Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What would Jesus do? Open up his bloody eyes and see. It is stating the blindingly obvious to say that if you want drug free racing, you have to pre-race blood test the right horses. The favourites in each race are a good start. Victoria do it properly when Emma and Clay aren’t racing. These […]
Liz Cambage may be the sexiest 7-footer on earth, but gee she gives me the shits. On the day the team that she walked out on were playing a big qualifying game against Belgium, this arrogant, ego-mad petulant prat posts a message of support for Nigeria, the team whose player she punched out, although you […]
Race 1 Jimmy Locke ran 1.50.2 a fortnight ago. It was pre race swabbed before that race. It was tested again on Saturday night. It ran slower that Clive Palmer and tailed out 37.8 metres last. The other horse tested was a $31 shot. Jason Grimson’s won. To pre-race blood test for him. Race 2 […]
Butt, butt, butt – Eat your oranges Anthony. Luke has to eat his bitter fruit too. Luke McCarthy tried to pull a tricky one when he steered King of Swing off the fence in the Blacks A Fake after it couldn’t muster enough gate speed in the first 50 metres to hold the mobile flyers […]
Dr Andrew Grierson is a qualified equine veterinary surgeon. He is also a harness racing breeder and owner, and a businessman. Andrew Grierson owns 50 percent of Woodlands Stud, the most successful breeding operation in New Zealand. Breeders make money in a number of ways, but two of the obvious ones are by selling stallion […]
The annual Harness Jewels is the most prestigious age based harness racing series in New Zealand, and the richest too. It is the Golden Slipper, the Derby and the Golden Eagle combined. Each race is a Group 1. That means that it is very, very hard to win. Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen – trading […]
It’s a day of Christmas magic today for sure, and for the well known racing family the Bird’s, it a day of even more. Doreen Bird was a racing woman who is the grand-dam of a brood of beautiful racing girls, Hannah, Phoebe and Caitlin. Sadly Doreen transitioned to the stars a few years back, […]
Dress the part and you have a huge head start my old Granny used to say. You got to get dressed for success the band Roxette said. If you look a high school Phys Ed teacher you will perform like one too is my reckoning. On any of the three counts, the uniforms that some […]
The Colt Thirty One army stretched to Kuranda and Port Douglas and beyond. Close your eyes and hope for the best Grant. It worked in the Vic Derby, it will work in the big one at home. Anthony Butt has just called in to have a chat about our earlier story about the split with […]
This is a wonderful story by Adam Hamilton, so good that we’ve reprinted it for the enjoyment of those yet to read. I will never forget the nights that I sat on Dad’s shoulders watching Maori’s Idol beat the pacers in the heats of then Sir Clive at Albion Park. It broke my heart when […]
