Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last week Sundees Sun won the Group 3 Southern Lights in almost a canter. It’s a huge shame that this trotter has such a huge illegal performance enhancing drug cloud over him, for without it he is almost certainly the best trotter that the Southern Hemisphere has seen since the Freak, the world class Lyell […]
New Zealand Racing Integrity Board chief Mike Clements has a real problem with his organisation, one that in the main is totally beyond his control. The problem is the adjudicators. Most of them don’t a thing about harness racing, or don’t understand it, or both. Olivia Jarvis is one of them. Jarvis a young criminal […]
Self Assured is one of the three best horses in New Zealand. I’ve long thought he was the best out of him, Copy That and South Coast Arden, although the former and latter are both brilliant. Trainer Mark Purdon tuned Self Assured up for his Auckland campaign with a trial at North Canterbury on Wednesday. […]
Have a look at this race. It’s the prelude to the Marlborough Cup run on Sunday as the second card of the two day feature meeting. The horse we are looking at is Homebush Lad, the equal 2nd favourite. It’s driven by Ben Hope, if driven is actually the right word. Driven deader than Elvis […]
This is race 10 at the Cambridge Trots tonight. I don’t know who Dane and Margaret are, but gee I wish them well. Maggie and I celebrated a significant wedding anniversary yesterday that made us realise that we had been married a long time, and loved every day. It seems like forever, but it is […]
SAFE NZ’s Will Appelbe says he’s spoken with “a number of people in the industry” who all fear the rapidly declining numbers are not an example of an industry bettering itself for the sake of its dogs, but one willing to do everything it can to save itself – even if that means harming them […]
Recently we told you the story of Mark Dunnett, the previously very slow pacer prepared by Courage Under Fire’s trainer Bruce Negus, who was transferred to the Sunshine Boys down at Wooden Beach and grew two legs and found an extra five seconds in speed. One of our Kiwi readers decided to take the matter […]
New Zealand’s harness racing season is less than a week old, and already on Friday at the Cambridge Paceway, in a lowly $25 000 Free For All, we’re about to see the race of the year. The race in question is the Cliff Thomas Free For All, a mobile start event over 1700m with a […]
We have received confirmed information suggesting that the former NZ Police Prosecutor cum harness race trainer Dave Iremonger was investigated by internal detectives in the police service for inappropriately accessing the NZ Pol database to obtain information about Operation Inca, the taskforce investigating race fixing. It is our understanding that Mr Iremonger was questioned in […]
DECISION OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DATED 30 APRIL 2020 1. Mr Blair Orange is a Licensed Open Driver under the New Zealand Harness Racing Rules and is charged that “on the 14th March 2020 at Christchurch being a Licensed Open Driver did misconduct himself by repeatedly telling RIU staff to “f… off” when lawfully investigating a […]
