Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch driver Tiarna Ford’s use of the cane on the winner Hurricane Rock from the 400m mark on in the 6th race at Launceston on Sunday. Hurricane Rock’s the horse in the green and gold coming around the outside. Ford doesn’t just breach the whip rule, she smashes it into little pieces as she smashes […]
Many good judges rate Nick Ryan back in his riding days as the best apprentice of his generation, an elite class kid in his riding days who would have been a Melham or Williams if he hadn’t grown big so fast and got too heavy. That may be well true, but to me Ryan’s just […]
The first race at Mt Isa on Monday turned into a horror show when two horses broke down badly in separate incidents during the event and had to be killed by the vet, although in racing we call it humanely euthanized because it sounds so much better. I Am Gold was a 4-year gelding on […]
What’s happened to the highly controversial and troubled but uber talented apprentice jockey Bailey Wheeler? He hasn’t had a ride for a month, not since the Weetwood meeting on the 28th of September. Last we heard publicly his apprenticeship had been transferred to Robert Heathcote as master, but Wheeler has disappeared from the trainer’s website […]
The South Australian training master of the long priced plunge ‘Super Mario’ Borg did it again at Globe Derby yesterday when his horse Levi Jimmy landed the cash in the 8th race after being backed from $23.00 into $5.50. Levi Jimmy hadn’t won a race in his previous 25 starts and was coming off recent […]
There was a curious one coming out of the Goulburn harness meeting on Monday, All of the drivers at the meeting were put on the bag and alcohol tested. Selected drivers were subjected to drug testing, Young reinsperson Jack Brown – who had been at a mates bucks party on Saturday night and reportedly had […]
I get knocked down, but I get up againYou are never gonna keep me down – Chumbawamba Kobie O’Brien, the founder of everybody’s favorite syndicator KO Racing, has been copping a beating lately, with blows being landed on him from every direction, including ours but they don’t hurt. O’Brien like Icarus flew too close to […]
This morning we emailed Harness Racing NSW CEO Peter Buckman with questions regarding the cobalt test results published on the HRA website, and he was quick to reply. We thank him for that. The CEO advises that all urine samples collected by HRNSW are screened to for cobalt. With respect to why only 453 of […]
Harness Racing NSW yesterday published the results of all urine testing for the presence of cobalt conducted since the 31st of May 2022. While it is admirable of HRNSW to share this information publicly, and the results make for interesting reading, they raise more questions about the swabbing and sample testing regime being employed in […]
What you see marked in red on the map is a 1016 square meter parcel of vacant land advertised for sale in Wickham Street, East Perth for a price of $2.8 million. That price represents an indicative land value of $2775 per square meter for the area. The oval to the far right of the […]
