Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Have a look at the drive of Maurice McKendry on the leader. He owns and trains it too. How hard do you think he tried to win? What the hell did he keep turning around looking for? Who was he looking for? And why? I have my opinion. Take a peek and make up yours.
Self Assured is an absolute superstar, and has been since his break through 3YO season. The Mark Purdon trained pacer has a career record of 28 wins and 20 placings from his 52 starts, and he has only ever been beaten in Group races. Coming into last night’s Waikato Flying Mile Self Assured had won […]
The Waikato Flying mile last night was a brilliant race, and their 4 brilliant runs in it too. Sadly for Melbourne and his champion Copy That, there were only 3 good drives. Blair Orange’s wasn’t one of them. He got his pants pulled down. Mark Purdon on Akuta was the 1st to trick him. Purdon […]
Merlin broke the New Zealand record for 3YO colts and geldings last night at Cambridge, in winning a heat of the Sires Stakes. Yes, a heat. Only one male pacer had ever broken 2 minutes over the 1700m distance before. That was Republican Party, who ran 1.59.9 over the trip when he won last year’s […]
What hope would you give the horse sitting in last position as the video starts of winning this race? Very little I would imagine. Gus is the trotter’s name. You’d give it even less chance if you had seen him blow the start and lose 50 metres. He is the horse starting from underneath the […]
Have a bloody look at this race will you? It’s the first at Phar Lap Raceway on Tuesday. Rocking Va Va has been backed for a stack. The punters who came out of trees to back it in are in a world of pain at the quarter pole, for driver Cheree Wigg has somehow managed […]
The ABC has missed the big picture. They’ve zoned in on a couple of tote bets on Ben Yole horses in a race rort. That was just some bum in the camp who got greedy. The real money is running through Steve Walters and his wife’s Betfair account. Walters is the brother of Robbie Walters, […]
Our mail is that NZ’s no 1 trot trainer Jenna Dunn – one half of the Robert and Jenna Dunn partnership – got done for drink driving one afternoon not very long past. It is said that she was driving a vehicle with a Diamond Racing horse float attached to it they say, which she […]
Wouldn’t it be great to see Merlin lead? I wonder what he could do from the front? No I don’t, I know. The New Zealand 3Yo record over the distance is held by Darling Me, at a mile rate of 1.51.4. That’s flying. Merlin won’t break it tomorrow night, because he has bigger fish to […]
Look at the way Dragon paces. He doesn’t. He prances. Now look at the explosion below. How good is this horse? He is not. Dragon is great.
