Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The rise and rise of the massive Stonewall Stud operation was the enduring story of the National yearling sales, no more so than in Christchurch where the dual-island operation picked up 22 lots to go with the seven it bought in Auckland. A whopping $1,632,000 (average $74,182) was spent across the three days on the […]
$300 000 – Captaintreacherous x Goodlookinggirl (f) I have one golden rule when doing the pedigrees for yearling sales, and that is to immediately strike out any youngster by a mare whose only successful offspring were trained by the All Stars combination of N. Rasmussen and M. Purdon. If you can’t work out the reasoning behind […]
$240 000 – Bettors Delight x Hartofdixie (c) Full brother to Erupt Stride, the colt that Australian construction giant Emilio Rosati paid $320 000 for at the 2021 yearling sale. This one was 3/4 off that huge price, and so he should be given that his older brother has had 9 starts for 5 wins […]
Harry has really stuffed this whole anti-royal thing up. He was going alright at first, but he just didn’t know where to stop. I think it’s because he’s a very damaged man, in the post traumatic stress disorder sense of the word. The poor bastard lost his mum when he was little, and then watched […]
“One thing we need to know is what will be the horse population look like in the future. Do we have enough highly-rated horses to make our top races fair and competitive?” Gary Woodham, CEO Harness Racing New Zealand. August 2022 “This goes in line with trying to keep our breeding numbers up and encouraging […]
Can anyone tell me exactly how the wins of the offspring of Captain Treacherous, Downbytheseaside, Sweet Lou and Shadow play afford a timely boost to the Australian standardbred breeding industry? Always B Miki does, because he stands the southern hemisphere season in Australia, but the other four? Give us a break. Captain Treacherous stands all […]
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 […]
