Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
McKendrick was the odds-on favorite to win race 4 at Addington on Wednesday, which was no huge surprise for while its not the strongest horse in the world it was a natural leader drawn in gate 2 and dropping back in class to a race that was very weak. With a slowish beginner drawn inside […]
A few readers have been asking why all of Kiwi trainer Chris McDowell’s team have been scratched from Addington today. It is nothing nefarious or controversial. Apparently the McDowell became aware that the horses had eaten something with their paddock feed that had the potential to send the horses over the top and record a […]
The problems with small field sizes in North Island NZ harness racing continue apace, with this week’s cards at Cambridge and Alexandra Park further illustrating the magnitude of the issue. It is well known that to maximize wagering turnover on the trots races need to have a minimum of 8 race (preferably more) with 10-12 […]
Four Harcourts real estate franchises in New Zealand are being prosecuted by the Commerce Commission for alleged cartel conduct related to price fixing. Guess who works for one of the franchises? None other than our very own The Canary. It seems that this bloke just can’t avoid courting controversy. What’s that they say? Never trust […]
New Zealand’s favorite unregistered syndicator Andrew ‘the Canary” Fitzgerald has unleashed another of his world class stooges on innocent trot fans eager to become involved at the lower end of the ownership spectrum. The horse in question is the filly Smackdown, the knock kneed pacer in the picture that the Canary has been selling 1/1000th […]
Hall of Fame member and harness racing legend Barry Purdon returns to the cart for his first drive in six years this afternoon at Alexandra Park. Purdon, whose last race drive was way back in 2019, takes the reins on his highly talented but often temperamental 3-year-old square gaiter Higher Power in the fourth race […]
The problem with small field sizes for harness races in the North Island of New Zealand continues apace, with 2/3rds of races run or about to be run this month in the region having fields of less than 8 runners, the sort of numbers that spell wagering turnover death. Cambridge is the worst affected track, […]
The race for the all-time trainers record is on as the Steve and Amanda Telfer partnership seek to break Roy and Barry Purdon’s 31-year long record of 168 winners in a season. With three months of the season still left to run the Telfers have racked up 137 wins from 642 starters at a strike […]
About three months back we wrote a story illustrating the problems with Harness Racing New Zealand CEO Brad Steele’s proposal to use proceeds from the forced sale of the Forbury Park track to help the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) build a new training center and track to replace the Franklin Park facility the ATC is […]
There is some great harness racing this weekend on both sides of the Tasman, with all the big guns on show. The first of them is the 4th heat of the Woodlands Sires Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings at Addington, run from the mobile over 1980m. Here is our take on it,= This may […]
