Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our old mate Chainsaw has 62 of the 96 runners in races 2-10 at Launceston last night, which adds up to about two-thirds of them. Based on those numbers he should have won six races. You’d have to be able to train well to that though, and the Saw can’t. So he won just three. […]
Gee this Kiwi trainer Craig Ferguson’s form has improved a bit hasn’t it? It’s not just because he fluked a top horse either. His 7 wins have been achieved with 6 different ponies. So what is the secret to this man’s sudden success, and his Emma Stewart like strike rate? You’d have to have ask […]
At it’s first start three weeks ago – 3 weeks? Not again! – at Invercargill the Kiwi pacer Bettorthanarocket led in slow time, folded up like an umbrella before the turn, and got beaten 17.3 lengths. The mile rate for the race was 2.01.9, which means that it ran about 2.04. Yesterday the same horse […]
I have watched this replay of the finish of race 6 at the Ashburton trots yesterday 10 ten times, and I still can’t see a margin for the winner. Do I need new glasses? I dunno. One thing that I would like to know is why Korban Newman, one of the stable drivers for the […]
As you can see in the republished stories below (which are merely a selection of them, there are more), we have written several times about the QLD trotter Doug, who gallops away at almost every start he has, and steals innocent punters money. Look at the picture at the top, which is Doug’s recent form, […]
Is it April Fools Day or something? What the hell are the QRIC Stewards talking about? Doug has a good record in regard to galloping free of interference does he? Bollocks. What’s this? That was seven starts back. How about this one two starts ago? This is what Doug did on Saturday night. Note that […]
The talented but highly temperamental trotter Doug was placed on another warning by the Stewards after again galloping away from the stand at Albion Park on Saturday night, but you really have to start wondering how long a piece of string is and asking the question when does enough become enough? This is the seventh […]
A couple of weeks back we published an article questioning why the errant beginning QLD trotter Doug had not been excluded from standing starts after galloping in nine of his last ten, and issued a plaintive plea that he be so, forthwith. He wasn’t, not then anyway. Doug went back to the races twice, and […]
Was that debacle at Scone yesterday the worst day’s racing since the one the week before? Does PVL really have to inflict this sort of rubbish on us just so that he can keep his patron John Messara sweet by running a metro meeting at the bloke’s home track? Hasn’t V’Landys transcended that sort of […]
NZ Trot driver Ian Cameron was not real happy about the RIB’s interpretation of the whip rule after they charged him with breaching it the other day. Shove it up your arse he told them. Given some of the decisions over the last few days, is there a soul in the world who would disagree […]
