Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I am writing because I can’t speak. I am sitting here stunned. Shocked. The leader in the Group 1 Chariots of Fire, the Victorian pacer Bettor Call Me, has just run 24.3 seconds for its first quarter mile. 24.3 SECONDS! It is the fastest quarter ever run by a pacer in the history of world […]
Mark Jones comes from a long line of royalty in New Zealand harness racing, although you would never know it. His grandfathers Derek Jones and Reg Stockdale, and his father Peter Jones are legends of the game. Jones’s cousins Anthony and Tim Butt are too. The difference between cousin 1 and Jones though is that […]
Nathan Jack has been out of harness racing for a long time, for so long now that I have forgotten how long it actually is. Let’s just say forever. It doesn’t really matter anymore, for N. Jack is back. Mach. Big time. The man who was not that long ago reviled by many – including […]
Queensland racing is just out of control. Trainers know that there is no money for swabs outside the South East corner, and that only the winners are getting tested. So they hit their horses with gear that only shows up pre-race in blood, and they do so with extreme confidence that they won’t get caught. […]
David Moran and Laura Crossland were defacto partners in 2019. Damian Wilson was cutting his lunch. Crossland said sayonara to Moran, and moved in with Wilson. Moran was not happy at all. On the 14th of November he got juiced up and moonshine and rocked around to Crossland’s stables in the Shepparton Training Centre blind. […]
Watch John Dunn cheat at the start in the last race at Addington tonight. He did it right under the Stewards noses too. Everyone is supposed to start off the same mark off the stand. Lurch clearly took a fly. How was A Bettor Act not disqualified? The stipes must have been staring up at […]
Reports are filtering out of Tasmania that Chief Steward Steve Shinn has been stood down from duty just hours before he was due to chair the panel at tonight’s Launceston meeting. Speculation is that the stand down is related to the betting activities of certain licensees under his watch. The last race at Launceston last […]
Twelve days ago Secret King got beaten by 10 and 1/2 lengths in a maiden at Toowoomba. The start before that he got beaten 7.2 lengths in one at Kilcoy, and the run prior to that he ran 9th of 11 beaten ten lengths at Rocky. Yesterday he stepped out in the 2nd race at […]
We’ve got two horse races going on here! And one of them has only got one horse in it! – Addington race caller Johnny Cox is a very experienced harness racing driver. He has been in the sulky for a long time now, and has thousands of drives, and at this point of time averages […]
New Zealand trainer Trudy Keegan, for reasons of her own, is unvaccinated against COVID-19. That is her choice, but it means that she is not allowed to put others at risk by attending the races. On the 13th of January she decided to say ‘stuff you’ to the racing participants who acted responsibly, and went […]
