Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Amanda Turnbull drove the red hot $2.10 favourite Smooth Baht in the first race at Menangle last night. Red hot it was indeed. Her drive I am talking about, not the price. Turnbull took Smooth Baht back to last off the gate. And sat there. Sat and sat and sat and sat. She did nothing […]
The thoroughbred Stewards in fives States and two Territories in Australia put their race day reports up after the last race. Not in Queensland. There hasn’t been a Stewards Report from the gallops published since Thursday. It can’t be system outage because the trots reports have gone up since then. Do you reckon the QRIC […]
Tarleton Riley is an 10-year-old pacer who has been racing since the year 2014 and has had 225 starts. Riley raced in the last at Hobart last night at 11.00pm. He sat three-wide without cover for the last lap and finished a tired sixth. Today – less than 24 hours later – the poor old […]
Look at all owners! It’s great to see so many young people! – Bernie Cooper, after Shezgottheboom’s win in $300 000 Jewels at the Gold Coast Bernie obviously didn’t see the great John ‘JC’ Catton, greyhound trainer extraordinaire, there among the winning owners. How could you miss him in that hat, jumping up and down […]
Well whoever would have thought it could happen? Tasmanian racing has turned the corner. Against all odds, they’ve kicked huge goals. Wagering turnover on the gallops has skyrocketed from $203 million to $343 million, an increase of almost 70% in a single year. Trots turnover is up 65%, from $73.5 million to $121.4 million. Turnover […]
On the 25th of February trot drivers Brad Williamson and Tim Williams decided for no reason at all to go war on each other in a race at Methven. Williams had the lead, and Williamson decided he wanted it, so he took him on. Tim Williams wouldn’t give it up, and Brad Williamson wouldn’t give […]
2,870 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, 3,700 injured and 572 captured, Russia had also said in its March 2 statement. On the other hand, Ukraine, backed externally by the US-dominated military alliance Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), said only 1,300 of its soldiers had been killed by March 12. The Russian invasion of the Ukraine […]
The University of Kentucky in the USA is working on the development of a thing known as a biological passport of a horse, a marker of what a non-doped racehorse looks like in it’s natural state. The purpose of the biological passport is that it can be used to identify horses that have been doped […]
Positions Available Apprentice/ Trackwork Rider Above award wage. Greg Hickman is not a top ten Sydney trainer, but he is one who always seems to have a horse in his stable that provides him with a lucrative earn, a galloper like Private Secretary, or Royal Purler, or Murjilisa Lass, or more recently the $2.9 million […]
162. (1) A driver shall not – (c) once on the track speak, communicate or signal to any person other than an authorised official Australian Rules of Harness Racing As you can see in the rule above, in Australia trot drivers are not permitted to speak to other drivers during a race to communicate or […]
