Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dr Barry Lichter DOES NOT believe that he has the right to exhume Cardigan Bay’s remains to transfer elsewhere. That is just another one of Watch’s lies. What Dr Lichter believes is that New Zealand’s greatest ever pacer – one of the world’s best in history – should not have his headstone knocked down so […]
There is the usual scuttlebutt around concerning the health and wellbeing of the club’s finances. The one we can’t hide from is the interest expense on the debt whilst we await the settlement on the Pukekohe land. However, I am pleased to report that across our businesses, Gaming, TAB, and The Alex we are trading […]
At it’s most simple, we can see that more and more people will want to live a residential lifestyle nearer and nearer to our clearly non-residential activity. We are already aware that dust and noise from our racing activity is beginning to register as an impact on neighbours, in a way that has simply not […]
Merv Dean will long be remembered as the man who bought the great Cardigan Bay from the Todd brothers of Mataura. But there was much more to Merv than just that. Merv’s parents ran tobacconists in Hamilton, and in his youth Merv assisted his uncle, Henry Lee, one of New Zealand’s most notorious bookmakers. Lee […]
The hot mail is that the sale of the historic NSW standardbred stud Yirribbee has gone belly up. They say that the buyer Jake Stockton – who too over the stud on a lease in September last year and renamed it Wingate – couldn’t raise the balance of the required finance to pay the deferred […]
Mark Purdon was given a 7 day suspension by the RIB for breaching the whip rule in his winning drive on Akuta in the Taylor Mile on Friday night. It’s a joke. Purdon didn’t even warrant a reprimand. Have a look at it see what you think. Akuta is the horse on the outside in […]
Barkway Desmond is quite possibly the slowest horse in the world. Pacers that make their debut at Bathurst at aged 11 and get beaten by almost 100m usually are. The 19 trials that the crab born in the year 2011 competed in prior to stepping out under full race conditions on Wednesday night clearly didn’t […]
What is the name of the case? Racing Integrity Board & Harness Racing New Zealand v REDACTED Who is REDACTED? 8 harness racing industry participants or former participants. Their identities are protected by a suppression order issued by the Supreme Court. 6 of the people with name suppression are licensed or were formerly licensed. 5 […]
Copy That beat Self Assured into third place in the Race by Grins on Friday but with his placing “Jimmy” won the race between them to $2m in stakemoney won. His $100,000 third stake money takes him to $2,055,000 while Copy That’s $450,000 winning stake leaves him agonisingly close at $1,985,008. Those stats underline not […]
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