Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Once upon a time the Miracle Mile was the race that everyone wanted to win. It was the Shangri La, and owners and trainers used to fight to get in. Until recently it still was, and maybe it still is, But it doesn’t look like it. Clip Clop Kev^ and Moses* are skipping the Mile […]
That’s the final resting place of Kiwi, the last to first winner of the 1983 Cup who was bought as a stockhorse by gumboot wearing farmer, and was trained mustering sheep up and down steep hills. Kiwi is the horse who put The Pumper J.A. Cassidy on the map, and showed the whole world the […]
Don’t be fooled by the name, you’re just being sexist. Ohope is a beautiful little coastal town in the Bay of Plenty. In the space of 4 starts this Kiwi filly Ohope Wins has gone from running 2nd in a 1600m Maiden at Waikato to winning the Group 2 Sir Patrick Hogan over 2000m at […]
By Garrick Knight: Harness Xpress The financial situation at Cambridge Raceway is dire, according to the acting Board Chairman and other sources with knowledge of the club. “It’s not great,” confirmed Andrew Neal, when asked about the club’s financial position. Neal has only recently joined the Cambridge Board but a recent health setback for Chairman […]
What poor form it was by Carter and Cran Dalgety to question the judge. That’s what the technology is for! They made idiots of themselves by not accepting defeat gracefully. It seems that these New Zealanders can’t lose with out making excuses. Imagine if Kevin and Kay fired in a protest about the NZ Horse […]
You take a big risk of ending up with egg all over your face when you publicly pot the chances of a good horse in a race. Tell me about it stud. Yesterday in a story I declared that Debbie Lincoln couldn’t win the Group 1 Breeders Stakes at Addington for his rookie trainer Josh […]
I wonder if the RIB will breath test drivers at Addington tonight? The first one I would target if I were them is Tim Williams. The Woodend whisper from Snapchat is that he was up on the piss all night at Regan Todd’s with Dexter Dunn. Tied one they did we are told. It’s even […]
Story by Michael Guerin; NZ Herald Thoroughbred racing bosses have vowed to review a policy which sees Australian horses being subsidized to race in New Zealand even after they win potentially millions of dollars. Some local trainers are annoyed by a New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) travel subsidy of a flat fee of $10,000 paid […]
We have written many times about unregistered NZ trot syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald and the tricks he plays under his Off n Racing banner. Well now the Canary has upped the rort. The bloke who sells microshares of 0.1% (1/100oth) in pacers and trotters at highly inflated prices has his management fees per share […]
The New Zealand harness racing awards this year were nothing but a joke. Leap To Fame won The Race and the NZ Free For All, and ran second in the NZ Trotting Cup. Kingman won the Cup, and the Christian Cullen too. Somehow Republican Party – who couldn’t beat either of them with start – […]
