Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We told you to watch the two new horses from the Woodend Beach trainer Matt Purvis’s stable in their races at Addington yesterday. Silly us. They were a false blind. It was his two other runners we should have been watching. They both won. The Hornet was the one they backed. It sat 3-wide into […]
We told you earlier about how the RIB Stewards claim they conducted 59 surprise stable inspections on Monday and Tuesday. If that is true, why is it that the following trainers from Woodend Beach knew they were coming, and had time to put things that shouldn’t be found in stables into the locked boots of […]
Some people say that Woodend Beach trainer Matt Purvis doesn’t give his horses a bit of the old Tally Ho treatment, and do you know what, I’d love to believe them. I can’t though, because everything points in the opposite direction. Victor Bravo is the perfect example. Until Purvis and a group of others bought […]
There are 8 hours in a Stewards working day, which adds up to 16 hours in two days, minus paid mornind and afternooin tea breaks which brings the day down to 7.6 hours, or 15.2 over 2. To conduct 59 stable inspections in those 2 days would mean that an inspection was carried out every […]
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. […]
