peterprofitracing, Author at A Four-Legged Lottery

Elton Asks the Hard Questions About Nick Walsh Scratching Two Horses From the Same Race on Saturday – So That Some Unidentified Punter With a Crystal Ball Could Get Top Odds About the One He Didn’t

by : peterprofitracingJune 17, 2024June 17, 2024

So Nick Walsh scratched his horse Hell from the suspect race in Rockhampton in which one of his other runners Fine Shot was heavily backed because Hell hadn’t recovered from a virus that struck it down a month ago did he? The same illness that resulted in the so claimed elevated temperature that caused the […]

The Trots

Told You So Didnt We?

by : peterprofitracingJune 17, 2024

Two years ago we told you that the then 2-year-old Merlin was the best pacer in New Zealand. Want to See the Best Pacer Since Lazarus? We weren’t whistling Dixie were we? Here we are being provem right. Look out Mr Seymour AM and Larry in the NZ Cup. The Wizard’s going to take Australia’s […]

Tasmania The Trots

How to Get a Trainers License in Tassie

by : peterprofitracingJune 17, 2024

Published on Save Harness Racing in Tasmania I thought I’d prepare a guide for those intending to gain a Trainer’s Licence in the Harness Racing Industry in Tasmania as there are places available. You should be wary of any previous indiscretions you may have committed when a young adult, as those can come back to […]

The Media The Trots

The Kid From Fernvale Steps Up to the World Stage and Does Australia Proud

by : peterprofitracingJune 17, 2024June 17, 2024

Brittany Graham stepped up to the world stage on the weekend with her coverage of the North American Cup, and she did herself, her family and Queensland proud. I was going to sat what an honor it was for Britt to get North American harness racing’s biggest gig, but that would be painting it all […]

Integrity nsw The Trots

NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal Gives Cameron Fitzpatrick the Green Light to Return to the Game

by : peterprofitracingJune 17, 2024

Cameron Fitzpatrick was a star of the NSW harness racing scene in the early part of the century who by the time he reached his mid-20’s had won a Metropolitan Drivers Premiership and been awarded the prestigious Harold Park Medal, and was considered one of the top ten horseman in the industry. What no-one knew […]

Country Racing

That’s Not a Win – It’s a Slaughter!

by : peterprofitracingJune 16, 2024June 16, 2024

When is the last time you saw a horse on the flat win a race by as far as Uplift won the B.A.R.C. Cup at the Mudgee picnic meeting yesterday? That’s not a win, it’s an obliteration. They say that weight stops trains. I guess they’re right. It sure did stop the other two. An […]

Drivers Integrity The Trots

A Very Strange Race Indeed

by : peterprofitracingJune 16, 2024

https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14062416.mp4 A number of questions arise from Peter McMullen’s drive on Antetokounmpo in the race above, which was the 8th at Albion Park on Friday night. The first is why McMullen took the 3rd favorite out of the perfect 1-1 trail and put it 3-back on the fence in a pocket instead? It was a […]

The Punt

A Reader’s Lament About Betting Markets Being Slow to Go Up

by : peterprofitracingJune 16, 2024

Hi Archie What’s the go with the TAB & Corporates not betting on Toowoomba at 8.00 am on race day? How do they expect an old age pensioner to make a honest living? Ronnie from the Range

Integrity NZ Racing The Trots

How the Dunn Deception Allows Lurch to Get Around the Rules Illustrated

by : peterprofitracingJune 16, 2024

Back to yesterday’s about the ongoing rort being openly pulled by the Dunn stable in New Zealand, whose horses are falsely registered as being trained by John Dunn’s father and wife so that he can circumvent the rules about trainers driving their own horses. Well it didn’t take long for an illustration of the rort […]

Animal Welfare The Gallops Trainers

Old Sparky Wins Again

by : peterprofitracingJune 16, 2024

Remember Oakleigh, the nag with form of a dray cart donkey until its trackword rider hit it with a jigger at the instruction of the trainer to spark it up? Well those devices may be cruel and inhumane but they obviously work, for yesterday in Longreach the horse whose form before being jolted read 35: […]