Crazy Brave Crystal
Crystal Hackett is one of New Zealand’s most promising young drivers. She is also one of the bravest. It looked like the little champ actually enjoyed this ride. Crazy brave Crystal. Don’t try this at home.
Outrageous Fortune – Horse Doper Nigel McGrath Allowed Back into Harness Racing Despite Being Disqualified For Three More Years
Kiwi trainer/driver Nigel McGrath is a persistent serial cheat. In 2004 he was disqualified for 3 years (halved on appeal) for using the highly controversial banned performance enhancing drug Blue Magic, in part of a broader scandal that cost two men their lives. Years later he was suspended from driving – but incredibly not from […]
Some Habits Are Just Too Hard to Break
Harness Racing New Zealand is conducting a formal review of the recent controversial incident whereby the qualification rules for the prestigious 2YO Young Guns Trot series were altered to allow horses that hadn’t contested a heat to gain a place in the field for the final (the original published conditions were that only horses that […]
Maurice McKendry Gets Away With One
Did the 3 horse really over-race and contact the wheel of the 4 horse, causing it to gallop? Or did Maurice McKendry the driver of the 4 cut across the 3 when there wasn’t sufficient room because he was looking over his left shoulder to the outside instead of looking in to ensure there was […]
More NZ Gallopers Die on the Track Than Greyhounds
The human face of the greyhound industry In all the fervor about the NZ government shutting down greyhound racing there is one important statistic that many seem to have missed. Thoroughbred racing is more dangerous to racing animal’s welfare than greyhound racing ever is. The numbers of annual racetrack fatalities in each sport tells the […]
Greyhound Racing NZ seeks judicial review of Government’s racing ban
Greyhound Racing New Zealand has applied for a judicial review of the Government’s December decision to ban greyhound racing. It’s also seeking interim relief, in the form of a court order to stop the Crown working on the ban while the review is under way. Last year Racing Minister Winston Peters said the Government intended […]
Greyhound Racing NZ Start Judicial Review Proceedings
Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) has today applied, through its Counsel to the High Court, for a Judicial Review of the Government’s decision to ban greyhound racing from 31 July 2026. The statement of claim made to the Court says the decision broke fundamental rules of law, being inadequately informed, prepared and consulted on. There were only […]
They’d Have to Be Kidding Wouldn’t They?
Take a look at the video above and watch Carter Dalgety in the maroon and white colors come off the fence and smash Craig Ferguson in the teal silks out three-wide. Ferguson’s horse is checked by Dalgety’s actions – which were in breach of the rules in every sense – and it ends up costing […]
Can’t a Man Be Happy About Riding a Winner Anymore?
Visiting UK jockey Will Featherstone was pretty excited about riding his first New Zealand winner. So excited that he showboated for the camera, not realising of course that it was on the other side. The Stewards and the RIB adjudicator didn’t share the Englishman’s joy. They hit him with a $300 fine. Poor bastard’s winning […]
What’s Worse? – Sexual Assault or a Milkshake?
Many in New Zealand are asking themselves an awful question right now. What’s worse? A kiddy fiddler of someone who gives bicarbonate to a horse? The answer is self-evident. It’s the convicted sex offender. Why then is a formerly high-profile Kiwi harness racing participant who falls into that category allowed back at the track less […]