Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Earlier this week we showed you the mysterious bottle photographed at the Wooded Beach satellite stable of New Zealand’s leading trainer Robert Dunn, the barn run by his son and principal driver John ‘Lurch’ Dunn. The sticker on the bottle is a total dodge. This is what the NZ laws how a medication given to […]
Everyone in the thoroughbred and harness racing industries both in NZ and Australia knows that the greatest issue in either sport is the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED’s). Certain leading stables in both codes are implementing wholesale doping programs to gain an edge on their rivals, and it is making them millions of dollars […]
The picture above that you see of the bottle with the red cap was taken at the Woodend Beach, Christchurch stables of the training partnership of Robert and Jenna Dunn, the part of the operation managed by Dunn’s son John, aka Lurch. The obvious inference to be drawn is that Lurch is using this ‘herbal […]
John ‘Lurch’ Dunn, the man in charge of the Woodend Beach end of his family’s Diamond Racing operation, was in Auckland on Friday night driving Sundees Sun, the wonder trotter who broke the national record for 2700m by an unheard of clear 4 seconds (over 50 metres) in the NZ Trot. There only other runner […]
There were four $52 000 Group 2 APG finals run at Albion Park on Saturday night. The QRIC Stewards only took pre-race swabs – blood samples – in two of them, and from only one horse in each. One of them was the $1.40 favourite in the 2YO Colts and Geldings classic, but the other […]
Adam Hamilton wrote a lovely spruik job yesterday about the genius of Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson. He’s the next Stanley Dancer if you believe Adam’s hype, or probably more correctly the next Vin Knight or Tubby Peace. Is there anyone old enough to remember them who doesn’t look back to that decade in the 1980’s and […]
Majestic Cruiser ran 4th of 5 in a claimer at Ballarat on Boxing Day 2020. He had 22 starts after that, and won just one of them, in an NR80-94 at Melton After he ran a poor seventh in another NR80-94 race at Melton on the 26th of June last year against weak opposition, Majestic […]
Remember Eve is an eight-year-old mare. She is also a cat. Her race record prior to yesterday read 55 starts, all at NSW country meetings, for zero wins. At her past ten starts the mare had started at an average price of $87.70 a race. Three weeks ago – ding, ding – Remember Eve changed […]
Last week we told you about how the NZ Group 1 winning mare Need You Now – now known as I Need You Know – hasn’t been able to go a yard since transferring over to Luke ‘the Duke’ McCarthy from the stables of leading Kiwi trainer John Dunn. I am not sure if we […]
Robert Heathcote should have been a politician, for he can spin a story in his favour almost as well as Warnie used to bowl leggies. The issue isn’t whether or not his horses that were scratched yesterday throw a positive swab to cobalt. That issue is totally irrelevant. Hemoplex is a prohibited substance, banned from […]
