Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By Garrick Knight; Harness Xpress Rumours have a habit of getting around like wildfire in our relatively small industry and the main one over the past fortnight relates to the former Alabar Stud. The well-appointed 102-hectare seaside Waiau Pa property is up for lease after being vacated by Alabar recently. Concurrently, Auckland Trotting Club officials […]
If QLD harness’s half baked idea for a replacement premier venue is an 800m track inside the Toowoomba gallops track then I’m staying where I am or moving to Auckland……. I favour the later…….especially if Alabar’s farm is the new training centre as rumored, right by the Ocean. Belle from Burnie
Have you ever before in your life seen a race like this one at Alexandra Park on Friday night? It’s a rating 55 -70 BUT a horse rated up to 115 can run in it IF its driven by a concession junior driver. That means that a junior driver concession is worth up to 45 […]
Miki Flybye at the National Yearling Sale, back when his front legs were healthy and sound Serious questions are being asked about the break down of the lightly raced Miki Flybye in the first race at Addington on Friday night. Miki Flybye fractured a sesamoid in the front right fetlock. He was immediately taken to […]
Kiwi two-year-old Zeus Lightning – a full brother to Bollinger, who ran 2nd to Akuta in a GGroup 1 Northern Derby – may well be the best named horse in the world. Not because of the gelding’s breeding. Because of this. It was the young pacer’s first lifetime start. Wow! Lightning indeed.
There is talk out of New Zealand that leading harness operation Stonewall Stud, which employs Steve and Amanda Telfer as its trainers, has placed a media ban on stable employees that prevent them from appearing on screen for post-race and other forms of interviews. The reason behind the ban is said to be dissatisfaction on […]
Auckland Trotting Club members voted on Wednesday night to approve the sale of the Franklin Training Center (Pukekohe) to a company named Oyster Capital for circa $70 million, which after legal and sale expenses is about exactly the $68 million we told you some months ago that the property would sell for, a figure that […]
The following story about HRNZ CEO Brad Steele and ATC Chairman Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon’s meeting on Wednesday with Pukekohe based trot trainers has been taken from the Facebook page of distinguished journalist Dr Barry Lichter. It first appeared on the website of Lincoln Farms but was removed shortly after. We don’t know why. Auckland Trotting […]
HRNZ CEO Brad “Superman” Steele can’t even photobomb a camera shot right. That’s him in his ubiquitous sky blue sports jacket obscured in the picture of the Derby presentation above. You have to ask why Harness Racing New Zealand CEO Brad Steele has spend last two weeks on a work paid holiday at ID25, when […]
The word is that HRNZ CEO Brad ‘Superman’ Steele is proposing/promising to contribute $13 million toward the construction of a new track and stables t0 replace the Franklin Training Centre, with the Auckland Trotting Club to kick in any extra money required. There are two problems with Superman’s proposal/promise, and both of them are significant. […]
