Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
With almost 2/3rds of the New Zealand racing season gone, the Stonewall Stud stable owned by Steve Stockman and managed by Steve and Amanda Telfer is sitting 6th on the Premiership Ladder with just 28 wins, and has earned only $430 000. The stable has 100 horses in work, which must cost a conservative million […]
This above is the current standardbred (harness) race horse ‘ownership’ syndicate being promoted in New Zealand by a man named Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald through his company Off N Racing Ltd, also known as Off N Racing Syndications. As you can clearly see, the Canary is offering prospective customers is advertising the opportunity to share […]
The APG 2YO finals are worth $500 000 each, but it doesn’t all go to the owners. For reasons totally beyond my understanding, $100 000 of the half million goes in $10 000 lots to the breeders of the horses that start in the races . Now in my view this is just plain stupid, […]
The Hits RIPP Vendor – Lauriston Bloodstock Buyer – Wayne Loader Cost – $40 000 Earnings – $205 364 MY ULTIMATE RONNIE Vendor – Ron Littler Buyer – Tumby Park Cost – $60 000 Earnings – $213 946 LEAP TO FAME Vendor – Redbank Lodge Buyer – Kevin and Kay Seymour Cost – $47 500 […]
Nathan Jack on behalf of the Cluse family paid $270 000 for the top lot of the sale, and who wouldn’t if they had the dough? He’s a gorgeous looking Captain Treacherous colt, from the first crop of the former top-class race mare Carlas Pixel, who won the Ladyship Mile, the Breeders Crown and the […]
The bloke in the picture is Gary Lane, known to one and all in New Zealand as Bluey. Bluey used to work for the horse moving company Majestic Transport, until he was accused of spiking up horses with prohibited drugs on their way to the track. These days he works for Robert Dunn and his […]
There were 128 lots in yesterday’s Nutrien QLD sale. Only 54 of them were sold. That’s a live sale rate of just 42.9%. Or to put it in the alternative, its a pass in rate of a massive 57.1%, Or in other words, an abject failure. Be careful what you wish for breeders, cos you […]
The Ladbrokes Sunshine Stars Yearling Sale, to be conducted by Nutrien Equine at the Magic Millions complex on March 11 and 12, will be the keystone of an iconic weekend at the Gold Coast. The brainchild of the Albion Park Harness Racing Club, the sale has attracted well bred yearlings from leading breeders in Queensland, […]
The Nutrien sale at the Gold Coast is on today, and there are buyers from Africa here, or Kiwis at least. So far I have spotted a couple of Purdons, Regan Todd and Lurch, whose parents call him little Johnny Dunn. There are others too, and plenty of interstaters, a number of non-guaranteed buyer free […]
Over the past few years there has been a civil war fought in the Australian standardbred yearling sale industry between the incompetent and corrupt incompetents APG, and the multinational player Nutrien, one of the biggest companies in the world. Nutrien won, but only because of the ineptitude and arrogance of APG, who had become such […]
