Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It is not very often that you see a New Zealand Group 1 winner race a US import in a rating 55-65 class race at Cranbourne on a Sunday afternoon, but we did yesterday. Smooth Deal won the Group 1 Young Guns at Auckland as a two-year-old when trained by Purdon and Rasmussen. In that […]
Yesterday morning we published a story about Altrenogest / Regumate / Readyserve / Ovumate/ Trendione/ Epitrenbolone/ Steroids – all the same horse, different jockey – and then guess what happens just hours later? A mare who had been banned from racing for 12 months after having thrown a positive swab to the stuff comes out […]
The official harness racing media is celebrating the fact that leading trainer Emma Stewart has qualified 9 of the 12 starters in Victoria’s richest and most prestigious 2YO race the Breeders Crown, which is run next weekend. They should be in mourning. What does it say about the Victorian harness racing industry that 75% of […]
A few years ago the Australian racing industry was rocked by news that traces of banned anabolic steroids had been detected in products that are regularly administered to performance mares around the world. Despite being linked to a permitted drug, the finding resulted in two Australian fillies being disqualified from racing for 12 months. The […]
Blood builders can’t make a horse run any faster. Nature, training, good luck, fast twitch fibers and freedom from injury does that. But every horse maxes out at it’s top speed one way or another. Genetics are the main cause. Filly 30 can run a quarter mile in 27 seconds. Just one, no more, but […]
Has the world gone mad? Or has Racing Queensland? RQ is a Statutory Body set up under State Government legislation. It is run by a board comprised of members appointed by the Government. All of its functions, including the parameters of its financial management and operations, are regulated by Government instruments. It reports to the […]
2YO Fillies Somebeachsomewhere x 2 Captain Treacherous x 2 Bettors Delight x 5 American Ideal Always B Miki Restrepo —————————— 2YO Colts Captain Treacherous x 2 Sweet Lou x 2 Betting Line Art Major x 4 Pet Rock A Rocknroll Dance Tintin in America ——————————- 3YO Fillies Somebeachsomewhere x 2 Captain Treacherous x 2 Courage […]
Need I say anymore? Row, row, row ….
I hate to tell Harness Racing New Zealand this, but 4.00.5 minus 3.56.6 actually equals 3.9 seconds, not 4.9. What does it matter though? Fifty metres? Seventy metres? A hundred? A thousand? It’s all just academic isn’t it? You can run too fast as you like and fly even higher when you’re on this gear. […]
For a long time now there have been a growing number of NZ harness racing participants decrying the dominance of the Robert Dunn and Mark Purdon stables, and saying that there is something very, very wrong about the way they dominate the feature events in the country, particularly in the South Island. After what we […]
