Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Kiwi stewards and integrity board are far more strict on the application of the whip rule than their cousins over the ditch here in Australia. That was proven again on Friday night at Addington when Mark Purdon copped an 8 meeting suspension for using the whip on his pacer Chase A Dream with more […]
What you see above is from a story in yesterday’s NZ Herald by the doyen of Australasian harness racing writers Mick Guerin, the man of a million facial expressions. Trainer Matthew White doesn’t work out of Cambridge, and hasn’t for some time now. These days White trains at Clevedon, 2 hours to the north. You’d […]
What an absolutely outstanding contest tomorrow night’s Group 1 3YO Flying Stakes run over 1980m at Addington is, as you’d expect from a top-flight race that has been won over the years by champions of the ilk of Master Musician, Il Vicolo, Holmes GD, Courage Under Fire, Monkey King, Auckland Reactor, Changeover, Lazarus, and Copy […]
The Kiwis are going crazy about their slot runner I Wish I Win in the Everest, and under the new partnership with Entain isn’t the race being outstandingly promoted? There hasn’t been this much NZ interest in a race over the ditch since the Melbourne Cup for years. This is the sort of thing you’d […]
How does a horse who won last start when it’s driver carried a whip turn out at its very next start without one? Have the connections turned into animal libbers? Why would they make such a decision? An even better question is why the Stewards would allow them to. It doesn’t do a lot to […]
Repeat Pat was a 5YO in hitherto fine fettle until 3 weeks ago. And then it died. On the training track. The official story is that it drowned in the pool. Only the person telling that tale and the Wizard’s apprentice in Christchurch square believe it. Why is that so many seemingly healthy horses from […]
The spring carnival hopes of NZ Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart – who conquered Imperatriz to win that title – look to be in tatters after his inglorious run yesterday afternoon at Hastings to finish last in the Group 1 Arrowfield Stud Plate. It was an absolutely atrocious performance from the triple Group […]
See the Mrs S. Williams in the ownership of the horse pictured at top? That’s Sue Williams. Her husband is Brent Williams. He is a member of the NZ Racing Integrity Board. They are the organisation responsible for policing integrity in harness racing in Aotearoa. The crew that employ the racing Stewards. Trainer CD Edmonds […]
See this horse purchased for $25 000 at the yearling sales in Auckland last year? It is the same one being syndicated here for $120.00 per 1/1000th share by the Canary, a stooge merchant named Andrew Fitzgerald who runs an unauthorised syndication company called Off N Racing. https://www.offnracing.co.nz/product/124/lot-44-father-patrick-daenerys-targaryen/ That price values the $25 000 horse […]
Maurice McKendry was a wonderful driver over a long number of years, but all roads end except those to nowhere and I reckon his has. The man they call Magic drove the dual NZ Cup winner Copy That in a race that he should have won at Alexandra Park on Friday night, and got it […]
