Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
NZ Premiership winning reinsman Blair Orange drove the pole marker Ultimate Bird in the 6th race at Nelson on Friday, but he wasn’t driving it for his connections, he was driving it for the heavily backed John Dunn trained favourite Franco Cornel. Orange drove like fury to get the lead, and once he did he […]
A trotter named The Present Maker won the 5th race at Nelson yesterday for the training partnership of Ann-Marie and Jack Best, a pair of battlers who try hard and do the best they can, which is not real well usually, as the pair’s single digit strike rate over the past two years shows. So […]
Watch this. It’s race 1 at Nelson in New Zealand yesterday. Blair Orange in on the leader. Fast forward to the 1 minute mark which is when they are on the turn coming in for the bell. Watch what Orange does. How the hell did he know that James Cagney was going to zoom around […]
In this article from the great Kiwi trotting weekly publication Harness Xpress, the ever excellent and astute NZ racing writer Brian De Lore hammers home the huge problems with the NZTAB that are currently sending racing on a fast slide down to nowhere, except perhaps oblivion. Our views are shared at the end. We encourage […]
The NZ Racing Integrity Board is the greatest white elephant since Dumbo turned grey. After last year doing the hitherto unthinkable (because it was purposeless exercise) and auditing every greyhound kennel in New Zealand – yes, they all had doors and walls with dogs inside them – the IRB has in 2023 decided to adopt […]
Of course they were. Of course they were. Lightning did not strike the trio, for the odds of that occurring are far less than those of 3 healthy young horses dying in the space of 16 weeks from unrelated causes. We like to back the roughies here at the RIB. It was unrelated causes. “Oh […]
The highly innovative, but very poorly treated Waikato/BOP trot club that runs Cambridge has had enough of the way that Harness Racing New Zealand is blocking it’s path to put the sport in the North Island back on track, in favor of propping up the Auckland Club who put it there. We have been writing […]
Objectives of Racing Integrity Board (RIB) The objectives of the Board are to promote, and ensure compliance with, high standards of animal welfare, integrity, and professionalism by participants in the racing industry for the benefit of the public, participants, and the racing industry as a whole. It’s hard to say they have achieved it, isn’t […]
“One thing we need to know is what will be the horse population look like in the future. Do we have enough highly-rated horses to make our top races fair and competitive?” Gary Woodham, CEO Harness Racing New Zealand. August 2022 “This goes in line with trying to keep our breeding numbers up and encouraging […]
This Saturday night at Alexandra Park sees the running of the $50 000 Group 2 Franklin Cup. $50 000 is damn good money for a Kiwi trot race, and every owner wants to win a Group race. The problem is that in Auckland there are no horses left to race in them. The race has […]
