Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you notice anything missing in the pictorial diagram that the NZ Racing Integrity Board have produced detailing it’s stakeholders? The punters. The people whose wagering funds the whole damn racing shebang. Every organisation in the coronavirus shaped things is a tentacle of the racing octopus, but none of them can or would exist without […]
Up until a couple of weeks ago the Davey owned barn at Woodend Beach that is rented to trainer Matt Purvis was surrounded by big trees, which you might think would be a great thing for a Beach Boy, for no no-one can see what you are doing inside, especially those pesky RIB Stewards and […]
Have a look at this. Hidden Talent is a 3YO trotting filly from down south trained by Nathan Williamson. After wins at Invercargill and Winton she stepped out first up for two months in the big smoke at Addington last night, and took on Group class racing, and against some pretty good ones too. She […]
Good morning My name is Archie Butterfly and I author the racing website peterprofit.com As you are aware, I wrote the story about the deaths of the three Telfer trained/Stonewall Stud owned pacers that died on the track in the space of just months. I also wrote about a 4th incident involving a horse from the same […]
SIOUX PRINCESS – broke briefly at the start. Hampered by a breaking runner on the first bend. Briefly hampered on the final bend by a weakening runner. Authorisation of placings was withheld until Stewards had reviewed the films and spoken to driver S Ottley as to whether the mare had been denied a fair start with SIOUX PRINCESS being declared […]
There are rumours floating over from across the ditch that well-known harness racing trainer and driver Natalie Rasmussen has or will be nodding her head to a certain charge or charges in the criminal courts in the very recent past or future. Nothing would surprise me about a best mate of Scott Steele’s. BTW don’t […]
None of Steve Telfer’s young horses died on the track at Alexandra Park on Friday night thank goodness, but gee two of them put in inexplicably bad runs. No Added Sugar was the favourite to win race 4. This four year old mare had a sweet trail in the line throughout, pulled out to make […]
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, […]
