Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sent to me at 11.02 am Friday by a man in the know The pacer Suzanne was a pretty ordinary mare until recently. She had raced 14 times at the bottom end of the South Island of New Zealand for her then trainer Robbie Swain, who is a pretty fair horseman, but the best she’d […]
We have written many times about the now 4yo Kiwi pacer Marketplace, and on every occasion have told you how damn good this bloke is. Australian fans didn’t quite see it when he came over in the winter, mainly because their parochialism blinds them. Marketplace won 2 from 4 over here, and ran 2nd to […]
As we have told you previously, Duke Of Bourbon is the best 2yo trotter in New Zealand, and probably Australia too, and he might even be the best of his gait up to three in either country too, he is that good. The problem however is that the Duke is a head case. He just […]
Harness Racing New Zealand’s Horse Naming Policy decrees that names that fit into the following categories must not be approved by CEO for standardbred race horses. Names that: Might cause offence to a reasonable person Are indecent Are undignified Have political, religious or sacred significance When spoken would sound similar to a name that would not […]
We told you that the 2YO Kiwi trotter Duke of Bourbon was unbeatable if it didn’t gallop. But that is was every chance of doing so. It did. 30 meters out from the line when it was home to the world. This horse will be a ripper if Scott Phelan and Barry Purdon can ever […]
An asymmetrical return is a favorable risk-reward skew where you make substantially more when you are right than you lose when you are wrong. Investing strategies based on this approach focus on identifying opportunities where the potential upside significantly outweighs the potential downside, thereby creating a favourable risk-reward scenario. Which is why I think the […]
Cambridge as we know it is dead. The track still remains, but after this week’s votes to hand it and everything else except the unsecured debts over to Harness Racing New Zealand, the club that for so many years is gone, or survives as nothing but an asset-less shell anyway. Soon when the unsecured creditors […]
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
The great elephant in the room about the proposed Cambridge takeover by HRNZ is this question: What happens then? Project Stamina – the nation wide NZ Racing Review ordered by the Racing Minister, and conducted by an external consultancy group – has made a number of recommendations that directly impact both on Cambridge and on […]
What is happening? HRNZ is asking its member clubs to vote to take over the Cambridge Raceway and all of its assets. Why is it happening? Cambridge (under its various guises) is essentially broke. It owes $3 million in debts. $1.9 million of the debt is owed to HRNZ itself. The other $1.1 million is […]
