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Woodend Beach trainer Bob Butt takes four live chances to the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club’s meeting at Geraldine on Sunday. Stating at 11.55am, 11 races will be held at the Orari track after the meeting was transferred there as repairs continue at Motukarara. In Race 1, The Famous Grouse Trot over 1950m (11.55am), Aldebaran Lobell […]
Master trotting trainer Paul Nairn looks to have uncovered another young trotting star in Marikit (Waterloo Sunset). In last night’s race at Addington, the three year old filly got back early before improving with a lap to run to sit parked outside leader Harriot’s Moment. Turning in she mastered Harriot’s Moment, before holding out a […]
Woodend Beach trainer Bob Butt takes six horses to Addington tomorrow night with stable star The Lazarus Effect the standout in the Avon City Ford New Brighton Cup. Hear his take on each of his runners. Race One: Lean On Me (Captaintreacherous) – driver Bob Butt – FR2 Race Three: Always A Playa (Always B […]
“Perfect. It just worked out like a trial. Hopefully he’ll keep improving off that,” trainer driver Bob Butt said after The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) won last night’s Allied Security Maurice Holmes Vase at Addington, earning himself an automatic entry into the New Zealand Cup. The five year old who has a big following, began superfast […]
The pacer who should win the first major race of the spring at Addington tonight comes with the usual warning but also a possible get out of jail free card. The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) will start odds-on in the $40,000 Allied Security Maurice Holmes Vase (7.58pm) even though he faces a 10m handicap over the […]
The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) will be one of the first of the South Island’s main chances to start a fresh campaign towards the New Zealand Cup. The gelding last raced in the Group One New Zealand Messenger in May, finishing second behind Got The Chocolates. “He stayed up in Auckland and only had a month […]
It wasn’t the plan, but it didn’t matter as Lexicon (Muscle Mass) got a well-deserved maiden win at Addington last night for Woodend Beach trainer Bob Butt. “I wanted her to get a sit, but four (back on the) fence is niggly enough. So when Nathan (Nathan Williamson driving Kings Landing) was outside me I […]
Despite uncertain times, Paul Howlett, Canterbury blacksmith, breeder and owner, remains positive about harness racing’s future. “I leave it to the people that get paid well. I just worry about putting shoes on horses and getting young people into the game. I just love going to the races with my mates and having a few […]
Canterbury couple Dayle and Kay Kinzett were on course at Addington on Friday night to see Cheer Up N Dance (Always B Miki), the latest from their ‘Dance’ breed, win on debut. The win further highlights a decision the couple made thirteen years ago to go to the yearling sales and buy the well-bred filly […]
After finishing fifth in the Lyell Creek Stakes in Auckland in March, the trainers of Bet N Win (What The Hill) decided something was not quite right with their star trotter, so he was unable to defend is Rowe Cup title. Remaining up north, he was sent to the Matamata Vet Clinic where he underwent […]
Bob Butt knows he can win two of the harness racing majors at Addington tonight but his confidence levels are greatly different. Because Butt and most punters will be surprised if Sideshow Bruce (Sweet Lou) doesn’t win the Betavet Uncut Gems Aged Pace but the Commodore Hotel Aged Trot might be a tougher nut to […]
Canterbury trained trotter Kawatiri Trev (Marcoola) steps into group harness racing racing for the first time tomorrow night but that isn’t fazing master trotting trainer Paul Nairn. “It’ll be a test but I’d like to think he’ll be able to compete with that good one of Brent Lilley’s (Kyvalley Ray) and the one of Dunn’s […]
“It’s going to be harder this week. Being 2700 metres, I was hoping to drive him a bit quieter, but with the draw, it’s forced my hand and I’m just going to have to go forward,” said the driver of The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) Bob Butt, when assessing his chances in tomorrow’s G1 $100,000 Dawson […]
Trainer Bob Butt refuses to take the credit for his dual-gaited darling Dynasty (Rocknroll Hanover). The five-year-old defended her title in the Canterbury Breeders Stakes at Addington on Friday night, the pacing mares feature of the meeting that she also won last season. With Bob in Auckland with The Lazarus Effect, Dynasty was driven by […]
On Friday night, Winton harness racing trainer Chelsea Faithful will gear up Ideal Crown, (American Ideal) her first horse to race in Auckland. “I’m excited but nervous. I think a lot more excitement will come on Friday,” she said. It’s not the first time Faithful has had a runner in a Group One feature. Ideal […]
We wouldn’t see a better drive than the one Bob Butt produced tonight at Alexandra Park when he reined The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) to win the G1 $100,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile. Doo You Want Me and driver Tony Herlihy blasted the gate early with Sooner The Better up to challenge. Butt and The Lazarus […]
There’ll be many eyes on The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) and Got The Chocolates (Art Major) as they take on a handful of hardened free for allers, including Australian champion Swayzee, in the Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park on Friday. “It’s a very good field. It’s one of those races that any horse in the field […]
Donna’s Boy (Pegasus Spur) looks to be one of a group of emerging talented trotters. The Bob Butt trained squaregaiter headed into last night’s trotting feature at Addington in a fresh state, having last raced at Ashburton in December. He had just two trials under his belt, but that didn’t matter. “I knew he had […]
He’s won a New Zealand Cup, a Miracle Mile, a Dominion Handicap and a Rowe Cup and has owned more than 100 winners including a $2 million racehorse. Harness racing has been quite a ride for Robin Butt and it’s not over yet. Robin’s racing lineage goes back to his grandfather on his mother’s side, […]
Bob Butt isn’t going to be talked into a fight he can’t win. So even though The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) may be the most in-form open class pacer in the country be won’t be going to the $1m The Race at Cambridge on April 10. His trainer-driver made that quite clear after The Lazarus Effect […]
Maiden pacer River (Bettor’s Delight) dented a few reputations tonight at Alexandra Park in the $150, 000 Listed NZB Standardbred Harness Million for three year old fillies. Trained and driven by Bob Butt, he powered River up early and took an early lead before Queen Lizzy came around to take up the running and River […]
New Zealand bred Australian based stallion King Of Swing produced his first winner today when Fanfare (King Of Swing) held on to beat a late charging Guess Who in the Macca Lodge New Zealand Kindergarten Stakes Prelude at Gore today. Trained by Bob Butt and sent south to Lauren Pearson’s Winton stable, the two year […]
The trotters took a fair share of the limelight at today’s NZB Standardbred Sales in Christchurch. The Walner – Egee Money filly presented by Yabby Dam Farms and prepared by Laura Smith topped the Sale and was purchased by Stonewall Stud for $290,000. “NZB have done a great job and Laura Smith has prepared her […]
Some simple maths suggests Roydon Muscle (Muscle Mass) can win the feature trot at Addington tonight. That is if trainer-driver Bob Butt’s prediction of what his stable runner is capable of is on the mark. Roydon Muscle is a relative newcomer to Butt’s care who after two disappointing performances at Nelson has been excellent in […]
