Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Take a look at the replay of the run down the straight in race 10 at Albion Park on Saturday night. Grant Dixon is driving the horse in 2nd place on the fence as they round the home turn, the one in the red, navy and white racing colors of Albion Park Harness Racing Club […]
162. (1) A driver shall not – (t) shout loudly, make any improper noise, or do or attempt anything which interferes or is designed to interfere with the progress of a runner; (u) drive in a way which causes or could cause interference or jostling; (v) whip the driver’s horse with the reins; (w) do […]
Look at Robbie Morris in the 1-1. Why does he only ever look inside for a run when there isn’t one, not to his outside? What is Morris calling out for? Who is he calling to? The answers are self-evident. Now watch Grant Dixon’s horse and keep your eye on it’s line. You can follow […]
This is race 9 at Albion Park last night. Blacksadance is the $1.45 favorite. Grant Dixon’s horse Governor Jujon has posted it in the death running two sub 30 quarters. Dixon goes 27.7 f0r the 3rd quarter to tank the fave. Then he does this. Watch his head really closely. See him look? If not […]
Layne Dwyer is a 16-year-old kid who has only been driving for a month, so it is hard to be too critical of him about anything that he does in a race while he is learning. Which is somewhat fortunate for his trainer father Graham Dwyer, who no doubt gave him the driving instructions in […]
Racing Queensland are lauding trainer/driver Doug Lee as some sort of legend of the game. It would help if the spin doctors knew a little bit of history. Back then it wasn’t easy to get convictions on animal cruelty charges. But D. Lee was convicted nevertheless. I wonder if he would ever have got his […]
There is one I missed when whittling through the list of the horses driven dead to get into the Regional Championships. Parked in Heaven is it’s name. I am going to show you it’s past two starts. It needed to lose a point in both of them. Here is the one two back. It’s the […]
Two weeks ago we tipped you into the fact that Rickie Alchin had deliberately driven his horse Soho Rhapsody dead in a race at Menangle in order to shed ratings points to allow it to get back to an NR70 so it could compete in the heats of the $100 000 Regional Championships a fortnight […]
SOHO RHAPSODY Stewards questioned driver Rickie Alchin with regards to the tactics he adopted in the early and latter stages of the event, whereby he was unable to hold his spot in the running line upon entry to the first turn and elected to steer his runner down the track upon entry to the home […]
