Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A fortnight ago the new CEO of Harness Racing South Australia Mr Dean Elliott made a huge announcement about the future of the sport in the State. It’s rooted. Of course that is not what the CEO said, but why would you listen to a bloke who tries to tell you that cutting the prize […]
The big shock of the harness racing weekend was what seemed to be the terribly poor run of the New Zealand Cup hero Copy That in the Cranbourne Cup, a race in which New Zealand’s best pacer performed like mule, dropping out to run a conspicuous 36m last after what you would have to say […]
So this is the Greens plan. Shut down racing. Turn all race courses into parks. Rehabilitate all race horses. (From what? Are they meth heads, junkies, drunks or sex addicts? Even the geldings?) Rehome all the horses who have been to rehab. Retrain: jockeyswork riders stable hands strappers stewards starters swabbies barrier attendants clerks of […]
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
I think we might have seen the last Alligator Blood, or if all was fair in love, war and racing we should have anyway. The Alligator was terrible in the listed Loch Neagh today, absolutely atrocious. Baylee Nothdurft gave him a great run on the leaders back, and for about a tenth of a second […]
https://twitter.com/i/status/1467574377516613636 The mail is very, very strong that Brisbane race caller Josh Fleming is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and refuses to be. It is clear from her Facebook postings that Fleming’s wife Gabrielle is stridently anti-vax, regarding the compulsory nature of the requirement as akin to totalitarianism or nazism. I am not quite sure how […]
QCAT CLEARS DAY – GOODNIGHT SOON TO FOLLOW The decision has not been published yet, but the hot mail is that in yet another outstanding demonstration of why it is being giving the big P.O., the QCAT has overturned Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day;s six week suspension for pulling up Helsun at Doomben in January almost two […]
Uncle Milty’s Facebook page showing a picture of his much loved dogs Tidda and Boorie (top), and displaying one of his newer dot paintings created during his summer sojourn back home on the Island What a week it has been for emerging Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) indigenous leader and activist Uncle Milty Doyle First he spends […]
This is a letter from lawyer Allister Davis to a well-respected businessman and harness racing participant whose young grandson is seriously ill in hospital in New Zealand. The person concerned owned a runner in the ID21 Trotting Championship final, the culmination of a life-long dream, but he due to his beloved grandson’s illness and invasive […]
The best way to fight is on the front foot, as you can see from this photo of the Balmain Boxer down at the beach training one of the Russian Olympic medallists who came over to learn from him, and who he took to the Australian title. I wonder if anyone in Tamworth has ever […]
