Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It is with deep sadness and a broken heart that we advise the sudden passing of Norm McVitty. Normie was a talented and highly respected trainer, with the horses being a huge part of his life. It is with a smile that I look back on his career within the industry he so greatly loved. […]
It’s my wife Maggie’s birthday. She turns 5o today. Still looks as beautiful as the day I met her almost 3 decades ago, and twice as gorgeous again. Happy Birthday sweetheart. May medical science advance so quickly that we share 50 more. Every day is a joy when you are in it baby. Love ya […]
Only 10 percent of Weasels in the wild live longer than 2 years. Very few live more than ten years in captivity. Weasel the pacer is at last count 16 years old and still going strong. Well not really. After a seemingly incredible 423 starts the old bloke’s alive and well and – quite amazingly […]
The great Peter Wolfenden MBE passed away last night, at the age of 88. The man known far and wide as Wolfie won the New Zealand drivers’ premiership 14 times, including eight consecutive years from 1974, and twice won the Australasian Drivers Championship. He represented New Zealand seven times in the World Drivers Championship in […]
What you see above appears in the Harness Racing New Zealand 2021/22 Annual Report. The names of the four in the obituary section are never repeated again throughout the report. Neither are the names of other good trot people who over the course of the year went to the great race track in the sky. […]
Melbourne Merv Butterworth and his blushing bride Meg etched their names in Australian racing history last night by going where no owner had ever been before by taking out the elusive Cups double. No, not the Caulfield-Melbourne Cups one. Seven sets of owners had won that easy beat gimme already. We’re talking here about the […]
Brown Rice with some rather good riders that he trained, back in the days when he was still young and beautiful Within literally minutes of publishing our exclusive story breaking the news of RJW Johnson’s retirement from the fitness and weight reduction for jockeys game we began getting deluged with messages from tearful readers who […]
It’s official. Ronald James William Johnson – aka RJ, the jockey fitness guru also known as the Brown Rice Man – has officially retired. For the seventeenth time. The news has a come as a great shock to his close friends Wayne Gannon and Gary Nolan, who have spent the night in lockdown attempting to […]
That’s Johnny in the hat, the pineapple guy `I have a vague suspicion that I was at Johnny Catton’s 7th or 8th birthday party, although I’m not quite sure about it. I do know that I was at his 53rd birthday party today, even though I was 2000km away. (Don’t believe him when he tells […]
Chinchilla is a town in mourning. Everywhere in Queensland is, including here. Tomorrow the town full of tragedy is going to race in honour of our fallen heroes. I wish I didn’t live a thousand miles away, because I want to be there. We all do. Hopefully every club that is racing in the State […]
