Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Your author, 2nd from right, collecting a Group 1 trophy at Alex Park back in the days when the world was wide. Which was only about 4 years ago. There are eight races on the card at Alexandra Park tonight. Four of them are trot races, three from discretionary marks off the stand. Of the […]
Michael Boots is as Australian as a koala, or Vegemite, or a baggy green cap. There is no Kiwi in him, and you will never see Bootsy in a black jersey. He’d rather cut off his left nut. Andy Ellis, Kieran Read, and Dave Hewett wear nothing but black, from dusk to dawn and then […]
The strong mail emanating out of the Beehive in Wellington is that the kiss of death is about to be delivered to the New Zealand greyhound racing industry, and that it is all the industry’s own fault. It appears that the reforms that were required following a report to the Minister two years ago have […]
Famous old absurdist joke. What’s the difference between an Orange? A motorbike because it’s got wheels. Blair Orange has been selected as New Zealand’s representative in the upcoming World Drivers Championship in Berlin, Germany. Orange’s selection is insane, for reasons that we cannot publish at present due to name suppression orders issued by the NZ […]
We are now hearing whispers from down south and across the ditch that Mr Bella Button – Kiwi trainer Mark ‘Juice’ Jones – is going to take over Jack Trainor’s barns at Menangle when Turbo takes off to Jersey after the Miracle Mile carnival. In one way it would be apt, for birds 0f a […]
Well just look at this will you? Trainer Mark ‘the Juice’ Jones has turned an absolute cat who would be in the breeding barn if only she had any breeding into New Zealand’s most winning horse of the year 2023. Bella Button. Bugger me. Millwood Nike is a superstar wh0 has won 2 Group 1’s […]
Hayden Cullen used to train in partnership with Mark Purdon, but blood is thicker than water, so when Mark’s son Nathan Purdon decided to return home from Australia poor HC was left out in the cold. NZ’s most non-astute – or perhaps most poorly advised – multi gazillionaire owner Steve Stockman of Stonewall Stud threw […]
There were 9 races on the card at Addington last night. 9 horses got swabbed. 8 of them were winners of their race. Only 1 winner wasn’t swabbed. Guess who it was? Bella Button. They swabbed a 9-year-old mare who is the pride and joy of a small-time trainer instead. WTF? Mark Jones has got […]
I’ve always been a double down man at the blackjack table when I’ve got a two card 11 against a 5, that’s just the way I am. So in the face of Mark Jones legal threats, I will double down on him too. Jones is either the greatest trainer in the world, or the NZ […]
