Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Four Harcourts real estate franchises in New Zealand are being prosecuted by the Commerce Commission for alleged cartel conduct related to price fixing. Guess who works for one of the franchises? None other than our very own The Canary. It seems that this bloke just can’t avoid courting controversy. What’s that they say? Never trust […]
New Zealand’s favorite unregistered syndicator Andrew ‘the Canary” Fitzgerald has unleashed another of his world class stooges on innocent trot fans eager to become involved at the lower end of the ownership spectrum. The horse in question is the filly Smackdown, the knock kneed pacer in the picture that the Canary has been selling 1/1000th […]
Hall of Fame member and harness racing legend Barry Purdon returns to the cart for his first drive in six years this afternoon at Alexandra Park. Purdon, whose last race drive was way back in 2019, takes the reins on his highly talented but often temperamental 3-year-old square gaiter Higher Power in the fourth race […]
The problem with small field sizes for harness races in the North Island of New Zealand continues apace, with 2/3rds of races run or about to be run this month in the region having fields of less than 8 runners, the sort of numbers that spell wagering turnover death. Cambridge is the worst affected track, […]
Racing Review question Doesn’t QLD gallops race clockwise? And QLD harness (all harness just about) race anti clockwise? So if they shift it inside a gallops track are they: A/ going to build a grandstand and finish line stuff and all at the other end of the front straight or in the back straight? B/ […]
Punters who are planning to take the odds-on about The Lazarus Effect in race 4 at Addington tonight on the basis that it will boot up and hold the lead from gate 1 might want to reconsider their maps. The mail out of the South is that The Lazarus Effect’s driver Bob Butt has done […]
Over the course of the year we have highlighted a number of driver by QLD leading reinsman Nathan Dawson that we believe raise serious questions. Dawson’s drive on Dragon is race 3 at Albion Park yesterday is yet another of them. Dragon began well off the arm and had a look for the lead, but […]
About three months back we wrote a story illustrating the problems with Harness Racing New Zealand CEO Brad Steele’s proposal to use proceeds from the forced sale of the Forbury Park track to help the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) build a new training center and track to replace the Franklin Park facility the ATC is […]
The career of one time Breeders Crown winner and beaten favorite in a Chariots of Fire at $1.15 Captain Ravishing roared back to life at Gloucester Park on Friday night when he knocked off WA’s best pacer Mister Smartee in a Free For All at Gloucester Park. Captain Ravishing, having his second start for new […]
New HRSA Integrity Boss Derek Cordick (pictured) As we announced first months ago Harness Racing SA Chief Steward Trevor Styles is off to Tassie to head the team down there after Neil Finnigan moved back to QLD to take up the top position there. Sound like musical chairs? That’s because it is. Styles replacement as […]
