Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In January of this year the young former pony trots star Chelsea Prothero (pictured above with boyfriend Seaton Grima) applied to Harness Racing Victoria for the grant of a trainers license. On the 11th of January she was interviewed by HRV Steward John Packer, and based on her successfully passing the interview, on the day […]
I dubbed Seaton Grima the next Jason Grimson in a story the other week, and for good reason too, for just like Grimson he has a miraculous ability to take a tried horse from another trainer and put lengths on it. Grima did it again today at Menangle with a pacer from Canberra named Argent […]
The Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board has today denied Ben and Tim Yole and Nathan and Mitch Ford a stay of proceedings on the interim warning offs issued to the quartet in the wake of the release of the Murrihy Report. This means that none of the four will be able to train and drive unless […]
With post-sale purchases now included, the numbers from the APG Gold Coast sale a couple of weeks ago have changed markedly since I last looked and wrote about it. The clearance rate has risen from being in the low to middle 50’s up to a much more impressive 66.27%. Sadly however the average sale price […]
Last week’s announcement of the contenders for the NSW harness Horse of the Year awards has led many to ask what the criteria for selection of the winner is. https://www.hrnsw.com.au/news/4185/finalists-announced-for-nsw-horse-of-the-year-awards Here’s the answer. HRNSW RACEHORSE AWARDS CRITERIA 1. Only horses trained by a NSW licenced and domiciled trainer may be considered for nomination. a) A […]
The knockers are out with their knives opposing the sale of Rosehill to create 25 000 new homes where the track currently is a land starved, unaffordable city in which young people largely can’t afford to achieve the great Australian dream by buying themselves a home. Are these anti’s kidding themselves, or are they simply […]
Huge congratulations to Racing NSW and its Racing Mates program leader Pat Webster, trainer of the former Group 1 star Happy Clapper. Horse racing is a terribly tough game, and the pressures on participants are enormous. It’s the reason that we can all name a trainer or rider who has died from an overdose or […]
A number of owners have written and called in to ask about the new 1% deduction for insurance that is being taken out of their prizemoney, and are wondering what it is. The answer is simple. As of 1 January this year Racing Queensland are deducting 1% from stakes earned to support the funding of […]
This is the TAB betting market for race 1 at the Alexandra Park trots on Friday night. According to the experts from Tabcorp the horse Next Level was scratched. I wish the bloody thing was, because I backed it. It wasn’t though. Next Level ran in the race and went like a busted arse. A […]
Our story about the protest at Tumut that was lodged and upheld at the weekend has attracted a great deal of discussion, so we thought we’d do a bit of digging and find out how often such a thing happens at the races. The answer is very rarely, with the one from 1993 at Sandown […]
