Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Fresh off his amazing last start win at Menangle, Merlin returned to New Zealand tonight to turn on one of the best performances in a Cambridge Flying Mile ever seen. Merlin had to do it the hard way sitting 3 and 4 wide without cover other than for a few strides, and he didn’t get […]
Aussie handicapping system Don’t Stop Dreaming is a rating 120 pacer in Australia. In New Zealand it’s only a rating 107. Kango is rateg 118 in Australia. At home its merely a rating 99. Miracle Mile second placegetter Sooner The Bettor left Sydney as a rating 85. It stepped off the plane back to Auckland […]
After Carter Dalgety won the last at Addington on Saturday with a brilliant steer on Watermelon Sugar, the Trackside NZ commentator declared that he was the best young driver New Zealand had seen since the days of Dexter Dunn or Anthony Butt. It’s a proposition that’s pretty hard to disagree with based on his record […]
Andrew ‘the Canary’ Fitzgerald came good yesterday. Well sort of. Queen of Swords won heat of the Magnus Benrow Sires Stakes for 3yo fillies She was one of the 4 horses that Fitzerald syndicated in 0.2% slices worth $160 000 all up, or $64o per microshare. The prizemoney won by Queen of Swords yesterday was […]
Mighty Looee driven by John ‘Lurch’ Dunn was backed from $12.00 into $6.00 in the fast class race at Addington on Friday night. Stablemate Who’s Delight driven by Gavin Smith drifted from $3.80 to $4.80. The other stablemate Heisenberg blew out from $21 to $3q. If the market didn’t tell you which Dunn runner was […]
Take a look at the favorite Triple G in this race at Addington on Friday night, It’s in the Dunn colors of red black and white, starts from barrier 7, and is driven by Lurch (John Dunn). Have you ever seen a deader drive in your life? Lurch takes it back to last and second […]
Shirley Loraine Ross is a 78-year-old Kiwi woman who used to train greyhounds but due to ill-health hadn’t had a runner for 2 years. Despite this Shirley hung on t0 her greyhound license in hope that she would one day get back to the track. Hope is very important for elderly people who are unwell. […]
64 harness racing horses have been exported from New Zealand in the past month alone. 18 of them have gone to China for reasons unknown, given that country appears to have no active harness racing industry. The other 46 have been sent to Australia to race (44), or the United States (2), with almost all […]
A couple of high profile former harness racing licensees on both sides of the ditch named Cameron have recently had, or are about to have, their long disqualifications for egregious breaches of the racing rules expire. I speak here of Cameron Fitzpatrick in NSW who has served a 12-year disqualification for his involvement in the […]
Bronson Munro (pictured above) is an infamous sporting racist who, despite being part Maori himself, in 2016 got banned from playing footy for the better part of a year by the Canterbury Rugby Football Union after he called a Fijian born opponent a ‘black c**t’ during a game. Munro showed no repentance for his vile […]
