Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trot driver Sheryl Wigg is well named. The Wigg bit anyway. Everyone needs a good disguise after all. Just ask a millionaire knockabout Hong Kong punting genius with two first names, he will tell you. Sheryl Wigg got sprung giving three horses something over the tongue on race day. She was as guilty as sin, […]
Introduction [1] I issued a judgment in this matter on 14 March 2023. [2] The parties have been unable to agree on costs. The applicant now seeks an award of costs on a 2B basis and any necessary disbursements: (a) on her application for stay, which Woolford J granted on 30 May 2022; and (b) […]
Arsenic is not regarded as performance enhancing, but its presence at levels above the threshold is regarded as likely to be injurious to the health and welfare of a horse. That’s what the Adjudicative Committee of the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board said last week in the case of the Stewards v Ian Jamieson. What […]
New Zealand trainer Graeme Telfer’s stables were raided by Stewards employed by the Racing Integrity Board. They discovered in his possession a galvanised steel pipe with a portion of barbed wire coiled around a section of the pipe and secured by electrical tape, with a short leather strap attached to the opposite end. It was […]
As hard as it is to believe at a time when Harness Racing New Zealand was slashing prize money until Entain came along and saved them, the same HRNZ are flying its former chairman John Coulam, the man in charge during the period of most of the recent mess, and its new board member the […]
The latest is that after Aimee Edmonds unsuccessfully pointed the blame at former stable Stonewall training partner for the positive swab to what we can now confirm is bute thrown by one of their h0rses, they are now blaming the person who mixes the feed. Apparently Steve and Jill Stockman are going to issue a […]
There was seriously wrong with the Stonewall mare Ardie’s Express in the main race at Addington on Friday night. Ardie’s went off as 2nd favourite and led until halfway around the turn before galloping free of any checks, but she never, ever seemed comfortable at any stage of the race and just wasn’t pacing quite […]
There is a delicious irony in the fact that Blair Orange is representing New Zealand in the World Drivers Championships, and it has nothing to do with the taste of citrus fruit. I can’t tell you why I say that, because there are court suppression orders in place. All that I can tell you is […]
Yesterday we offered an apology to Kiwi horseman Simon McMullen for publishing a story about his having thrown a personal positive swab to drugs during a recent race meeting, after his partner contacted us to deny it, and to throw in a gobful of abuse too. Among other things, Kara Holmes claimed: I make up […]
