Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The last at Globe Derby last night was a weird one. It’s a three horse race. There were six, but Gaita Pullicino scratched one of hers, and Shane Loone pulled out two of his. That gave them both a run in a race that wouldn’t have been one of their scratched horses hadn’t accepted to […]
I’m on a mission to dig up the truth You think we’re stupid and there’s no proof Well let me tell you that the time has come To pull the trigger on the smoking gun Lies lies lies lies lies lies lies I’m on a mission to bring out the facts You got your stories […]
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 […]
