Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
There is a delicious irony in the fact that Blair Orange is representing New Zealand in the World Drivers Championships, and it has nothing to do with the taste of citrus fruit. I can’t tell you why I say that, because there are court suppression orders in place. All that I can tell you is […]
Yesterday we offered an apology to Kiwi horseman Simon McMullen for publishing a story about his having thrown a personal positive swab to drugs during a recent race meeting, after his partner contacted us to deny it, and to throw in a gobful of abuse too. Among other things, Kara Holmes claimed: I make up […]
We published a story earlier stating that Simon McMullen was one of the licensees who threw a positive swab in random tests at the track a few weeks ago. Simon’s missus got in tough to accuse us of making things up about her man. As we politely told her in not so many words, why […]
Nathan Delany is one of the young drivers who returned a positive personal swab to dope a few weeks back, dope meaning pot/cannabis/marijuana/weed/pot/ganga/green. When he threw the positive was confirmed Delaney was stood down from driving. An RIB Investigator – probably Mrs Cox – spoke to him, and he denied having smoked the green. “Haven’t […]
Fridge gas is called Xenon gas. We have hearing reports of its use as a performance enhancing drug for some time now. It mimics EPO. Horses who get hit with it fly. Sadly they also die. Finally a participant is prepared to come out and say it publicly. This is race that Arcano won on […]
The mail is that the Chinese buyers are currently scouting for horses in Canterbury. Mares they are looking for. These horses won’t be racing of course. We all known where they are going. So here is my message to the RIB. They are out there. So is their man. Keep your eyes open. Get to […]
