Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
peterprofit.com welcomes the news of the appointment of journalist and Racing QLD executive manager of Communications and Corporate Affairs Richard Goodbody as the replacement for Andrew Kelly in the role of CEO of Harness Racing Australia. We don’t know a lot about Richard, but those who have worked with him at RQ and at the […]
It didn’t seem to attract the interest of the mainstream racing media, but we were intrigued about the distance of the King Charles III at Randwick on Saturday being 1609m rather than the traditional (but wrongly calculated) 1600m of the famous Randwick mile that the race was run over last year, and that is used […]
We wrote a couple of days ago about how disappointed we were that the standard of Stewarding at the trots in QLD hadn’t improved since Neil Finnigan assumed the role of Chief Steward, and the total inaction taken about a number of horses that galloped at yesterday’s Marburg all trot meeting reinforces our fears. Let […]
Hey Archie Any chance the Canary’d latest syndicate horse Smackdown has a wind problem? One that requires a throat operation? They’re betting $1.10 about it out where I come from. https://peterprofit.com/?s=smackdown I guess you were wondering why the Canary marketed it for sale without providing interested buyers with a veterinary report. Well wonder no more. […]
60 percent of the Everest crowd were under 26. 95 percent of the Auckland Trotting Club members are over 70. The person charged with bringing young ones to the trots has failed,. Courtney Mackinnon – the Fairy Princess – is by all reports a lovely young woman, but is surely overpaid at $25k a year […]
Three years ago Mufasa Metro ran 1.57.4 to beat the great Just Believe over 2190m at Maryborough. Later that year he ran 4th to the champion in the Inter-Dominion final. Four months later Mufasa Metro won the Scotch Notch, and at the end of 2023 he ran Just Believe to a length when finishing runner-up […]
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 […]
