Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Karman Line was a first starter from the Lance O’Sullivan stable when the filly lined up in a Maiden at Te Aroha (Love) racecourse yesterday. She is not anymore. Black type will be her thing in the future. Watch this. And put this little girl straight in your black book. When is the last time […]
What you see in the picture is race 8 at Te Aroho (which by the way means Love) in New Zealand. There are eight starters in the race, and Atomic is one of them. Atomic runs third. Neds and Ladbrokes pay a place dividend for him, so do the TAB. So does everyone actually, except […]
What’s going on over there in New Zealand on Cup Day is just so ridiculous that it makes a mockery of the game. Mark Purdon has driven the winners of five of the seven races so far. The last two were legless at their last starts, absolutely legless. 18 days ago All About Faith ran […]
My head is spinning about the changes to the New Zealand harness racing calendar, and I don’t really know what to think. Mick Guerin is painting it in a positive light, but what else is he supposed to do? I’m not sure that he really believes it. With the rider that I need to wait […]
Harness Racing New Zealand is a very sound organisation with excellent finances. There is no dollar reason for it to pull out of the Inter Dominion. Ken Spicer’s spurious statement that there are a lack of Open Class horses in New Zealand is a barrel of absolute nonsense too. Copy That and Amazing Dream just […]
Dear Councillor Whilst I admire your activism on behalf of the low waged – me being one – and your concerted efforts to end the plague of violence against women, both of which are highly honourable and absolutely essential outcomes and goals, I feel compelled to express my grave concern about your role in locking up Australians and […]
Remember the story we wrote a fortnight ago about how Max Delight should have been disqualified from its win in the Victorian Cup after Chris Alford gained an unfair advantage by entering the sprint lane early? Well it seems the NZ Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator agrees, for a near identical incident occurred at Tuapeka on […]
On the 14th of July this year, and many times before and after, we published stories telling you how the current custodians of the Auckland and Franklin Trotting Club and all the assets that they (the clubs, not the board members: not a cent of it is theirs) owned have turned the two once great […]
Well how is this for timing? On Thursday we publish a story highly critical of the Racing Integrity Board in which we highlight the deficiencies in the newly introduced system of an external Adjudicative Committee hearing and determining matters that have been traditionally the domain of racing stewards in each of the codes, and questioning […]
The Grand Circuit is the world heavyweight championship of harness racing. It’s fought over seven gruelling rounds of super-elite racing designed to sort the men out from the boys and girls. I’m not using that phrase to be sexist, simply because it is the truth. Just as world women’s heavyweight champ Hanna Gabriels wouldn’t last 10 […]
