Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Based on how the last race at Mackay was run yesterday you would have to suspect that the winner Red Hot Lizzie is the best named horse in history, because this race sure did look red hot. Lizzie is trained by former trot driver Lachie Manzelmann. Manzelmann had four of the eleven runners in the […]
We’ve been telling you forever that the 4YO Kiwi pacer Marketplace is superstar. Tomorrow night at 6.25pm at Menangle you will get to see that I am right. Marketplace makes his Australian debut in a Free For All at the track in one of his two tune up runs on the way to Queensland where […]
New Zealand’s pre-eminent racing writer Mick Guerin has suggested in a recent article in the NZ Herald that the current review body for the racing industry – dubbed Project Stamina – will be recommending the shut down of racing at Alexandra Park. To further complicate matters, the funding stoush comes as racing bosses await the […]
In most racing jurisdictions in the world highly paid leadership roles carrying six-figure salaries are widely advertised and attract highly competitive merit based selections. But not in New Zealand it seems. Over in the Shakey Isles it appears that it’s not what you know, but rather who you know. Recently departed Harness Racing NZ CEO […]
Sydney’s leading trot trainer Jason Grimson has a very busy long and highly unusual couple of days ahead of him. First today he makes the 11 hour drive from Menangle or 2 hour plane flight from Mascor (cost circa $500) to Mildura our near the South Australian border to take just one drive tonight, that […]
QRIC have today (Thursday) conducted mass scale unannounced visits to trainers and racing participants at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and issued directions to a number of people to hand over their phones. It is believed that the following participants complied with the direction, and that their phones are now in the possession of the […]
My beloved Dad resting in state. I did everything I could to help him, except help him die, because the law didn’t allow it, and he wouldn’t let me go to jail even though I was prepared to for love, just like Kylie Truswell-Mobbs. Dad loved me as much as I loved him, and it […]
There is interesting mail out of Tasmania that disqualified harness racing participant Mark Reggett’s appeal last week against his 5 year disqualification for EPO was disrupted by the unexpected – by Reggett anyway – appearance of 5 police to meet him at the appeal room door. It is said that these officers seized his phone. […]
Tommy Berry must be ruing his comments in an interview with Sky after Hovland’s at Warwick Farm ago. Berry told the interviewer that he “had the opinion of being a lot more positive this morning when I (he) spoke to Tom and John, and full credit to them, they didn’t want me to be that […]
There is nothing official published about it yet, but we all know that Tasmanian dual code trainer Connor Crook has been done for having vials of EPO. While the matter is being sorted, Tasracing has determined to refuse Crook’s nominations for both his gallopers and his pacers, which is fair enough because if you possess […]
