Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Sent to me at 11.02 am Friday by a man in the know The pacer Suzanne was a pretty ordinary mare until recently. She had raced 14 times at the bottom end of the South Island of New Zealand for her then trainer Robbie Swain, who is a pretty fair horseman, but the best she’d […]
We have written many times about the now 4yo Kiwi pacer Marketplace, and on every occasion have told you how damn good this bloke is. Australian fans didn’t quite see it when he came over in the winter, mainly because their parochialism blinds them. Marketplace won 2 from 4 over here, and ran 2nd to […]
As we have told you previously, Duke Of Bourbon is the best 2yo trotter in New Zealand, and probably Australia too, and he might even be the best of his gait up to three in either country too, he is that good. The problem however is that the Duke is a head case. He just […]
Harness Racing New Zealand’s Horse Naming Policy decrees that names that fit into the following categories must not be approved by CEO for standardbred race horses. Names that: Might cause offence to a reasonable person Are indecent Are undignified Have political, religious or sacred significance When spoken would sound similar to a name that would not […]
