Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 1 at Gawler yesterday served as another demonstration of the ineptness of the people currently running harness racing in South Australia, and why they need a good kick up the arse. Or so it seemed anyway. The race was a 2yo trot. Now anyone who has been around the trots for five minutes or […]
Brazilian genius jockey Joao Moreira slips back into Sydney to take three rides for the Waller stable on Wednesday at Canterbury. The Magic Man’s return to ride in Australia has flown largely under the radar, but with the spring carnival approaching and Moreira’s services highly in demand wherever he goes, this could be the sign […]
Isn’t it good to see the QLD Stewards hard at work with their feet up writing the race day reports? Nathan Thomas didn’t ride the Cup winner at the Cairns amateurs, but he did manage to pick up two careless riding suspensions in the one day, which is a pretty good achievement. Did the trainer […]
We’re told that the crowd at Flemington on Saturday afternoon was so thin that you could driven a bulldozer through the lawn without any danger of knocking a person down. Sure it was an abysmal day weather wise, but the low turnout must still be a huge worry for the VRC as it heads in […]
Malcolm Turnbull had only been recently elected when Zumikon kicked off his racing career in February 2o16. Since that time the until Saturday afternoon 11-year-old had won 9 races from his 58 starts in an injury plagues career that once saw him spend 2 1/2 years off the track before coming back to win in […]
In order to confirm or refute our contention that under CEO Matthew Isaacs watch Harness Racing Victoria is grossly failing punters and participants by operating a sub-standard swabbing regime, we decided to crunch the numbers. To do so we used the week of the Vicbred Super Series finals in the year before Isaacs took up […]
I’ve been following the trots for half a century, and never in all that time have I ever seen a betting market anything like what the one in race 5 at Cowra yesterday. $6.50 the field. Can you believe it? Some things never change though. The bookie’s we betting 126.7%. It seems the Japanese weren’t […]
Not content with having won more than $1.5 million prizemoney in Victoria and over past 10 days, Emma Stewart is now sending horses to race in Tasmania and scoop up stakes from the locals too. Stewart had 4 runners at the Apple Isle on the weekend, 1 at Hobart on Friday night and 3 at […]
CEO Matthew Isaacs claims that Harness Racing Victoria delivers racing with world-class integrity programs. If Isaacs truly believes that he must be delusional. Last night was the richest night of racing on the Victorian harness racing calendar, with 12 finals of the VicBred Super Series run worth a combined total of $1.5 million. There were […]
On one of the biggest nights of the year in Victorian harness racing, when the horses are competing to win $1.5 million in prizemoney, guess how many runners on the 12 race card were pre-race swabbed? Eleven. One per race excluding race nine, when none were. How many of Emma Stewart’s 35 runnefrs were pre-race […]
