Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The New Zealand Derby tonight was a fantastic race, a clash between titans. Marketplace’s gate speed won it for him, and Got The Chocolates lack of it was his undoing. MP went straight to the lead, GTC began slowly, and had to work hard in the early stages to get around to the death. Once […]
The whole of racing’s thoughts and prayers are with Bailey Rogerson tonight as she lies in a coma in hospital with horrific injuries after a terrible fall at Arawa Park on Sunday. Bailey suffered a fractured skull in the fall, and doctors immediately placed her in a coma amid concerns about intracranial pressure and a […]
When punters arrived at Riccarton for NZ Cup Day n Saturday is was sunny and the skies were clear. Then in between races 4 and 5 the heavens opened, and this happened. In Australia the meeting would have been called off in a heartbeat. Not across the ditch. There they just downgraded the track to […]
We all know that New Zealand is a clean, green country. It’s water is clean, it’s air is fresh and unpolluted, and its forests are lush. Everything about the country except the wages is pristine. Even the horse racing. There are no bicarb drug cheats in the Kiwi gallops or trots. Not one. The RIB […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
At the risk of being accused of banging on about how good the Kiwi 3-year-olds Got The Chocolates and Marketplace are, I though we would do a comparison of the time the pair of young pacers ran in The Velocity on Friday versus the best time ever run at Addington over 1950m or 1980m by […]
You would feel a wee bit gutted at the moment if you were the owners of Nazareth I reckon. They set their horse for a $30 000 race in Show week and turn up to the track to watch it race. Another horse checks Nazareth in the score-up he breaks into a hopeless gallop. There […]
We have a magnificent day of harness racing ahead at Addington, with four Group 1’s on the card plus two half-million dollar slot races for three-year-old’s the Velocity and the Ascent. This is probably the best all round program of racing all year. Sit back, strap in and enjoy the ride. RACE 3 – IRT […]
Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen decided to take his old mate Gus on a trip to New Zealand. It was a working trip. Gus was there to run in the Dominion Handicap, and Pete was there to pull off a plunge. It seemed a pretty ambitious plan. Gus had won a Group 2 and a Group 3 […]
RACE 3 NO 5 – HE AINT FAKIN Australian pacer turned Kiwi trotter, was very impressive winner at Addington at square gaiting debut. Up against a weak mob here, can repeat the dose. RACE 4 NO 8 – SECRET AGENT MAN Very consistent pacer won 4 and second 3 times from 8 starts to date. […]
