Dragon Doesn’t Pace, He Prances
Look at the way Dragon paces. He doesn’t. He prances. Now look at the explosion below. How good is this horse? He is not. Dragon is great.
Boom! – Akuta Ascends to Greatness – That’s Our Take of the Flying Mile Anyway
The Waikato Flying Mile is run on Thursday night. It is a great race, whatever they call it. It always has been. Look at the horses that have won this race will you? Luxury Liner. Christopher Vance. Ginger Man. Christian Cullen. Holmes D G. Young Rufus. Elsu. Mister D G. Bailey’s Dream. Auckland Reactor. Changeover. […]
Protest Upheld Phil Burrows – Sorta – Maybe – Not – Matt Anderson aka Vanderkley Might Even Escape Yet – Phil Burrows Certainly Will
New Zealand trainer Phil Burrows got sprung drenching 2 of his horses on Cup Day. The RIB put him out for 10 years. Burrows appealed. The appeal was heard last Friday. This was well after the Sheryl Wigg judgement, in which grave doubt was cast upon the legality of appeals being heard by panels that […]
Carousels Just Keep Going Around and Around and Around
Have a read of the exchange at the top. It is a query that I sent to the new Racing Appeals Panel on Monday, asking them to clarify the advice at the top of the front page of their website, which I wasn’t sure was correct. Mine was a fair question. All I was asking […]
Poor Alicia Harrison – What Did She Do to Deserve to Cop This?
That wasn’t careless driving. It was just bad luck. The Stewards should have charged young Harrison with going over the marker lines. She was good for that. Instead they decided to get stupid, and charged her with being careless. It was bullshit. What, did they expect her to have prepared and practiced for a situation […]
From a Soft 6 to a Debacle at Dalby – Welcome to the Gomez World of Racing
Race 2: TAB BENCHMARK 60 Handicap 800 metres Mr Vista- Slipped at the 500m point then bumped SUNIKI who in turn bumped the hindquarters of BONGANI which became unbalanced. Trainer W Bannerot reported to stewards that the gelding had returned showing signs of lameness post-race. A post-Race veterinary examination was undertaken with signs of […]
Bruce Clark Wants Us to Party Like It’s 1999
Racing media identity Bruce Clark has in recent times turned to trying to be racing’s sage. Starting from a false premise that racing is half rooted, each week in his Racenet column Clark tells us how to fix all the problems that we don’t actually have. It’s fairy tale stuff that happens to some people […]
The Rising Sun is Going to Burn Red Hot
The Eureka is the big talk of the moment in harness racing, and so a $2 million slot race restricted solely to Australian bred 4YO’s, with $1 million of the prize thrown in by non-slot holders should be. How good a rort is that? I reckon we should put on a 10 horse slot race […]
Nat the Rat is Back in Town – It’s a Shame For Her That Mark is Too
Natalie Rasmussen is in my book the 2nd best harness driver in the Dominion. I rate them this way. 1 Mark Purdon 2 Nat the Rat 3 Zac Butcher 4 Kate Gath 5 Luke McCarthy 6 Greg Sugars 7 Greg Hall 8 Blair Orange 9 Nathan Jack 10 Jack Callaghan Tell us yours and I […]
It’s Goodnight Nurse For Jarryd Hayne Isn’t It?
Jarryd Hayne might have bail now, but he won’t come Thursday when the Crown’s application to have him remanded in custody is made. He is going into the can, and he won’t be coming out for a long time. You can’t when you have been convicted of rape. Was his conviction right? A 12 member […]