Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I absolutely guarantee that you have never seen anything like this in your life, no matter what sport you follow or what code you love. Leap To Fame holds the track records at Albion Park for every distance regularly run, from every start type that it is run from. From the Creek mile of 1660m […]
Hi PP, I read your Captain Ahab article with interest and agree. To be fair though, King of Swing’s stats have been far more underwhelming for the hype and beat up he was given. Plenty of people that were telling all and sundry how good the quality of his progeny were looking —— well, they […]
On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab’s leg and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of ivory. The whaling voyage of the Pequod ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab’s hatred […]
You have to love the APG’s paid advertising posing as news on the Harness Racing Australia website don’t you? Not. HRA claims that the lot they have up for auction in their Autumn mixed sale Le Betty is one of Tasmania’s best race mares. If that were actually true it would be scary. Le Betty […]
Harness Racing New Zealand has just announced the erasure of 15 of the 1o2 race meetings in the North Island from the annual calendar. Auckland has lost 5 of its 46 meetings or more than 10 percent, leaving it as major metropolitan track that only races 41 times a year. Or in other words a […]
Prominent harness racing trainer Nigel McGrath granted ‘partial return’ to industry after cheating ban Story by Sam Sherwood, Radio New Zealand; 16 June 2025 At the last Harness Racing New Zealand AGM a rule change was passed allowing any banned party to apply for an exemption if they have served at least half of their […]
The two men you see in the picture are the at the time CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand Brad Steele (BS) on the left in the bomber jacket, and Nigel McGrath, the disqualified serial drug cheat that the HRNZ board under Steele’s leadership changed the rules to allow to participate in the sport despite […]
The HRV integrity team descended upon last night’s Shepparton trot meeting in hordes. Every single runner on the card was pre-race swabbed by taking either or a blood or urine sample. All 87 of them. That’s extraordinary, a veritable ballroom blitz. We don’t why HRV targeted this particular meeting for a mass swabbing exercise. But […]
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Susan Branch, a stalwart of harness racing in the Waikato. On behalf of all our readers we pass our deep condolences to Susan’s loved ones, including her son Dave the architect of the wonderfully successful slot races The Race and The Trot, and her husband Murray. […]
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill In a golden age of New Zealand harness racing, when a new breed of Kiwi horses are having huge success on the track, the sport should be standing […]
