Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Why do racing licensees like the Kiwi driver in the decision below place bets in breach of the rules on accounts held in their own name? Or allow others to do it, either tacitly or by implication? What is wrong with these people? Why don’t they just use bowlers? Everyone else does. BACKGROUND: Prior to […]
The mail out of Albion Park on Saturday night is that club Chairman Greg Mitchell and his wife Sharon, herself a board member, will announce their resignations from the roles tomorrow. The Mitchells are said to be relocating to the South Island of New Zealand, which is a very strange move for anyone from the […]
One of the strangest stories to come out of Albion Park on Saturday night wasn’t about ID26, or even the trots at Albion Park. It was about a race at Addington back in May, the Welcome Stakes. Now I can’t see the problem with the race myself, for it just looked to be a bold […]
Hi Archie You think that Dream Light was a rort! If you want to buy a 10% share in the old trotter Voronov it will cost you $7800! https://www.offnracing.co.nz/product/208/voronov/ The Canary only paid 15k to buy the horse from Dr Luk Chin. Admittedly there are no training fees, but I assume this means because he’s […]
Everyone’s favorite Kiwi trot syndicator Andrew ‘the Canary’ Fitzgerald has pulled another classic rort on the unsuspecting punters keen to get a foot in the game, and this time he has outdone himself. The Canary bought a filly named Dream Light at the Gavelhouse online auction for $5 000 three weeks ago. https://standardbred.gavelhouse.com/results/search?search=dream%20light&page=0 He is […]
The tip is that Tact Teeva will lead in race 8 and hold, and that its driver the great A.M. Butt will only hand up to one horse when it comes. It’s stablemate Bettors Anvil. When he does its game over. Mail from inside the TAB bunker is that Bettors Anvil had been backed for […]
The joint harness/gallops review of NZ Racing – which was never even at all, because the gallops always held the majority vote – has come up with recommendations that are going to all but kill the trots. There are five of them. These are the headlines, Be afraid trot people, be very afraid indeed. Here […]
