Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Visiting UK jockey Will Featherstone was pretty excited about riding his first New Zealand winner. So excited that he showboated for the camera, not realising of course that it was on the other side. The Stewards and the RIB adjudicator didn’t share the Englishman’s joy. They hit him with a $300 fine. Poor bastard’s winning […]
Many in New Zealand are asking themselves an awful question right now. What’s worse? A kiddy fiddler of someone who gives bicarbonate to a horse? The answer is self-evident. It’s the convicted sex offender. Why then is a formerly high-profile Kiwi harness racing participant who falls into that category allowed back at the track less […]
Brad Collins is a Kiwi barrier attendant who works at tracks in the lower North Island. On the 15th of April he was at the Foxton trials loading horses into the gates when a 3 year old gelding named Reggae Man that one of his colleagues as trying to coax into the gate started playing […]
Just days after we highlighted the issue in a story published on this site, HRNZ have announced a review into how the conditions of the prestigious black type race the Group 3 IRT Young Guns Trotters Final were altered without a general notification to all participants. The secret alteration somehow became known to the connections […]
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has today announced an independent review arising from the circumstances of the IRT 2YO Young Guns Final Mobile Trot, Race 3, held at Alexandra Park on Saturday, 10 May 2025. The review will address questions and concerns raised, and make recommendations to HRNZ. This review follows industry discussion surrounding the […]
There are dark clouds of controversy hanging over the field selection procedures for the $45 625 Group 3 IRT Young Guns Trot Final, and quite rightly too. The Young Guns is a series, and like all series it is run with qualifying heats and a final. In this years series there were two heats run, […]
Carter Dalgety wears his hair weird so no-one can see if he has a brain Weight stops trains they say, but I can stop weight. The Cooler one of my mates calls me, and perhaps he’s right, for yesterday I put the cool on Carter Dalgety well and truly. Readers will be aware that I […]
7 Apr 2025 A strategically located development site in the rapidly growing location of Pukekohe is available for purchase and offers developers the opportunity to acquire a major landholding that has scope for residential, commercial, and industrial projects. The 35.2ha freehold site is spread across multiple titles and is situated at 240-242 Station Road and 27 […]
By Garrick Knight, published in The Harness Xpress, 8 May 2025 It’s crunch time for the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) as it looks to lock in a deal to sell the Franklin Park Training Centre in Pukekohe in an effort to reduce debt. Appointed sales agents, Colliers International, called for expressions of interest by April 17 […]
The offers are in for the Pukekohe training center that the Auckland Trotting Club needs to pay the banks the $80 million they owe for the failed Alexandra Park property development. $67 million is the highest offer, payable over two years. $80m – $67m = a shortfall of $13 million, and no training track or […]
