Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The theory sweeping through harness racing circles the nation wide is that the dream team of Jason Grimson (trainer) and Cameron Hart (driver) is no more. The theorists are claiming that the pairing which together won almost every race worth winning during their partnership of several years went their separate ways after the Goulburn Cup […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
Watch the horse out the back in the yellow colors, the one drawn on the outside of the 2nd row from the start, the mark they call the unruly. This is supposed to be a standing start. For that horse it turned out to be a flyer. Since when were they allowed to run at […]
Pete McMullen claims that he felt Turn It Up only challenged his horse Aardie’s Flash for a short distance after the first turn. McMullen was correct, it did. But what about the heated challenge for the first 200 or 300m when Noddy took on the fastest beginner in QLD and held him out, running a […]
