Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On Monday South Australian trainers Sue and Jason Jaensch made the long trek over the border from Murray Bride to Hamilton with their former Team Hayes trained maiden galloper Hadar, and took plenty of the folding stuff in their pockets with them to keep them company on the drive. They unloaded it in the 3rd […]
True Grit was the $1.85 favorite to win the last leg of the quaddie at the Pinjarra trots yesterday. His backers started cheering when he stormed up the inside to gather in the leader and sail past him with 50 metres to go. Poor buggers failed to see the black crow sitting on the winning […]
It is during the last race meeting at Saratoga, and one evening I am standing out under the elms in front of the Grand Union Hotel thinking what a beautiful world it is, to be sure, for what do I do in the afternoon at the track but grab myself a piece of a 10-to-l […]
For reasons known only to the South Australians the photo-finish camera wasn’t working for the first two races at Friday’s meeting at Bordertown. As a result the Stewards ruled that the judge would determine the placings by eye. That became a whole lot harder than it might have been when two runners crossed the finish […]
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 […]
