Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Further to our earlier story about leading Kiwi driver John ‘Lurch’ Dunn pulling a sickie at the Ashburton race meeting in Sunday because someone tipped him off about the integrity folk being at the track with their breath testing kit, the red hot mail from the South Island is that the man was in fact […]
Gold Trip will have to rewrite history if he is to carry 58.5kb to win the Caulfield Cup on Saturday, for no horse in the modern metric age has ever lumped that much to victory in the time honoured race. Since the weight scale switched from stone and pounds to kilos in 1972 the highest […]
The news that Captain Ravishing isn’t going to New Zealand f0r the Cup after his scratching last night comes as no surprise to anyone. The Captain copped a 28 day stand down after his withdrawal, which means that he can’t race again until the 11th of November, 3 days before the Cup, meaning that he […]
It would be lovely to believe that the Auckland Trotting Club really had made a profit of almost a million dollars for the year, but sadly it didn’t. EBITDA means earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization. After those things were factored in the club actually lost $6.78 million. The club’s asset base dipped by […]
If we were to put together a ‘power rankings’ of horse racing’s most influential figures, then Hong Kong Jockey Club boss Winfried Engelbrect-Bresges and his Racing NSW counterpart Peter V’landys would fill the quinella places. Let’s leave aside the argument of who would be in pole position – I am not in the mood to […]
What you see in the picture is what Auckland Trotting Club president and wrist bound timepiece salesman Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon told leading NZ race writer last year about the sale of the Franklin Park training centre at Pukekohe. A key provision in the sale deal was that the club would get a lease that would […]
The extract above from the Auditor’s report in the 2023 Annual Report of the Auckland Trotting Club speaks for itself, and says it all. The club lost $6.8 million last year in real terms, when you take away all the smoke, mirrors and spin (see article to follow). It owes $47.3 million to the banks […]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast they say, and it seems to have here. Why on earth would the Sears camp want to even contemplate pushing on to the Golden Rose with their stable star Yellow Brick after his inglorious performance in the Silver Eagle, when he got eased up and tailed out in […]
The Culprit! #Griff pic.twitter.com/Xql1gIAfOF — Ben melham (@BMelham) October 16, 2023 Was the man on the ladder to blame for Griff ducking out near the line in the Caulfield Guineas and costing Ben Melham a 10 meeting suspension? Melham – who posted the picture on Twitter – certainly seems to think so, and it makes […]
What a lovely lady this is, not. I wonder if she kicks dogs too? What compels an adult woman to do something like this? https://t.co/foblVaitks — Women Posting L’s (@WomenPostingLs) October 15, 2023
