Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade […]
As we told you a month ago that he would, the disqualified for 8 years drug cheating Kiwi harness trainer Nigel McGrath last week exploited a ludicrous provision in the NZ rules to attempt to have his DQ cancelled. The rule in question is number 1205 Cancellation of Disqualification, which reads in the relevant part […]
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 […]
There is only one word to describe yesterday’s NZB Standardbred National Weanling Sale. Disaster. The arse fell out of the market. When you exclude the top priced lot and the other yealing in the draft, average weanling prices dropped by over 20%, from $11 495 down to $9191. That’s barely worth the price of a […]
What do you think of this strange drive down the straight by Paul Nairn on the horse outside the leader? I reckon it was a wee bit red hot. Why was he looking around so much when he had a lapful of horse that he never let go? Why didn’t he let it go? The […]
We don’t have a replay of the first attempt of the start of race 9 at Invercargill on Sunday so we can’t show you exactly what happened, but it’s clear that 2 drivers took their horses to the wrong positions and the the starter allowed them to do it. They would have raced from the […]
The word from across the ditch is that as we predicted some weeks back, the current Albion Park chairman Brad Steele has been offered and has accepted the CEO role at Harness Racing New Zealand. An official announcement will be made next week is the mail. Steele’s brother Scott won’t be able to travel over […]
As widely predicted, the NZ harness racing identity recently convicted of offences against a child has avoided jail, and was today sentenced to a term of 10 months home detention. Standard conditions applying to offenders serving a sentence of home detention in New Zealand include: reporting regularly to community probation restrictions on living and working arrangements […]
Watch the horse out the back in the yellow colors, the one drawn on the outside of the 2nd row from the start, the mark they call the unruly. This is supposed to be a standing start. For that horse it turned out to be a flyer. Since when were they allowed to run at […]
The disgraced New Zealand harness racing identity who was recently convicted of a child sex offence and shortly thereafter threw in their license will face the court today for sentencing. Everyone is saying that a deal has been struck to give them home detention rather than a jail sentence. It’s probably right, for the courts […]
