Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Up until a few weeks ago the Sky vision available on the TAB website allowed you to watch the races you were betting on on a full screen. There was a little square down in the bottom right hand corner that you clicked on and the screen would go big. Like brains and business acumen […]
I have long been on the record as saying that Richard Bell is the greatest race caller in Australia, and despite the events of last night I stand by that judgement. Bell, alongside Queensland’s Chris Barsby, is also the most accurate judge of photo finishes in the land, and it’s only once in a blue […]
Well in half a century of kicking around trot tracks you’ve seen so much cheating that you often feel that you are coated in it, so much so that you become half convinced that you will never see anything again that surprises you. But then something like race 4 at Newcastle comes along and you […]
The All Stars Stable train pulled into Alexandra Park on Friday night for a visit, and showed that you can shuffle the names on the training papers until the cows come home, but the results are still going to stay the same. Mark Purdon/Natalie Rasmussen/Hayden Cullen/Harry the Horse/Herbie the Love Bug – the names are interchangeable, […]
Speculation is flying far and wide about the reason that two months after the event, Harness Racing NSW has still not paid the connections of any horse that won prize money during the Inter Dominion 2021 series a cent that they are owed. This includes not just the finalists, but stakes won in the heats […]
Trainer Tom Bagrie is driver John Dunn’s cousin, which means that trainer Robert Dunn is Bagrie’s uncle. Robert Dunn of course was earlier this week appointed to the board of the Auckland Trotting Club. The club runs Alexandra Park, the track where the rort above occurred. Tom Bagrie didn’t lodge a stable return because he […]
A pacer from the Riverina named Malinjang has 13 starts for four different trainers over 18 months. The best it can do is run two 3rds. Its average beaten margin over the 13 starts is 67.5 metres. Malinjang gets sold to prominent owner Mick Falvo, and he sends it to his favourite trainer Alex Ashwood. […]
They would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Charging race fans who can’t get to Emerald for the ceremony $22.19 to watch a live stream of the Queensland Country Racing Awards. These people are rorters. They are being sponsored to the tune of a large sum of money generously donated by Ladrokes. A number of […]
