Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One of the most common questions we are asked the casual harness racing observer on this site is a simple one. “How hard is it to fix a trot race?” Not very is the answer, particularly when you have two drivers in on the fix. In 2014 the infamous now banished father and son team […]
Outside of the State drivers premiership, in which the energizer bunny James Herbertson leads by 36 wins and has at his mercy, the race for the rest of the Victorian titles is as close as its been in recent memory. Mark Pitt and Greg Sugars are tied at the top of the metropolitan drivers ladder […]
Champion New Zealand driver Blair Orange is smiling like a man who has just won lotto, and who could blame him? His son Harry has just won on Ilsas Girl at Alexandra in his first ever race drive. It was a pearler of a steer by the young man who is bred to be a […]
Just a couple of weeks ago the Victorian Racing Tribunal upheld a 3-week suspension the Stewards gave small-time driver Michelle Wight for persisting to race three-wide on a $26 outsider, when there was no chance of her getting in. https://content.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/VRT-Decision-Michelle-Wight-11-July-2024.docx If that decision is the baseline, then Steve Turnbull should be given 3 months for […]
Archie After reading with interest your recent articles about horses crossing the marker pegs, I would like to suggest that we should adopt the US rules about the issue. These American rules take the subjectivity out of it in nearly all instances. While we’re at it we should use their relegation rule for interference as […]
It is a strange protest decision this one. Kaleb Williams, the driver of the horse in the yellow and brown, definitely shifts inside two marker pegs in the home straight and runs over a third. That much is confirmed by the driver being fined $100 for breaching the rule. 163. (1) A driver shall not […]
Watch what Grant Dixon does here on Leap To Fame immediately after the starter releases the mobile arm and lets the field go. Dixon knows that Leap To Fame doesn’t have the gate speed to hold the lead from his pole draw, and knows that the horse who does Turnitup will take a sit as […]
Nathan Dawson drove the horse drawn inside of the 2nd row in race 2 at Redcliffe tonight. Rock With Nate was it’s name. It ran 4th, meaning that it earned more prizemoney than the horses that finished 5th to 8th. But it shouldn’t have. Rock With Nate should have been disqualified. The horse crossed the […]
The news out of Perth from Ernie Manning is that Gary Hall Jr has filed appeals against his pair of 5 week suspensions (with 2 weeks to be served concurrently) imposed by WA Stewards for recent unacceptable drives on beaten favorites You’re So Fine and Wildwest. Hall Jr is also appealing his conviction for the […]
Grant Dixon drove the perfect drive to win the Wondais Mate on Leap to Fame on Saturday night. Dixon was smart at the start, letting the speedster Turnitup power out past him, and then using the space he left behind him in his wake to pop off the fence and land immediately into the running […]
