Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I cannot believe what I am reading here. This is a message to harness racing from the Chairman of the Board (pictured above). If HRNZ were fair dinkum it would be John Coulam’s farewell note as Chairman as well. The depth of his lack of understanding of the realities of modern racing are astounding. What […]
This is the time my Uncle Jimmy’s horse ran over the mile on the grass track at Warwick in 1926. It was flying for those days. He held the track record for years. I’ve still got the ribbon. It was passed down through the generations as a family treasure, and remains one of my most […]
Ben Currie had the Queensland Trainer of the Year award that he had earned denied to him because he was DQ’d. Darren Weir did too. Fair enough many people would say, although not me. Different rules apply at the trots. David Moran is serving 7 months for a raft of different offences, all of them […]
The picture above that you see of the bottle with the red cap was taken at the Woodend Beach, Christchurch stables of the training partnership of Robert and Jenna Dunn, the part of the operation managed by Dunn’s son John, aka Lurch. The obvious inference to be drawn is that Lurch is using this ‘herbal […]
John ‘Lurch’ Dunn, the man in charge of the Woodend Beach end of his family’s Diamond Racing operation, was in Auckland on Friday night driving Sundees Sun, the wonder trotter who broke the national record for 2700m by an unheard of clear 4 seconds (over 50 metres) in the NZ Trot. There only other runner […]
The horse on the outside gunning for the lead is trained by Steve Turnbull’s son Josh, and driven by another of his son’s Nathan. It is the $1.85 favourite. The horse breaks up after a few strides and loses all chance. It finishes second last. The one that wins the race is the second favourite. […]
I see this Mark Jones has been training a few winners over in the NZ South Island lately. He’d want to wouldn’t he? After all, he’s got a fair bit of shame to wash off after losing his best horse Stylish Memphis to Turbo Trainor, both in Australia and abroad. It’s a shame that the […]
Before ….. The Christians reckon that the greatest gift of all is the atonement of Jesus Christ. That’s typical happy clapping nonsense spouted by do-gooders who don’t punt. Everyone with half a brain knows that the greatest gift is a gift wrapped couple of bottle of Menangle’s finest. Delivered by a bloke who feels guilty […]
There were four $52 000 Group 2 APG finals run at Albion Park on Saturday night. The QRIC Stewards only took pre-race swabs – blood samples – in two of them, and from only one horse in each. One of them was the $1.40 favourite in the 2YO Colts and Geldings classic, but the other […]
Zach Butcher has copped a lash here. Fair enough too. But what about the Stewards and the starter? Isn’t it their job to make sure that horses are in their right place? Mr Butcher admitted a charge in that he permitted his mare to start from the incorrect barrier position in Race 8. Mr Mulcay […]
