Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“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 […]
There were ten races at Alexandra Park last night. Four of them were trots. Two were maidens. One was for 2YO’s that hadn’t won more than a single race. Three were started from the strands. Five were for horses rated no higher than 55, on a scale of 30-120. The highest class pace of the […]
As we predicted a year or so ago, all of the police charges laid against harness racing identities flowing from New Zealand’s Operation Inca have been dropped. That was as expected. Now the real fun begins. The RIB wants the police to hand over their evidence so that it can be considered in relation to […]
A Kiwi pacer named Victor Bravo had raced 14 times coming in to race 4 at Addington yesterday, and the best it could manage was one second and a third, both of them more than eight months ago in 2YO races against very ordinary opposition. About 4 weeks ago the horse was sold, and about […]
The horse coming up the fence in this race, Kyle Loch, was going to win the race for sure, and then it galloped. It lost momentum and ground and fell back to finish 4th instead of 1st. The RIB Adjudicator Geoff Hall disqualified it from the race after the Chief Steward Vinnie Munroe lodged an […]
A pacer named Bri Express – who we will call the cheese – made its debut for popular Manawatu (North Island) trainer Stephen Doody on the 28th of April this year. It ran a creditable 3rd in a maiden at the third tier meeting, and a fortnight later was sold. Guess who bought it? Our […]
