Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I have been wondering all week why a vastly experienced trainer like Graeme Rogerson would put a jockey like Ryan Elliott on Sharp N Smart – the best horse that Rogie has had in 2 decades, and maybe his best ever – on board in a Group 1 Classic like the Thorndon Mile. Ten hours […]
What you see above appears in the Harness Racing New Zealand 2021/22 Annual Report. The names of the four in the obituary section are never repeated again throughout the report. Neither are the names of other good trot people who over the course of the year went to the great race track in the sky. […]
COPY THAT Locked, loaded and 100 percent. Trevor Casey from New Zealand exclusively negotiated the deal with the owners. So never let Jamie Durnberger-Smith (pictured at bottom) claim the credit. He needs to grin more himself that lad. What a coup for the slot holding syndicate though. Here is the question? Who is going […]
Earlier this morning we published a story (that has immediately been taken down) claiming that the 2Y) colt Cocktails and Caviar had died. This story was incorrect in every respect. The information that we received was wrong. It was actually the colt’s mother Alta Leonie that passed away during foaling, which is uncommon but not […]
Ray Green says just like Copy That was forced to get fit for the cup in another country last year, the lack of racing here now forced him to adopt the same path to ready the horse for the $1 million slot race, The Race by Grins, at Cambridge on April 14. Ray Green … […]
NZ Premiership winning reinsman Blair Orange drove the pole marker Ultimate Bird in the 6th race at Nelson on Friday, but he wasn’t driving it for his connections, he was driving it for the heavily backed John Dunn trained favourite Franco Cornel. Orange drove like fury to get the lead, and once he did he […]
A trotter named The Present Maker won the 5th race at Nelson yesterday for the training partnership of Ann-Marie and Jack Best, a pair of battlers who try hard and do the best they can, which is not real well usually, as the pair’s single digit strike rate over the past two years shows. So […]
Watch this. It’s race 1 at Nelson in New Zealand yesterday. Blair Orange in on the leader. Fast forward to the 1 minute mark which is when they are on the turn coming in for the bell. Watch what Orange does. How the hell did he know that James Cagney was going to zoom around […]
In this article from the great Kiwi trotting weekly publication Harness Xpress, the ever excellent and astute NZ racing writer Brian De Lore hammers home the huge problems with the NZTAB that are currently sending racing on a fast slide down to nowhere, except perhaps oblivion. Our views are shared at the end. We encourage […]
The NZ Racing Integrity Board is the greatest white elephant since Dumbo turned grey. After last year doing the hitherto unthinkable (because it was purposeless exercise) and auditing every greyhound kennel in New Zealand – yes, they all had doors and walls with dogs inside them – the IRB has in 2023 decided to adopt […]
