Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This mass fall at Yarra Glen yesterday was awful. The driver in the white colors catapulted high in the air is Paul Weidenbach. Paul landed very badly, and isn’t in a real good way. His mates tell us that he’s in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he is getting good care. Our thoughts are […]
Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack was found guilty of causing interference aboard Violet Stanford to her main rival Pinnie in the heat of the Vicbred Super Series 3YO Trotters Fillies semi-final at Geelong on Friday night, and outed for 7 days. The Stewards pinned Cracker for shifting out at the 400m causing interference to both Pinnie and […]
The Naomi Kerr trained Prioritise eased out in the market from $1.60 out to $3.40 in the 5th race at Port Pirie last night, which seemed odd for a pacer that had won its past three on end at the stronger class track in Mildura. It didn’t take long to find out why it blew […]
The first at Albion Park last night was an absolute gee up. Matt Elkins on the favorite Royal Speech should have been charged with an unacceptable drive. What he did was a disgrace. With the Elkins trained/Narissa McMullen (his wife) driven no hoper Art Jester attacking it like a maniac, the leader Dangerzone had run […]
On the same night that G. Hall Jr gave us a demonstration in the Eureka of how not to drive a horse in a big race, Kate Gath put on a master class that showed exactly how to do it right. Gath’s steer on Catch A Wave in the Len Smile was simply superb, a […]
I always believed that I would go to my grave never having seen a big race drive as bad as Brian Healy’s slaughter job on Maori’s Idol in the 1978 Inter Dominion (above). But I was wrong. Gary Hall Jr’s abominable steer on Never Ending last night earns the Perth reinsman a place right alongside […]
Can you spot the latest way to illegally kick a horse in the hind hock to propel it faster to the line, as demonstrated by Tasmanian driver and Ben Yole associate Nathan Ford? Then look a little closer. Simply pull the cart right up close and push your heel down. There’s always a new way […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC15082409.mp4 Watch Danielle Veivers flog the living bejesus out of the horse in the blue silks with red sleeves This Punter Rocks at Albion Park a fortnight ago. Veivers hits the horse more than 20 times, most of the strikes using force generated by the use of the elbow or shoulder when applying the whip, many […]
The was a protest 2nd v 1st in the third race last night. Dougs Platter in the black and white in the 1-1 v Cya Art in the yellow inside him and behind the leader. Jack Callaghan v Josh Gallagher. Alleged interference on the home turn and at the top of the straight. Margin a […]
What the hell did driver Kevin Weidenbach think he was doing at the start of this race at Port Pirie last night? His horse Celestial Daybreak was drawn the inside of the second row, and was required to begin from there. But when the one drawn the pole galloped Weidenbachh decided to sneak into its […]
