Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The 6-year-old trotting mare Rush had won only 4 races from 49 starts when it was transferred to the stable of everyone’s favorite NZ trainer and fighter Mark Jones about 6 weeks ago, and its career prizemoney was just a tick over $40 000. Since coming to the Jones boy as lowly rating 40 something […]
Tim Williams is 3 back the fence as the film rolls, in the black and white Stonewall Stud colors We’ve written before about how New Zealand driver Tim Williams seems to have an inside run with the RIB Stewards and Adjudicators, both of whom are employed or contracted by a 5 person board, one of […]
Perhaps you need to be a Kiwi to truly understand and appreciate the majesty of Te Puhoro, the unique trophy for the new NZ thoroughbred slot race The Kiwi, but that’s the whole point. The Kiwi is about celebrating the New Zealand thoroughbred, and everything that is great about the horses and the nation. Te […]
You have never seen a slaughter job in your life as bad as this one by Alana Cameron aboard King Arthur. Her error of judgement cost this horse the win in this race for all money. The Stewards charged Cameron with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to ensure that King Arthur was […]
For a long time NZ trot trainer Craig Ferguson was no good. There were his win strike rates: 2017 – 2.6% 2018 – 8.1% 2019 – 5.8% 2020 – 2.9% Then all of a sudden in mid-2021 something happened, and all of a sudden Craig Ferguson’s strike rate turned deadly. 2021 – 16.7% 2022 – […]
Watches and Me, with some gorgeous bird who’s married to a bald bloke who wears a funny hat, a media personality with more pairs of shoes in his cupboard than Imelda Marcos, and a fella who makes his living selling spoof sources by masturbating retired male pacers. I’m the good looking chap with the Group […]
The four persons it nominates for election as directors are: Shaun Brooks Jane Davis Hannah Doney Stephen O’Connor b. The three persons it appoints as directors are: Grant Jarrold Georgina Hunter Tim Sissons 5. The National Forum has had the opportunity to review these candidates for election under clause 14.6 of the HRNZ Constitution. 6. […]
The board of Harness Racing New Zealand is set for a major shakeup, with the Chairman, his deputy and five of the other 8 current directors of the principal body moving on or being moved on at next month’s AGM. Phil Holden, Cam Bray, Todd Anderson, John Coulam, Bill McDonald, John Grainger and Anna Gallien […]
With 26 new stakes races this season, HRNZ’s unregulated calendar is now completely out of kilter with international standards Harness racing’s already bloated stakes calendar has now become completely disproportionate. Between those already announced, and those set to be next week by Harness Racing New Zealand, 26 new Group and Listed races are being added […]
When he was a youngster the then all-conquering All Stars Stables rated Aladdin as their best, and when early into his 3-year-old season he ran 3rd in the Group 1 Sires Stakes at Addington beating home the later Derby winners American Dealer and Krug, and then won the rich and prestigious Harness Million at Alexandra […]
