Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Victoria Derby is a notoriously hard race to pick the winner of a month out, but after what we saw yesterday in the 1800m Super Impose Stakes this year looks to be different. Arabian Prince is the one. This Mick Kent Sr trained galloper was having only its second start in the Super Impose […]
Teenage Class B trainer Ella Brechin, the most obvious fast bowler since Dennis Lillee strode the scene, landed a treble at Globe Derby last night. Each of the winners was formerly trained by the captain she bowls for, accused drug trafficker Luke O’Neill, whose did not seek to renew his license after being released from […]
Jamie Melham is being bagged all over the place for her ride on Gilded Water in the Bart Cummings at Flemington yesterday, but I reckon you have to feel sorry for her really. Melham was riding to instructions by going to the front, but how could she have known that once she got there the […]
Just when you think you’ve seen it, you see this. It was the favorite. It got worse. Despite doing everything he could to throw the race away the favorite won. Hung on by a nose it did. The win didn’t last long. It galloped over the line while the other lapped it. That’s a relegation […]
Do you remember we warned you a while back about the corporate bookie ZBet, and how they were supposed to have been not paying winning punters their dough? Well the bookie has gone now and the company has folded. ZBet and the other two names it’s known by, Zoo Entertainment and Razoo Ent. They are […]
There is some great harness racing this weekend on both sides of the Tasman, with all the big guns on show. The first of them is the 4th heat of the Woodlands Sires Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings at Addington, run from the mobile over 1980m. Here is our take on it,= This may […]
As a result of a dispute over whether or not there was a leader bias at Mooney Valley last Saturday – I said there wasn’t, the Doctor said there was – that escalated well beyond its importance, there are no Nude tips for Flemington this weekend. Hopefully that situation may rectify itself some time soon. […]
Powder Puff looks to sweet to be the kind of hoop who would punch a horse, doesn’t she? Queensland jockey Ceejay ‘Powder Puff’ Graham has been suspended for a week after pleading guilty to an improper action at Caloundra last Sunday. Graham – who has been out of form this season sitting outside the top […]
Kiwi trainer Scott Dickson pulled off a massive plunge in the last race at Cambridge this evening with Melton Mogul, which was backed from $51.oo into $7.50 with bookmakers on both sides of the Tasman and landed the prize. Media Mogul came into the race with the form of a three-legged camel with a record […]
Story by Garrick Knight, Harness Xpress New Zealand’s export market is facing a strong headwind at present and latest projections have us on track to record the lowest numbers since records began. According to HRNZ, there were only 230 horses cleared out of the country by the end of September, and that is projected to […]
