Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Look at the horses Vo Rogue beat. Not beat, thrashed. Super Impose. Better Loosen Up. Campaign King. Bonecrusher. The Phantom. Stylish Century. Myocard. If you are too young to remember them or know how great these horses were just Google up their records. Japan Cups, Cox Plates, Derbies, Doncasters, Epsoms, Stradbrokes, BMW’s, you name it, […]
The former Kiwi pacer Nerano has had six starts since coming across the ditch. It’s won them all, and done it in brilliant fashion too. That’s why is was so surprising that there was no money for it in race 4 at Wagga on Tuesday night. There was plenty of money for So Much Bettor, […]
In Australian racing parlance a bowler is someone who pretends to be doing something, when in fact someone else is doing it. In US racing they call the person a beard. A lot of people around the traps say that a former long-time stable hand named Craig Cross is a bowler for his relative and […]
South Australian harness racing is about as healthy as an 80 year old pack a smoker with COVID. This announcement was made today by Harness Racing SA. The Southern Cross Series is their equivalent of the NSW Breeders Challenge, or the Vic Bred Super Series, or the Triad in Queensland. In other words it is […]
Tamworth harness trainer-driver Stacey Elliott was charged with cobalt offences in October. She is guilty of presenting horses to race with banned substance in their systems, but it wasn’t her fault. This hasn’t come out publicly yet, but you can take it as read that the feed she was sold by supplier Furneys Stockfeeds was […]
Norm Torpey has been around the Queensland stewarding ranks for a long time now, and has held some very senior positions within the ranks of the QRIC and it’s successors (and been demoted from them). Torpey is supposed to be one of the better stipes in the north, but I personally wouldn’t pay two cents […]
Poor old Emma Stewart had on off night at Melton in the semi-finals of the Breeders Crown on Wednesday didn’t she? Stewart managed just six winners from the ten finals she contested, which I am sure you will agree was rather piss poor, a rank failure if you have ever seen one. So was her haul […]
On the 11th of February former high-profile racing identity Damion Flower will be sentenced upon his plea of guilty to importing 228kg of pure cocaine from South Africa by smuggling it through customs using a corrupt baggage handler. I’m sure having all that money was fun while it lasted, but Flower is going to a […]
Now perhaps I am seeing things, but it looked for all money to me that apprentice K. Swaffer (horse in blue and white on fence) had established a clear run up on the inside of jockey S. Wilson (orange colours, one off) in the first race at Townsville yesterday. S. Wilson ride dangerously to close […]
The mail out of Sydney is that another former employee of Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny is about to be appointed to the board. Adam Fairley is his name, the former long-time HRNSW Manger of Industry Development, and the Handicapper and Racing Manager before that. It is said that Fairley – who has been […]
