Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness racing in the South Island of New Zealand is on the nose, and the smell is so bad that the stench floats all the way across to the Great Barrier Reef. It’s not global warming that is killing the coral, it’s drug cheating and race fixing coming out of Woodend Beach. Race 4 at […]
I’m a completely clean trainer and can sleep well at night because I’m a honest trainer just trying my best I’m glad your a fan – Ben Hope, promising young trot trainer swimming down the wrong stream You are wrong Ben, we are not a fan. We think you are a young smart arse who […]
Adam Hamilton raised an interesting point in his column this week on thetrots.com.au when he stated his belief that Kevin Seymour’s NSW Derby winner Leap To Fame was still at this stage only the 3rd best three-year-old in Australasia behind the Kiwi star Akuta and the Victorian based Catch a Wave. I thought I would […]
Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald is a licensed New Zealand harness racing trainer/driver who holds himself out as a registered syndicator of race horses, specifically at this moment yearling standardbreds and old, tried, unsuccessful gallopers. The Canary isn’t really a syndicator though, no matter what he may pretend to be. He is a nothing but a […]
Hi Team Your Article on me was a good laugh completely untrue but a good laugh I actually take it as a huge compliment because it must mean she’s going great so really your saying I’m doing a great job because I’m a completely clean trainer and can sleep well at night because I’m a honest […]
Trot trainer Ben Hope hasn’t been to Sydney lately to borrow one of Turbo’s shampoo bottles, so he couldn’t improve his horse Refine by a dozen lengths at Addington last night like Carter Dalgely did. Hope is one of the Witches of Woodend Beach though, so his magic potions could improve it four seconds. It […]
The Cran Dalgety trained pacer Trixton Time boasted the unenviable record of 35 starts for just 2 wins coming into last night’s Addington meeting, and had not won a race in it’s past 8 starts. It’s best winning time was 2.00.0. It is strongly rumoured that prior to the running of Trixton Time’s race, the […]
Meet Max. He is a strong, powerful colt by BUY KIWI MARE from the well-bred Live Or Die mare LIVING GLORY. Or at least that’s what the Canary – Andrew Fitzgerald, managing director of Off N Racing Syndications – says, and he should know, because he owns Max’s mum, or one of them anyway. Living […]
Even time for 400 metres – or a quarter-mile (known as a quarter) – in harness racing is 30 seconds. 30 seconds is to 400m splits at the trots as 12 second furlongs are to gallops racing. The standard average time. A pacer who runs that time for four splits to record a mile rate […]
There are hot whispers from across the Tasman that all may not be as it appears with the Kiwi harness racing company Off N Racing Syndications, an outfit run by Andrew ‘the Canary’ Fitzgerald, the bloke who was with Cam Jones on the day he drenched one of his runners, and the man who lagged […]
