Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Saturday’s race meeting at Morven was abandoned after race five of the six-race program. Stewards consulted with jockeys after race five on Saturday and it was decided that the last race on the program be abandoned due to the deterioration of the track. Prior to calling off the race meeting there had been three unrelated […]
No horse deserves to die at the races. Imagine the outcry if it was punters dropping dead like flies. What the hell is wrong with this track?
Morven is a small one horse joint of about 200 people, located about an hour’s drive to the east of my Dad’s home town of Charleville, after Roma and Mitchell as you are heading west. They race there about once a year, although God only knows why. It might have been all the go back […]
None of Steve Telfer’s young horses died on the track at Alexandra Park on Friday night thank goodness, but gee two of them put in inexplicably bad runs. No Added Sugar was the favourite to win race 4. This four year old mare had a sweet trail in the line throughout, pulled out to make […]
In the wake of our story about the deaths of three young pacer from the Stonewall Stud stable on NZ tracks in the past four months, and the potentially fatal incident involving a driver at another, the RIB yesterday announced that has launched an investigation into the matters, seeking to determine whether there were only […]
Steve Stockman has been around harness racing for many years, but up until the last few years he was just another face in the crowd and player in the game. Then one day in 2020 he untied the purse strings, and all of a sudden Stockman became the man. He has been spending like a […]
CYA DOIT Date of Death – 20 May 2022 Place of Death – Alexandra Park Paceway Age at Death – 3 years old Had 7 starts as a 2YO for one second to Jagera, who is no champion. Had 5 months off then returned to win 3 out of 4 and run 2nd in the […]
Not all the Telfer horses die on the track. Some survive, and almost kill others. Enjoy Me is a 4-year-old mare who raced at Alexandra Park on the same night that her stablemate Cya Dot died. Two starts before Enjoy Me had won at Cambridge. A year before that she won the rich Sires Stakes. […]
The All Stars Stable of Natalie Rasmussen, Mark Purdon and later Hayden Cullen were the leading trainers of pacers by prizemoney in New Zealand last year, as they have been for the past few years. They trained 97 winners and 116 placed horses across all ages, classes and grades, for total earnings of $3.6 million. […]
Three Stonewall Stud owned horses have died on the track in the past 4 months. Each of them were trained by Steven Telfer. Telfer is the de facto partner of Jill Stockman, the equal share owner in Stonewall Stud with her husband Steve, and has been for a decade. Two of the horses that died […]
