Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Grant Dixon this week told Adam Hamilton that he is going to ride the rail on Leap To Fame from the inside of the 2nd-row draw on Saturday night and drive for luck, hoping that a gap opens up after the start that allows him to slip off the fence into the line. Dixon claims […]
I guess you are entitled to get a bit excited when you drive home a 40-1 winner. But did Kevin Weidenbach really need to showboat like he did as went past them on the line? All it makes him do is look like a mug lair.
The leader in this race was the odds on favorite. Trainer Tom Ison had 4 runners in the race. One of them was the horse he drove, the one that used to attack the leader unmercilessly from the death. It finished out the back after doing it’s job and softening the leader up enough toget […]
Travis Bullock was awarded the Bathurst Junior Driver of the Year Award, and good on him too. But doesn’t it seem a bit strange that a 37-year-old like Bullock can compete for a junior driver’s award in the first place? He is, but the phrase ‘junior’ is misleading, for it should be called the concession […]
John Stariha is widely known in harness racing as a pest. At Albion Park yesterday the elderly veteran of the sport once more demonstrated why. Just have a look at this maniacal drive by the man they call the Russian (even though he’s Ukranian) on Its Back Page News in the 6th race. Stariha fires […]
What do you think of this strange drive down the straight by Paul Nairn on the horse outside the leader? I reckon it was a wee bit red hot. Why was he looking around so much when he had a lapful of horse that he never let go? Why didn’t he let it go? The […]
This Steward’s report of race 7 at Albion Park is wrong. Isla Rochelle didn’t just shift inside the marker pegs on the final turn. It went to the sprint lane at least 4 and probably 5 pegs too early, meaning that it gained a 50m advantage on when it should have been able to access […]
So Shannon Suvaljko gets suspended for 12 days for shunting Chilli Palmer out onto Grand Couteau when (Suzalko) pushed off the fence into the running line right underneath him. Grand Couteau’s connections lose all chance of winning the race, the black type status and near on $30 000 in prizemoney. Who got the better end […]
Take a look at what Leonard Cain does on the leader here. Two things to know as you watch. 1 – The horse that comes around on his outside is trained by Cain’s great mate Jonah Hutchinson and driven by his partner Paige Bevan; and 2 – Bevan’s horse has been backed from $4.20 into […]
We’ve written twice recently about the ridiculous nature of the local push out rule in WA, the one that allowed Gary Hall Jr to shunt Never Ending off the fence at the bell in the Nullarbor and forcibly push Hot And Treacherous 3-wide for the last lap https://peterprofit.com/the-adjourned-inquiry-reconvened-and-the-cone-of-silence/ and the other the incident at Pinjarra […]
