Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have written previously about NZ trot steward S. Renault working ‘remotely’ during the COVID-19 restriction period because he refused to get vaxed. Although for privacy reasons he did not name Mr Renault directly, or discuss the reason for his prior absences from the track, when we asked RIB CEO Mike Clements about the issue […]
Hobby trainer/driver Daniel Reardon has had 138 drives in 27 years, an average of just over 5 per season. In all that time Reardon has won 4 races, and no doubt gained a great thrill from each of them. The last one was four years ago. Two weeks ago on the grass at Geraldine D. […]
How about this one to highlight the absurdity of the way in which the new NZ harness racing judiciary system is working for the benefit of the industry and everyone in it. Driver Robbie Close won a fillies and mares maiden at Invercargill on the 30th of April. For reasons known only to himself, as […]
The word on Manchester Street is that Wooden Beach trainer Cam Jones has been DQ’d for 18 months after pleading guilty to administering gear to one of his horses prior to a race. Jones apparently copped the discount for pleading guilty, not that he really had any choice after the Canary (unregistered syndicator, trainer, and […]
Friday a week ago trainers Steve and Amanda Telfer presented a horse to race at Alexandra Park without its notified removable deafeners. The horse was the favourite. It got beat. This was the 3rd time in about 4 months the Telfers had raced a horse without it wearing the gear that they had told punters […]
What you see at the top are the results from race 5 at Otaki in New Zealand yesterday. The picture was taken 12 hours after the race was run and won, but as you can see Sportsbet say that they are still waiting for a result. There is a reason for that. They can’t find […]
Everyone in the thoroughbred and harness racing industries both in NZ and Australia knows that the greatest issue in either sport is the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED’s). Certain leading stables in both codes are implementing wholesale doping programs to gain an edge on their rivals, and it is making them millions of dollars […]
I cannot believe what I am reading here. This is a message to harness racing from the Chairman of the Board (pictured above). If HRNZ were fair dinkum it would be John Coulam’s farewell note as Chairman as well. The depth of his lack of understanding of the realities of modern racing are astounding. What […]
The picture above that you see of the bottle with the red cap was taken at the Woodend Beach, Christchurch stables of the training partnership of Robert and Jenna Dunn, the part of the operation managed by Dunn’s son John, aka Lurch. The obvious inference to be drawn is that Lurch is using this ‘herbal […]
John ‘Lurch’ Dunn, the man in charge of the Woodend Beach end of his family’s Diamond Racing operation, was in Auckland on Friday night driving Sundees Sun, the wonder trotter who broke the national record for 2700m by an unheard of clear 4 seconds (over 50 metres) in the NZ Trot. There only other runner […]
