Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
This is the Bolt For Brilliance, the famous Kiwi end to end and off and away Test Match nude run. How many Aussie streakers get the other end of the birthday suit dash without tackled or shoulder charged? Not many, if any. Brad Reid did. He bred the champion trotter that’s named after his seminal […]
Glenda Markwell went to the Pearly Gates track on Friday after reaching the finishing post in her incredibly brave and stoic battle against the terrible disease that kept trying to kill her. Nautical Lass in race 1 at Randwick just run was the last ever horse to carry Glenda’s name as trainer in the race […]
The great QLD bush sprinter Fab’s Cowboy is making his first attempt at cracking the half century of wins today in the Country Stampede qualifier at Gladstone. He is going to have to carry 65.5kg and give every horse in the field an incredible 10.5 kilograms over the 1194m on the sand to do it. […]
