Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Champion pacer. Brilliant galloper. Gorgeous wife. Great life. Lovely family. And the New Zealand Trotting Cup. It doesn’t bet any better than this. Or happen to nicer people. Good on you Meg and Merv. You deserve it.
At 8.30 this morning our time Merv Butterworth rang me as he was walking onto the Addington track. I was going to there too, but I lost my passport. Anyone seen it anywhere? This is what Merv said. He was right. Good on you mate. You bloody beauty! PS – they was a typo. It […]
The word we are hearing on the jungle wire is Australia’s most handsome Kiwi stable hand Sir Richard Lee is raising Polly eyebrows at his mates all over town, and giving them the eye flick too. For the benefit of all you pakeha and palangi’s out there I will translate. The model like mokopuna is […]
NZ Trotting Cup day is always one of the greatest of the year in harness racing. This year’s no different. It’s a cracker of a card. Here’s our take on every race on the program. RACE 1 – SAUNDERS ROBINSON BROWN TROT 2600m This race is an absolute raffle. Call Me Trouble is probably the […]
Jason Bonnington does his best Jesus impression on Trots TV, and claims in a disparaging tone that Tuesday’s NZ Cup isn’t the best we have ever seen, meaning that in his opinion it’s far from it. He wouldn’t know shit from clay, or his arse from his ear. Every single runner in this 15 horse […]
We have written a few times about our concerns that driver Tim Williams is getting an inside run from the Racing Integrity Board Stewards by virtue of the fact that his father Brent Williams is a member of the Board, and therefore in effect the stipes ultimate boss. It happened again in the big Group […]
The Ashburton Flying Stakes is – like the NZ Trotting Cup for pacers – one of the silliest named races in the world, for if you didn’t know you’d guess for all money it was a mobile start over a mile. It’s not though, it’s a 2400m race from a stand. It is also one […]
I am not sure if the New Zealanders have noticed, but the past three editions of their biggest harness race The Cup has been won by horses owned by Australians. Given the prominence in the Cup market of Aussie owned horses like Copy That, Self Assured, Rock N Roll Doo and Majestic Cruiser, I have […]
I get very confused trying to follow Copy That’s program through a campaign. Anyone would. Ten days ago the reigning NZ Cup holder wasn’t racing again until the big one on the second Tuesday of November. Now all of a sudden he is racing two weeks in a row, tonight at Alexandra Park and next […]
The bookies are getting excited about the brilliant 3YO colt Akuta’s first-up win the Hannon Memorial at Oamaru yesterday, and have wound him into $6.00 second favourite behind Akuta to win the Kiwi’s premiere harness race the NZ Trotting Cup, which is actually a pace (go figure). I don’t share their enthusiasm at all, for […]
