Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The great question coming into Sunday’s season starting APG Brisbane standardbred yearling sale was how much all the wads of cash that company and it’s shareholders threw at the sale in an attempt to beat off the challenge from the newcomer to the trot auction scene Nutrien would stimulate the prices of the youngsters being […]
It’s proponents call it a Stallion Fee, it opponents call it a levy. Same horse, different jockey. Here are the weights. The base charge (or fee) to register a horse with the stud book is $500. Every owner of a sire pays it. Then the Stallion Fee kicks in. Australian domiciled stallions are exempt. All […]
With less than three months left of the season, and all of the rich 2YO races gone except the few up here, there is only one first year sire with progeny topping the million dollar mark (Russian Revolution), and just one other (The Mission) who looks a bolters chance of joining him. At this stage […]
The NSW breeding industry is the big winner from the announcement, with breeders given the incentive of $2250 for every live foal bred from a NSW-based mare and an Australian or New Zealand stallion based in the state. The breakdown of payments starts with $250 for a 42-day positive test for mares located in NSW, […]
Group 1 winner Jonker has been retired to stand at Queensland’s Aquis Farm this spring, it was announced on Monday. A Stakes-winning two-year-old who trained on to win the G1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) and $1 million Magic Millions Sprint (1200m) as an older horse for Tony Gollan, connections made the call to retire the six-year-old […]
I am not sure that Harness Racing Australia’s projections are correct in regard to raising the money to fund the Eureka. HRA are saying that the new differential fee/charge/levy or whatever you want to call it on shuttle and semen sires being implemented as of 1 September this year will raise between $900 000 and […]
A decade and a half ago Harness Racing New Zealand attempted to introduce a new $30 per season charge on harness racing owners to fund breeders and owner associations that only some owners and breeders belonged to and supported.. One major owner jacked up about it, and challenged it in the courts. He won. The […]
The Eureka slot race is a concept that has immediately caused a division in the harness racing industry. Buyers, owners, trainers and drivers in the main love it. Breeders – or the most vocal among them anyway – hate it. We don’t have a position either way, so we thought we would take a critical […]
The news this week is that the Spring Champion Stakes winner Profondo – the $1.9 million yearling sold at the Magic Millions Sale, the colt they called a champion – has had his Autumn carnival campaign aborted, and is being away for the Spring. If you believe that, you believe in fairies. Profondo will never […]
This is a story about the art of the spruik, and it’s master. I would have called Gai Waterhouse it’s mistress, only I am a modern new age feminist turned gender equality junkie, and Gai lays down for no-one except through marriage, love and duty, or because she wants to, and then only with Robbie. […]
