Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I wonder if this horse was anything like Gatsby Perrine, the first trotter than Tim Butt saw on his Harness Racing Australia funded all expenses paid ‘study tour’ to France a couple of years ago? Butt tried to syndicate that one for $400 000, even though it cost him nothing to find it, and the […]
Does anyone really give a toss about Verry Elleegant anymore? She sort of being Australian when Brae Sokolski started carrying on like he was T.J. Smith. The bloke is a clown. Verry E could have been a contender for all time Australian top 10. Thanks to him though she’s on no-one’s list. Good on ya […]
I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead. But I don’t believe in deifying people who have passed either. In among all the praise for the now deceased trainer from people in the halls of power, just remember one thing. Mick Mair was charged with the sexual assault of a teenage stable employee in […]
DIFFERENCES in what an alleged sexual assault victim told police when they first met her and what police then put in a crime report have been highlighted on the second day of horse trainer Michael James Mair’s trial. Mair, 67, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage woman at a Little Mountain home […]
I am not sure if the New Zealanders have noticed, but the past three editions of their biggest harness race The Cup has been won by horses owned by Australians. Given the prominence in the Cup market of Aussie owned horses like Copy That, Self Assured, Rock N Roll Doo and Majestic Cruiser, I have […]
I get very confused trying to follow Copy That’s program through a campaign. Anyone would. Ten days ago the reigning NZ Cup holder wasn’t racing again until the big one on the second Tuesday of November. Now all of a sudden he is racing two weeks in a row, tonight at Alexandra Park and next […]
You don’t often see a protest at the trots for interference at the 600m mark, but you did last night at Bathurst. It was the right decision too. Have a look for yourself. The horse that lost on protest is 3-back the fence. Turbo Trainor is the driver. The one that one is last in […]
14 months ago five of Tony Gollan’s horses were blood tested at the trials, and threw up positive swabs to Frusemide, better known as Lasix. Big Ben Dorries reported that the substance was primarily a diuretic. That’s because he is a bloody idiot. It’s really an anti-bleeding medication, one that is banned for use in […]
DON’T TOUCH THIS – Stewards questioned driver R Morris in relation to the tactics employed in the event, in particular during the early stages when electing to shift down to the marker pegs from a running line position. Mr Morris explained that, during the early stages when trailing ERATIGENA in the running line, he believed that runner was […]
Profit: And Pigs Fly The undisputed heavyweight clown prince has been at it again this week. I speak of course of Jason Bonnington, the man who when he is not falling off horses, kicking his bet homes like a demented loon, justifying juxtapositions and critical correlations in his near unintelligible rambling column on thetrots.com has […]
