Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nullarbor winner Gary Hall Jr, a great driver Cameron Hart sure is a slow learner. He made the same mistake twice, and it cost Swayzee the Nullarbor. We showed you Swayzee’s vulnerability a few weeks ago after he was run down from in front at Menangle. On that night he ran his second quarter in […]
Cameron Hart (left) with Swayzee’s trainer Jumpin’ Jason Grimson Swayzee suffered a shock defeat at Menangle last night, going down to Max Delight at odds of $1.10 after appearing to have every possible chance. Did he have every chance though, or was his loss directly attributable to driver error? Swayzee had raced four times over […]
Australia’s favorite on-course punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley – known to his friends as Wok – is the last of the diehards whose days are spent turning up to the track to chase the ponies and trying to turn a quid. Baldy is seen at racecourses all up and down the eastern seaboard, from Victoria to […]
It’s a most intriguing race the Nullarbor, on so many levels, one of the most important of which is the start. Most people have Mighty Ronaldo and Waverider coming out hard off the gate looking for the front, and Minstrel going with them and then crossing to the front, all in the first two or […]
A 23-year-old licensed harness racing participant from Tasmania was arrested at Sydney airport on the weekend after being discovered with more than $90 000 in cash concealed upon their person. The participant, who is a member of a long established harness racing family that is well-known on both sides of the Bass Strait, was detained […]
Driver Leonard Cain (pictured) should be charged with an unacceptable drive on Lostandfound in the last race at Redcliffe tonight and given stiff time. Lostandfound was the heavily backed $1.35 favorite for the race, and was given no chance at all of winning by Cain. He took it off the arm fast, but not quite […]
Some people in racing don’t seem to want to help themselves. Take for example these two riders photographed recently working at the Callaghan Park track in Rockhampton. Trackwork riders are supposed to wear high-vis vests so that they can be easily seen by others in the pre-dawn darkness. The rider pictured – – understood to […]
Some changes may have to be made to field for the Tasmanian BOTRA Novice Drivers Series, given recent turns of events. Things never seem to go right for Tassie harness racing. As the Scottish poet Robert Burns famously told us, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley. This is what happens […]
Central QLD stable hand (or trackwork rider, there appears to be some confusion as to which) Chris Wearne’s appeal against his 16 month disqualification for animal cruelty rule breach offences was heard yesterday by the QLD Racing Appeals Panel sans its leader Justice Kerry O’Brien, who is presumably enjoying an Easter break. The hearing was […]
Everyone’s favorite unregistered Kiwi trot syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald (pictured at top) is up to his old hyper-inflation of shares trick again. The Canary recently bought a moderately performed tried 6-year-old pacer named Star Magic for $8500 from an online Gavelhouse auction. He is selling shares in Star Magic for $1150 per 5 percent, […]
