Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Night one of ID25 promised to be a team driving extravaganza, and it was. Here are some of high/low lights. Race 1 Tom Callaghan is drawn the inside of the back row behind the favorite and likely leader Captains Mistress on the Chantal Turpin 3rd stringer Checknoutthetalent. The obvious thing for Callaghan to do if […]
I wrote this the morning of the Rising Sun, but I never finished it. The “Dele Row leads easily and The Janitor follows it across” spruikers got into my head because there were so bloody many of them, including a number whose opinions I admire and respect. So I chickened out instead of backing my […]
If you’ve never seen a team drive before you have now. Race 1 at Newcastle last night. Darren Elder trains the 7 and the 9. 7 is driven by regular stable driver Blake Hughes. 9 is driven by Elder’s son Brad. Darren Elder’s daughter Melanie Elder trains the 3. Her mum Nicole owns it. It […]
First we had the selectors deciding that pacers like Birkirkara, which has never won a Group or Listed race; Hesitate, whose best performance is a second in a Group 2 at Bathurst; and Betterthancash, whose only black type victory was in a Listed country championship series; in the field ahead of Captains Mistress, last years’ […]
Jett Turnbull (pictured) is only 17 years old, but even at this early stage of his career the record setting junior driver appears to have some of his more senior rivals rattled. Mat Rue is one. At Dubbo on Friday night Rue drove three favorites or 2nd favorites in a row in races 4-6 against […]
The money was on My Ultimate Felix in the last at Redcliffe on Wednesday night. It was smashed from $19.00 into $4.00, and it was stable money too. Someone forgot to tell the driver about it. Or perhaps he didn’t hear them. Firenstorm was hammered late in the betting too. $51.00 into $8.00 it firmed. […]
Why did Peter McMullen seem far more interested in the progress of the horse coming down the outside in race 7 at Albion Park yesterday than he was in the finishing position of his own horse Saucy Dreams? Could it be that it was because the horse on the outside was his stablemate Major Fernco, […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
24 June 2025 Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards have concluded Inquiries that were commenced in relation to the provision of human urine samples to HRNSW Stewards at Goulburn on 21 October 2024, Menangle on 19 November 2024 and the subsequent analysis of those samples. On Wednesday 21 May 2025, Mr Rando was present […]
The former bookmaker Lindsay Gallagher owned pacer The Post Office was sensationally backed in the last few minutes of betting to win the first race at Marburg yesterday, firming from $51.00 late into $11.00 at the jump. The Post Office delivered by landing the plunge, but only after two extraordinary strokes of uncommonly good fortune […]
