Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Over in the South Island of New Zealand there lives a pacer named Pocket Call. He is a slow pacer, a very slow one indeed, perhaps even the slowest in the world. Pocket Call has had sixty starts over the past 3 years. He hasn’t won or run a place in any of them, although […]
Surely that couldn’t have been the two NZ trotting identities who are charged with sexual assault of a young female industry participant that were seen together drunk in a bar in the South Island over the weekend, could it? Don’t their bail conditions contain no contact conditions, and restrictions about intoxication? I guess the pair […]
The strong whisper from across the ditch is that a very high profile harness racing identity named That has nodded their head to plead guilty to that. That – the thing not the person – being a charge of possessing or supplying the drug MDMA, aka Ecstasy or Eccy. The scumbag Matt Anderson was disqualified […]
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has released it’s grand whizz bang plan to save the New Zealand harness racing world. It needs saving, especially in the North Island. Horse numbers are falling through the floor, and it is getting to the stage that the racing stock is so thin in Te Ika-a-Māui that soon there […]
The standardbred breeding industry is about to get a more than one-million-dollar boost. A brand-new incentive scheme has been agreed to by the Harness Racing New Zealand Board that will reward breeders (the Breeding entity as listed on HRNZ system) who breed mares this season. The decision follows months of consultation between the Board, HRNZ […]
The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience of March 28, 2003, approved the present Considerations, adopted in the Ordinary Session of this Congregation, and ordered their publication. Joseph Card. Ratzinger Prefect Sometimes I wonder whether the old boys who run racing are insane. Friday night at Addington was one of them. On this […]
Just out of interest, these are the sire service numbers from New Zealand, just the top twelve. It’s amazing that the NZ breeders who used to hate Somebeachsomewhere are now piling into Downbytheseaside. Given his numbers in America though you can’t really blame them. The Kiwis have more faith in Miki than me. Bettors Delight […]
We got a tip out of New Zealand earlier in the day that we found so extraordinary that we had to call five different people to check it. Four of them said that our tip was spot on. The other one didn’t know. So even they we can scarcely believe it ourselves, here it is. […]
Archie, For a moment I thought I was reading a Dr Barry Lichter penned Copy That media tyre-pumping piece. If you are going to compare Copy That with Self Assured it’s best to get the facts right. Self-Assured’s best mile rate to date is 1:50.3 set winning the Hondo Grant and at Menangle. (Editor’s note […]
Natalie Rasmussen was the daughter of Vic, and grew up driving trotters from before she could walk. The boys used to win everything at the mini-trots until she came along. It wasn’t easy being a girl driver in QLD back then, you were just out there to win ribbons for making your horse look pretty. […]
