Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sometimes you just look at something and have to shake your head. This Stewards report is two of them. How was Jilliby Kung Fu disadvantaged by track conditions? The winner of the big one – the QLD Sun, the very next race – came from exactly the same position up the sprint lane, as did […]
Miley Cyrus’s ex. Hemsworth. Albion Park r 8 no 8. Sits, sprints, wins. He’s double figure odds. Get on. Miley did.
By Adam Hamilton 10:43am • 28 June 2022 TOP trainer Grant Dixon thinks his outstanding three-year-old Leap To Fame is a false favourite for the $305,000 Group 1 Rising Sun. I wonder if trot writer Adam Hamilton ever checks the betting markets before he writes stories about them. This one published on Racenet yesterday works on […]
Scott Steele is the CEO of the Albion Park Harness Racing Club. Court 20 in Brisbane is a criminal court. What the hell is he doing there? I guess we might find out this afternoon.
I wonder why the CEO of Albion Park is banned from going to the races at Eagle Farm? You would have thought a race club boss would be on the VIP list wouldn’t you? Especially one who used to hold a senior executive position with the host race club, and was for years a permanent […]
The good news of the day is that Australia’s best three-year-old, the Queensland born and bred Leap to Fame, has finally received his invitation to race in the Rising Sun, three months after he should have been a shoo in to be the first horse invited. Given that my suspicion has long been that the […]
A month ago we warned you that the fix was in against ‘Clip Clop’ Kevin Seymour, and that his Grant ‘Moses’ Dixon trained wonder colt Leap To Fame risked being denied one of the two invitational spots for 3YO’s to run in the Rising Sun for political reasons. Well guess what? We were right. The […]
The NSW Derby is one of the great races on the Australian harness calendar. The honour roll boasts named like Vincent, Lenny the Shark, Smolda, Elsu, Il Vicolo, Courage Under Fire, Westburn Grant, Rowleyella, Rufus Youngblood, Rip Van Winkle, Paleface Adios, Peak Hill, Lawn Derby. Stars one and all. This is a good horse’s race. […]
Why on earth would you hold the launch of Queensland’s gala trot race at an expensive inner city rooftop function space, when you have your a number of function venues of your own at the track that you have just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sprucing up, and hiring them out is part of […]
Puglsey from the Addams Family on the left, Albion Park CEO Scott Steele on the right (photo courtesy of the Albion Park Chairman).
