Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Poker players usually have something that gives them away when they draw the right card. For some its their pupils widening. Others bite their lip. Some touch their face, or tap their foot, or exhale. There are many types of signs, the trick is to spot them. Trot driver Pete McMullen has a give away […]
Watch the video above. Keep your eyes on this horse below. It’s driven by Blair Orange. Did you see it? Orange comes straight across in front of the horse on his inside in the green, when he had no right whatsoever to do so. There was no run there. Blair Orange forced it by slamming […]
Deadest drive you’ve ever driven? Bettorz Beach at Mildura last night. The long standing track record at Mildura over 1790m is held by the Joe Costa trained Beachstar, who ran it in a mile rate of 1.56.2 in a fast class race on Australia Day 2016. Beachstar’s early splits that night were 11.6 for the lead […]
Lucas Bucca is a 17-year-old kid who was having just his eleventh professional drive in the ten months since he got his license when he took the reins of his dad Anthony’s horse Okay Gringo in the 3rd at Menangle yesterday. So far young Bucca hadn’t driven a winner, so I’m told that he was […]
Oops, sorry. Luke Whittaker knocks over the $1.50 fave. There is something wrong about this race. It’s off, decidedly off. I don’t know what the end game was – lay the fave? nail the tri and first 4? exacta? – but the two tricks seemed to be to knock the favourite out completely, and to […]
The problem with young trot trainers who have early success in their career is often threefold. They start to genuinely begin to believe – delude themselves – that its their own innate magical ability to train horses that is winning them all these races, rather than the liquid in the needles that they are shooting […]
A koala is a protected species. Kangaroos are culled. The leading WA harness driver of the past two decades Gary Hall Jr is a koala. For reasons unknown the WA Stewards treat Hall as if he is untouchable, and must be protected at all costs. Emily Suvaljko is the brightest young driving talent seen in […]
RACE 2 – FARMLOCK FENCING ONLY AT DTS! PACE (2130MS) HEEZ OUR PERSEUS NZ (G. Hall Jnr) – Tightened and carried over the marker posts and raced roughly leaving the back straight on the first occasion. A post-race veterinary examination revealed the gelding to have an elevated heart rate and to be slow to recover. […]
This Stewards finding is a load of palaver. Theresachance is an old low rated NR58 pacer. They don’t run first quarters in 26.2 seconds and win races. Not now, not ever. It doesn’t matter what tactics a trainer tells a driver to adopt – once they are out there in the sulky holding the reins […]
I can’t quite remember the last time I saw a drive as bad as John ‘Lurch’ Dunn’s pathetic effort on the favourite Highgrove in the main trot race at Addington last night. Highgrove was drawn the backmark of 20 metres in the massive 15 horse field, and he is a dodgy beginner at the best […]
