Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It looks like the weak gutted Harness Racing NZ leadership can’t take criticism, and to avert it have blocked us from accessing its website. Good on them. This is what happens when you put Aussies in charge. Never mind. We will just use our VPN. Suckers. Kiss my arse.
Dear Peter Re the all conquering Robertson training partnership. Word on the street is they may or may not have had a positive recently. No trainers like them can improve horses like they have without a bit of help in my opinion. Their horses simply just don’t get tired. It reminds me of some of […]
Gus is the greatest certainty to win the Dominion Trot in a fortnight’s time that I have ever seen, and if he doesn’t win it I will give up punting. What this horse did on a rain soaked Saturday night at Albion Park in the pouring rain was extraordinary. First up for more than three […]
Last week we told you all about the mysteriously sudden magical powers of the Peter and Mitchell Ferguson team in New Zealand, tipped you a winner, and told you to back every horse the pair trained. I hope you took the tip, because Ward Lamon won again in a $25 000 final at Ashburton yesterday […]
It will be a busy few days for Grimson with Captains Mistress and Minos due to fly to NZ on Sunday – HRNZ website today The great problem with the trots both here in New Zealand and over the ditch in Oz is that everyone materially involved in the sport regards punters as absolute mugs, […]
We hope you took the tip we gave you about the Kiwi pacer Heaven Forbid yesterday. If you did you never had a moments concern. In the greatest form improvements since the biblical Lazarus leapt up out of the grave, the hitherto slow horse that hadn’t finished closer than 7th at any of its past […]
Heaven Forbid on its recent form looks like an absolute walker. It has won just 2 from 31, and its past 7 starts has run 980700P. On form it couldn’t win race 5 at Addington today if it had fifty meters start. But it has opened up at $2.90 favorite. There is a reason for […]
There is no better illustration of the problems plaguing north island New Zealand harness racing than the near farcical programs scheduled at Cambridge and Alexandra Park tonight and tomorrow night. Cambridge has managed to draw enough entrants for just five races, none with more than 9 starters, and not one rated higher than NR47. https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/fields/101502fd.htm […]
Sam Thornley, the driver of the horse that galloped here after being crossed for the death by the John Dunn driven runner, told Stewards after the race that the break was due to his horse cross-firing. Methinks Thornley was covering up for Dunn so that he didn’t cop a suspension. It sure looked like Dunn […]
Twenty six standardbred racehorses (trotters and pacers) were exported from New Zealand to China in the past month. https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/statistics/exportedhorses.htm Why? China are not a member of the International Trotting Association, and does not have a recognized or officially sanctioned harness racing industry. So why do Chinese buyers want these horses? And why, given the past […]
