Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The whole of New Zealand and half the harness racing world are going mad at the moment about an unbeaten 3YO called Ohoka Connor. Well respected Kiwi trot writer Garrick Knight reckons he looks potentially like he could be the best horse in the country in 12 months’ time. Others share his view. Not me. […]
27 April 2023 Harness Racing New Zealand Chief Executive Gary Woodham will be taking a short leave of absence, after suffering a medical event at work yesterday. After undergoing surgery at Christchurch Hospital, Gary’s condition has stabilised over the last 24 hours. He’s expected to return home over the weekend. In Gary’s absence General Manager […]
Put down the knittingThe book and the broomIt’s time for a holidayLife is a cabaret, old chum Come to the cabaret Come taste the wineCome hear the bandCome blow your hornStart celebratingRight this way your table’s waiting What goods permittingSome prophet of doom?To wipe every smile awayLife is a cabaret, old chumSo come to the […]
In New Zealand they don’t report which horses were pre-race swabbed and which were post-raced. They don’t report which swabs taken from horses were which, urine or blood. That’s a bit of a problem, because the most common and easiest to get performance enhancing drug is garden variety bi-carbonate of soda, which is administered in […]
Remember late last year when we reported on the large number of Stonewall Stud owned/Steve Telfer trained horses dying or having heart fibrillations on the track? Those stories triggered an RIB inquiry. The RIB said everything was sweet. Oh yeah. Race 7 McINTOSH CATERING PACE Show Video BORRISOKANE – hung outwards for a distance passing the 1150m […]
The margins are in lengths, not meters Some people say that the Dunn stable don’t use drugs. I say that’s utter bullshit. The RIB know it too, but can’t do a thing about it because their predecessor organization totally f**ked up. Bach last Friday night in Auckland is the perfect example. This horse had been […]
We hear that leading NZ driver John Dunn – a man whose name shall not be spoken in certain circles, by order of higher powers – went to a barbie on the weekend while he was up in Auckland to drive Bach to a very dubious sort of victory at Alexandra Park on Taylor Mile […]
The Auckland Trotting Club is marketing the sport dynamically. It is spending bucket loads on advertising with SENZ, the Kiwi’s newest sports radio station. Club Chairman Jamie ‘Watches’ MacKinnon is doing paid breakfast radio interviews on the station’s morning show (paid for by the ATC, not SENZ). SENZ are going to do a live broadcast […]
Dr Barry Lichter DOES NOT believe that he has the right to exhume Cardigan Bay’s remains to transfer elsewhere. That is just another one of Watch’s lies. What Dr Lichter believes is that New Zealand’s greatest ever pacer – one of the world’s best in history – should not have his headstone knocked down so […]
There is the usual scuttlebutt around concerning the health and wellbeing of the club’s finances. The one we can’t hide from is the interest expense on the debt whilst we await the settlement on the Pukekohe land. However, I am pleased to report that across our businesses, Gaming, TAB, and The Alex we are trading […]
