Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember Tiger Moth? He was the lightly weighted Northern Hemisphere 3YO that chased Twilight Payment all the way down the straight in last year’s Melbourne Cup, just two starts after running second to the high class Santiago in the Group 1 Irish Derby. No-one likes to talk about it, but the Cup wrecked Tiger Moth. […]
This is a video posted on the Woodlands Stud website. It is not a spontaneous discussion with Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon. It is a scripted, expensively produced short film designed to promote the sire Bettors Delight, with a view to encouraging broodmare owners to have their mares serviced by him. Woodlands Stud is owned […]
We are going to write at length about Harness Racing Australia’s new ‘Advance Australia’ concept paper released today, and examine the issue from both the for and against sides. Just for now though we want to alert you to the politics of the issue. Harness Racing Australia is governed by votes, as detailed in the […]
The Breeders Crown is a very interesting race series that tends to showcase the best 2 and 3-year-old’s in Australia, and sometimes New Zealand too, but it is hardly the great advertisement for yearling sales that it should be. 3 of the 6 winners of the three-year-old heats were bred by their owners, and never […]
Queensland harness racing trainer Wayne ‘the Ningi Butcher’ Waltisbuhl is a man who believes in hope. The Ningi Butcher believes in the power of sons of Somebeachsomewhere as sires too. Who can knock him on either count? Somebeachwhere is the greatest or (if you are a Bettors Delight man) the second greatest pacing sire of […]
A month or so ago I wrote a story questioning Always B Miki’s worth as a sire, and suggesting that the lack of success of his second crop of two year olds might suggest that he is just be a one season wonder, a blink and you miss it flash in the pan. I am […]
Six months ago all anyone wanted to tell you was how brilliant Always B Miki was as a sire, and talking him up as the next Bettor’s Delight. It was a fair call at the time too, for Miki’s first season crop in the US had set the world on fire, and their success had […]
It’s comforting to know that the control body Racing Queensland and its erstwhile experts on harness racing are up with the play isn’t it? Or not, as the case may be. Bling it On retired from racing in mid 2018 did he? Bloody hell. A fraud has been pulled on us all. Was that a […]
