Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
COPY THAT Locked, loaded and 100 percent. Trevor Casey from New Zealand exclusively negotiated the deal with the owners. So never let Jamie Durnberger-Smith (pictured at bottom) claim the credit. He needs to grin more himself that lad. What a coup for the slot holding syndicate though. Here is the question? Who is going […]
Earlier this morning we published a story (that has immediately been taken down) claiming that the 2Y) colt Cocktails and Caviar had died. This story was incorrect in every respect. The information that we received was wrong. It was actually the colt’s mother Alta Leonie that passed away during foaling, which is uncommon but not […]
Ray Green says just like Copy That was forced to get fit for the cup in another country last year, the lack of racing here now forced him to adopt the same path to ready the horse for the $1 million slot race, The Race by Grins, at Cambridge on April 14. Ray Green … […]
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 […]
