Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What the hell was Andre Poutama doing in the trot last night at Alexandra Park behind Oscar Bonavena? Oscar was the highest rated horse in the race by a mile at NR120. The leader was a rating 55 trotter. Common sense dictated that Poutama would bring Oscar around the field early and bore it up the […]
Harness Racing New Zealand has generously given two of the wealthiest stables in Aotearoa a Xmas gift. A free race replete with $15 000 as first prize they have given one of either Mark Purdon or Robert Dunn, and a silver pass to finish second and take home $6000 is the present for the other. […]
1 – LEAP TO FAME 76: 59-12-3 13 x G1 + The Race BT 1.48.3 The Ali of the pacing world. Simply the best. There is not much more I need to say. Larry says it all for me. 2 – DON HUGO 57: 22-11-8 3 x G1 + The Eureka BT 1.48.4 Wins in […]
There is outrage among NZ harness racing licensees over the treatment of junior driver Emily Johnson, who had been threatened with a dangerous driving charge by Stewards in relation to an incident that occurred during a race at Addington last Friday week. Johnson was driving the long odds-on favorite He Ain’t Fakin, the Aussie pacer […]
The Waipa (gallops) Racing Club is in the Waikato. So is Te Awamutu. Funny things happen south of the Bombay hills. Racing Club Manager stole $160,000 12 December 2011 Lea Margaret Temm, the 55 year-old Manager of the Waipa Racing Club was today sentenced for stealing $162,172.38 from her employer over a period of ten […]
The New Zealand Derby tonight was a fantastic race, a clash between titans. Marketplace’s gate speed won it for him, and Got The Chocolates lack of it was his undoing. MP went straight to the lead, GTC began slowly, and had to work hard in the early stages to get around to the death. Once […]
The whole of racing’s thoughts and prayers are with Bailey Rogerson tonight as she lies in a coma in hospital with horrific injuries after a terrible fall at Arawa Park on Sunday. Bailey suffered a fractured skull in the fall, and doctors immediately placed her in a coma amid concerns about intracranial pressure and a […]
When punters arrived at Riccarton for NZ Cup Day n Saturday is was sunny and the skies were clear. Then in between races 4 and 5 the heavens opened, and this happened. In Australia the meeting would have been called off in a heartbeat. Not across the ditch. There they just downgraded the track to […]
We all know that New Zealand is a clean, green country. It’s water is clean, it’s air is fresh and unpolluted, and its forests are lush. Everything about the country except the wages is pristine. Even the horse racing. There are no bicarb drug cheats in the Kiwi gallops or trots. Not one. The RIB […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
