Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ray Green has just given an interview after the NZ Cup and declared Copy That as the best horse he has ever trained, better even than King of Swing. That’s some wrap by a man who would know. What a shame that thanks to the Leyland Brothers style programming he’s not coming to the Inter […]
Copy That had to beat COVID-19, the North Island hoodoo, a stunning team drive by Nat and Mark, and the 2nd best horse in Australasia to win the NZ Trotting Cup today. And he did it! Congratulations to Merv Butterworth and his wife Meg. Merv has been telling me for more than a year now […]
What’s going on over there in New Zealand on Cup Day is just so ridiculous that it makes a mockery of the game. Mark Purdon has driven the winners of five of the seven races so far. The last two were legless at their last starts, absolutely legless. 18 days ago All About Faith ran […]
“As long as it is a fair start then we will get our chance and he is usually very good from a stand.” If that is the case on Tuesday, Green would love to see driver Blair Orange head forward and look for the lead, a position Copy That has been almost unbeatable from in […]
The NZ Trotting Cup next Tuesday is being widely criticised for lacking quality. The critics are kidding themselves. There are only four chances in the race, but each of them in their own way are brilliant, and the storylines are never-ending. North v South. Purdon v Rasmussen. Old v Young. Champion v Champion. Warhorse v […]
If you are doing the NZ Trotting Cup form for next Tuesday, it is worth seeing the short video clip below. It’s a slow, slow motion replay of the start. The horse you are looking at it South Coast Arden, one of the favourites for the Cup. It is drawn the outside on your far […]
Oh man, how badly did David Butcher stuff this drive up on Copy That in the 2019 NZ Sires Stakes? Up until they hit the straight it was the perfect drive, a ten out of ten; but then for no reason at all that I can see, the Chief decided to sit up on the […]
Self-Assured is a super horse. He ran 53.2 seconds for his last half, and a sizzling 25.7 seconds for the final 400m. Sure they ran 1.5 seconds slower overall than the track record holder Eamon Maguire did in 2018, bit that horse like the runner-up here Classie Brigade did it up the sprint lane from […]
Well how is this for timing? On Thursday we publish a story highly critical of the Racing Integrity Board in which we highlight the deficiencies in the newly introduced system of an external Adjudicative Committee hearing and determining matters that have been traditionally the domain of racing stewards in each of the codes, and questioning […]
The Grand Circuit is the world heavyweight championship of harness racing. It’s fought over seven gruelling rounds of super-elite racing designed to sort the men out from the boys and girls. I’m not using that phrase to be sexist, simply because it is the truth. Just as world women’s heavyweight champ Hanna Gabriels wouldn’t last 10 […]
