Can You Believe It? The Favorite’s Galloped!
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=CH130123 Yes caller Auber. I totally believe it. Come in spinner. Thanks for coming.
This is How You Fix a Race, Victorian Style – It All Just Happened 10 Minutes Ago
There was a $1.12 favourite in race 5 just run at Charlton. It had been backed from $1.50 into the $1.12 early to distort the market. I heard a whisper that it was off. So I backed the only other 4 chances on the race, all bar one at double figure odds. I made a […]
The Huge Problems With NZ Racing – And How to Fix Them
In this article from the great Kiwi trotting weekly publication Harness Xpress, the ever excellent and astute NZ racing writer Brian De Lore hammers home the huge problems with the NZTAB that are currently sending racing on a fast slide down to nowhere, except perhaps oblivion. Our views are shared at the end. We encourage […]
Not Ideal – Will the Fave Be Allowed to Start in the Devonport Cup? – It Shouldn’t Be
If the Emma Stewart trained pacer He’s Ideal is truly eligible to start in this weekend’s Devonport Pacing Cup, then I’ll eat my hat. On fair read of the Tasmanian control body the Office of Racing Integrity’s rules and policies it can’t possibly be. Here are the reasons why, spelled out in clear terms. 1. […]
A Marriage Made in Paradise – Replete With 72 Vestal Virgins For Voucher Holders
The APG Board and Management would like to congratulate all the VHRC/APG Yearling Sales voucher winners. APG can confirm that the voucher will be honoured and will be able to be redeemed at either the 2023 APG Queensland or WA Yearling Sale in accordance with the specified T&C on the VHRC website. The voucher is not […]
A New Years Miracle? – Nah, Just Another Slap in the Face For Harness Racing Integrity, Delivered With a Smile and a Shake
The well known Sydney harness racing family the McDowell’s are no slouches when it comes to the training game. The family have won a host of Group 1 and other group and listed races with their horses over the years, including all the juvenile features across two states with their champion filly of the 1980’s […]
The Country Racing Year in Review – And Bush Racing’s Hopes For the Future
This article has been contributed by a group of passionate Queensland Country Racing followers working together as a team, as we Maroons are famous for doing. We thank the country crew for taking the huge effort to put it together, and publish or unedited and unabridged. WORDS OF THE YEAR: POC TAX Country Racing continued during […]
The Back Story of peterprofit.com, and Why We Swear a Lot – Or Just a Bored Ramble in Between Bets
This website is the successor to two that I authored before, they being archiebutterfly.com (in 2 different iterations) and itsnotnormalisit.com. The first was in its first existence a crime and politics site. Itsnotnormalisit.com was a mix of live coverage of Royal Commissions, written blow by blow each day as I watched them unfold, thrown in […]
Liar, Liars, Pants on Fire, And Wage Thieves to Boot – What Would You Expect From a Spiv Called Godfrey and His Little Boy Anyway?
Darren is a senior HR leader with deep knowledge of HR services, and a demonstrated ability to develop and implement best practice HR strategies and solutions, aligned with an organisation’s strategic plan. For over 20 years, Darren has been designing and leading innovative HR services, policies and processes. He has a background in operational HR […]
Grand Circuit Champs – Part 2
Keith’s on a roll. Good on him too. I love it, even if the folk from the Canterbury Plains don’t. What would they know about great Australian racing anyway? Blood hell, they eat fishing bait (whitebait) and reckons it’s beautiful. Yeah, prawns heads are too I’m sure, not that I’ve ever tried them or ever […]