Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We wrote earlier in the week about the case of Kiwi driver Tim Williams, who drove carelessly and flattened another runner in a race yet escaped with a mere $300 fine. It’s now become clear why. The RIB Penalty Guide had previously stipulated that the starting point for a careless driving offence was a 3-day […]
Kia Ora Mr Profit I can’t understand why the RIB doesn’t support proposed rule change on not allowing drivers to communicate when they are on the track. Yes the drivers might be just saying “do you want to go for a beer after the races ?”, but the bottom line is if Trackside show drivers […]
Captain Sampson is one of the best 2yo’s in the North Island, perhaps even the best of the colts (although personally I think Confederate is). The Captain has a record of two wins from three, and at his past two starts has blitzed them in heats of the Sires Stakes. This is a Group 1 […]
Archie On careless driving with which Tim Williams was charged. How could he escape a suspension when under the RIB Penalty Guidelines the starting point for a breach of the rule is a 3 meeting suspension, and Williams is a multiple offender? There is a $300 fine for hits the wheel, but that wasn’t the […]
The 6-year-old trotting mare Rush had won only 4 races from 49 starts when it was transferred to the stable of everyone’s favorite NZ trainer and fighter Mark Jones about 6 weeks ago, and its career prizemoney was just a tick over $40 000. Since coming to the Jones boy as lowly rating 40 something […]
Tim Williams is 3 back the fence as the film rolls, in the black and white Stonewall Stud colors We’ve written before about how New Zealand driver Tim Williams seems to have an inside run with the RIB Stewards and Adjudicators, both of whom are employed or contracted by a 5 person board, one of […]
Perhaps you need to be a Kiwi to truly understand and appreciate the majesty of Te Puhoro, the unique trophy for the new NZ thoroughbred slot race The Kiwi, but that’s the whole point. The Kiwi is about celebrating the New Zealand thoroughbred, and everything that is great about the horses and the nation. Te […]
You have never seen a slaughter job in your life as bad as this one by Alana Cameron aboard King Arthur. Her error of judgement cost this horse the win in this race for all money. The Stewards charged Cameron with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to ensure that King Arthur was […]
For a long time NZ trot trainer Craig Ferguson was no good. There were his win strike rates: 2017 – 2.6% 2018 – 8.1% 2019 – 5.8% 2020 – 2.9% Then all of a sudden in mid-2021 something happened, and all of a sudden Craig Ferguson’s strike rate turned deadly. 2021 – 16.7% 2022 – […]
Watches and Me, with some gorgeous bird who’s married to a bald bloke who wears a funny hat, a media personality with more pairs of shoes in his cupboard than Imelda Marcos, and a fella who makes his living selling spoof sources by masturbating retired male pacers. I’m the good looking chap with the Group […]
