Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The offers are in for the Pukekohe training center that the Auckland Trotting Club needs to pay the banks the $80 million they owe for the failed Alexandra Park property development. $67 million is the highest offer, payable over two years. $80m – $67m = a shortfall of $13 million, and no training track or […]
A recent disciplinary case heard by the NZ Racing Integrity Board has exposed the great hidden lie about the impending government shutdown of greyhound racing in New Zealand. During the hearing of the case involving trainer Bonnie Evans, which was about unrelated matters, it was revealed that whilst Evans had transferred a number of greyhounds […]
We witnessed something extraordinary at Alexandra Park on Friday night. The Great Northern Derby, which has been run over 2700m for the past half a century, was run over 2600m instead. It wasn’t supposed to – 2700m was the scheduled distance – but someone stuffed up. As the mobile reached the release point it just […]
Everyone’s favorite unregistered Kiwi trot syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald (pictured at top) is up to his old hyper-inflation of shares trick again. The Canary recently bought a moderately performed tried 6-year-old pacer named Star Magic for $8500 from an online Gavelhouse auction. He is selling shares in Star Magic for $1150 per 5 percent, […]
The disturbing news out of Auckland is that a convicted sex offender – who due to court issued suppression orders we shall refer to only as Offender X – is working for, and on the registered South Auckland training premises of, the largest harness racing operation in New Zealand. 10 Months Home Detention For Convicted […]
Winston Peters poses with Stamina in Mongolia. By Stewart Sowman-Lund When NZ Racing Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters looked a gifted horse in the mouth he decided to call it Stamina – but it almost had a very different name. Peters was in Mongolia back in February – the first visit to the nation […]
We wrote earlier about Cran Dalgety’s star filly Beside Me returning a positive swab to Meloxicam after winning a race at Wyndham earlier in the year. Well it appears as usual that we were right, for although there is no published record of either Dalgety having been charged with an offence by Stewards, or of […]
The B sample of the star filly Beside Me’s swab has come back positive to Meloxicam like the first, and now all we are waiting on is the RIB Stewards to charge trainer Cran Dalgety for presenting his girl to race with the prohibited substance in her system. It’s bad news for Dalgety, because if […]
It’s a fine line between hero and zero. Zac Butcher proved it behind Merlin in the Group 1 Taylor Mile at Auckland on Friday night. Merlin went back to last early over the mile from the outside of the front row draw. That shouldn’t have been a problem, for with Jolimont setting a cracking pace […]
A couple of months ago we told you about Zev Meredith, the junior driver with a pot problem who, when he realised the Stewards were doing drug testing at Alexandra Park, phoned in to tell them his car had broken down and he couldn’t get to the races, and then turned up at the track. […]
