Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It was only last week that we wrote about how driver Tim Williams was getting preferential treatment by the NZ Racing Integrity Board (RIB) stewards because his dad Brent Williams was a member of the RIB board, and by extension their boss, or one of them anyway. In that story we used the example of […]
Sometimes when I spot a blatant cheat in a race, my deep but healthy dose of cynicism about all things punt and racing leads me to look for the immediate dollar outcome rather than the one next week. That’s what I did when I wrote that Rod Lakey must have taken a First 4 when […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/ECC31052209.mp4 Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole brought two horses all the way from Tasmania last night to race in the 9th at Echuca. One was Machavelli, a 7-year-old rating 37 mare who had won 5 of her 43 starts in the Apple Isle over the past 2 seasons. She was drawn in the one gate and driven by […]
Well I have to say that I have enormous trouble believing this one. Mach the Knife is an 8-year-old retired light bay gelding that was stood down from racing in February, and hasn’t graced a track since. Steeven is a 4YO darkish bay gelding. The don’t look a whole lot alike. Or at all really. […]
Ciaron Maher knows how to play the handicapping system for maximum benefit. All the top trainers do. Which makes me wonder whether Gold Trip is only in the Cup to avoid the compression of weights, and leave his other four – Grand Promenade (53kg), Smokin’ Romans (51.5kg), High Emocean (50kg) and Interpretation (50kg)- way down […]
“I’ve got plans in place to expand my racing interests into Brisbane throughout the course of 2019, and have a number of private clients keen to expand into Queensland. “The recent increase in prize money levels has been great for Queensland and we will be trying to get some nice QTIS yearlings in the upcoming […]
Have a look at this race will you. In particular have a close look at the drive on the horse 3 back the fence in the black. Watch it closely over the last 100m, and keep one eye fixed firmly on the driver Rodney Laker. Why did Lakey do that? There can only be one […]
Matt Tripp should have the Edge Hill kid running his book. He knows how to count. The hot word from out sources down south inside Sportsbet is that the floundering and flailing BetR CEO Matthew Tripp has stuffed up big time with his $101 odds Melbourne Cup promo, and is under huge pressure from his […]
We have backed and tipped the last three winners of the Cup, two of them one out and Verry Elleegant in three. It’s a far more difficult race to predict this year due to the warped and somewhat weird handicapping. So we will try it in four. Here they are in order. Montefilia Without a […]
Last night at Hobart the State’s leading trainer Ben Yole had 37 runners across 5 races on the 10 race card. He won just one of them, in a race in which he had 9 of the 12 starters. Ben Yole is a brilliant trainer they say. Some people say Elvis is still alive and […]
