Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Paul Fitzpatrick won seven straight NSW trot training premierships in the 2000’s, and has won multiple Group 1 races. He is no mug when it comes to the training caper. But today Jason Grimson made him look like one. Fitzpatrick had trained the pacer Lexus Lou throughout its 27 start career and won 3 races […]
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
The great elephant in the room about the proposed Cambridge takeover by HRNZ is this question: What happens then? Project Stamina – the nation wide NZ Racing Review ordered by the Racing Minister, and conducted by an external consultancy group – has made a number of recommendations that directly impact both on Cambridge and on […]
What is happening? HRNZ is asking its member clubs to vote to take over the Cambridge Raceway and all of its assets. Why is it happening? Cambridge (under its various guises) is essentially broke. It owes $3 million in debts. $1.9 million of the debt is owed to HRNZ itself. The other $1.1 million is […]
Jack Sauer is a weak-jawed South Australian ‘businessman’ who used to be a car salesman, before moving into wine distribution running a company named Palate Wines that didn’t appear to distribute much of the stuff, and then becoming a supposed property developer who didn’t develop much. These days Sauer is a defendant on criminal charges […]
Tomorrow (Monday 31 August) Harness Racing New Zealand is asking its members – the trotting clubs across the country plus a couple of industry associations – to vote on a proposal to acquire all of the assets of Waikato Bay of Plenty Ltd, Cambridge Raceway Ltd, and Taylor Steet Ltd (collectively the Cambridge club) for […]
Take a look at what went on here in the last race at Albion Park on Saturday night. If you didn’t know better, or at least believe that you do, you’d almost swear that Jack Chapple, the driver of the leader and long odds on favorite Fire And Passion, and Angus Garrard on the 2nd […]
Seaton Grima is a genius. A fortnight ago he gets this aged 8-year-old gelding named Springield Affair that has had 207 starts for its previous trainers Kevin Von Duve and Peter Rixon. Von Duve has been training for a long time and goes alright. Rixon has trained 666 winners, has NSW premiership trophies on the […]
Copy That was a great racehorse. You don’t win races like he did, including dual NZ Cups, unless you are. But he wasn’t quite sound, and I reckon that worries broodmare owners, because as a sire Copy That is off to a very slow start. Even at the then bargain basement fee of $4600 (now […]
We’ve just got news that a prominent Riverina trot driver has been outed for either 3 or 6 months – I can’t remember because the knockout drugs I got at the take it and swallow party at the hospital today are still in my system, and they cause temporary amnesia – after they threw a […]
