Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A former Group 1 winning trainer/driver of our acquaintance turned professional harness racing punter – who we shall refer to by the sobriquet Jumping Jack Flash, to protect their privacy – has kindly sent us their selections for the massive Miracle Mile night program at Menangle tomorrow night. Just to see how good they are […]
Leading racing lawyer Wayne Pasterfield has set tongues wagging with his post on Twitter (X) that you see above about being restricted by a corporate bookmaker to making deposits into his gambling account of no more than 4o% of his weekly income. We are usually harsh critics of corporate bookmakers imposing limitations on punters exercise […]
A team of Stewards and vets turned out in force at the Mildura trots last month to conduct a surprise race night swabbing blitz. Three Stewards accompanied by four vets rocked up to the track on a Wednesday night and pre-race swabbed 88 of the 89 runners on the program, with the only horse that […]
Jockey Jason Maskiell has been suspended for 3 months over his poor excuse for a ride on My Schieller Wood at Seymour in November. It seems that Maskiell took our unsolicited advice to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, and in return the Stewards dropped the charge of not allowing the horse to […]
The QRIC Stewards team performed much needed without notice drug and alcohol testing at the Mackay racetrack this morning. Or they tried to anyway. No-one was there. Mackay is usually a bustling training center in the early hours before dawn when the QRIC team arrived at 4.3oam, but it was like a ghost town as […]
Here are two different views from readers about the Boort Cup fiasco on Sunday. It seems that there is more to the whole thing than meets the eye. Hi Archie, Just reading your post on the Boort Cup, perhaps stewards have taken no action against Ewa Justice as they belatedly realised the sprint lane they […]
It was back to the dark ages at Oamaru in New Zealand yesterday, when in farcical scenes an entire harness racing meeting was conducted without either photo finish equipment or electronic timing. Oamaru is no hick backwater joint. It’s the largest town in North Otago and is only 80km south of Phar Lap’s birthplace of […]
The cyclone has played havoc with the Queensland racing schedule. The dogs and trots are all off until Tuesday. Knowing how low lying Albion Park is it’s likely to go well underwater, which means we may not even race then. The gallops in the South-East corner are all off until next week too, with the […]
You need to watch this one twice to get it. The back marker is a horse called Efficiently, trained and driven by a small-timer named Des Nolan, with whom I am not familiar. He certainly doesn’t drive much, or I would be. I’m not sure if it was Nolan’s money or others, but Efficiently has […]
A licensee who was close up to the action at Marburg on Sunday has written in to say that he clearly observed that Neilson’s horse ALWAYSMISSINGYOU paced roughly in the approach to the start, and said that if he had chased the horse off the gate it would have galloped. The observer also said that as far […]
