Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
Four other Jockey Club stipendiary stewards – Jamie Andrew Stier, Kam Shiu-bor, Tony Lam Tsun-hin and Martin Maxwell Knibbs – also testified that they did not question Fradd’s riding and believed he was only ‘settling the horse’ in the early stage of the race – www.scmp.com/article/397408/i-had-hold-horse-back-safety-says-fradd Oh dear. Martin Knibbs was once a senior racing […]
The great elephant in the room about the proposed Cambridge takeover by HRNZ is this question: What happens then? Project Stamina – the nation wide NZ Racing Review ordered by the Racing Minister, and conducted by an external consultancy group – has made a number of recommendations that directly impact both on Cambridge and on […]
What is happening? HRNZ is asking its member clubs to vote to take over the Cambridge Raceway and all of its assets. Why is it happening? Cambridge (under its various guises) is essentially broke. It owes $3 million in debts. $1.9 million of the debt is owed to HRNZ itself. The other $1.1 million is […]
It was interesting to see former jockey cum trainer Adrian Coome working behind the barriers at Callaghan Park, Rockhampton during the week, and even more fascinating to see former trainer Nick Walsh – the man who once boasted the best strike rate in the State before he was disqualified for 12 months for using the […]
Jockey Ash Butler can consider himself the luckiest rider at Cannon Park on Cairns Cup day. Butler rode the winner Colleano, which swept past them down the outside at the 100m mark and looked set to run away for a commanding victory. Until believing that his mount was home to the world, Butler sat up […]
Albion Park starters J. Petersen and J. Suli were the officials whose job it was to check the brands and identities of horses running at the Creek on the night recently that a mare was allowed to start as a gelding of a different name. Three licensees involved in the presentation of the wrong horse […]
Jack Sauer is a weak-jawed South Australian ‘businessman’ who used to be a car salesman, before moving into wine distribution running a company named Palate Wines that didn’t appear to distribute much of the stuff, and then becoming a supposed property developer who didn’t develop much. These days Sauer is a defendant on criminal charges […]
Tanya Parry trainer 18 of the 31 runners yesterday on the 5 race McKinlay card. Shryn Royes trained another 5. The remaining 8 starters were prepared by Ray Hermann (3), Mark Oates (3) and Kerry Krogh (2). Five trainers. $50 000 prizemoney plus $7500 in QTIC bonuses. More thousands in subsidies. And absolutely zero by […]
Arrowfield principal John Messara was once famously an unabashed friend and supporter of Alan Jones. That was back in the days when the confirmed bachelor Jones was considered respectable, which now seems so long ago. I wonder how Messara feels about his old mate Alan now? We shudder to think. Although to be fair, Messara […]
