Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch the horse out the back in the yellow colors, the one drawn on the outside of the 2nd row from the start, the mark they call the unruly. This is supposed to be a standing start. For that horse it turned out to be a flyer. Since when were they allowed to run at […]
The disgraced New Zealand harness racing identity who was recently convicted of a child sex offence and shortly thereafter threw in their license will face the court today for sentencing. Everyone is saying that a deal has been struck to give them home detention rather than a jail sentence. It’s probably right, for the courts […]
Pete McMullen claims that he felt Turn It Up only challenged his horse Aardie’s Flash for a short distance after the first turn. McMullen was correct, it did. But what about the heated challenge for the first 200 or 300m when Noddy took on the fastest beginner in QLD and held him out, running a […]
Emma Stewart trained four odds-on favorites at Menangle last night. Extraordinarily not one of them was pre-races swabbed. Admittedly her Oaks winner Very Pretty ($1.09) and Queen Elizabeth II Mile runner-up Ladies in Red ($1.75) had been in the retention barn up to 2 hours before their races, but to imagine that stops a determined […]
I got so excited about the prospect of the gun young up and coming kid Tasymn Potter kicking home a winner for Andy Gath on Outlaw Man at her metropolitan driving debut at Melton tonight that I forget to tell you that she had a second steer too. That one was in race 4, when […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC04052402.mp4 My memory may be failing me as I age so I might be wrong, but I can’t remember ever seeing a horse run a lead time as fast as the 3.1 seconds that Wisper A Secret ran when he steamed across from out deep at the start to lead in race 1 at Albion […]
Two more horses lives were ended by a magic green needle as a result of racing incidents in Queensland yesterday. Ivanov broke down at the 4oom mark in race 5 at Beaudesert, and was put to sleep by the vet. He was only 4-years-old. Up north the 3YO Hopetoun Sunrise suffered the same fate after […]
The QRIC Stewards have started and then adjourned an inquiry into Angela Jones ride on Baller in yesterday’s Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm, and it is easy to understand why. Baller is a horse whose usual racing pattern in recent years has been to back in the field, and the now aged gelding had done […]
Gee Eagle Farm is a funny track. It raced like a Soft 7 yesterday when it was only a Soft 5, with horses throwing up clods almost the size of bowling balls. Yet winners were running Good 3 type times. Mishani Lily is only a 2YO, but she won in just 3/4 of a second […]
The hot mail circulating around Eagle Farm yesterday was that the night meeting under lights at the Gold Coast in three week’s time is dead, buried and cremated. There is not a hope in hell that the track will be fit and ready to race they say, and they will be calling it off this […]
