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As a treat just for you, Spikecity, I thought I would share with you an example of a bet "some $2 keyboard warrior" made yesterday. Admittedly it was not on Harness racing, but at Riccarton Race 5 yesterday.....apologies but I cannot get it to print exactly the same as it is laid out in my TAB Account results page...the only silly thing I maybe did was took $15/$4.80 fixed when it paid $20 on the tote, but I'm not complaining StatusDateTypeBet DetailsOddsStakeAmountBalance Win 12/04/252:02PM Riccarton Race 59. VanderdonkFixed Win Saturday, 12 Apr 2:00pm 15.00 $100.00 $1,500.00 $1,759.22 Win 12/04/252:02PM Riccarton Race 59. VanderdonkTop 3 Saturday, 12 Apr 2:00pm 4.80 $50.00 $240.00 $259.22

Spikecity now says I am "some keyboard warrior that lost $2 betting on a horse Blair drove" It is interesting that you resort to insults, Spikecity, when someone disagrees with you. You even repeat the comment in a later post, as if you think some of us cannot read. Your comments are childish, uninformed, wrong and change nothing. You know absolutely nothing about how I bet.....zilch! The UDR stats are what they are, and given the unparalleled number of opportunities Blair Orange gets (ie number of drives) and 'possibly' a choice of drives in some cases, his UDR stats are exactly as I said they are, and totally support my original comment.

Furthermore, at the time of writing, in this current , as yet unfinished 2025 season, Blair Orange sits 16th on the HRNZ UDR rating table.

"How about checking facts before posting garbage?"....said "Spikecity" Apologies Spikecity, I did get my facts wrong 1. I should have said "seasons" not "years" 2. In the 2020 season Blair Orange finished 9th rated UDR driver, so my mistake. 3. In 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 & 2015 he was not in the top 10 UDR rated drivers. 4 A bit selective to pick the current season, as it has not finised yet..............

No surprise Blair Orange could not get any drives at Cambridge. Most over-rated driver there is, IMO. Has not been in the top 10 UDR rated drivers in the last 10 years, if ever. Seems to get a big % of his drives in Southland these days.

Race 5 at Whanganui today... Form comment " His best can pay a dividend or be first four." Haha..............there were four starters, and yep, the horse finished in the first four.

Furthermore, my original comment simply related to the fact that within the TAB's PDF format, the comments in the "Easyform" section are unreadable. I have looked again but, no...... no...... nothing about betting at Murray Bridge. https://www.specsavers.co.nz/

Bigger racing gene pool in Australia, and the form comments are generated in Australia.

On the TAB website today, at 12.15pm, I went to "Racing/PDF Form/Easyform" and the fields are listed for today's racing. For Hawkesbury, Werribee, Sunshine Coast & Murray Bridge the comments column, on the right of the Easyform layout, is totally unreadable. The TAB/Entain just get lazier & lazier, and sorry TAB, it will not push me to bet at Te Aroha!

I guess you have to give that NSW mob some credit. They seem to have relegated the Caulfield Cup right out of the headlines

Sad to hear. In 1973 I was just a kid and push biked over to Trentham to take a $2 Quinella picked out of the Friday Flash - Elamite (Trainer John Revell, rider Graham McLeish) with Hush-a-Bay (Trainer Bill Ford, Jockey Brian Andrews.....................good memory eh! Quinella paid $350 odd. The collect was worth around 3 months wages! Great memory, RIP John.

Oh no, the nag only ran 4th! Turns out by using the phrase 'for sure' the TAB actually means 'maybe'. Could the implied threat becomes a promise...............medium or rare?

Today at Waverley......."Looks the winner here for sure whatever way you slice and dice it" So it's horse meat on the menu today is it?

Te Rapa today Race 5 Him? Her? It? Also, as mentioned many times, I guess Yolo's senior rider could hardly be 'below' or 'under' AWHINA (7) she has raced better than a two-win galloper so far. Include him everywhere in this line up as her best is well up to this field. YOLO (6) is a definite improver in this field second up. Senior rider atop.

Good point, nomates. Just done that. https://entaingroup.com.au/who-we-are/christopher-haigh/ It does not list his email, so you need to use the online Contact Form

Cannot understand why the Trackside 1 race coverage is switched back to the Studio 'commentator' almost as soon as the horses have crossed the line. We are then confronted with the presenter(s), grinning like a buffoon as though he/she has just won lotto, who then proceeds to tell us what we have already just seen. Why do we need this? Are they trying to create "Media Stars"? Are we supposed to get enthralled as they repeat the bleeding obvious.?

Agree totally Maximus. The other phrase AI uses ad infinitum is "for sure". All of us know from experience there is no such thing as "for sure" in racing.

haha. Kudos to Race Cafe. The TAB have now fixed the comment. Nice to know they read this site.

More gibbersish from the TAB AI race comments. M6 Riccarton Race 6 tomorrow........ "AL'S RED ZED (7) did a reasonable job when he finished fourth in an Opn Stp (4250m) at this track last time out, following on from a win in a Maiden Steeplechase (4000m) at Trentham. Same yard as the odds on top pick". Obviously the TAB proof reader is asleep again... Last time I looked, West Coast (the odds on top pick referred to) is trained by Mark Oulaghan, and Al's Red Zed is trained by Paul Nelson & Corrina McDougal !

So still wrong on both counts, just as I said.

Race Comments "DUKE OF PLUMPTON (1) he was distant at his last start. A 3kg claim here helps. He has beaten this grade with 2kg more than she will actually carry here so can win this for sure". Further down.... "J: Elle Sole (A4) 60kg" So what is the horse, a he or a she, and what is the claim - 3Kg or 4Kg??? Maybe about time to give AI a miss...

https://www.facebook.com/racecafe.co.nz/photos/bradley-given-lengthy-suspensionjockey-darryl-bradley-has-been-suspended-for-thr/1723821097763252/?_rdr

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/racing/racing-stewards-issue-charge-against-bradley/XCZLOH5SU5ISBDZO5L7AY2EJHI/

Should serve the full term of the suspension..

and it takes horses, jockeys or Trainers.......TAB NZ only takes horses