Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The exodus of fertile NZ mares to China continues. After our pointed questions about the exports a few weeks back, this time the Chinese buyers have thrown a few colts in. I won’t tell you what they do with horse’s testicles in China. Take a guess. Notice that the male sales are all young. So […]
Cameron Ross is the Aung San Suu Kyi of NSW harness racing, a person persecuted in ways that boggle the mind. Two years ago a horse trained by the Victorian licensee Greg Norman threw a positive swab to the substance Dexamethasone. Norman got a $5000 fine with $4000 of it suspended, meaning that his real […]
This is a supplementary report that the NZ Government asked the Racing Integrity Board to produce about how to shut greyhound racing in that country down. Why would they ask for such a thing if they didn’t intend to do it? They didn’t ask for a report into keeping the industry going did they? This […]
Trot driver Sheryl Wigg is well named. The Wigg bit anyway. Everyone needs a good disguise after all. Just ask a millionaire knockabout Hong Kong punting genius with two first names, he will tell you. Sheryl Wigg got sprung giving three horses something over the tongue on race day. She was as guilty as sin, […]
Introduction [1] I issued a judgment in this matter on 14 March 2023. [2] The parties have been unable to agree on costs. The applicant now seeks an award of costs on a 2B basis and any necessary disbursements: (a) on her application for stay, which Woolford J granted on 30 May 2022; and (b) […]
Arsenic is not regarded as performance enhancing, but its presence at levels above the threshold is regarded as likely to be injurious to the health and welfare of a horse. That’s what the Adjudicative Committee of the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board said last week in the case of the Stewards v Ian Jamieson. What […]
New Zealand trainer Graeme Telfer’s stables were raided by Stewards employed by the Racing Integrity Board. They discovered in his possession a galvanised steel pipe with a portion of barbed wire coiled around a section of the pipe and secured by electrical tape, with a short leather strap attached to the opposite end. It was […]
As hard as it is to believe at a time when Harness Racing New Zealand was slashing prize money until Entain came along and saved them, the same HRNZ are flying its former chairman John Coulam, the man in charge during the period of most of the recent mess, and its new board member the […]
The latest is that after Aimee Edmonds unsuccessfully pointed the blame at former stable Stonewall training partner for the positive swab to what we can now confirm is bute thrown by one of their h0rses, they are now blaming the person who mixes the feed. Apparently Steve and Jill Stockman are going to issue a […]
There was seriously wrong with the Stonewall mare Ardie’s Express in the main race at Addington on Friday night. Ardie’s went off as 2nd favourite and led until halfway around the turn before galloping free of any checks, but she never, ever seemed comfortable at any stage of the race and just wasn’t pacing quite […]
