Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Everyone’s favorite Woodend Beach based trainer John ‘Lurch’ Dunn employs the young driver Devon van Til (pictured below), or at least his father John and wife Jenna do, or anyway that’s what the registration books say. Yeah right, whatever. According to this article above, Van Til’s 1st introduction to harness racing was when Lurch let […]
Luke John was right up there with the best of his generation as a 2 and 3yo in New Zealand. He raced against, and in a number of cases beat, horses of the ilk of Krug, American Dealer, Hot and Treacherous, Taipo, and BD Joe, each of which have kicked on to be top class […]
With almost 2/3rds of the New Zealand racing season gone, the Stonewall Stud stable owned by Steve Stockman and managed by Steve and Amanda Telfer is sitting 6th on the Premiership Ladder with just 28 wins, and has earned only $430 000. The stable has 100 horses in work, which must cost a conservative million […]
Trainer Tony Herlihy MNZM had three runners in race 3 at Alexandra Park last night. Park Lane, Busload of Faith, and Jethro Bodine. One of them – Jethro Bodine – has been smashed from $3.60 into $1.90. It’s the one. Everything goes to plan early. Park Lane leads. Jethro Bodine gets the sweet cover and […]
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 […]
