Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
At it’s most simple, we can see that more and more people will want to live a residential lifestyle nearer and nearer to our clearly non-residential activity. We are already aware that dust and noise from our racing activity is beginning to register as an impact on neighbours, in a way that has simply not […]
Merv Dean will long be remembered as the man who bought the great Cardigan Bay from the Todd brothers of Mataura. But there was much more to Merv than just that. Merv’s parents ran tobacconists in Hamilton, and in his youth Merv assisted his uncle, Henry Lee, one of New Zealand’s most notorious bookmakers. Lee […]
What is the name of the case? Racing Integrity Board & Harness Racing New Zealand v REDACTED Who is REDACTED? 8 harness racing industry participants or former participants. Their identities are protected by a suppression order issued by the Supreme Court. 6 of the people with name suppression are licensed or were formerly licensed. 5 […]
Copy That and Self Assured first met not in a race, but on a card, at Alexandra Park on 14 December 2019. They won separate races over 2200m, with Copy That running 1.6 seconds faster in his. It was a portent of things to come. The pair’s first actual race contest was in the 2020 Ashburton […]
It seems that Mark Jones might have been doing a bit more than working his horses when he was spotted recently jogging up pacers on the sand at Woodend Beach, which it has to be said is some distance north east of his base at Burnham. Either that or Jones is a miracle worker, judging […]
The tip out of Auckland is the young gelding who made the incredible debut Punk Rocker is a certainty from the pole in the 9th race at Alexandra Park tonight. They say that the switch from the barns of Steve Reid and Simon McMullan over to the stables of Sheryl Wigg and the Invisible Men […]
A lack of the early fire predicted against favourite Copy That was the undoing of the All Stars challenge. “He’s a great horse but we were probably hoping from where we were that he would have had a tougher time early which would obviously have given us a better chance. Once he had that fairly […]
Things didn’t work out for Akuta in the Race By Grins,Friday and now he is off to Matamata veterinary experts for a checkup before heading to the Messenger on April 29th leaving Self Assured to be the star for the stable in the Taylor Mile next week. “Nothing major at all just want to check […]
A major exercise was recently undertaken to to determine a positive and proactive way forward for Harness Racing in the North Island. They needed it, for by every possible metric North Island harness racing is stuffed. Every single one. 446 stakeholders participated in the recent exercise. 71% of them were aged 55 or over. Not […]
At the start of last year the CEO of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Harness Inc – the Cambridge club – Dave Branch was being vaunted as the architect of the slot race project that was to become The Race By Grins. It was Branch’s baby we were told. HRNZ programmed the race because he […]
