Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Little do many people realise it, but this year’s ID25 heats carry bonus points for the horse that runs the fastest last quarter, half mile and mile. The horse that runs the fastest half mile in each heat gets 2 bonus points, and those that run the fastest last mile and quarter mile get 1 […]
Wasn’t it lovely to put the starting times for the Mareeba race on Saturday back one race for Alwyn Bailey, after the trainer rang through to tell them that the truck taking his six runners to the meeting had broken down. It may have been a kind gesture by the Stewards but it was a […]
It was third time lucky for trainer on Saturday for Ricky Vale and owner Pav Cheimardinov when courtesy of a lovely ride by the Uruguayan hoop Raul Silvera Olivera they lifted the Rockhampton Cup with Logan Street Lion, after failing twice in the past few years to win it with their grand now-retired galloper Namazu. […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM05072510.mp4 What the hell was Adam Sanderson doing with his drive on Oscar Bonavena in heat 1 of the ID25 Trotters Championship on Saturday night? Did he deliberately drive the second favorite dead? Or was it just the worst drive we have in an Inter Dominion trotters series since Brian Healy got stage fright and […]
The changes made to ID25 to turn it into a two rounds of heats only series has come in for quiet but extensive criticism, as has the dropping of the round of heats run over a mile. We share the criticism. The allure of the Inter Dominion has always been – with the exception of […]
More than a month ago we warned you that there was something wrong with the drainage at the Q2 Lakeside track. After the debacle on Saturday night when the biggest meeting on the Queensland racing calendar featuring the million dollar QLD Cup was called off after just two races, are you now starting to believe […]
There are very disturbing rumors emanating out of greyhound racing circles about the state of health that one of the QLD Cup runners was presented to the later abandoned race meeting in. The greyhound – whose name we know but at this stage will not print – turned up at the track unsteady on its […]
The short listing on harness.org.au said the Rising Sun was a preferential draw based on age and sex. But the conditions of the race advertised in Pace magazine said something quite different, very different indeed. They said that the Seeded Barrier Draw provisions of QLD harness racing would not apply. The reason they wouldn’t apply […]
Archie What was Grant Dixon doing with his left arm in the Rising Sun clip you published in your last story? It was moving well outside the confines of the sulky. Isn’t that an offence too? Or is if you’re not in QLD and your name isn’t Dixon I thought…. Belle From Burnie
Night one of ID25 promised to be a team driving extravaganza, and it was. Here are some of high/low lights. Race 1 Tom Callaghan is drawn the inside of the back row behind the favorite and likely leader Captains Mistress on the Chantal Turpin 3rd stringer Checknoutthetalent. The obvious thing for Callaghan to do if […]
