Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cambridge as we know it is dead. The track still remains, but after this week’s votes to hand it and everything else except the unsecured debts over to Harness Racing New Zealand, the club that for so many years is gone, or survives as nothing but an asset-less shell anyway. Soon when the unsecured creditors […]
Archie Noticed while visiting Marburg (Monday) and AP (Tuesday) that starters John Peterson and Jason Suli are still nowhere to be seen. Two people in the mobile and on the standing start platform. One is K.Williams (long time member of the industry usually swab collector and other roles, and also steward Lisa Bahr, former driver. […]
Paul Fitzpatrick won seven straight NSW trot training premierships in the 2000’s, and has won multiple Group 1 races. He is no mug when it comes to the training caper. But today Jason Grimson made him look like one. Fitzpatrick had trained the pacer Lexus Lou throughout its 27 start career and won 3 races […]
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
The great elephant in the room about the proposed Cambridge takeover by HRNZ is this question: What happens then? Project Stamina – the nation wide NZ Racing Review ordered by the Racing Minister, and conducted by an external consultancy group – has made a number of recommendations that directly impact both on Cambridge and on […]
What is happening? HRNZ is asking its member clubs to vote to take over the Cambridge Raceway and all of its assets. Why is it happening? Cambridge (under its various guises) is essentially broke. It owes $3 million in debts. $1.9 million of the debt is owed to HRNZ itself. The other $1.1 million is […]
Jack Sauer is a weak-jawed South Australian ‘businessman’ who used to be a car salesman, before moving into wine distribution running a company named Palate Wines that didn’t appear to distribute much of the stuff, and then becoming a supposed property developer who didn’t develop much. These days Sauer is a defendant on criminal charges […]
Tomorrow (Monday 31 August) Harness Racing New Zealand is asking its members – the trotting clubs across the country plus a couple of industry associations – to vote on a proposal to acquire all of the assets of Waikato Bay of Plenty Ltd, Cambridge Raceway Ltd, and Taylor Steet Ltd (collectively the Cambridge club) for […]
Take a look at what went on here in the last race at Albion Park on Saturday night. If you didn’t know better, or at least believe that you do, you’d almost swear that Jack Chapple, the driver of the leader and long odds on favorite Fire And Passion, and Angus Garrard on the 2nd […]
Seaton Grima is a genius. A fortnight ago he gets this aged 8-year-old gelding named Springield Affair that has had 207 starts for its previous trainers Kevin Von Duve and Peter Rixon. Von Duve has been training for a long time and goes alright. Rixon has trained 666 winners, has NSW premiership trophies on the […]
