Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Mr Jones I apologise for saving you from a charge of needling up a horse on race day, one that would have put you out for seven years. We both know that the next one will send you down the road for 14 plus, or perhaps life, and that I should have kept my […]
This self-serving nonsense was put out in a press release by the Auckland Trotting Club and reprinted verbatim by the compliant harness racing industry funded press. If you believe this you believe in fairies. I wonder if any disclosure was made about which club Directors moved into units in the development this year? And how […]
Two days before Santa came, the Chairman of Harness Racing New Zealand Mr John Coulam issued a Christmas address to the people of harness racing. In it, Mr Coulam spoke of a change to his Board of Directors. This is what he said. Having been elected in 2017 and subsequently becoming the ATC representative on […]
The trotting machine factory of Robert and Jenna Dunn churned out another one yesterday. Well not really, Highgrove was always real damn good, he just used to gallop a lot. He didn’t at Ashburton. Holy hell. When’s the last time you ever a saw a 2-year-old trotter come home in 56.8 and 27.4? Working from […]
Click on Watch on YouTube The man talking in this video is former Premiership winning NSW harness racing trainer and driver Chris Gleeson, who in 1996 was warned off for life for corruption. That ban was lifted after 14 years, but Gleeson is an undesirable who will never be allowed back into the sport as […]
Nathan Jack, Mark Pitt and Lisa Bartley were stood down from racing and charged with a criminal offence when accused of deliberately falsifying a stable return to conceal the true trainer details of a horse at Cobram. Matt Brinsdon did exactly the same thing in New Zealand last month, and has escaped with nothing but […]
There is a rumour floating around the Australian tracks that a leading NZ training combination that has barns on both islands has thrown a positive swab to EPO. If true, it will rock NZ racing to its foundations, and throw into doubt some of the biggest wins in the country this year. And no, it […]
See this pacer Mach Quillan in the photo above, the one in race 9 at Geraldine that was backed from $9.00 into $3.20 on the NZ TAB fixed price, and plunged similarly if not more with the TAB and the corporates in Australia? It won by four and a half lengths, under triple wraps. The […]
The big shock of the harness racing weekend was what seemed to be the terribly poor run of the New Zealand Cup hero Copy That in the Cranbourne Cup, a race in which New Zealand’s best pacer performed like mule, dropping out to run a conspicuous 36m last after what you would have to say […]
This is a letter from lawyer Allister Davis to a well-respected businessman and harness racing participant whose young grandson is seriously ill in hospital in New Zealand. The person concerned owned a runner in the ID21 Trotting Championship final, the culmination of a life-long dream, but he due to his beloved grandson’s illness and invasive […]
