Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In the wake of our story about the deaths of three young pacer from the Stonewall Stud stable on NZ tracks in the past four months, and the potentially fatal incident involving a driver at another, the RIB yesterday announced that has launched an investigation into the matters, seeking to determine whether there were only […]
It was only four years ago that three of trainer Robert Dunn’s pacers in four different races returned positive swabs to the performance enhancing stimulant caffeine. Dunn was fined $7 000, a sentence most considered remarkably light. The year before Dunn had been fined $4000 after one of his horses returned a positive to the […]
Trevor Casey owns stallion Sky Major, who stands this season at $2500+GST at Wai Eyre Farm in North Canterbury. When the horse first returned from North America, Casey purchased or leased more than 25 mares to put in foal to help get foals on the ground and attract mares in his third and fourth seasons, […]
The $1 million breeding incentive scheme announced by Harness Racing New Zealand last week has been met with mixed reactions from across the breeding sector. On the back of last year’s microchipped foal crop dropping to a scarcely-believable 1367, HRNZ CEO Gary Woodham conceded something drastic needed to be done to address the alarming trend. […]
Steve Stockman has been around harness racing for many years, but up until the last few years he was just another face in the crowd and player in the game. Then one day in 2020 he untied the purse strings, and all of a sudden Stockman became the man. He has been spending like a […]
CYA DOIT Date of Death – 20 May 2022 Place of Death – Alexandra Park Paceway Age at Death – 3 years old Had 7 starts as a 2YO for one second to Jagera, who is no champion. Had 5 months off then returned to win 3 out of 4 and run 2nd in the […]
Not all the Telfer horses die on the track. Some survive, and almost kill others. Enjoy Me is a 4-year-old mare who raced at Alexandra Park on the same night that her stablemate Cya Dot died. Two starts before Enjoy Me had won at Cambridge. A year before that she won the rich Sires Stakes. […]
The All Stars Stable of Natalie Rasmussen, Mark Purdon and later Hayden Cullen were the leading trainers of pacers by prizemoney in New Zealand last year, as they have been for the past few years. They trained 97 winners and 116 placed horses across all ages, classes and grades, for total earnings of $3.6 million. […]
Three Stonewall Stud owned horses have died on the track in the past 4 months. Each of them were trained by Steven Telfer. Telfer is the de facto partner of Jill Stockman, the equal share owner in Stonewall Stud with her husband Steve, and has been for a decade. Two of the horses that died […]
This Dr Sam Taylor. He is the vet for Robert Dunn, Steve Telfer, and the Woodend Beach crew. My grandma always told me never to judge a book by it’s cover. I reckon she was right.
