Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The big North American national standardbred sales started at Kentucky yesterday. Seventeen of the top 20 lots on Day 1 were trotters, which was mainly because most of the catalogue was. We’re looking at the pacers here. These are the top 10 lots. Bettors Delight sired the two highest priced yearlings, one a filly and […]
I have no method. Method is imitation. I invent. Federico Tesio I was talking to a mate last night who rents a house and used to drive cabs for a living. A lot of my mates used to drive cabs and rent their lodgings. Many still do in different ways. So what? Jesus rode a donkey […]
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has released it’s grand whizz bang plan to save the New Zealand harness racing world. It needs saving, especially in the North Island. Horse numbers are falling through the floor, and it is getting to the stage that the racing stock is so thin in Te Ika-a-Māui that soon there […]
The standardbred breeding industry is about to get a more than one-million-dollar boost. A brand-new incentive scheme has been agreed to by the Harness Racing New Zealand Board that will reward breeders (the Breeding entity as listed on HRNZ system) who breed mares this season. The decision follows months of consultation between the Board, HRNZ […]
Just out of interest, these are the sire service numbers from New Zealand, just the top twelve. It’s amazing that the NZ breeders who used to hate Somebeachsomewhere are now piling into Downbytheseaside. Given his numbers in America though you can’t really blame them. The Kiwis have more faith in Miki than me. Bettors Delight […]
The Author and the Breeder, after having a kick around at Rex Smeal Oval to celebrate Geelong’s big win over the Pies. Two of Victoria’s leading owners and breeders were up in Port Douglas this weekend, celebrating one huge win and the prospect of another tomorrow. We won’t tell you their names because they are […]
We got a tip out of New Zealand earlier in the day that we found so extraordinary that we had to call five different people to check it. Four of them said that our tip was spot on. The other one didn’t know. So even they we can scarcely believe it ourselves, here it is. […]
The Always B Miki fans who are smarting about the story we wrote the other day putting the knock on him as a sire were quick to fire back at us after his US filly Strong Poison won the $80 000 third round of Kentucky Championship series harness racing division for 2-year-old pacing fillies at […]
Today at Menangle we saw the inaugural running of the heats of the Nutrien sale race series. All of the now 2YO’s that competed in the heats were sold at the very first Nutrien standardbred yearling sale ever held in this country, which was in Melbourne last year. The juveniles sold at that sale are […]
Playing pool with Snoop Doggy Dog in the Kuranda Pub, and acing the ball straight in the hole A $2 million dollar sale the Chairman swore to the Federal Court the APG Mixed Sale was. Rubbish I said, it won’t gross even half a million. Who was right do you reckon? Who was the better […]
