Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Susan Branch, a stalwart of harness racing in the Waikato. On behalf of all our readers we pass our deep condolences to Susan’s loved ones, including her son Dave the architect of the wonderfully successful slot races The Race and The Trot, and her husband Murray. […]
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill In a golden age of New Zealand harness racing, when a new breed of Kiwi horses are having huge success on the track, the sport should be standing […]
As most people know the NZ Government, under pressure from the Greens, animal activists and shifting public sentiment, has made the decision to shut down greyhound racing in the Shakey Isles. That is all well and good, but as we have repeatedly pointed out it leaves the problem of rehoming 1700 dogs with no-one wiling […]
Didn’t Di is a 5-year-old gelding trotter that has won just 2 races from 20 starts, although it has gone alright lately thanks to being under the supervision of a trainer (Matt Purvis) who works out of the magic waters of Woodend Beach, being well placed, and benefiting from a claim. A pair of wins […]
Harness Racing Nes South Wales paid correspondent Michael Dumesny wrote the words below that were published on the HRA website on Tuesday. I have never met or dealt with M. Dumesny, and have nothing against him at all. But what he writes in this story is absolute nonsense. For the simple reasons detailed in precis […]
This is bullshit. For the second time in three starts the Cran Dalgety trained All Of Me went like a broken down bus at Alexandra Park last night, finishing tailed out over 100m in last place. A vet exam replete with an endoscopy revealed no obvious issues. They may not be obvious to the vet, […]
It’s a big night at Alexandra Park this Friday, with five Group 1 races on the program, three for the pacers and two for the trotters, and each of them are going to be very interesting affairs for a variety of reasons. Let’s preview the Group 1 races and see if we can find you […]
Here Mick Guerin’s story is on the HRNZ website …. The NZ Herald story below penned by Mick Guerin – which bears marked similarities to our own story published on this website the day before – appeared for a brief moment in time yesterday on the Harness Racing New Zealand website. But only until those […]
There is a paucity of open class pacers in New Zealand, and has been for some time. Entain has poured a poultice of money and intelligent ideas into harness racing in recent years and this is changing, but such things take some time. It will be different next year, but for the moment the shortage […]
Jason Grimson has performed many miracles during his career, winning back to back Inter Dominions with the pair of claimers Boncel Benjamin and I Cast No Shadow, and transforming Swayzee from a pacer that was getting thrashed in restricted races at Redcliffe into a dual New Zealand Trotting Cup winner being principal among them, but […]
