Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” – Lord Acton 1. MANDATORY SWABBING ACTIVITY 2.1 HRNSW conducts the following mandatory swabbing activity; 3. SELECTED […]
NZ Trainer Colin De Filippi had 2 runners in the Winter Cup at Rangiora yesterday, Here’s Herbie and Heza Sport. He and his wife own them both. The pair opened up in the betting at $9.00 apiece. Here’s Herbie was smashed into $3.50 at jump time. Heza Sport blew out the door to $14.00. Which […]
Tim Williams (in blue) and John Dunn coming back after race 6 There are some very disturbing rumors emanating out of New Zealand about a race fix in the 6th at the Rangiora trots yesterday, won by the Robert Dunn trained pacer Triple G. The rumor is that the drivers of the top two horses […]
Apparently the 80-something year old driver nicknamed the Russian (even though he is not) John Stariha strayed off the fence in the back straight because he had the sun in his eyes and it was hard to see. Yeah right. Stariha was wearing tinted goggles and the track looked to me to be shaded from […]
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe Catch a tiger by the toe If he hollers let him go, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe Gibbons like to live dangerously pic.twitter.com/Y7aRQv5o5f — Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 30, 2023
What sort of warped and weird world are the NZ Racing Integrity Board living in where a jockey can be sent out of the sport for 6 days on suspension for hitting a horse two times more than permissible in a race, but a male trainer who grabs a female fellow participant by the neck […]
The APG 2YO finals are worth $500 000 each, but it doesn’t all go to the owners. For reasons totally beyond my understanding, $100 000 of the half million goes in $10 000 lots to the breeders of the horses that start in the races . Now in my view this is just plain stupid, […]
There were 7 APG Gold Bullion finals held last night at Menangle. Each was worth a minimum of $50 000 in prizemoney. 6 runners were pre-race swabbed in 5 of the finals. In the other 2 finals only 2 horses were pre-race tested. The $1.35 favorite and winner in 1 of them My Ultimate Ronnie […]
Not sure third… Sir Barnabus? … Gee Princess Rhaenys was good late …. Yasuke was up there. Josh Fleming, race caller We all know that Brisbane on-course caller David Fowler is hopeless in a photo, but he has age as an excuse. Well sort of anyway. The much younger Josh Fleming can’t use that get […]
