Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
At it’s first start three weeks ago – 3 weeks? Not again! – at Invercargill the Kiwi pacer Bettorthanarocket led in slow time, folded up like an umbrella before the turn, and got beaten 17.3 lengths. The mile rate for the race was 2.01.9, which means that it ran about 2.04. Yesterday the same horse […]
I have watched this replay of the finish of race 6 at the Ashburton trots yesterday 10 ten times, and I still can’t see a margin for the winner. Do I need new glasses? I dunno. One thing that I would like to know is why Korban Newman, one of the stable drivers for the […]
NZ Trot driver Ian Cameron was not real happy about the RIB’s interpretation of the whip rule after they charged him with breaching it the other day. Shove it up your arse he told them. Given some of the decisions over the last few days, is there a soul in the world who would disagree […]
I am not sure that I have ever in my whole life seen a bigger slaughter job in a Group 1 race than Opie Bosson’s disgraceful steer on the Kiwi mare Entriviere in yesterday’s Doomben 10 000. This guy rides the big Aussie races about as well as Ben Hunt catches kick offs in NRL […]
I want you to take a look at this replay of the run down the stretch in the Listed Sires Stakes at Addington last night, and pay particular attention to the breach of the whip rules by Mark Purdon on the 2nd placed horse Cyrus, the horse in the blue and white coming three-wide. Did […]
The word around town is that champion New Zealand driver Dexter Dunn, the more talented brother of Lurch, has tied the knot in the US with his long-time partner Jillian Morris. Congratulations to the happy couple. Long may their wedded bliss last!
It’s an interesting and exciting night of harness racing at Addington, albeit made stupid by the fact that there is no corresponding meeting in the north island. No matter what they might and do say, the people in charge of HRNZ dead set do not have a clue when it comes to the relationship between […]
Albatross, who was born in 1968 and died aged 30 in 1998, is generally considered to be one the greatest pacers of all time, and was the sire and grand-sire of two of others in the GOAT mix, his son Niatross and that horse’s son Nihilator, both now like their sire long dead. The male […]
David (Dave) Anderson was one of the disgraced and deceased harness racing owner John Seaton’s closest friends. Seaton was the owner at the centre of the Blue Magic doping scandal in the early 2000’s, and committed suicide before his charges were heard. Anderson spoke on behalf of the family at the funeral, where he said […]
We have written previously about NZ trot steward S. Renault working ‘remotely’ during the COVID-19 restriction period because he refused to get vaxed. Although for privacy reasons he did not name Mr Renault directly, or discuss the reason for his prior absences from the track, when we asked RIB CEO Mike Clements about the issue […]
