Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you remember we warned you a while back about the corporate bookie ZBet, and how they were supposed to have been not paying winning punters their dough? Well the bookie has gone now and the company has folded. ZBet and the other two names it’s known by, Zoo Entertainment and Razoo Ent. They are […]
There is some great harness racing this weekend on both sides of the Tasman, with all the big guns on show. The first of them is the 4th heat of the Woodlands Sires Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings at Addington, run from the mobile over 1980m. Here is our take on it,= This may […]
As a result of a dispute over whether or not there was a leader bias at Mooney Valley last Saturday – I said there wasn’t, the Doctor said there was – that escalated well beyond its importance, there are no Nude tips for Flemington this weekend. Hopefully that situation may rectify itself some time soon. […]
Powder Puff looks to sweet to be the kind of hoop who would punch a horse, doesn’t she? Queensland jockey Ceejay ‘Powder Puff’ Graham has been suspended for a week after pleading guilty to an improper action at Caloundra last Sunday. Graham – who has been out of form this season sitting outside the top […]
Kiwi trainer Scott Dickson pulled off a massive plunge in the last race at Cambridge this evening with Melton Mogul, which was backed from $51.oo into $7.50 with bookmakers on both sides of the Tasman and landed the prize. Media Mogul came into the race with the form of a three-legged camel with a record […]
Story by Garrick Knight, Harness Xpress New Zealand’s export market is facing a strong headwind at present and latest projections have us on track to record the lowest numbers since records began. According to HRNZ, there were only 230 horses cleared out of the country by the end of September, and that is projected to […]
The news that the Stewards have charged jockey Noel Callow with failing to front a further inquiry into recordings he allegedly made and published while in Darwin last year is hugely disappointing, and something of an affront to human decency and common sense. Callow is unwell and the Stewards know or should suspect that, for […]
Axel Rose was the odds-on $1.80 favorite to win race 4 today at the Wyndham trots, and with good reason too for it has stepped away well, sat 1-1 early, been taken to the front mid-race and bolted in to win on debut at this track eighteen days ago and looked set to repeat the […]
Murders aren’t confined to the dance floor. They happen on race tracks too. Lucy Fiore proved that today in the first race at Kalgoorlie. It was a four horse race. Fiore was on the 10/9 ($2.10) favorite Twist Of Gold. She rode it like it was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, popping it into the spot […]
Another four riders have taken the fall in the doctored Health Assessment Report scandal seemingly without end. Each of them pleaded guilty to submitting falsified reports for a single year. All were disqualified. Licensed stablehand Cameron Munro was banned for three months. Munro’s partner, trainer and trackwork rider Linda Gersekowski, got 4 months. Trackwork rider […]
