Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
MELTON Race 4 no 3 – Tempting Tigress I’m not convinced that the odds on favourite Major Delight is any better than the stablemate, and at $8.00 I will back my judgement and bet on Tempting Tigress instead. Use the back up tool on Neds to couple it up with the fave. Race 5 no […]
Just look at this pair. Would you trust either of them to babysit your kids, look after your wallet while you go for a swim, or chaperone your wife to the Opera? If yes, you need need urgent professional help I was swamped with requests to follow up on a story that appeared on the […]
As the brilliant Brad Reid reveals on Harnesslink this morning, the schemers on the HRNZ board late last year quietly slipped a changed into the rule 1303(i) that I wrote about last night to change the meaning from that which I detailed in my story to this which Reid has detailed in his. There can […]
For those of us who don’t know a great deal about horse doping – which is most normal, good people – the revelations in the FBI drug prosecutions and trials are extremely instructive. In fact when you read them and think about a lot of things that happen here in the Southern Hemisphere – things […]
