Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How hot is the streak that James Herbertson’s been on this week? Herbie drove four winners at Shepparton on Tuesday, two at Terang on Wednesday, three at Bendigo that night, and another three at Kilmore last night, to make it a dozen wins in just three days. Not even his granddad Mick Clover could do […]
John Filardo is quite possibly Australia’s most unsuccessful driver. In the almost 25 years of this century Filardo’s had almost 900 drives, and won just 13 races. His record of achievement in the cart over the past 6 years is about exactly the same as famous Frankston racing identity Mandrake the Mug’s record on the punt […]
Take a look at this drive will you? It’s race 10 at Albion Park on Friday night and we are watching Boston Bronski, the horse in the Donny Smith colors of lime green and black driven by Adam Richardson. Watch what Richardson does, and remember that Albion Park has a sprint lane. See that? Adam […]
Racing on merits 147. (1) A driver shall race a horse on its merits. (2) Action or non action by a driver during the course of a race which prevents or impedes the horse driven by that driver from racing on its merits shall be sufficient to establish non compliance with sub rule (1). (3) […]
Josh Gallagher is a talented reinsman, there is no doubt about that, but more often than you should with an Inter Dominion winner you really do have to sometimes question have question his drives. Last night in the first at Penrith was one of those occasions. Gallagher was on the 3rd favorite Bara Riley, drawn […]
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 […]
