Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just before Xmas the NZRIB Adjudicator put apprentice jockey Masa Hashizume out for three weeks for dropping his hands near the line in this ride above, and costing his mount (in red colours) second place. On Sunday at the Geraldine trots driver Sheree Tomlinson did almost an identical thing, only she cost her horse and […]
Here is another highly questionable protest decision. It’s race 2 at the feature Pukekohoe meeting in New Zealand on Saturday. The horse on the inside with the white, green sleeves and red cap, and the horse in the brown and gold directly outside it dead-heated. Each rider protested against the other. The Stewards upheld the […]
Last week we told you about how the NZ Group 1 winning mare Need You Now – now known as I Need You Know – hasn’t been able to go a yard since transferring over to Luke ‘the Duke’ McCarthy from the stables of leading Kiwi trainer John Dunn. I am not sure if we […]
This one seems hard to believe, but at least three people who were at the track and heard it first hand just a couple of hours ago swear that it is absolutely true. As you will see in the video below, driver Tim Williams (black and white colours on the leaders back) has pushed off […]
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 […]
