Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
New Zealand’s favorite unregistered syndicator Andrew ‘the Canary” Fitzgerald has unleashed another of his world class stooges on innocent trot fans eager to become involved at the lower end of the ownership spectrum. The horse in question is the filly Smackdown, the knock kneed pacer in the picture that the Canary has been selling 1/1000th […]
Hall of Fame member and harness racing legend Barry Purdon returns to the cart for his first drive in six years this afternoon at Alexandra Park. Purdon, whose last race drive was way back in 2019, takes the reins on his highly talented but often temperamental 3-year-old square gaiter Higher Power in the fourth race […]
The problem with small field sizes for harness races in the North Island of New Zealand continues apace, with 2/3rds of races run or about to be run this month in the region having fields of less than 8 runners, the sort of numbers that spell wagering turnover death. Cambridge is the worst affected track, […]
The race for the all-time trainers record is on as the Steve and Amanda Telfer partnership seek to break Roy and Barry Purdon’s 31-year long record of 168 winners in a season. With three months of the season still left to run the Telfers have racked up 137 wins from 642 starters at a strike […]
About three months back we wrote a story illustrating the problems with Harness Racing New Zealand CEO Brad Steele’s proposal to use proceeds from the forced sale of the Forbury Park track to help the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) build a new training center and track to replace the Franklin Park facility the ATC is […]
There is some great harness racing this weekend on both sides of the Tasman, with all the big guns on show. The first of them is the 4th heat of the Woodlands Sires Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings at Addington, run from the mobile over 1980m. Here is our take on it,= This may […]
Kiwi trainer Scott Dickson pulled off a massive plunge in the last race at Cambridge this evening with Melton Mogul, which was backed from $51.oo into $7.50 with bookmakers on both sides of the Tasman and landed the prize. Media Mogul came into the race with the form of a three-legged camel with a record […]
Story by Garrick Knight, Harness Xpress New Zealand’s export market is facing a strong headwind at present and latest projections have us on track to record the lowest numbers since records began. According to HRNZ, there were only 230 horses cleared out of the country by the end of September, and that is projected to […]
Axel Rose was the odds-on $1.80 favorite to win race 4 today at the Wyndham trots, and with good reason too for it has stepped away well, sat 1-1 early, been taken to the front mid-race and bolted in to win on debut at this track eighteen days ago and looked set to repeat the […]
Reinsman Jay Abernathy was charged by Stewards with an unacceptable drive for his steer on the horse challenging for the lead early in this race at Auckland in August. I couldn’t see anything wrong with Abernathy’s drive watching it live at the time, and after viewing it again last night on replay I still can’t […]
