Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Some extremely disturbing reports are emanating out of New Zealand regarding the behaviour of a female harness race driver toward young licensees under her supervision, some of them who are alleged to be clearly under-age. It is rumoured that when new young female employees start work at the stable at which the driver works, this […]
Mark Jones comes from a long line of royalty in New Zealand harness racing, although you would never know it. His grandfathers Derek Jones and Reg Stockdale, and his father Peter Jones are legends of the game. Jones’s cousins Anthony and Tim Butt are too. The difference between cousin 1 and Jones though is that […]
Watch John Dunn cheat at the start in the last race at Addington tonight. He did it right under the Stewards noses too. Everyone is supposed to start off the same mark off the stand. Lurch clearly took a fly. How was A Bettor Act not disqualified? The stipes must have been staring up at […]
We’ve got two horse races going on here! And one of them has only got one horse in it! – Addington race caller Johnny Cox is a very experienced harness racing driver. He has been in the sulky for a long time now, and has thousands of drives, and at this point of time averages […]
New Zealand trainer Trudy Keegan, for reasons of her own, is unvaccinated against COVID-19. That is her choice, but it means that she is not allowed to put others at risk by attending the races. On the 13th of January she decided to say ‘stuff you’ to the racing participants who acted responsibly, and went […]
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/66397759/the-star-february-17-2022 You always hear it here first.
It appears that it is not just in Queensland that Stewards are working from home because they can’t go to the track due to their refusal/reluctance/inability/unwillingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19. They are doing it in New Zealand too. Shane Renault is an experienced South Island stipe who used to work like other Stewards at […]
The article below appeared in the NZ newspaper stuff.co.nz today This article here appeared on peterprofit.com on 13 December 2021. This one here was published on peterprofit.com on 17 December 2021. Like we keep proving, you always hear it first here. ————————————— A harness racing trainer has been charged with administering a substance to a horse on […]
This race was so good that it sent shivers down my spine. Call me weird, but I get excited by head to head sporting contests like this. Boxing matches, tennis finals, rugby tests, footy finals, horse races, sex with Maggie, it doesn’t matter. Watching the best of the best go at each other one on […]
In a sensation, but not a surprise, a week before the court was due to make a determination regarding the admissibility of the phone tap and surveillance evidence obtained by police and RIU (Racing Integrity Unit) investigators in the long running Operation Inca taskforce investigation into race fixing, all the charges have been dropped. Don’t […]
