Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
What a great new ad for the NZ TAB. They’ve appropriated our wedding song for the purpose too. My mum always said I was cool.
There is a common denominator in the recent rash of positive swabs to Levamisole being returned by Australian trainers with horses imported from New Zealand, and no it is not Turbo Trainor, despite his horses having thrown two. It’s the vet Sam Taylor from the Rangiora Vet Centre. There have been 3 horses in NSW […]
Brad Steele’s appointment as the new CEO of HRNZ will be officially announced by the board chairman this morning. Steele will be there at head office in Christchurch for the announcement and the official photo. Greg Mitchell will take over as Chairman of Albion Park. You heard it here first.
… enjoying a drink In the QANTAS Club at Brisbane Airport yesterday were Albion Park Chairman Brad Steele and his wife and his wife, on their way to Christchurh to complete the formalities ahead and do a bit of house hunting ahead of his appointment as the new HRNZ CEO. A public announcement about Steele […]
Jack Trainor has seen the writing on the wall and done an Emma Stewart overnight. All of his stable horses – including last start Group 1 winner Aardies Express – have been transferred to Jason Grimson in the past 24 hour, with the transfers approved by Harness Racing NSW. That’s what you call jumping before […]
NZ reinsman Tim Williams seems to have uncommonly good luck in the Stewards Room, so much so that many have long wondered whether he’s the Kiwi equivalent of the koala, a protected species. His streak of good fortune continued in the 9th race at Addington yesterday when he was acquitted of a charge of failing […]
