Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The article below appeared in the NZ newspaper stuff.co.nz today This article here appeared on peterprofit.com on 13 December 2021. This one here was published on peterprofit.com on 17 December 2021. Like we keep proving, you always hear it first here. ————————————— A harness racing trainer has been charged with administering a substance to a horse on […]
This race was so good that it sent shivers down my spine. Call me weird, but I get excited by head to head sporting contests like this. Boxing matches, tennis finals, rugby tests, footy finals, horse races, sex with Maggie, it doesn’t matter. Watching the best of the best go at each other one on […]
In a sensation, but not a surprise, a week before the court was due to make a determination regarding the admissibility of the phone tap and surveillance evidence obtained by police and RIU (Racing Integrity Unit) investigators in the long running Operation Inca taskforce investigation into race fixing, all the charges have been dropped. Don’t […]
These drug cheats in racing are nothing but a stain on our sport, and shit on our shoe. NZ harness Robert Dunn and his son John are primary among them. The Dunn’s – who use the name of John’s wife on their license, even though she can’t hopple up a horse, just so that they […]
Here is another fascinating Steve Dolan/John Curtin combo pacer. This time the horse is not sired by Auckland Reactor, but by his father Mach Three instead. Same line, same genes, same blood, same cells, once removed. Tall Poppy is this pacers name. The other differences are that she is a mare, and that Steve Dolan […]
Here is the bowled Steve Dolan, caught John Curtin hat trick. This time it is an Auckland Reactor gelding called Atomic Blast. He is a bit different from the other pair of Love the Blues and Team Kiwi, in that Dolan trains him from the start of his career. They back him off the map […]
Team Kiwi was a fair pacer up until the 7th of June 2020, but not a great one. Up until that date the gelding had raced 20 times for three win, The first 2 had been at his 2nd and 3rd career starts fifteen months before, in lowly races at Wyndham and Invercargill in the […]
The All Stars Stable train pulled into Alexandra Park on Friday night for a visit, and showed that you can shuffle the names on the training papers until the cows come home, but the results are still going to stay the same. Mark Purdon/Natalie Rasmussen/Hayden Cullen/Harry the Horse/Herbie the Love Bug – the names are interchangeable, […]
Trainer Tom Bagrie is driver John Dunn’s cousin, which means that trainer Robert Dunn is Bagrie’s uncle. Robert Dunn of course was earlier this week appointed to the board of the Auckland Trotting Club. The club runs Alexandra Park, the track where the rort above occurred. Tom Bagrie didn’t lodge a stable return because he […]
I was very sad to hear about the passing of Roy Purdon overnight. I only had the chance to meet Roy once – I remember I called him Sir, and he laughed at me – but I’m very friendly with his son and training partner Barry and his wife Katrina, and I know that they […]
