Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Halfway through last year Harness Racing New Zealand’s CEO Gary Woodham and his people had this great idea. They were going to address the declining pacer crisis in the North Island of the nation by introducing a new series that was hugely weighted to encourage and advantage South Island pacers. A race for intermediate grade […]
Would you vote for a man who can’t afford a razor and wears his strides three inches too short? Yeah? Then move to Mackay. Australian politics is a cracker. It’s a circus too. Pauline Hanson made her name and won her spot in the big house on the hill by bagging the crap out of […]
Nothing much other than the usual happened at the Mackay races yesterday. Chief Steward Cooke decided to sit on the interchange bench and let someone else chair the meet. The Chief Vet in the State Dr Martin Lenz decided to fly up to Mackay because he had nothing more important to do. Former QRIC Integrity […]
Who wins The Grinner? Who knows? Usually you start your form by working out who can’t. You can’t do that here. Any horse in the field can win it. This is a great race, simply brilliant. There are more Group 1’s on show here than in the Miracle Mile, twenty in all. God only knows […]
In the beginning, harness racing was sports funded by rich men. Not the landed gentry, but the self made farmers and agents and merchants the rung below. At first it was one against the other, with the prize being side bets placed between the wealthy owners. Then they formed committees, and threw equal parts into […]
It’s funny isn’t it? When the innovate and success driven CEO of the Cambridge Paceway Dave Branch broke the news that he was going to run a slot race and throw $150 000 of the club’s money in as a loss leader to stimulate interest in it, Harness Racing NZ laughed at him. Not out […]
Lucas Bucca is a 17-year-old kid who was having just his eleventh professional drive in the ten months since he got his license when he took the reins of his dad Anthony’s horse Okay Gringo in the 3rd at Menangle yesterday. So far young Bucca hadn’t driven a winner, so I’m told that he was […]
The coat of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall Earlier this year Shartin’s part-owner Richard Poillucci of North Eastern, Massachusetts paid $500 000 to buy a 3-year-old South Island Kiwi pacer named Duke of Cornwall. John Curtin negotiated the deal, no doubt at a huge premium for himself. We’ve told you before about Curtin and […]
When they arrived it was cold and dark They set up their camp quickly Warmed up with whiskey they walked to the river where the water flowed past darkly In the moonlight they saw the body of a young girl floating face down And there’s so much water, so close to home So this is […]
Albo is an idiot. He’s a lazy, self-entitled one in a safe seat too. That’s one problem he’s got when it comes to winning the election. It’s not his biggest one though. That problem is that with exception of Bob Hawke’s win in 1983 because he was exceptional, Australian’s don’t vote governments in, they vote […]
