Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
When the New Zealand Racing Integrity Unit was set up in the wake of the Messara report there was great hope that the new, independent (to a degree) body would jump boots and all into the job and start cleaning up the plague of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. On the evidence published to […]
FRIDAY – AUCKLAND Race 2 No 5 – The Mighty Miki Chris ‘C.J.’ Ryder’s colt trained by Barry Purdon’s looked really good in it’s trial. On debut here, but as long as he paces cleanly he wins. Race 5 No 2 – Miss Montana This little one is a very good filly in the making, […]
You would think that if you became the first horse from Southand (the lower third of the NZ South Island) to win a Group 1 race in ten years you would be a certainty to win the Southland Horse of the Year, especially if the horse that you defeated in your win at the elite […]
