Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Kiwi trainer Cameron Jones has been found to have, and has admitted, injecting his horse Johnny Nevitts with a substance on race day. There is however a major problem. Jones has given sworn evidence to the Racing Integrity Board that the substance injected was a product named Flexadin. Flexadin is not sold in injectable form. […]
The NZ Harness Racing Owners Federation (NZHROF) has quite properly raised concerns about two licensed participants being allowed to continue to work in the industry at a time that they are separately and jointly facing charges of indecent (sexual) assault against a victim who most the industry are aware is also an industry participant. NHROF’s […]
This is absolute and utter bullshit too. Cam Jones is lying through his teeth. The Canary – the unlicensed syndicator Andrew Fitzgerald – is too. It was not the benign collagen like substance Flexadin that was in that syringe that Cam Jones injected into Johnny Nevitts before the Addington race at all. He is making […]
The word around the traps is that of 12.01am Saturday morning, the great, grand folly better known as the Auckland Trots Night TV experiment is – in a word – cactus. Dead, buried, cremated. Gone, gonzo, gone burger. Only a few short weeks ago a club (Auckland) teetering on the verge of bankruptcy paying for […]
Someone told me the other day that I knew shit from clay, and was making up any involvement in NZ Harness Racing. The same bastards said I didn’t know Julia Gillard either. Or Aunty Helen. When’s the last time they ever high-fived a Prime Minister hey? Or gave the Chairman of the Auckland Trotting Club […]
“Since when do we penalise our harness racing drivers for making tactical errors in races?” Since they have been LICENCED to compete in races on which there is betting, I would have thought. This is the “I didn’t mean to speed officer, I just wasn’t looking for a sign and I didn’t see it” defence. […]
The Stewards panel on the night of the dubious drive was Steve Mulcay (Chairman), Keith Coppins, Ben Van Zan and Adrian Dooley. Between them these four men have have well 100 years of racing experience combined, including at the competition as well as in senior integrity roles in New Zealand and Mr Mulcay is a […]
Well this media spin campaign by Lincoln Farms and the ‘Magic Didn’t Hook the 2nd Fave’ campaign run by John Street’s man Dr Lichter – a close associate of Robert Dunn – gets more and more curious by the minute. This is what driver Maurice McKendry said on Friday, or what the spin Dr Lichter […]
The Magic Man proves how tricky the turn at Auckland is by coming widest of all around the turn and winning on Simply Sam, just six days after he was certain that the rail was the place to be We wrote earlier in the week about the cynical campaign that Lincoln Farms is running to […]
Watch this drive by Maurice McKendry on the 2nd favourite Simply Sam at Alexandra Park last Friday week. McKendry is in the green colours with the white cap, sitting one off the fence directly behind and trailing the eventual winner Harder Than Diamonds. See what he does on the turn, and in the straight. Why […]
