attack Danny O'Brien on social media? She has a history of it.
  10. This rorting of owners has been happening in New Zealand for years and years as well. It was even happening when I was working in the industry 20 years ago. Funny how in horse racing circles it's never seen for exactly what it is - a legitimate crime. If someone ripped off WINZ to the tune of $60,000 there would be a criminal conviction and the culprit would get a jail term. Maybe in the racing industry, because of the easy-come-easy-go nature of money, it waters down the seriousness, which of course is wrong.
  11. Exactly! ... well said. That idea would be far too honest and simple for the TAB. They prefer more conniving and devious ideas. No wonder there is widespread mistrust in them
  12. Interesting ... I think I know the guy you mean, he is/was operating on the North Shore. You could even expand that TAB-less Grey Lynn/Ponsonby area further west to include Avondale/Pt Chev/Mt Albert. They closed the Avondale TAB a couple of years ago, probably because the lease ran out, but never bothered opening another one.
  13. You are absolutely right ... it is nothing more than legalised theft. The people betting into a particular pool deserve to be paid that money back, minus TAB deductions, no matter what the result. The TAB is a supposed to be a vehicle to place your bets, not to hold your money against your will and do what they like with it. It is simple to put a count-back system in place. The customers betting into a pool should be competing against each other to win that pool, not having to worry if it's all going to be taken away by the TAB.
  14. Thanks What A Post, nice story by Bartley. He's one of the few who are willing to tell it how it is. The fourth paragraph made me chuckle - "For the third time this week Moody threatened to resign from racing .... by Thursday night he may be looking at a convenience store in Papua New Guinea."
  15. Moody lost the plot in that interview. He stated that the stewards thought he was a cheat, but they couldn't prove it, so therefore they weren't doing their job properly, and it should be the stewards who are sacked and walk away from racing. That's the most irrational piece of bullshit I've heard in a long time.
  16. I don't know about "pretty thick", it would be more accurate to say he's a cheating, lying, greedy, cruel, conniving scumbag with no regard for the welfare of animals. It's been reported in Australia that it wasn't only cobalt that fatboy Sam used, he also tried formaldehyle (the human embalming chemical) and xenon gas on his horses. Also another drug (the name escapes me) which hardens the bones but makes them more prone to breaking. It should be noted that poor Midsummer Sun died after breaking a leg in a barrier trial. If he gets off lightly with the racing authorities, then I hope the SPCA hammers him with every charge they possibly can. The damage done to the racing industry's image by this type is astronomical.
  17. They are bending to Aussie pressure. It's not just the greyhounds, but animal welfare groups in Australia are taking their own cameras to racemeetings where there are jumps races in order to record falls, etc. In their eyes this is animal cruelty and they want to use it as evidence to shut jumps racing down. I don't agree with what Trackside did, but I can see the reason behind it.
  18. The one that makes me laugh is when you see a race in Australia for example called the "Betfair Handicap" the NZ TAB changes the name of the race to the Best Bets Handicap. They do it all the time, such is their fear of Betfair.
  19. That's plenty to be going on with! Not only do I hope Kavanagh gets a life ban from racing, I also hope he goes to jail on animal cruelty charges.
  20. That opinion is contrary to everything I have read as well. According to reports about Australian cobalt cases, to get a level in the hundreds would require intravenous injection. No way could a positive come from feed supplements, as the 200 limit is already generously high anyway. In general, it makes me sick to hear some of these culprits portray themselves to be lovers of the horse, nothing could be further from the truth.
  21. At 200, the level is set so high that it should be life for anyone who goes over it.
  22. If the real reason is about wasting the staff's time, then it's not working. I've been behind people in the queue who have DEMANDED their bet was cancelled to a point where the staff member had to get on the phone to try and cancel it. Unfortunately, that took quite a few minutes and I could see the lone staff member getting anxious while on the phone as she could see the queue steadily growing behind the irate customer.
  23. They managed to stop that tote manipulation with the old rule, which I think was no cancelling win/place bets in the 30 minutes BEFORE a race starts, and from memory I think exotics were 10 minutes before. That rule seemed to work perfectly fine, so I'm not sure of their reason for the extremely harsh two-minute rule. They will probably give the old "to bring it in line with ...bla bla bla" crap, but they fail to realise the two wrongs don't make a right.
  24. I don't know how the TAB can possibly think what they are doing is right. Would any other retailer get away with selling you something you don't want, or something that later morphs into something you don't want, and then tell you "Sorry, no refunds or exchanges after 2 minutes from purchase, even if that's not what you asked for"?
  25. The TAB has also lost goodwill over that other form of theft they haved introduced recently .... the two-minute cancellation rule. I put a treble on the Bendigo gallops, but later in the day, 2 hours before the first leg even ran, there were two late scratchings in my combos. I tried to cancel the ticket and use that money to do some fresh selections, but they said "No, it can't be cancelled, you only had two minutes after you bought the ticket to do that." To me, that is just plain theft, and I can't justify betting with them when it's all about them holding on to my money. I had plenty of time to reinvest before the first leg started, but I was denied by their money-grabbing rule. The whole thing stinks.