Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was researching a story this evening about why the newly appointed Alexandra Park CEO Brad Steele was at the Creek today instead of in Auckland, when by chance I decided to take a look at the current Albion Park Harness Racing Club Directors, and lo and behold I came across this. My old mate […]
The Kevin Seymour owned/Grant Dixon trainer Path To Greatness galloped away from the stand in the Flashing Red at Albion Park on Saturday night. Watch. It’s the horse drawn second from the outside in the Dixon black and white checked silks. Path To Greatness no doubt gallops. You can see it clearly. In any usual […]
The betting market for the Rising Sun at Albion Park on the 4th of July is insane. Captain’s Mistress is the $1.40 favorite. I don’t know why. The fastest time she has ever run is 1.48.9 at Menangle, which admittedly is very quick. But if that is all she is running then Marketplace will whizz […]
I was researching a story about this year’s Rising Sun, and came back upon the past. Which caused me to ask this question. Have you ever seen a greater team drive in a big race than this one by Grant and Trista? Natalie and Mark pulled some beauties in their day, and so have Luke […]
While the absence of the champion Keayang Zahara and the no-show of any Kiwis takes a slight gloss off this year’s ID26 series in some people’s eyes, for mine it throws the race wide open and makes it an ultra competitive series with all the rest of the top liners other than Jilliby Ballerini heading […]
Can anyone tell me what Matt Elkins did different in this race at Albion Park yesterday to Angus Garrard than what Garrard did to Elkins in the race that we wrote about at the same track on Saturday night? It looked exactly the same to me. The outcome was different though. No action was taken […]
Angus Garrard is driving the horse 3-back the outside in the red white and blue. Matt Elkins is on the horse coming around Garrard three-wide. Garrard comes out under Elkins illegally and cannons into him, sending him sliding sideways from the impact and causing his horse to break into a wild gallop and lose all […]
I was saddened to learn yesterday of the passing of Peter Donohoe, the trainer-driver who for decades was a fixture of harness racing at both the old right-hand Albion Park, and then later at the present left-hand one. I never met Peter, but as a trot fan felt I knew him well, even though I […]
Dashing was the $2.60 favorite to win the 6th race at Albion Park on Saturday night. If he had been driven properly he probably would have won it too. But Nathan Dawson didn’t drive him properly at all. He drove the favorite in a manner that looked for all appearances like he wanted it to […]
The former King of the Brisbane rails ring Lindsay Gallagher turned 76 last week. But some wag told race caller Chris Barsby that Gallagher had turned 81, and got his to announce it on Sky Channel, which just before race 3 Barsby did. The announcement putting an extra 5 years on the old bookie’s age […]
