Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just a matter of weeks after Don’t Stop Dreaming was transferred out of the Nathan Purdon barn and into Hayden Cullen’s, we are told that he is moving back into Purdon’s care. What has prompted the change of mind by the owners of the star 4-year-old is unknown, but we are told that it is […]
Kiwi trainer Mark Jones had to wait a while for it to happen, but with Tempo Warrior’s win tonight at Addington he has finally cracked the 800 career win mark. It’s well known that I am no big fan of Jones, but credit where credit due, 8oo wins is a great achievement and not many […]
The talk in NZ racing circles is that a new player is about to enter the Kiwi legal bookmaking market. This new player’s called Betcha, and the whisper is it’s set to commence operations sometime in the next 8 weeks. Our spies who have told us these things are asking how it can be? After […]
This is an email that every Kiwi’s favorite trot syndicator The Canary (aka Andrew Fitrzgerald) last week sent out to people on his mailing list, trying to flog them a 0.1% share in the horse SCOTT for $100 bucks. There are a few problems with The Canary’s pitch. One is that a hundred bucks for […]
In a shock development today the Group 1 winners Don’t Stop Dreaming and We Walk By Faith have been pulled out of the Mark and Nathan Purdon barn and transferred to their former training partner Hayden Cullen. The move is said to have been triggered by owners Mark and Dennis Dunford’s dissatisfaction with Mark Purdon’s […]
Hi Archie Couldn’t let the postings re Auckland Trotting Club go by without some sort of answer. For the record none of the shite written by Guerin is new – it has been common knowledge for at least 12 months that the club has been accruing interest at over $100k per week since the Gleneagles […]
Much loved Kiwi horsewoman Katie Cox lost her brave battle with cancer yesterday. She was only 34. They say that only the good die young. This wonderful young woman’s passing proves it. Katie’s favorite pacer Spy Da Moment lines up in the 7th at Addington tonight, where the track will be awash with tears. Spy […]
He needs to be very careful that man. I know he has got it in for the RIB, he needn’t make it so obvious or he’ll be in trouble – RIB Adjudicative Chair Russell Mackenzie On the 30th of May everyone’s favorite Kiwi trainer Mark Jones attended a Stewards Inquiry to support driver Robbie Close, […]
We have written previously about the openly condoned dishonesty of the Dunn Stable in New Zealand, and how HRNz and the NZ Racing Integrity Board’s failure to act on their blatant fraud damages the integrity of racing by allowing the true trainer of the stable’s horses John Dunn to so often break the rules. It […]
The mail out of the North Island is that dual-code trainer Graeme ‘Rogie’ Rogerson, whose joint training arrangement with Dylan Ferguson ended about a month ago when Ferguson resigned, will soon set up a new training partnership with widely respected horseman James Stormont (pictured below). Stormont, who is presently working down in Christchurch at Claymore […]
