Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s a cracker of a race this year the Cox Plate, with almost every horse a chance to win. Here’s our take on how it might pan out. Romantic Warrior We’ve said our piece about this one a number of times. Hong Kong horses don’t win Cox Plates, full stop. No thanks. Zaaki Only one […]
How strange it is that the rise of NZ South Island trainer Craig Ferguson coincides so neatly with the fall of his close friend Cam Jones, the disgraced drug cheat currently serving a long stint in the sin bin. Up until Jones got caught red handed on race day throwing a syringe in a bin […]
Wyndham based horseman Craig Ferguson is absolutely on fire this season. So hot that he us training winners and placegetters at a ratio to starters never seen before in NZ this century. The highest UDR (see picture at top) ever recorded by at season’s end by a trainer in the top 12 on the premiership […]
‘A Humbling Tribute’: Frankie Dettori Statue Unveiled At Ascot Racecourse by Press Release|10.23.2023|1:54pm A specially commissioned statue of Frankie Dettori was unveiled this weekend at Ascot Racecourse by Her Majesty The Queen. The bronze depicts the world-famous Italian jockey mounted on a horse and is located by the Grandstand Lawn. It was designed by artist and […]
What you see above are the remaining contenders for this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup, the time honoured race that once boasted fields full of champions. Now all we have is Mark Purdon’s best pacers, a handful of locals, a former claimer class Aussie, a recycled Kiwi from Oz, and a bunch full of next […]
Former jockey turned trackwork rider Bruce Powell is clearly a slow learner. This week Powell was dealt with after returning his 3rd positive swab to the leafy green substance cannabis following tests conducted at early morning work at Deagon in September, following on from his most recent breach in late 2017 at Esk when he […]
With only a few weeks left until the NZ Trotting Cup carnival, the country’s leading harness racing event featuring a multitude of Group 1 races for horses of all ages, it is frightening to learn that another pair of the nation’s young rising stars have left its shores and been exported to Australia. The 4yo […]
A special Melbourne Cup fund-raiser for Katie Cox is being held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 7. The talented Canterbury-based trainer-driver has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung cancer. Her plight has prompted a massive outpouring of support from within the harness racing community, with a trust already set up to […]
It’s wonderful to learn that Racing Queensland has entered into a new $900 000 over 3 years partnership with Save a Horse Australia, the animal protection and rehoming charity headed by the brave horse loving former jockey Laura Cheshire, who was forced out of the saddle a couple of years ago by injury and redirected […]
The announcement of the life disqualification of the obviously continued incorrigible live baiter Anthony Bullock is welcome breath of fresh air from a fetid Tasmanian racing environment. Bullock – the mate of Ben Yole, and the man who chainsawed his unwanted horses into pieces and fed them to his hounds – has been put out […]
