Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We wrote earlier today about how NSW trainer Michael Muscat has just been given six years for returning a positive swab with a horse that started at long odds and ran a nondescript seventh at Bathurst. I bet he wished he lived in New Zealand. They reward bad behaviour over there. A trainer named Scott […]
Harness Racing New Zealand’s big idea to boost the sport was to put on a race series for low grade horses with oversized fields that was of no interest to anyone but current South Island owners and trainers. They called the series the RATTO. It was well named, because it was rat shit. Trackside in […]
NZ harness racing lost a legend of the sport overnight. Jim Dalgety passed away. I didn’t know Jim, but through his achievements I felt I did. To a person the many I know in the game in NZ held him in the highest of respect. Blessings and comfort to his family and friends. What an […]
Need You Now was one of New Zealand’s best pacing mares. She won several Group races including the G1 Harness Jewels, and beat horses of the calibre of NZ filly or mare of the year winners Amazing Dream, Belle of Montana and Bettor Twist, and G1 winners Spellbound and Stylish Memphis just to name a […]
As we showed you yesterday, New Zealand’s leading driver Blair Orange’s wilful disregard for the rules and for the safety of other participants in a pursuit of a $30 000 first prize directly resulted in the death of an innocent horse. Orange – who has driven 680 winners in the past 3 seasons – was […]
Watch the video above. Keep your eyes on this horse below. It’s driven by Blair Orange. Did you see it? Orange comes straight across in front of the horse on his inside in the green, when he had no right whatsoever to do so. There was no run there. Blair Orange forced it by slamming […]
Is it any wonder that harness racing in Auckland is in such a mess that they have to pay trainers $200 bribes per horse to race there so that they can fill a field? Or that the club running Alexandra Park is such a fiscal basket case? The people running the joint don’t even know […]
TABNZ is the funding body for the 3 codes of racing across the ditch. It receives the profits from gambling on races, and distributes it to the dogs, trots and gallops to pay for prizemoney, club operating costs and capital expenditure. Last year the TABNX banked $372.5 million in revenue. $135.1 million of these earnings […]
A mate of mine owns the horse at the back in the famous Graeme Rogerson colours of blue and green with the red cap. He backed it at $26 to win a new house. I only backed it win a car. Is it any wonder that we both feel sick? Why is that $6.80 each […]
Halfway through last year Harness Racing New Zealand’s CEO Gary Woodham and his people had this great idea. They were going to address the declining pacer crisis in the North Island of the nation by introducing a new series that was hugely weighted to encourage and advantage South Island pacers. A race for intermediate grade […]
