The Rise and Rise of Betterzipit – It’s Real – But It’s All Just Make Believe

Betterzipit’s New Zealand racing record. It’s not that flash is it? On Saturday night Betterzipit, a former reasonably well performed but far from top class Kiwi import trained by Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson, line up against a bunch of really good pacers, including two who had run placings in separate fair-dinkum Inter Dominions (definition: ones run […]

A Manifestly Excessive Penalty, and the Big Issue That the Judge Ducked and Dodged – Welcome to the Sheryl Wigg Decision – Just Don’t Open the Box Mr RIB CEO – There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside

This is the list of comparative sentences tabled in Sheryl Wigg’s appeal to the High Court against the sentence imposed on the amateur driver and trainer after an undercover surveillance team from the RIB caught her administering a paste made up of turmeric and black pepper to one of her horses on the day of […]

There Are Only Two Possibilities – We Didn’t Do It, and It Wasn’t Us – The Te Akau Bubble Bursts

Te Akau racing is a syndicator whose horses have absolutely dominated New Zealand racing over the past four years, with their trainers smashing the others in the premierships, and scooping up most of the cash in the pool. Last year Te Akau’s horses won $6.2 million, double that of their nearest rival the Stephen Marsh […]

Never Follow the Money, Unless You Like Trekking Alone into Dark Places – A Little Bit About Ben Yole’s Biggest Client

Summit Bloodstock is Ben Yole’s 2nd biggest owner and client. A little known company named SOLOTREK is the biggest. SOLOTREK is owned and run by a man named Stephen Alan Wyles, known as Steve Wyles. Wyles is a former Victorian police officer who worked in the crime squad. He left the force in 1990, and […]

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