Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Until Friday night the fastest time ever run over the 2280m at Redcliffe from a mobile start was 1.55.8 seconds run by the top class pacer Manila Playboy in December last year. Then Leap To Fame came out and ran 1.53.4 in winning the Group 3 Patron’s Purse. 2.4 seconds is the equivalent of more […]
The track record over 2138m off the stand is 1.56.9, run last Saturday night by Bombadier Jujon. It started from the front and led, 7 runs into its prep. Colt Thirty One went 1.57.5 yesterday. He began off 20 metres, and cut the breeze the whole way. First up for 9 months. On a bog […]
Know how many horses were permanently exported from New Zealand to Australia this year, including one owned by the CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand? Around 50. Which is pretty normal for a nation that exports around 500 horses a year. https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/statistics/exportedhorses.htm Know how many yearlings are sold in NZ each year? Here is an […]
Two years ago the long time harness racing lover, administrator, owner, breeder and benefactor Kevin Seymour AM, one of the giants of the Queensland and Australian sport, offered the SA Harness Racing Club that runs the famous Globe Derby course and club a life line to save them from crippling debt. Seymour extended the club […]
We have received the other bits of the Globe Derby Annual Report, and we were spot on. They are insolvent, or all but. You can read as well I can. K. Seymour’s loan agreement expires in February. Unless Seymour gives the club an extension – and I can’t think of any reason that he should, […]
Only three horses in the history of harness racing have ever won the QLD-NSW-VIC Derby treble. One was Captain Joy, a brilliant juvenile whose record will always be subject to suspicion given that it was trained by the now alleged doper Michael Doltoff. Another was the out and out champion Courage Under Fire, perhaps the […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC25092108.mp4 You always hear it here first. Take that Bonno! You’re a clown. ——————————————– About five months ago I tipped you into the fact that Kevin Seymour AM’s little two-year-old colt Leap To Fame might be something well and truly out of the box. I was right. Did you see his run at the Creek […]
A week ago Kate Gath drove Catch A Wave like a monkey. Yes it was drawn the inside of the 2nd row. Yes it was racing all age rating 70-79 pacers. Yes it was first up. But c’mon, Gath eased back off the arm to last, and could have come around the field at any […]
Kevin Seymour is a man that people in harness racing tend to have very polarised views about. They either like him or they don’t like him, and most hold a view. By and large in recent years they have been against. It’s not because Seymour is an unlikeable man – he is certainly not, in […]
Prizemoney Increase Last 5 Years – (including breeders bonuses and payments) QLD – 65.5% NSW – 9.0% VIC – 8.4% Prizemoney as Share of Revenue QLD – 82.1% NSW – 49.2% VIC – 46.0% Profit/Loss 2021/2022 Financial Year NSW – $15.7 million VIC – $2.9 million QLD – ($7.3 million) loss See these figures above? […]
