Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Happy to report that Bailey has been given the option to go home for the weekend. As you can imagine she’s very excited about spending time with her loved ones and sleeping in a comfortable bed with some peace and quiet. She was packed and ready to go by 7am! Her body and brain are […]
What the hell was Andre Poutama doing in the trot last night at Alexandra Park behind Oscar Bonavena? Oscar was the highest rated horse in the race by a mile at NR120. The leader was a rating 55 trotter. Common sense dictated that Poutama would bring Oscar around the field early and bore it up the […]
Harness Racing New Zealand has generously given two of the wealthiest stables in Aotearoa a Xmas gift. A free race replete with $15 000 as first prize they have given one of either Mark Purdon or Robert Dunn, and a silver pass to finish second and take home $6000 is the present for the other. […]
1 – LEAP TO FAME 76: 59-12-3 13 x G1 + The Race BT 1.48.3 The Ali of the pacing world. Simply the best. There is not much more I need to say. Larry says it all for me. 2 – DON HUGO 57: 22-11-8 3 x G1 + The Eureka BT 1.48.4 Wins in […]
There is outrage among NZ harness racing licensees over the treatment of junior driver Emily Johnson, who had been threatened with a dangerous driving charge by Stewards in relation to an incident that occurred during a race at Addington last Friday week. Johnson was driving the long odds-on favorite He Ain’t Fakin, the Aussie pacer […]
The Waipa (gallops) Racing Club is in the Waikato. So is Te Awamutu. Funny things happen south of the Bombay hills. Racing Club Manager stole $160,000 12 December 2011 Lea Margaret Temm, the 55 year-old Manager of the Waipa Racing Club was today sentenced for stealing $162,172.38 from her employer over a period of ten […]
Never trust a goanna either, and get the hell out when you find one on your deck I used to think Cambridge CEO Dave Branch was the ants pants, and talked him up all the time. Now I don’t trust him, and that’s bad. Once you break trust it’s gone. Dave used a $15 grand […]
The assets of Waikato-Bay of Plenty Harness Inc (WBOPH or ‘the club’) that run Cambridge Paceway are calculated using the cost model net You start with the carryover value of the (class of) assets at the end of last year. Then you add in the value of improvements you have made to the assets And […]
Cheap Shot Tom (pictured) – He looks like he couldn’t hit shit off a shovel, which is life imitating art. Doesn’t stop him from trying when you put an authority figure in front of his face though. Why were a certain selection of NZ’s most prominent trot trainers working their horses so hard in the […]
There are some very strange goings on at the Cambridge Paceway, run by Waikato-Bay of Plenty Harness Inc (WBOPH or ‘the club’) It has been announced that the CEO David Branch (picture at top) has resigned his position and left the building, but for reasons that need explaining no-one at the club or HRNZ is […]
