Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Dominion Handicap is one of the greatest square gaiting trot races in the world. Not as good as the Elitloppet or the Prix d’Amerique. But not far off. The best of the best have won the Dominion over the years. The freak Lyell Creek took it out three times, so did the champions Take […]
Leap To Fame is the best horse in the world. We have been saying that he was two-year’s old. On sheer ability and a perfect preparation he would win the NZ Cup by panels. The great problem is his driver Grant Dixon. Dixon is a brilliant horseman and trainer, but despite the excellent driving record […]
We have written a few times in recent weeks about the extraordinary and totally against previous form run of success of the hitherto average Kiwi father and son training partnership of Peter and Mitchell Robertson, and how over the past couple of months they keep turning donkeys into flying unicorns. The pair did it again […]
Archie Falls that break everyone’s heart have come again in another wave, but there’s a few key points in my opinion as to why they’re happening. Due to deficiencies in their training and education, there’s no race craft any more with a lot of jocks. It’s just a case of jumping out of the gates […]
Race 1 is crap, and race 3 and 4 too. The second race would be as well, if only not for the fact that the Jason Grimson’s of the NZ South Island Peter and Mitchell Ferguson didn’t have one of their inexplicably grown a leg pacers Ward Lamon in there. Throw out the previous form […]
Grant Dixon has runners in seven of the nine races at Albion Park on Saturday night. The first three are preferential barrier draws. Dixon has taken advantage of it by entering horses that have drawn 1, 2 and 2. The next one is a trot in which Grant’s pair have drawn 5 and 7, which […]
I am getting sick of hearing of falls in races all over the place. Kids are in hospital in critical condition, with their parents praying and crying by their sides. Blokes of grandfather age like me are holed up in them too, with non-life threatening but debilitating injuries like Jason Babarovich. Racing is a dangerous […]
Want to see a future Group 1 horse? Here it is at just its third start. Confucious Flyer is its name. It is a dead set freak, the next Special or Redelva, or some sprinter like that. I wouldn’t put The Everest beyond it. The 1000m track record at Morphettville has stood for 20 years,. […]
Are you allowed to, or are you not? It’s a bit each way, which creates shades of grey, and make you wonder whether what went on at the Call of the Card was legit. Given that JP McManus is worth more than $2 billion, and can afford the best staff, you would imagine that he […]
Good on the Redcliffe Harness Racing Club for naming a room after the recently departed and much missed race day trot photographer Dan Costello. I didn’t personally know the man, but I am told he was a very decent bloke, and I am the first to say that he was a great servant to the […]
