Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So what has the Auckland Trotting Club’s president Jamies ‘Watches’ Mackinnon achieved with his messages to members sent out this morning? Let’s number them for posterity shall we? Watches has variously: Confirmed that everything peter profit has been writing about the Chinese land developer not coming up with the $90 million lump sum required to […]
The Auckland Trotting Club has filled a casual vacancy by appointing the President’s daughter to the board. No advertising of the role. No call for expressions of interest. No invitation for members to apply. No testing of the market. No merit based selection process. President Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon merely steps out of the room for […]
Dear Member This is a quick update on a couple of matters, one where the rumour mill is louder than Arran White’s race commentary. The ATC has a number of psychics within our membership, for reasons unknown they are not able to predict race winners, but they are experts at predicting the club’s future. At […]
Early favorite Akuta is out of this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup. The Nathan Purdon trained 5YO has reportedly broken down in his early lead up work, and won’t be seen again this year, with his future is said to be under a cloud. Akuta becomes the 2nd topline pacer from the Purdon barn to […]
Industrial Labs also found evidence of acepromazine, levamisole, detomidine, pyrilamine, lidocaine, MEGX, xylazine, and caffeine in an SGF-1000 sample they tested – all of which are regulated in post-race samples due to their potential to impact performance. The company had apparently asked Industrial to test the product and touted the lack of banned substances to racing regulators, […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
Every jockey’s worst nightmare? Yeah for sure. Poor them. All they suffer humiliation and embarrassment, and maybe a lost ride. It costs those who backed the eased up early horse cold hard cash. The real victims of this horror show are the punters.
Hugely respected equine vet Dr Alistair Maclean has sadly passed away. I didn’t know Dr Maclean personally, so will leave it to others such as son-in-law Chris Svanosio who did to write their tributes to the great man. Suffice to say that he was a giant among vets and a wonderful human being, who was […]
Take a look at the Rockhampton jump out winner in the picture above. Do you reckon that’s a chestnut filly by the name of Rosedale Miss? Or could it have been it’s stablemate Greylist, a grey gelding that won the first race at Mackay last Thursday week after being backed from $26 into $6? Note […]
On the 31st of July a chestnut gelding named Rosedale Miss trained by Tom Smith was entered in and won a jumpout at Rockhampton. The problem is that it wasn’t Rosedale Miss that ran in the trial. It was its grey coloured stablemate Greylist. Added note: Although Greylist is officially listed in the records as […]
