Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The New Zealand thoroughbred horse of the year awards are fast approaching, so we thought it timely to put out 2 cents in about who might win and who mightn’t. These are just our opinions. But we are pretty sure they shouldn’t be too far from the mark. CHAMPION TWO-YEAR-OLD This is a really tough […]
Everyone’s favorite Woodend Beach based trainer John ‘Lurch’ Dunn employs the young driver Devon van Til (pictured below), or at least his father John and wife Jenna do, or anyway that’s what the registration books say. Yeah right, whatever. According to this article above, Van Til’s 1st introduction to harness racing was when Lurch let […]
What you see above is a Facebook post made by Jett Turnbull’s understandably proud mum. The story that follows is not about the kid, or his mum. It’s about the integrity of racing. Based on what Mrs Turnbull has written it seems that Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock are sponsoring the kid. It seems that […]
Why on earth the Australian camp kept Sam Kerr’s injury secret is a question that will be debated by a wider court of public opinion over the coming days, but from a gambling perspective it created a huge problem. Let me tell you why. In 2006 an injury to Andrew Johns prior to a match […]
So on Wednesday night a mentally ill disability pensioner in Glebe cut the crap out of himself with a knife. A concerned neighbour – a should be good Samaritan – called the police to save him from his demons. The cops rocked up at Housing Commission flats that he lived in – did live in […]
Dylan Gibbons rode a double at Warwick Farm yesterday, but Zac Lloyd pulled one back to keep the Sydney apprentice title race well and truly alive. Gibbons now sits on 72 wins, 2 ahead of Lloyd with three meetings to go. These kids are so amazingly talented that either of them could home a double […]
Jett Turnbull is the son of Nathan Turnbull, who is the son of Steve Turnbull, who is the son of AD ‘Tony’ Turnbull, who like his son after him an absolute legend of the Australian harness racing game. What this family family haven’t won in the trot game isn’t worth winning. I reckon they are […]
Re your story earlier about what happens to all the old or slow horses that didn’t sell at the Nutrien Winter Woolies auction, here’s a tip. Don’t just watch the passed in ones, watch out also for the future of the broodmares in the auction that sold for less than the service fee of the […]
A couple of days ago we told how the previously healthy pacers Eight Carat, Juggernaut and Steam Punk died in training on the Byford track. Well would you believe it Jesus has turned up and – mistaking them for Lazarus – raised these 3 horses from the dead. The Stewards must have known that the […]
Where have all the good NSW horses gone you ask? They are right in front of your face Archie. Leap To Fame is NSW bred. Funny as it might seem, his grand dam was raced by Kevin Seymour, who had to send his man down to the APG sale in NSW to buy him back […]
