Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
To save you looking it up it means you are a Billy Bunt. Sue me, will you sunshine? We will see. At least it gives you something to talk about down at the beach with Lurch. We all know he is training your horses anyway, just like Turbo does. Give up harness racing and litigation and […]
Jones is going so good that he has to bin dive out the back of HRNZ to get some clobber to keep him warm Well we’ve copped a legal letter from that Kiwi super trainer Mark Jones in relation to a few stories we’ve written lately about his extraordinary success with horses from other stables […]
Not a great start from the new Chairman On the subject of HRNZ press releases, I can’t be the only one that read with bemusement the one rolled out by incoming Board Chairman Phil Holden last Wednesday afternoon. It was as insulting to constituents – none of which elected him might I add – as […]
A group of loud individuals has been damning the deal that the NZ Govt struck with Entain to run the failing TAB in the Shaky Isles, There are the same group of people who six months ago were throwing verbal bricks at the TAB, and with pretty good reason in my view, for the people […]
For reasons that I am not at liberty to explain at present, New Zealand trainer/driver Brent Mangos continuing participation in harness racing is disgrace that brings shame on our sport and all of us who love it. When the suppression orders are lifted you will know exactly what I mean. Let’s go to Wonderland for […]
Another 58 horses have been exported from New Zealand in the last month. Soon there are going to be none left. When are Harness Racing NZ going to do something to prevent this Kiwi harness equivalent of the exodus from Ireland in the wake of the famine? When the CEO stops exporting his horses I […]
