Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer Gavin Smith is the latest NZ trainer to move the main part of his operation to Wooden Beach. Just so that his horses can swim in the magic waters of course. Expect some sharp form improvements from the Smith stable over the coming months. If you can’t beat them, join them. It works for […]
There are two horses racing at Addington on Sunday who are going to be backed off the map. Both of them are trained by Matt Purvis. One is a cat in race 6 named Jazelle, who hasn’t won since Adam was a boy. Matt Purvis became its official trainer and part-owner 16 days ago. The […]
A Kiwi pacer named Victor Bravo had raced 14 times coming in to race 4 at Addington yesterday, and the best it could manage was one second and a third, both of them more than eight months ago in 2YO races against very ordinary opposition. About 4 weeks ago the horse was sold, and about […]
Will He Rock (Willy) is a 4-year-old New Zealand pacer. Willy’s also a walker. Prior to today he Willy had raced 14 times. He had run duck egg – tenth or worse – including at of his ten past starts. Eighth were the other two. Willy’s average beaten margin over those ten starts was more […]
In a sensation, but not a surprise, a week before the court was due to make a determination regarding the admissibility of the phone tap and surveillance evidence obtained by police and RIU (Racing Integrity Unit) investigators in the long running Operation Inca taskforce investigation into race fixing, all the charges have been dropped. Don’t […]
When trot drivers in Australia go out after the races on the night before the next meeting they get on the double coke and coke, the powder and the liquid, and the reason that they do so is because they can have a whale of a night and still drive clean the next morning because […]
