Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Anyone who has an interest in New Zealand racing of either code should be interested in this superb episode of the Guerin Report in which NZ’s pre-eminent racing journalist and commentator Mick Guerin explains the financial and governance dilemmas facing both codes on the shaky islands side of the ditch, asks the questions of the […]
I was watching the NZ Trackside coverage of the trots using the VPN on Friday night, and was shocked to see popular presenter Greg O’Connor waxing lyrical in praise of the wholesale cuts to prizemoney. Trackside brought all the major races up on screen, and had all the rich slot races gone and two new […]
What I have reproduced below is a missive from Gary Chittick about the Project Stamina team report and recommendations for the reform of New Zealand racing. Like most things that Chittick writes, it is well worth a read. ————————————- It would appear I now have to continue my weekly Corner with the amount of rumblings at the […]
Just weeks after the highly regarded Kiwi business leader Anna Flynn’s appointment as Commercial Director of Harness Racing New Zealand, the organisation’s ‘Strategic Racing Advisor’ John Mooney has, like Elvis, left the building, and good riddance many participants in the industry are saying. Mooney – a one time lawyer, bankrupt, and purported defaulter on his […]
I have said plenty about the ineptitude of Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) chairman Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon, a small retail timepiece trader who driven by ambition voluntarily threw himself into a position well and truly beyond his depth. There is no need for me to say anymore. Watches says it all for himself. What you see […]
The Race (first by Grins, and later by Betcha) was the most successful pop-up slot race in New Zealand harness racing history. In the space of five years it was won once each by three NZ Pacers of the Year – Self Assured, Copy That and Merlin – and twice by the 4-time Australian Horse […]
By Edward Rennell – CEO Greyhound Racing NZ (and a damn good bloke) Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) concludes its operations at 11.59pm tonight, bringing to a close more than a century of organised greyhound racing in New Zealand. Tonight marks the end of a way of life for many New Zealand families whose commitment […]
The Project Stamina report with its myriad of actual and potential track closures is grabbing all the headlines in NZ after its release earlier in the week, and the poor old dogs are finished after tonight, but it amongst it all there is something rather important that has been missed. The new racing financial year […]
We will have a lot more to say about the recommendations of the so-called One Equine View propounded in the Project Stamina report released yesterday in due course after we have read and dissected it a few more times, but here is our initial warning about the whole thing. Don’t fall for the feint, or […]
Bruce Negus is famous as the trainer of the champion Kiwi pacer Courage Under Fire. Together he and the midget pacer won 24 races in a row, including six Derbies, the Great Northern, NZ, Victorian, NSW, QLD and Australian. It had never been done before, and it never will again. What happened to Bruce Negus […]
