Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie The whip study you wrote about yesterday is full of nonsense. The majority of horses in the final 100m of a race are tiring, and a 3 second delay in judging acceleration/deceleration is ridiculous. A horse can almost instantly shiver its skin if an insect lands on it, it doesn’t take 3 seconds to […]
King Island is not a very big place. Only 1600 people live there. Few of them are involved in the trots. At the meetings run so far this summer only four trainers have turned out a horse. Two of them are the father and son team of Peter and James Jakowenko. Shane Keeler is another. […]
The Kiama Blowhole A Newmarket style major training centre will be developed in close proximity to Sydney to future proof the industry and provide trainers with an opportunity to acquire their own training base as an asset for their businesses. This initiative will increase the number of horses in training close to Sydney and support […]
In late 2023 the trotter Melpark Magic was disqualified from its win in a race in January after throwing a positive swab to the anti-inflammatory drug Flunixin. That sounds pretty standard, except for just one thing. According to the official Harness Racing Australia records which are based on information provided by the States the horse […]
Riverina based trot trainer Phillip Martin has been disqualified for 9 years after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the powerful anaesthetic 3-hydroxybupivacaine after a recent win at Albury. Mr Martin is obviously a slow learner. It was his sixth positive swab. If brains were dollars some people would be bankrupt. Phillip Martin would […]
One of punters biggest bugbears is the scale of deductions for scratchings. Different wagering service provider (WSP – once upon a time we used to call them bookies) apply different deductions when a horse is late scratched, with the number of cents in the dollar taken from the face value of tickets seemingly left to […]
Racehorse registrations Australia Ten years ago there were 11 460 thoroughbred foals registered across Australia. Today there are 10 644 That’s a 7.1 decrease across the nation in just a decade. The decline would been much more pronounced had Victoria not increased its breeding numbers by 3.8%. Here are the reductions and increases in the […]
I almost fell off my chair yesterday morning after seeing that the bookies were betting $2.55 about Novak Djokovic beating Carlos Alcaraz. It was the overlay of the century The Joker has an outstanding record un hard courts, having won 71 of his 99 titles on the surfaces. Coming into last night’s match Djokovic boasted […]
According to Racing NSW’s Strategic Plan owning a racehorse trained in the city costs $70 000 a year, a figure that I know from having owned horses myself to be pretty much right. That’s as much as the average Australian earns, with the Bureau of Statistics revealing that the median pre-tax wage for workers is […]
Whip use in all equine sports continues to be a hot topic for regulators and welfare advocates. Researchers in Sweden wondered whether the use of the whip in harness racing there actually accomplishes part of its purpose in encouraging horses to run faster. In a study published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Animal […]
