Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I have watched the replay of last night’s Nullarbor slot race a dozen times, and I still can’t work out what the hell Aldo Cortapassi was thinking with his drive on Magnificent Storm. I’m wasting my time even trying. Some things are just so mad crazy and stuffed up that they are incomprehensible. How can […]
We are not sure what the prominent harness racing owner and flower enthusiast Frederick Crews has said publicly to Summit Bloodstock, but gee it has upset them. So much so that they have given poor Fred the Khyber Pass. Blocked he is. A man who has win a 2YO Triple Crown in the gallops with […]
The hot gossip last night at Cambridge was that Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen are no more, and all is not well in what used to be the Stars. The All Stars. They say that Nat the Rat only found out about the new situ yesterday and was absolutely spewing, although given her avowed aversion […]
Stop laughing ya bugger, it’s not funny Melbourne Merv Butterworth is a man whose cups currently floweth over. He owns the elite class NZ 3YO Sharp N Smart, AND he owns the champion pacer Copy That. Some people have all the luck, but it’s earned not gained. Merv told me Copy That was a certainty. […]
How good is this for a sports bucket list completed? 1. Watching Rod Laver in 1960 and again in 1969 (along with Margaret Court) 2. Attending every day of the first ever tied Test in 1960-61 3. The first State of Origin in 1980 when Arthur Beetson entered the arena to the chants of “Artie, Artie’’ 4. Attending […]
The best thing about Queensland racing is the consistency of the QRIC Stewards. I just love it. This is the Stewards report from race 4 at the country meeting at Einasleigh Stewards considered an objection lodged by L. Morrison the rider of I LOVE ROCK’N’ROLL which finished 3RD against MISHANI REBOIUND being declared the winner […]
At the start of last year the CEO of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Harness Inc – the Cambridge club – Dave Branch was being vaunted as the architect of the slot race project that was to become The Race By Grins. It was Branch’s baby we were told. HRNZ programmed the race because he […]
Dean Elliott (top), and Flik from A Bugs Life (above). Twins separated at birth. Despite all the bullshit, bluster and bluff, it appears that one way or another Ben Yole is stuffed. That is blindingly obvious by the fact that Harness Racing SA CEO Dean ‘Flik’ Elliott is openly telling harness racing participants that he has […]
Back when I grew up in Geebung, if your dog bit the drunk next door who beat the crap out of his wife so hard every night that she screamed and wailed the Council would seize it and take it to the pound and put it down. Not the prick who took his belt to […]
Well which one is it? Is the Lyell Creek a Mobile Free For All or a Standing Start Discretionary Handicap? It can’t be both. The statement at the top was made by Harness Racing New Zealand earlier in the week. What you see directly above is the conditions for the Lyell Creek published on the […]
