Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
We’ve managed to get a partial copy of the Globe Derby (SAHRC) annual report, and the picture is dire. The club has lost more than $800 000 in the past year. That takes it losses over the last 2 years to almost a million dollars. It has just under $1.8 million in cash, but owes […]
I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count up how old trainer Tony Peacock and his stable driver Brian Gath are. I think if you counted backwards you’d up somewhere around the time that Ned Kelly was hung. Peacock and Gath are no Neds. They are too smart to end up on the end […]
Number one issue – we need a Code of Conduct, and we need it urgently. Now we are a sport Greg, and there are three pillars to sport: fair play, integrity, and doing your best. I’m worried about integrity, really worried about integrity. I want to make it very clear to everybody that I am […]
The NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club – Addington – made an operating loss of $808 000 last year, despite cutting costs by $4.3 million. Incoming revenue was the problem. It dropped by a quarter, or $6.5 million. The $1.2 million decline in race day revenue and the $3.4 million loss in catering revenue were a result […]
On 19 December 1997 the Noel Taylor New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame Museum was officially opened at Alexandra Park by its benefactor, the late Noel Taylor. Mr Taylor, who was President of the Auckland Trotting Club from 1984-89, totally financed the 500 square metre building. Efforts to get a trotting museum up and running […]
42.8! That’s ridiculous! A ridiculous lead time. That is the fastest for trotters by a furlong, and these are 2YO Fillies! Dan Milecki wasn’t wrong. Brad Williamson went mental in the Group 1 Breeders Crown 2YO fillies trot on the Kiwi Aroha Kenny (it means Love Kenny, which it’s driver didn’t). He took the favourite […]
Times don’t lie. Captain Ravishing is a better horse than Lochinvar Art. Artie sat outside Hurricane Harley when that horse broke the Melton track record on Breeders night exactly 2 years ago. Don’t worry that Artie and Harley were 4yo’s at the time, and the Captain only 3. You are forgetting the change of dates […]
Last night trainer Emma Stewart – whose real name is Clayton Tonkin – trained horses raced in 6 of the pacing races on the biggest age racing night of the Victorian harness racing year. Tonkin/Stewart won 5 won of them. He/they/her had 4 of the 12 starters in the $300 000 Group 1 2YO Fillies […]
All in all, Turbo’s just another, brick in the wall Leading harness race owner Emilio Rosati, the super successful construction industry magnate, is obviously a hard marker when it comes to his trot trainers. I’ve lost count of how many he’s had in the past decade, but it’s been a lot. It’s about to be […]
