Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Project Stamina report with its myriad of actual and potential track closures is grabbing all the headlines in NZ after its release earlier in the week, and the poor old dogs are finished after tonight, but it amongst it all there is something rather important that has been missed. The new racing financial year […]
Got The Chocolates and Marketplace are the two best Kiwi horses in the same generation that we have seen since the days of the gallopers Our Waverley Star and Bonecrusher going head to head in the Cox Plate. This pair are two absolutely horses, as they proved tonight by their effortless wins on two different […]
Swayzee is a dual NZ Cup and Hunter Cup winner who has also won Victoria Cup and a Blacks A Fake. He led last night in the Roy Purdon Memorial and dictated the pace. The Lazarus Effect had won three Group races in a row, including last start the G1 Taylor Mile. He sat on […]
Happy Australia Day! Just a point on your discussions about the best generation of horses. I agree this a vintage batch – it is also a vintage batch of PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs). Given there is no real energy in keeping racing clean we may be seeing a very false set of good horses. If […]
We were right about Luke McCarthy being the best trainer in Australia weren’t we? Kingman’s outstanding victory in the NZ Cup yesterday proved that. It might even have proven that Luke is the best trainer in the Dominion too. What McCarthy has done with this horse is simply incredible. He was getting beaten by Some […]
RACE 3 NO 5 – HE AINT FAKIN Australian pacer turned Kiwi trotter, was very impressive winner at Addington at square gaiting debut. Up against a weak mob here, can repeat the dose. RACE 4 NO 8 – SECRET AGENT MAN Very consistent pacer won 4 and second 3 times from 8 starts to date. […]
The race for the NZ Trotting Cup just heated up big time after Merlin’s outstanding win this afternoon in the Kaikoura Cup in near track record time. New Zealand’s reigning pacer of the year did it the hard way, coming from worse than mid-field at the 1000m to race around and sit outside former star […]
They say that Ben Hope was higher than Swayzee at the Racecourse Hotel on Saturday night. You have to wonder if he was in the same state of mind when he decided to park Just Believe outside him on Muscle Mountain in the NZ FFA Trot instead of taking the sit on the Aussie’s back. […]
Swayzee is the 2nd best pacer in the Southern Hemisphere. To better than hum makes Leap To Fame the greatest pacer down under that there has ever been. Blair Orange timed Dont Stop Dreaming’s final charge wrong, and went too early. If he’d held up for two seconds longer Swayzee may not have had time […]
The track at Addington yesterday was officially rated as fast, but if you believe that you will believe anything. This racing surface was crap. No horse in any of the four Group 1 races run on the day got within 4 seconds of the race record. I don’t know what the Addington track manager and […]
