Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sundees Sun smashed yet another New Zealand record at Addington on Friday night. In fact he obliterated it. The fastest time ever run by a square gaiter from the mobile over 2600m in NZ was 3.12.3 coming into this year’s edition of the Group 1 Fred Shaw Memorial Trotting Championship. Sundees Sun ran 3.10.4. He […]
What it is that Harness Racing New Zealand and the Racing Board don’t get about race scheduling? It is a pretty simple concept. You put your meetings in the place where they will attract the most wagering turnover. Bets = Revenue Revenue = Funding Funding = Prizemoney How hard is that to understand? Not very. […]
Mr Mulcay said Mr May had received a warning under this Rule on 25 March 2022. He said Mr May hasn’t gained any discernible advantage and considered a fine as an appropriate penalty The video clearly shows Mr May’s sulky’s wheel protruding inside the last marker before the passing lane and considering Mr May’s recent […]
There is only thing on the mind of trot fans everywhere at the moment. The Grinner, aka The Race By Grins. How quickly this brand new race has captured the imagination of the world. The field hasn’t even scored up for the first Grinner yet, but it’s created so much excitement in the long droll […]
That’s what I reckon you should call The Race. The Race By Grins just doesn’t quite work. The Grinner does. Produce ads with world famous in New Zealand celebrities grinning. You’ve got heaps of them, and you’ve even got a bunch of real world famous ones too. Your Prime Minister is an Olympic champ at […]
Hot off the press this is. The Jason Grimson trained winner from Saturday night Majestic Cruiser has been named as the replacement for the scratched Spellbound as the Hole In The Wall Gang’s runner in the the $900 000 slot race at the Cambridge Paceway in New Zealand on Thursday week. He will be hard […]
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 […]
