Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Rod Croon is the CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club. The O stands for Orful, just like Dave Tua’s O on Wheel of Fortune stood for Orsome. Jamie McKinnon is the ATC President. Gary Woodham is the CEO of HRNZ. Together the trio are the three stooges, the clowns who have destroyed harness racing in […]
There is a real problem in the jockey ranks when you hold a TAB meeting with a maximum of 9 acceptors in any race on the card, and you can’t get enough hoops to ride the horses. That’s exactly what happened at Rockhampton on Saturday afternoon, when six of the horses on the six-race card […]
Another big race day, another big fill up for the cheats. There were 8 Group 1 races on the Grand Prix program at Addington yesterday. Mark Purdon’s stable contested 7 of them, and won 5. It won 4 from 4 of the pacing races, and 1 from the 3 of the trots. With no Merlin […]
After their stable’s rout of the big races in Australia and New Zealand on the weekend, we thought we’d take a quick look at the comparative season statistics for both the Mark Purdon and Emma Stewart stables. The similarities are frightening. Emma Stewart’s metro figures are straight underneath Purdon’s, and her state-wide stats are in […]
So how does this work? Paul Van Gestel – we will call him PVG – is the son of the gallops trainer Mike Van Gestel, and brother of the former Chief Steward Marc. In October 2020 PVG was a horse trainer himself, although not much of one. He had two runners that month at Hawkesbury, […]
Just as Bart Cockburn in QLD rolled over and sung like a canary in the ‘match fixing’ criminal cases that former QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett and his merry band of copper’s mates brought against numerous trot people, in the American FBI doping cases the trot trainer Nick Surick turned state evidence on his mates and […]
Have you ever seen a grown man cry? You would have if you were at Darrel Graham’s place last night when daughter Brittany was interviewed outside the Stewards room as the true realisation that Majestic Harry had made the Inter Dominion Grand Final washed across, and tears gushed from her shining eyes. Her Dad cried […]
GALLOPS BRISBANE Axe -3rd $1.85 Exo Lady – UNP MELBOURNE Squid Game – UNP Corner Pocket – 2nd $1.70 Falls – 3rd $10.20 SYDNEY Lord Olympus – UNP Shaquero – UNP Estadio Mestalla – UNP Invest $16.00 Return $13.75 TROTS 5 bets for 2 x 2nds and a 3rd. In other words, crap.
It’s not the stuff on the label. It’s better. Coming into last night’s final round of ID22 heats the track record at Geelong for the 2570m journey was 1.56.5. Act Now came out in the 2nd heat and obliterated it. The Tonkin trained 4YO ran 1.54.9, a full 1.5 seconds or 20m faster than any […]
GEELONG Race 3 no 2 – Bolt For Brilliance Best trotter in this series by ten lengths. Wins this and the final on its ear. A certainty. Race 4 no 7 – Queen Elida Another certainty. Will pick Mufasa Metro up and carry it. Race 6 no 1 – Torrid Saint Up against the big […]
