Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Divest of any real ideas to address the dire problems that Alexandra Park has in attracting trainers to race their horses at it’s Friday night metropolitan meetings, the Auckland Trotting Club has come with a band aid fix in the shape of a $200 starters bonus paid to owners or trainers of non-win trotters, three-year-old […]
Friday night is Alexandra Park’s big night, the main metropolitan meeting of the week; the showcase if you will. That’s what makes this so bad. There are just six races on tonight’s card. Three are them are for trotters: one for maidens, one for horses that have won only 1 race, and the other for […]
We told you about McCrikey’s win in the 10th at the Addington trots on Friday night, the race in which clearly went inside the marker pegs, and the Stewards lodged a protest which the Racing Integrity Board (RIB) adjudicator dismissed. The published RIB decision has now been released, and in our view it highlights a […]
Some old, ugly ex-boxer bastard in a Spiderman hat that his grandson picked for him, cuddling his mates Matt and JC’s dog Little Byrnes New Zealand has woken up to what Australians should have years earlier. That animal activists who oppose greyhound racing have no place on the board of a greyhound racing health and […]
What you see in the picture at the top of this story is Mark Purdon on Friday night’s Great Northern Oaks winner True Fantasy, at about the 50m mark from home. Is Purdon hocking the filly to boot it home, or is he simply trying to kick out the plugs (deafeners)? It’s hard to tell. […]
You don’t like to gloat, but we’ve been telling you that Merlin was the best 2-year-old in New Zealand since the time he could walk. We were right too. Last night in the Young Guns classic at Alexandra Park he took them to town. You got better than evens too, which was like Santa coming […]
There were a few things of interest about the last race at Addington last night. One is that I backed the winner McCrikey, which is freakish. The second is that the winner kept the race, given that it went inside one peg and over another to get the inside run and forge through to his […]
New Zealand has a major problem with kids and alcohol. The main problem is Ready To Drink (RTD) cans of fizzy pop and spirits with 5% alcohol content. The Race was supposed to be a near million dollar buy a slot harness super-event to promote the sport. It has turned into a bad joke, a […]
Outside of novelty events where a heat and final is run on the same program, it has been quite a while since we’ve seen horses allowed to race twice on a single card in a day. After what we saw at the Cambridge Paceway last night you would have to say that there is a […]
In the day we sweat it out on the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on Highway 9 Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin’ out over the line Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back It’s a […]
