Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
26 April 2024 , Punters Info By Michael Guerin Barry Purdon has been training great horses long enough to know tonight’s $110,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile could look very good, or very bad, for Merlin after just 200m. Purdon and training partner Scott Phelan have three reps in the Group 1 sprint at Alexandra Park but […]
Take a look at this race 4 at Cambridge last night and tell me that Maurice McKendry on the horse in the green and white colours was trying to beat the winner. I don’t think so. McKendry was trying to get it beaten so that the unofficial stablemate and favorite driven by the octogenarian Dr […]
The whispers out of Christchurch are that the current chairman of the Albion Park trots Brad Steele is a lay down misere to win appointment to the crucial role as CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand, replacing Gary Woodham who recently resigned due to ill-health. Brad Steele is little known among Kiwi industry participants, but […]
Following the partial abandonments of race meetings at Ellerslie on 10 and 20 April, New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR), in conjunction with Auckland Thoroughbred Racing (ATR), advises that the planned winter renovation of the track will commence immediately with the race meeting scheduled to be held at Ellerslie on May 25th moving to Pukekohe Park. […]
Unless otherwise stated, references in this chapter to: ‑ sections, are to the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (CPA) ‑ rules, are to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2012 (“the rules”). When can costs orders be made? The court may make a costs order where there has been a significant procedural failure in the course of a […]
by Jake Kenny Early one spring morning in 2018, teams of police officers began storming harness racing stables around the country. Over the next two days, 17 properties – stables and homes in Canterbury, Manawatū and Invercargill belonging to some of the sport’s top identities – were raided, culminating in 11 industry figures being accused […]
Every horse trainer of either code in New Zealand is up in arms about the ridiculously light 4-month disqualification that the Racing Integrity Board have handed down to the animal abuser Kurtis Pertab, and quite rightly so, for this vile grub should have been banned for life for what he did, or at least outed […]
Archie Somebody this side of the ditch deserves a severe kicking – sadly its me!! Last night sitting in our local having a beer and a bet (or several) up comes the odds for the much delayed Race 6 from Goulburn Harness. As you will be aware there were 4 late scratchings in the race, […]
Nez Zealand’s new $55 million track at Ellerslie is an unmitigated disaster. That has been evident from opening day in January, and it just looks to be getting worse after yesterday’s meeting had to be abandoned due to safety concerns after only 6 races had been run, making it the 2nd meeting in a row […]
Nigel McGrath is a cheat. By his own reckoning McGrath was giving his horses the banned substance propantheline bromide – a muscle relaxant that works like EPO by increasing the flow of blood – for two years during the Blue Magic scandal that resulted in 2 people dead, supposedly by suicide, although few believe the […]
