Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Given that the we’re right in the middle of the high-profile murder trial of the same name, the pacer Teacher’s Pet was the best named horse all night at Redcliffe on Wednesday, and quite possibly the omen bet of the century too when it took out the 2nd heat of the Trot Rods. Sadly the […]
I have this strange hobby cum passion, one shared by few, and understood by less, even myself. I like watching Royal Commission hearings, or any Commission of Inquiry really. I find it fun, which is weird I know, but some people collect stamps and others go to vantage points near the airport every day and […]
Photo: Willie Lincoln on January 2, 1924 when he won by 20 lengths at the Southland Racing Club meeting as “Look Out”. A notorious ring-in case involving a well performed pacer Willie Lincoln played out at a Southland Racing Club meeting 98 years ago. The story began when Willie Lincoln was entered for a race […]
Pay your stallion levy or else …. Disappearance of the Tassie Racing Integrity Review Whatever has happened to the Tasmanian Government instituted review of racing integrity functions and the governance structure of the sport in the State that is being conducted by Dale Monteith, the Chairman of HRV? Submissions by the public and industry members […]
The McDowell family of Allied Express fame have put a huge amount of money into harness racing over five decades, and won some real good races along the way too. Through the Allied Express company they are one of the biggest sponsors of the sport in NSW, and passionate devotees of it too, not that […]
Alex Ashwood was training winners at a rate of 30% plus up until a month ago. Something has happened though. From his last 25 starters Ashwood’s won only 3 races. Is it just bad luck? Or has Fed Ex stopped delivering bottles from America with funny labels to Bendigo?
Santa and the reindeer brothers grim What happened yesterday when the Stewards allowed a race to start while a distressed horse was lying stricken on the ground stuck under the gates was an outrage, an absolute disgrace. They did it because the race was running real late, and they didn’t want to lose their spot […]
There is a Ben Yole in New Zealand greyhound racing too. His name is John McInerney, and like Chainsaw he is a bum who achieves results not by ability, but by sheer weight of numbers. That and cutting corners on animal welfare standards, and racing dogs until they drop, and then making them disappear. McInerney […]
A 29 year old South Island NZ trot driver today appeared in court charged with indecent assault of a young harness racing industry employee. A trainer for Woodend Beach appeared with him on that charge, two further counts of indecent assault against the same woman, and further charges of aggravated assault, assault and dishonestly acquiring […]
At Globe Derby on Monday a horse called Giftedfromtheheart was the medium of a nation-wide betting plunge that saw it frim from $101 into $2.90. The moment that the betting opened they started coming out of trees to back the horse, and the money didn’t stop until they jumped. For a moment no-one could understand why. […]
