Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just weeks after the highly regarded Kiwi business leader Anna Flynn’s appointment as Commercial Director of Harness Racing New Zealand, the organisation’s ‘Strategic Racing Advisor’ John Mooney has, like Elvis, left the building, and good riddance many participants in the industry are saying. Mooney – a one time lawyer, bankrupt, and purported defaulter on his […]
I have said plenty about the ineptitude of Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) chairman Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon, a small retail timepiece trader who driven by ambition voluntarily threw himself into a position well and truly beyond his depth. There is no need for me to say anymore. Watches says it all for himself. What you see […]
The Race (first by Grins, and later by Betcha) was the most successful pop-up slot race in New Zealand harness racing history. In the space of five years it was won once each by three NZ Pacers of the Year – Self Assured, Copy That and Merlin – and twice by the 4-time Australian Horse […]
By Edward Rennell – CEO Greyhound Racing NZ (and a damn good bloke) Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) concludes its operations at 11.59pm tonight, bringing to a close more than a century of organised greyhound racing in New Zealand. Tonight marks the end of a way of life for many New Zealand families whose commitment […]
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 […]
We will have a lot more to say about the recommendations of the so-called One Equine View propounded in the Project Stamina report released yesterday in due course after we have read and dissected it a few more times, but here is our initial warning about the whole thing. Don’t fall for the feint, or […]
Bruce Negus is famous as the trainer of the champion Kiwi pacer Courage Under Fire. Together he and the midget pacer won 24 races in a row, including six Derbies, the Great Northern, NZ, Victorian, NSW, QLD and Australian. It had never been done before, and it never will again. What happened to Bruce Negus […]
Why do racing licensees like the Kiwi driver in the decision below place bets in breach of the rules on accounts held in their own name? Or allow others to do it, either tacitly or by implication? What is wrong with these people? Why don’t they just use bowlers? Everyone else does. BACKGROUND: Prior to […]
The mail out of Albion Park on Saturday night is that club Chairman Greg Mitchell and his wife Sharon, herself a board member, will announce their resignations from the roles tomorrow. The Mitchells are said to be relocating to the South Island of New Zealand, which is a very strange move for anyone from the […]
One of the strangest stories to come out of Albion Park on Saturday night wasn’t about ID26, or even the trots at Albion Park. It was about a race at Addington back in May, the Welcome Stakes. Now I can’t see the problem with the race myself, for it just looked to be a bold […]
