Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Keayang Santiago had raced 57 times for trainers Margaret Lee (of Keayang Zahara fame), S Vasiliou, Luke Tabone, Jodie Quinlan and Matt Newberry and won just 6 races before it was sent north to the Bailey McDonough barn at Menangle. Since that happened a month ago its has won 2 from 3, and probably should […]
Can anyone tell me what Matt Elkins did different in this race at Albion Park yesterday to Angus Garrard than what Garrard did to Elkins in the race that we wrote about at the same track on Saturday night? It looked exactly the same to me. The outcome was different though. No action was taken […]
Harness Racing Nes South Wales paid correspondent Michael Dumesny wrote the words below that were published on the HRA website on Tuesday. I have never met or dealt with M. Dumesny, and have nothing against him at all. But what he writes in this story is absolute nonsense. For the simple reasons detailed in precis […]
It seems incredible how much the Chantal Turpin/Pete McMullen (pictured above) stable can improve hitherto slow horses that come over from New Zealand, and the 2-year-old gelding Aardie’s A Star which made its Australian debut at Albion Park today is yet another example. Aardie was anything but a star back at home, where he had […]
Hi Archie On the recent stories of ABR/Summit & TSR’s “break up”, i think one thing really needs to come into perspective. The absolute debacle that is Victorian Harness Racing. You highlighted it the other day when you mentioned the Ouyen Cup being worth $10k, much less than standard races in Tasmania. I have seen […]
Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock own quite a few horses trained by Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin, all of whom we are told will be leaving the stables and going elsewhere. There are a few good ones amongst them, but one is an absolute standout. Loucasso, the winner of 7 from 9 in his first […]
Aaron Bain, principal of Aaron Bain Ta It seems that the rumors of the rift between long time premier Victorian trot trainers Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin (TSR) and their Johnny come lately leading owners Aaron Bain Racing (ABR) and their partners Summit Bloodstock (Summit) are true. Reports are that 15-2o Summit/Bain owned horses are […]
Luckie Karabitsakos in a Melbourne Cup winning greyhound trainer who has had an enormous amount if success. He is also a performance enhancing substance cheat and a personal user of illicit drugs, which when added to his already volatile character makes him a hothead and a quite difficult cat to deal with. Justice John Bowman […]
Trot trainer Scott Garraway’s horse threw 17 positive swabs to cobalt, with some of the readings as high as 1300 ug/ml, which is extraordinary when you consider that the threshold is 100 ug/ml. What is even more extraordinary is that after his first positives came back from the lab, the trainer was given the option […]
The woman in the middle in the picture that leads this story is Maree Crabtree, the mother who was today acquitted of topping her violent, abusive, drug addict son by overdosing him with a poisoned smoothie. This picture is taken as she is leaving court after the verdict. The blonde woman on Crabtree’s right is […]
