Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Take a look at the drive of Brad Williamson on the favorite Cracker Opie in this race at Oamaru on Wednesday. It’s the horse in the 1-1 when the video starts, in white silks with blue and red arm bands. How hard do you reckon Williamson was trying to win? Not at all is the […]
Two prominent NZ harness racing identities* were yesterday convicted of criminal offences. One of the men is a trainer who is currently unlicensed, despite completing his disqualification for race day doping . He has been found guilty on three counts stemming from a sexual assault of a woman. The other man is a driver who […]
Kiwi junior driver David Anderson was outed for a month on Sunday for failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to give his horse Bobbie’s Rock its best chance of winning race 10 at Forbury Park. It was the wrong offence. Anderson should have been charged with Slaughter. Bobbie’s Rock was the favorite in […]
Hopple shorteners – are controlled by the driver and he/she may shorten the early length of stride the horse may take in the first strides from a standing start or mobile start to help eliminate the possibility of the horse going into a full stretch gallop and losing all chance. When the driver is content that […]
Far be it for me to question Queensland’s leading reinsman Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen about his driving tactics in races, but please allow me the indulgence of doing so on this one occasion. My question relates to the race in replay above, and it is this. How far would the favorite Aardies Money have won race […]
This is the race that was the catalyst for the QRIC Stewards seizing Nathan Dawson’s phone. It is race 2 at Marburg on the 7th of April 2024, run over the sprint distance of 1850m. Dawson is driving the odds-on favorite Kiwi Royalty trained by Trent Hodges. Kiwi Royalty is drawn the 1, and is […]
People are saying that the QRIC have seized trot driver Nathan Dawson’s phone. I couldn’t imagine why. There is an older driver who probably could. We will wait, watch and see.
This is a marketing exercise as much as anything, need to attract young people. Angus is the hometown “young gun”, and Carter is very smart at marketing, and marketable, made a big impression in the US a few months ago, Blair might be the established driver but he doesn’t have what Carter has when it […]
The Field Yannick Gingras (Bain/Summit) Dexter Dunn (Ladbrokes) Kate Gath (Gath Racing) Nathan Dawson (First Over Crush) Angus Garrard (Garrards) Bjorn Goop (Tumby Park) Carter Dalgety (N40/Boys Get Paid) Gary Hall Jr (Gloucester Park) Brad Hewitt (Triple Play) VACANT (Unharnessed Hawks) Random thoughts. Angus Garrard’s family have purchased his place in the field by buying […]
Do you remember the story ‘Taking The Piss’ that we wrote a few weeks back about driver Jack Brown and the switched urine sample at Goulburn? Taking the Piss – Jacko Stooges the Stewards by Pulling the Old Switcheroo Well we didn’t name the fellow driver who provided Brown with a sample of their urine […]
