Safety First?
This is the start of race 3 at Ballarat yesterday. You’d want to hope that the horse in the infield wasn’t a hurdler wouldn’t you? Safety first? Not at Dowling Forest.
Team Telfer Close in on the Purdon’s Single Season NZ Training Record – But Will the Winners Will Stop There
The race for the all-time trainers record is on as the Steve and Amanda Telfer partnership seek to break Roy and Barry Purdon’s 31-year long record of 168 winners in a season. With three months of the season still left to run the Telfers have racked up 137 wins from 642 starters at a strike […]
That’s Against the Rules Jockey D’Avila!
I came across this photo of rider Wanderson D’Avila in the jockeys room at Saturday’s Gordonvale race meeting while scrolling through the pictures posted on the Facebook page of the superb North QLD racing photographer Peter Roy. Sadly for jockey D’Avila, as well as being a great photo – my wife just walked past and […]
AI is Going to Change the Face of Racing
by Bob Duff New technology, such as artificial intelligence, is going to help race secretaries write more competitive races. Beyond that, it possesses the capabilities to do much more to make the sport of harness racing better, safer, and more entertaining. Software developed by 1/ST called Racehorse 360 is designed to make use of artificial […]
The Southern Region Wins the Right to Retain the Proceeds of the Forbury Park Sale – Auckland’s Nightmare is About to Become It’s Reality
About three months back we wrote a story illustrating the problems with Harness Racing New Zealand CEO Brad Steele’s proposal to use proceeds from the forced sale of the Forbury Park track to help the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) build a new training center and track to replace the Franklin Park facility the ATC is […]
Reece Walsh is God – Or Why Every Footy Punter Should Sleep Through the 1st Half of the Grand Final
Due to an internet banking problem (Maggie had changed the password and I didn’t know what the new one was) I was left sans dough to load up the betting accounts for a crack at the Grand Final yesterday, so figuring that the teams were so evenly matched that the game was too close to […]
In Fake Latin the Auckland Trotting Club Trusts
Out of a combination of idle curiosity and a desire to benchmark Merlin’s time for the 2700m at Alexandra Park on Friday night I decided to go looking for the records at the track. It started off pretty simple, as you can see from the screenshot at the top. The slogan was pretty stupid, particularly […]
Captain Ravishing’s Career Roars Back to Life
The career of one time Breeders Crown winner and beaten favorite in a Chariots of Fire at $1.15 Captain Ravishing roared back to life at Gloucester Park on Friday night when he knocked off WA’s best pacer Mister Smartee in a Free For All at Gloucester Park. Captain Ravishing, having his second start for new […]
HRSA Replace its Chief Steward With Two Blokes From the Dogs
New HRSA Integrity Boss Derek Cordick (pictured) As we announced first months ago Harness Racing SA Chief Steward Trevor Styles is off to Tassie to head the team down there after Neil Finnigan moved back to QLD to take up the top position there. Sound like musical chairs? That’s because it is. Styles replacement as […]
Over the Sticks
I don’t think this horse will be winning a Grand National anytime soon.