Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The original Duke of Bourbon (above). Have a look at the run of this debutante 2yo trotter Duke Of Bourbon at Alexandra Park on Friday night. It was backed from $4.00 into $1.85, and although it got beaten you can see why. The inexperienced Duke became unbalanced and galloped at the start, and lost who […]
A member of a well known NZ harness racing family has just had a very lucky reprieve in the NZ courts. The bloke – a trainer – has been granted a no conviction record for his indecent assault on a poor innocent young female trot paricipant. The decision is a disgrace. What is worse is […]
The Board of HRNZ advises that our Chief Executive Officer, Brad Steele, has resigned from his position. Brad’s final day in the role and the office will be Friday 24 April, after which he will be returning to live in Australia. Brad has led HRNZ for nearly two years and has made a significant contribution […]
The news just out of the city of the brown river snake is that Brad Steele has resigned as CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand. We alluded in a story on Friday night that this was going to happen, when we told you that Steele had been looking for a job back home in Brisbane. […]
I had a call from our man Dirk tonight. You know him, the world’s greatest fan of The Janitor, the bloke I bagged the bejesus out of until I became a convert to cleaning, which took a while. Dirk demanded an apology for me saying he was an idiot for claiming that The Janitor was […]
Well we are not being smart about it, but you can’t say that we didn’t put our balls on the line to give you the tip can you? Big credit is due to Pete the Putter for bouncing the form off me and back at him and back at me again and hit repeat (pardon […]
Peter Please print my views unabridged. Harness racing in NZ has been told it’s unsustainable once the Entain guaranteed money runs out — and that falls squarely on Brad Steele. He’s had more funding than any CEO before him and has wasted it. Instead of fixing the fundamentals, he’s pushed costly ideas like NextGen while […]
The first wave Aussie raiders hit the Cambridge trots in just over an hour. Leap to Fame is not there yet, but the other two Queensland stars are. Gus got his arse kicked by Keayang Zahara last time out in the Hammerhead at Menangle after a poor Peter McMullen drive, but being beaten by the […]
We are yet to see the report of the TAB Advisory Committee referred to in this press release issued today by HRNZ, but reading between the lines its content is obvious. HRNZ has received all this money from Entain in addition to having their income guaranteed for five years from the date 0f signing of […]
Well, well, well. It appears from this latest release that the mail we got from Cambridge may have been wrong. We are now hearing that the once thought to be suspect payments that former CEO David Branch received from the club may have been simply repayments of money that Branch kicked in from his personal […]
