Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is an email that every Kiwi’s favorite trot syndicator The Canary (aka Andrew Fitrzgerald) last week sent out to people on his mailing list, trying to flog them a 0.1% share in the horse SCOTT for $100 bucks. There are a few problems with The Canary’s pitch. One is that a hundred bucks for […]
In a shock development today the Group 1 winners Don’t Stop Dreaming and We Walk By Faith have been pulled out of the Mark and Nathan Purdon barn and transferred to their former training partner Hayden Cullen. The move is said to have been triggered by owners Mark and Dennis Dunford’s dissatisfaction with Mark Purdon’s […]
Hi Archie Couldn’t let the postings re Auckland Trotting Club go by without some sort of answer. For the record none of the shite written by Guerin is new – it has been common knowledge for at least 12 months that the club has been accruing interest at over $100k per week since the Gleneagles […]
Much loved Kiwi horsewoman Katie Cox lost her brave battle with cancer yesterday. She was only 34. They say that only the good die young. This wonderful young woman’s passing proves it. Katie’s favorite pacer Spy Da Moment lines up in the 7th at Addington tonight, where the track will be awash with tears. Spy […]
He needs to be very careful that man. I know he has got it in for the RIB, he needn’t make it so obvious or he’ll be in trouble – RIB Adjudicative Chair Russell Mackenzie On the 30th of May everyone’s favorite Kiwi trainer Mark Jones attended a Stewards Inquiry to support driver Robbie Close, […]
We have written previously about the openly condoned dishonesty of the Dunn Stable in New Zealand, and how HRNz and the NZ Racing Integrity Board’s failure to act on their blatant fraud damages the integrity of racing by allowing the true trainer of the stable’s horses John Dunn to so often break the rules. It […]
The mail out of the North Island is that dual-code trainer Graeme ‘Rogie’ Rogerson, whose joint training arrangement with Dylan Ferguson ended about a month ago when Ferguson resigned, will soon set up a new training partnership with widely respected horseman James Stormont (pictured below). Stormont, who is presently working down in Christchurch at Claymore […]
Back to yesterday’s about the ongoing rort being openly pulled by the Dunn stable in New Zealand, whose horses are falsely registered as being trained by John Dunn’s father and wife so that he can circumvent the rules about trainers driving their own horses. Well it didn’t take long for an illustration of the rort […]
So there it is. New Zealand’s premier racing writer and harness racing media identity openly admitting that the whole Robert and Jenna Dunn training set-up is a scam. Robert Dunn can’t train the largely South Island based team because he lives in the north. And Jenna Dunn doesn’t train them because she can’t. John Dunn trains […]
Harness Racing New Zealand has appointed Brad Steele as its new Chief Executive, effective 1 July 2024. Steele has for the past six years worked in a variety of senior roles for RACQ, the fastest growing bank in Queensland and before that held regional and lending management roles in the insurance and banking group Suncorp […]
