Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Really? No precedent cases? I did a simple Google search, and I came up with 10 pages of them. This is nonsense. So is the notion that the race day Stewards have no responsibility for the right horses racing as themselves in the right races. That is absolute baloney. Making sure that there are no […]
About a month back we told you that the Queensland owned pacer Merlin was New Zealand’s best two-year-old. It seemed that up until about 6 o’clock last night a lot of Kiwis disagreed, for they backed his rival Seve from $2.60 into $1.50 in the heat of the Group 2 Young Guns pace at Alexandra […]
Where I grew up the starters at the trots were always neutral. The blokes on the track working with the horses were all there to get them faced up straight to the tapes, and to get them away fair and clean. They weren’t there to get one going faster than the other. That is the […]
Trainer Dean Taylor had two runners in the 2nd race at the Addington Trots last night. One was a brown mare with a white fetlock and star, brand number 163916. The other was a bay gelding with only a few white hairs on its forehead, brand number 175635. They were a bit hard to miss. […]
The sprint lane at Ashburton starts at the red marker poles. Those black and white poles you see are part of the track. They are the rail, or what used to be. Driver Craig Thornley on the horse you see at the top has clearly and quite deliberately cut the corner. Watch. Let’s call a […]
The 2nd placed horse in this race at Riccarton last week was in the black and white, and the 3rd placed horse on its inside in the red. The rider of the red horse protested against the one in the black. It was upheld. I don’t reckon it should have been. What do you think? […]
As you will be aware, we wrote a couple of days ago about the massive disparities in sentence for the same offence between the 2 day suspension given to driver Brent Barclay, and the $300 fine handed down to Blair Orange. In that article we suggested that if the adjudicator in both cases had been […]
EVIDENCE: At the conclusion of Race 9 the Diamonds Day 30th April Mobile Pace a protest was lodged by Stipendiary Steward Mr V Munro alleging that under Rule 869(7)(b) that THE COBBLER (B Orange) went inside a pylon in the home straight therefore gaining an advantage. THE COBBLER was placed second in the race. Mr […]
