Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Don’t be too concerned about Alligator Blood’s 17 draw in the Straddie after the scratchings. Six of the past twenty-one winners have come from barrier 15 or wider. Two winners in the 21st century have come from the extreme outside in 18 (Show A Heart, La Montagna), one has won from 17 (St Basil), two […]
A pacer named Bri Express – who we will call the cheese – made its debut for popular Manawatu (North Island) trainer Stephen Doody on the 28th of April this year. It ran a creditable 3rd in a maiden at the third tier meeting, and a fortnight later was sold. Guess who bought it? Our […]
We have been telling you for a month that Robert Dunn was going to be appointed to the board of Harness Racing New Zealand haven’t we? Well bingo is it. Yesterday Dunn’s appointment as a Director of the Kiwi control body was formally announced. In making the announcement HRNZ’s spin doctors did a lovely job […]
A reader has kindly set us straight on the origin of the name Mr Kaplan for the Tony Herlihy 3YO pacing filly in New Zealand. Apparently Mr Kaplan is the alias used by a female character named Kathryn Nemec in a reportedly outstanding American crime thriller TV series called The Blacklist. This is what the […]
There is a 3-year-old filly in New Zealand who has always puzzled me. Mr Kaplan is her name. Why is a filly called Mr Kaplan? She is by Betterthancheddar out of Time and Tide, so there is nothing in the bloodlines to suggest a reason for it. The owners names aren’t Kaplan. This filly is […]
Three muppets with all their supporters behind them cheering. New Tabcorp CEO Adam Rytenskild, Racing Queensland CEO Pins Parnell, and the Racing Minister Grace Grace, who wouldn’t know a legal bookie if one bit her on the arse. Just days after the Queensland Government dropped a huge POC tax increase of 20% on unsuspecting bookies […]
Bose means to strike the ground with an object to try to find what’s underneath. They say that the chap in the picture Ron Johnson – aka the Brown Rice Man – has been out at the Wattles ground at Toowoomba bashing the ground with his head for the past three hours, trying to discover […]
99 times out of 100 if a rookie was selected to coach Queensland there would be an uproar, and they’d be tearing down the stands. It was different with Fatty. That was during the Super League war and no-one gave us a chance of winning, so it didn’t matter. It was a once off miracle clean […]
Jayson Adams is a former SA trot trainer who was arrested last year in the major drug bust that brought harness racing owner Andrew Benz, and trainer/driver/club official Jonathon Kingston-Mayne unstuck. To all appearances Adams for years lived the life of a clean cut, hard working family man. He was living a lie. They say […]
Mirrors is a con man, a fraudster, a thief and a weak gutted cat. He’s a dog too. The fact that he is still allowed on Queensland race courses is a disgrace. I don’t know what to say about the licensees who walk up and shake his hand. There is something very wrong with this […]
