Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has backed down on it’s plan to make this year’s NZ Cup and Dominion Handicap handicap stand starts this year. So they should too. But just to illustrate the problems with conflict of interest on the board, I wonder how HRNZ Directors Colin Hair and Robert Dunn – the owner […]
The word is that Mark Purdon had to go home early from his usual winter sojourn in Queensland, and that Natalie Rasmussen’s friend Olivia Thornley came over to replace him. We hope that Livvie didn’t hang around too much with Nat’s great mate Scott Steele. The word is that you would never want to accept […]
This is the public stand at Alexandra Park, photo taken today. It’s about to be knocked down and turned into apartments, developed by an Aussie mob. The money received by the Auckland Trotting Club will hardly be enough to put a dent in the $200 million debt it owes to the banks. I sat it […]
Multiple Inter Dominion winner Natalie Rasmussen is a volunteer at All Stars Stables now is she? Really? I find that very hard to believe. Just as I find her close friendship with the alleged rapist and stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele repulsive. Perhaps she would like to explain that one too.
Mr Harris is clearly a brain dead moron. Keep your lips closed you fool. I guess it is too late now. And it is hard to feel sorry for a lag. If they are stupid enough to lag up themselves, they will always dog on you too. Just like the alleged rapist Scott Steele. Some […]
A few weeks back we wrote about our concerns that a man named Matthew Peden was both the co-owner of standardbreds with certain people known to be punters or connected to punters, and at the same time employed in a position with the NZ TAB that afforded him managerial responsibility for setting and/or approving the […]
These are the words of Catherine McDonald, HRNZ General Manager of racing, marketing and communications, as contained in a letter send to club officials yesterday explaining the reasons for the changes in the conditions of five of New Zealand’s major harness races, four of them Group 1’s (the Invercargill Cup is a Group 3, and […]
At a time when the sport is struggling and desperately needs unity to fight against oblivion, harness racing in New Zealand is being ripped asunder by internal fighting. Clubs are fighting clubs, associations are fighting associations, Auckland is fighting Cambridge, the North Island is fighting the South Island, we are fighting the scourge of drug […]
Matthew Peden is employed by the New Zealand TAB as it’s Manager of Risk. In this capacity Peden is responsible for the setting and movement of NZ TAB betting markets, and holds ultimate responsibility for the acceptance or rejection of wagers that are placed to win more than the maximum prescribed betting limits. In effect, […]
Simply Sam is the pacer at the centre of the current controversy about Maurice McKendry’s drive on him when the Magic Man got charged and convicted of not giving giving him every reasonable and permissible chance to win a race at Alexandra Park a few weeks back. On that occasion McKendry took his back to […]
