Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Without a doubt my all time favourite event is this race. Gallops, trots or dogs, doesn’t matter. This true staying test and has always produced a field from the best of the best in Australasia. Look at the honour roll for yourself. This race is a race where champions have beaten champions. This year I’ll […]
On 29 January 2024, the Victorian Racing Tribunal (VRT) held a Directions Hearing concerning the matter of Ms Emma Stewart. Ms Stewart had previously appealed against the severity of the Harness Racing Victoria (HRV) Stewards’ decision of 5 December 2023 to disqualify her for six (6) months. The media release relating to the HRV Stewards’ […]
By Trenton Akers 01:52pm • 28 January 2024 The long-awaited review into the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission will kick off on Monday, with a steering committee set to meet for the first time to lay their concerns over the under-pressure organisation bare. Corporate high flyers KPMG have been engaged to handle the review, which is set […]
We tipped that Arbit Each Way and Chantal McMullen’s single lots would attract interest. Both did. McMullen’s didn’t sell, but that’s because she had a massive $80 000 reserve on it, which suggests that they are interested in keeping it at home. Arbit Each Way’s one went for $34 000, which was well above the […]
Western Australian buyers cashed up from the mining boom have spent up huge on promising horses from New Zealand in recent years, in the hope of replicating the earlier success of the buyers of star pacers like Imthemightyquinn, King of Swing and Chicago Bull, and were paying seemingly ridiculously high six-figure sums to secure them. […]
Media personality and harness racing licensee Brittany Graham presented three yearlings to the sales yesterday, and each of them looked an absolute picture of glowing health and success. Her Bettor’s Delight filly didn’t reach its reserve, which was understandably high, but both her her Captain Midnight filly and her Sweet Lou colt went for the […]
The International Federation of Horse Racing Authorities has released its list of the top 100 Group 1 races in the world, and we in Australia are well down the list. That’s predominantly because these Europeans who decide the order of merit have a huge bias toward middle distance racing, with no sprint races of the […]
You’d be laughing like Melbourne Merv too if you owned Sharp N Smart and now Just As Sharp too The best run of the weekend on either side of the ditch was at Ellerslie in the $1 million Karaka 3yo Millions, and it came not from the winner Orchestral but rather from a $61 shot […]
A reader has written in to ask: You don’t think the future track uncertainty had anything to do with the results? The last announced position from government was Albion Park shut March 2025, and Norwell is not scheduled to open until Oct 2026 (if it does at all). This has probably had a pronounced effect […]
Although no-one wished to become a pariah by speaking out about the state of the Ellerslie surface on NZ’s big sales race day, behind the scenes a number of trainers are blowing up big time. It’s the evident inside bias that has them upset. Every winner on the card came from near the rail in the […]
