Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A Kiwi pacer named Victor Bravo had raced 14 times coming in to race 4 at Addington yesterday, and the best it could manage was one second and a third, both of them more than eight months ago in 2YO races against very ordinary opposition. About 4 weeks ago the horse was sold, and about […]
THE best-known doper of this century rode on two wheels. But horses, as well as humans, can be drugged to enhance or tarnish their performance. This month eight people linked to a now-defunct racing stable in Australia were found guilty of charges related to the doping of horses over seven years from 2010. One prominent […]
Golden Sand is a pacer who until yesterday had raced on 51 occasions and won just 4 times. He is trained by the Russian, an old bloke named John Stariha who isn’t Russian – he’s Slovenian – but sounds like Putin does, hence the nickname. Stariha is is the second phase of a career he […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/KIC09062211.mp4 Coming into race 4 at Kilmore last night the Chainsaw Yole trained 10-year-old pacer Southern GNP had won just 1 race from his previous 34 starts over the past year, most of the runs being down in lowly company in Tasmania. The single win was eight months ago against very poor company in 30-44 […]
We have been telling you for a month that Robert Dunn was going to be appointed to the board of Harness Racing New Zealand haven’t we? Well bingo is it. Yesterday Dunn’s appointment as a Director of the Kiwi control body was formally announced. In making the announcement HRNZ’s spin doctors did a lovely job […]
There were ten horses pre-race swabbed at Globe Derby on Saturday night. Four of the blood tests were taken across three races. The other six were taken from every runner in the last race on the card, a standing start trot race run at 10.21pm. Pure genius it was, so bloody clever that no-one in […]
This is sort of hard to believe, but those in the know assure me that it is utterly true. Former trainer Nigel McGrath is the 2nd year of an 8-year disqualification from harness racing for doping and conduct offences. He is a repeat offender who was embroiled in the infamous blue magic saga that cost […]
Peter Russo is a drug cheating trot trainer from a family of trot cheating trainers. Russo’s uncle Paul is serving eight and a half years for drug cheating, his brother Mark was up to his neck in the green light bribery scandal and was convicted of nine criminal charges relating to harness racing rorts, and […]
NZ harness trainer Robert Dunn is a convicted drug cheat with a most unenviable rap sheet. In some places he would be deemed not a fit and proper person to hold a license. But not in the upper echelons of New Zealand racing administration, which is riddled with vested interests, conflicts, mates, an insatiable lust […]
Kowhai is a Maori word meaning yellow, which made it a good name for a pacer like the Kiwi pacer Kowhai Shadow, who until a fortnight ago had won just 2 races from 39 starts, both of them in times you can swim faster than with both legs tied together. Then Kowhai Shadow had 4 […]
