Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I keep telling you that G0t The Chocolates is a superstar. Watch what it did again at Addington last might and if you don’t already believe me, perhaps now you will. The scary thing is that Marketplace is just as good. They are the best two pacers in New Zealand, my favourite horse Merlin and […]
I have to preface what f0llows by saying that I backed the winner Princess Gracy. and profited from her victory considerably. So I am not talking through my kick. When I watched the Listed Magnus Benrow Sires Stakes Northern Mares Classic live last night, and as I watch it on replay (below) since, I keep […]
Cody Cole Despite the prominent trainer having been convicted in January of failing to attend the testing van to provide a urine/blood sample when directed to do so by Stewards, there has still been no penalty decision in the Cody Cole case. In the interim period Cole has increased the size of his team of […]
Further to our earlier story about the appointment of Roddy Butt as an NZRIB harness racing steward, we are advised that measures have been put in place to ensure that the conflicts we envisaged in the story will not occur. Butt is presently undergoing 3 months training in the South Island, and after that is […]
See the Steward R. Butt? That’s Roddy Butt. Brother to Anthony, who is now a driver in the Canterbury area, and Chrissie Dalgety, who is a trainer in partnership with Cran Dalgety and mother of gun driver Carter. Roddy Butt is related to all the Butts – Chris, David, Kimberley, Bob and more – and […]
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen for almost a year now that the Kiwi 4-year-old pair of Marketplace and Got The Chocolates are absolute superstars, with a split hair between them. We haven’t seen Marketplace yet this year, but last night we saw Chocolates resume in the Autumn FFA at Addington in his first […]
If the Group 3 Lincoln Farm Founders Cup last night at Alexandra Park last night was any indication then North Island harness racing looks to have a veritable Autumn full of racing riches ahead. A star studded field of pacers lined up in the 1700m race, with the cream of the NZ crop Merlin, Republican […]
The recently named former law boss who repeatedly exposed his female staff to porn on his computer has been working as an adjudicator and steward at the Racing Integrity Board, Stuff can reveal. Damian Botherway – the former principal of a Waikato-based boutique commercial law firm and a premier division rugby union referee – was named on Monday as the […]
This time a year ago the Kiwi trotter Bet N Win was the next big thing. He was eating Group 1’s up like they were candy, a looked for a moment like he’d be the next Lyell Creek. Then he bumped into Arcee Phoenix in the Inter Dominion final got a touch up. And after […]
4 312 days is fair gap between drinks isn’t it? Anthony Butt managed it. Last night the great man drove his first winner in Alexandra Park in all that time. It was a great drive too, an absolute cracker. There will be many, many more too. Ants might be my age, but he b ounces […]
