Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by Michael Guerin; NZ Herald Thoroughbred racing bosses have vowed to review a policy which sees Australian horses being subsidized to race in New Zealand even after they win potentially millions of dollars. Some local trainers are annoyed by a New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) travel subsidy of a flat fee of $10,000 paid […]
We have written many times about unregistered NZ trot syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald and the tricks he plays under his Off n Racing banner. Well now the Canary has upped the rort. The bloke who sells microshares of 0.1% (1/100oth) in pacers and trotters at highly inflated prices has his management fees per share […]
The New Zealand harness racing awards this year were nothing but a joke. Leap To Fame won The Race and the NZ Free For All, and ran second in the NZ Trotting Cup. Kingman won the Cup, and the Christian Cullen too. Somehow Republican Party – who couldn’t beat either of them with start – […]
We have it on excellent advice that the connections of the super smart 3yo Kiwi pacer Jumal, who won 6 races from 7 and more than $210 000 in his juvenile year, were recently offered a million dollars for the colt. And knocked it back. Wow. That is a hell of a lot of money, […]
Ron O’Regan is veteran Kiwi greyhound trainer, who works out of Paeroa – home of L&P soft drink – with his daughter Naomi. Ron is a dodgy bastard. In 2o22 the Stewards rocked up at his kennels to do a without notice out of competition inspection. They found a dead rabbit in his fridge. O’Regan […]
There is a real curious case that the NZ Racing Integrity Board (RIB) are dealing with right now. It involved the former Commonwealth Games weightlifter turned one time jockey cum trainer Cody Cole, who quite amazingly it transpires has almost 100 horses under his care. Cole took a bunch of horses to trackwork at Matamata […]
Kingman is a Kiwi apparently. But Larry isn’t. Work that one out if you can. Menangle must be a new province of the South Island. Queensland is strictly Australia. I can fix that. Give all the horses dual citizenship. Then they can be like me. A blooody Kiwi mate. I will even thrown in a […]
The NZ harness racing awards are on tonight. Right now they are halfway through. But I know all the winners, even for the awards that haven’t been presented. It’s not because I am Nostradamus. HRNZ have stuffed up and put all the results up on their website before they are announced by mistake. Bet N […]
See the horse buried five back the fence in second last place coming to the turn in the Group 2 Premier Mares Championship last night? That’s General Jen. You wouldn’t have backed her with someone else’s money right there. At the 15o meters mark N40 owner turned trainer Josh Davine must have thought we was […]
Liam Birchley is a great trainer, and an even better bloke. He is true Australian too. The wannabe coppers at Racing Victoria back in the day took him without any evidential basis for everything that he had, and kicked him out on his own. Liam was down, but he never bit the dust. Men of […]
