Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
These drug cheats in racing are nothing but a stain on our sport, and shit on our shoe. NZ harness Robert Dunn and his son John are primary among them. The Dunn’s – who use the name of John’s wife on their license, even though she can’t hopple up a horse, just so that they […]
Here is another fascinating Steve Dolan/John Curtin combo pacer. This time the horse is not sired by Auckland Reactor, but by his father Mach Three instead. Same line, same genes, same blood, same cells, once removed. Tall Poppy is this pacers name. The other differences are that she is a mare, and that Steve Dolan […]
Here is the bowled Steve Dolan, caught John Curtin hat trick. This time it is an Auckland Reactor gelding called Atomic Blast. He is a bit different from the other pair of Love the Blues and Team Kiwi, in that Dolan trains him from the start of his career. They back him off the map […]
Team Kiwi was a fair pacer up until the 7th of June 2020, but not a great one. Up until that date the gelding had raced 20 times for three win, The first 2 had been at his 2nd and 3rd career starts fifteen months before, in lowly races at Wyndham and Invercargill in the […]
The All Stars Stable train pulled into Alexandra Park on Friday night for a visit, and showed that you can shuffle the names on the training papers until the cows come home, but the results are still going to stay the same. Mark Purdon/Natalie Rasmussen/Hayden Cullen/Harry the Horse/Herbie the Love Bug – the names are interchangeable, […]
Trainer Tom Bagrie is driver John Dunn’s cousin, which means that trainer Robert Dunn is Bagrie’s uncle. Robert Dunn of course was earlier this week appointed to the board of the Auckland Trotting Club. The club runs Alexandra Park, the track where the rort above occurred. Tom Bagrie didn’t lodge a stable return because he […]
I was very sad to hear about the passing of Roy Purdon overnight. I only had the chance to meet Roy once – I remember I called him Sir, and he laughed at me – but I’m very friendly with his son and training partner Barry and his wife Katrina, and I know that they […]
Hot off the press is that there have been huge changes today to the management and the board at the fast drowning in failed property development debt Auckland Trotting Club. The Club CEO Mauro Barsi – the man who has presided over the wholesale mess for the past two and half years – has resigned, […]
When trot drivers in Australia go out after the races on the night before the next meeting they get on the double coke and coke, the powder and the liquid, and the reason that they do so is because they can have a whale of a night and still drive clean the next morning because […]
A death on the track was narrowly avoided in the Group 1 Wellington Cup yesterday. No it wasn’t a fall. It wasn’t even a horse. It was a pukeko. The luckiest pukeko ever. If I was that little blue fella I’d be off to the newsagent to buy myself a lotto ticket.
