Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I asked eleven people over the weekend who the favorite for the Cup was. Dr Harry was the only one to get it right.* No-one else but him knew who the topweight was, and how much they had to carry. Al Riffa is the answer to the first question. He can’t win it in our […]
Clinton ‘Squizzy’ Taylor is Australia’s greatest trainer. You only need to look at his strike rate this season to realize that. While Chris Waller is plodding along at 13.9%, Ciaron Maher meandering slowly at 11.2%, and even Brisbane’s dominant force Tony Gollan only finding success 20.6% of the time, Squizzy Taylor from Rockhampton is out […]
Fortunately no one was badly hurt in the fall below in the 1st at Gawler on Sunday. It looked pretty awful. There but for the grace of God we go.
It’s becoming painfully clear that the current National Rating System in Australian Harness Racing is absolutely crippling the future of our top-line juvenile pacers. When you get a genuinely talented young horse, instead of being able to enjoy and develop them through their four and five-year-old seasons and beyond, you’re almost forced into early retirement […]
Former Kiwi Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart hasn’t won a race in 19 starts since his victory in the 2023 NZ Derby and has suffered a few injury setbacks since, but after slashing third-up performance to finish third in the Group 1 Livamol Classic at Ellerslie over the Cox Plate distance of 2040m […]
Two years ago Goldman was one of the early favorites for the Melbourne Cup after having earnt a golden ticket into the race by winning the Roy Higgins in the Autumn. After finishing third last behind Without A Fight in the Caulfield Cup his Spring campaign in 2023 was aborted, and he never made it […]
David Barwell Sydney Morning Herald: October 19, 2025 — 1.30pm A plan to redevelop Wentworth Park into an urban park and sporting complex is ramping up as the City of Sydney Council releases images of what the site could look like if the long-standing greyhound racing track at the site is bulldozed to make way […]
Coming to stay at the Sheraton Mirage in Port Douglas anytime soon? Then bring your shark cage to swim in. I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there is a crocodile in Christopher Skase’s pool. When you think about it I guess there always were. I wouldn’t worry too much. They kill you pretty quick, […]
How does Jason Grimson do this shit? He gets a rating 63 mare off Olivia Frisby a few weeks ago. Delightful Star is her name. Frisby has won low grade restricted races with the mare at Parkes, Bathurst and Young, but on each of the ten occasions bar one that it has come to town […]
Much was made of Ka Ying Rising being beaten in its first Australian trial, with some trying to have you believe the walls had fallen in, and the roof and the doors too. It didn’t quite turn out to be that way did it. KYR won the Everest. Overpass who was runner-up in the trial […]
