Archie Gives Ants a Masterclass on How to Swing a King in a Group 1 Blackie – Butt Hey, It’s Not My Fault That He Didn’t Ask What I’d Told Blair Orange Is It?

Butt, butt, butt – Eat your oranges Anthony. Luke has to eat his bitter fruit too. Luke McCarthy tried to pull a tricky one when he steered King of Swing off the fence in the Blacks A Fake after it couldn’t muster enough gate speed in the first 50 metres to hold the mobile flyers […]

The 66.66 Percenters – Were Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon the Greatest Harness Racing Trainers in World History? – Or Did They Have a Bit of Help? – Part 2 – Police, Prosecutor, Judge, Jury, Vet

Dr Andrew Grierson is a qualified equine veterinary surgeon. He is also a harness racing breeder and owner, and a businessman. Andrew Grierson owns 50 percent of Woodlands Stud, the most successful breeding operation in New Zealand. Breeders make money in a number of ways, but two of the obvious ones are by selling stallion […]

The 66.66 Percenters – Were Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon the Greatest Harness Racing Trainers in World History? – Or Did They Have a Bit of Help? – Part 1 – Setting the Scene

The annual Harness Jewels is the most prestigious age based harness racing series in New Zealand, and the richest too. It is the Golden Slipper, the Derby and the Golden Eagle combined. Each race is a Group 1. That means that it is very, very hard to win. Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen – trading […]

There Are Two Sides to Every Coin – And Heaps of Them When You Back a Blackie Winner at 33 to 1 – No Ifs, No Butts, No Strides – Just a Colt Owned and Bred by Mrs Seymour and Kev

The Colt Thirty One army stretched to Kuranda and Port Douglas and beyond. Close your eyes and hope for the best Grant. It worked in the Vic Derby, it will work in the big one at home. Anthony Butt has just called in to have a chat about our earlier story about the split with […]

Was it Really Almost Half a Century Ago That I Sat on the My Dad’s Shoulders at the Creek and Watched Maori’s Beat Paleface? – How Time Flies When You Love the Trots

This is a wonderful story by Adam Hamilton, so good that we’ve reprinted it for the enjoyment of those yet to read. I will never forget the nights that I sat on Dad’s shoulders watching Maori’s Idol beat the pacers in the heats of then Sir Clive at Albion Park. It broke my heart when […]

You Can Only Hope That Corey Johnson Copped a Good Sling – He’ll Need It For His Unplanned Holiday – FIRST PUBLISHED 25 JUNE 2021

The South Australian stewards aren’t happy with the drive of Corey Johnson on the Frank Pullicino trained Ghent in the first race at Globe Derby, and have convened an inquiry into it. I don’t blame them. The last time Ghent led in a race was 20 starts ago, back in December last year. On that […]

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