Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember the story we wrote a fortnight ago about how Max Delight should have been disqualified from its win in the Victorian Cup after Chris Alford gained an unfair advantage by entering the sprint lane early? Well it seems the NZ Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator agrees, for a near identical incident occurred at Tuapeka on […]
On the 14th of July this year, and many times before and after, we published stories telling you how the current custodians of the Auckland and Franklin Trotting Club and all the assets that they (the clubs, not the board members: not a cent of it is theirs) owned have turned the two once great […]
Well how is this for timing? On Thursday we publish a story highly critical of the Racing Integrity Board in which we highlight the deficiencies in the newly introduced system of an external Adjudicative Committee hearing and determining matters that have been traditionally the domain of racing stewards in each of the codes, and questioning […]
The Grand Circuit is the world heavyweight championship of harness racing. It’s fought over seven gruelling rounds of super-elite racing designed to sort the men out from the boys and girls. I’m not using that phrase to be sexist, simply because it is the truth. Just as world women’s heavyweight champ Hanna Gabriels wouldn’t last 10 […]
When the New Zealand Racing Integrity Unit was set up in the wake of the Messara report there was great hope that the new, independent (to a degree) body would jump boots and all into the job and start cleaning up the plague of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. On the evidence published to […]
FRIDAY – AUCKLAND Race 2 No 5 – The Mighty Miki Chris ‘C.J.’ Ryder’s colt trained by Barry Purdon’s looked really good in it’s trial. On debut here, but as long as he paces cleanly he wins. Race 5 No 2 – Miss Montana This little one is a very good filly in the making, […]
You would think that if you became the first horse from Southand (the lower third of the NZ South Island) to win a Group 1 race in ten years you would be a certainty to win the Southland Horse of the Year, especially if the horse that you defeated in your win at the elite […]
James McDonald is a champion jockey, we all know that. Like all of he has his flaws off the racetrack, but they are not major, and they are not fatal. The young Malaysian jockey in New Zealand Yong Chew’s throat cancer might well be, all though we all hope not. Bloody hell, the poor kid […]
This following missive went out on various platforms yesterday to members of the Auckland Trotting Club foreshadowing a challenge to the President of the club that runs Alexandra Park and his board. The issues behind it are those we told you about in our story in June, but to reduce them to a few words […]
Gilbert Myles was a Robert Muldoon loving rank and file member of the NZ National Party (their equivalent of the LNP or the Liberal Party) who in 1990 stood as a stooge in the seemingly unwinnable seat of Roskill in Auckland – which had been held by Labour since 1957, and was considered the safest […]
