Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Another big race day, another big fill up for the cheats. There were 8 Group 1 races on the Grand Prix program at Addington yesterday. Mark Purdon’s stable contested 7 of them, and won 5. It won 4 from 4 of the pacing races, and 1 from the 3 of the trots. With no Merlin […]
The New Zealand Racing Integrity Board claims to have conducted 47 700 veterinary inspections in the past 12 months. A lot of people over the years have claimed to see the Loch Ness monster too. It doesn’t prove that either is true. How could the vets from the RIB possibly have properly conducted 917 veterinary […]
Ray Green We knew that Ray Green’s injury was far more serious than being reported, but there was no need to say so while he was in the Intensive Care Unit. Like everyone in racing, we are super pleased that Ray has pulled through, and on behalf of our readers wish him all for best […]
Is this starter blind or just bent? Keep your eyes on the horse no 8 in the Robert Dunn colours, black red and white. Watch how he flies through the tapes and fires away. This is supposed to be a standing start race. That horse wasn’t stop then going. He was sprinting as the starter […]
The debt-laden Auckland Trotting Club is almost down to selling the family silver but has struck opposition in its latest bid to demolish Australasia’s only harness racing museum to make way for parking. The ATC reduced its debt from $122million to $73million last month by finally completing its sale of a large chunk of land […]
Merv Butterworth is the master of posing the polite understated question that screams RORT! This below is an extract from a report by Dr Barry Lichter published this morning on the ever-excellent Lincoln Farms website www.lincolnfarms.co.nz, which I highly recommend as a must read for trot fans. (Copy That’s owner) Merv Butterworth said he hopes […]
The harness racing industry is in uproar over a dispensation granted to former high-profile trainer Nigel McGrath who was banned for eight years for cheating in 2020. But in a surprise move on Tuesday night, McGrath, speaking publicly for the first time in five years, said he had withdrawn his application to break in yearlings on a restricted […]
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
