Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jack Chapple just turned sixteen. On the day he did, he applied for his junior trot driving license, before he even opened his presents. This is a kid who lives, breathes and eats harness racing. He calls races, he studies videos and does form, he works horses with his dad before school, and mucks out […]
This time last year Anthony Butt was driving Copy That in the Rising Sun, and driving winners at a rate of 1 in 4. Things have dropped off a little since then*. Ants strike rate is now just 11.4%, less than half of what it had been over the previous two seasons. He hasn’t got […]
The 6th at Albion Park last night had 8 starters, but it was always going to be a 2 horse race. Cover Girl was drawn the one and driven by Luke McCarthy. It blew from $1.60 out to $2.10. Dangerzone was out in the 5, and steered by Brendan Barnes. It firmed from $2.30 into […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/BNC05062204.mp4 Have a look at this. It’s race 7 at Bendigo on Sunday night, the one in which Cracker Jack drove the heavily backed horse in to win. Watch the start. Cracker’s on the horse on the outside of the 2nd row. Taylor French is driving number 7, the one in black on the outside […]
There is a bit of a problem with how race 7 at Albion Park on Friday was run. A lot of a problem actually. Trainer Dan Russell had 2 horses in the race. One was Sharp Shooter, driven by Matt Elkins. The other was Heartbreak, driven by his ever loving spouse Narissa McMullen. Sharp Shooter […]
Watch what Dylan Edgerton-Green does on the horse on the leader’s back. You can’t do that. It’s mad, bad and dangerous you know, and a huge violation of the rules. This bloke should not better. Actually, he does. I strongly suspect Dylan Edgerton-Green is about to be sent on an early winter’s holiday. If he […]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe Sydney’s leading reinsman Cameron Hart tried very hard on the new addition to the J. Grimson stable Brevity in this race. In fact it’s my opinion that he didn’t really try at all. Brevity is the one back in last place in the blue and gold […]
Young driver Phoebe Betts has breached the rules quite a few times in recent months. At first I just put it down to inexperience and youthful enthusiasm, but it just keeps happening so often that now I’m no longer sure. Betts escaped a suspension for hocking last week when the camera angles supposedly couldn’t display […]
Yesterday we published an article critical of both driver Shannon Suvaljko’s winning salute on Caveman in a race at Gloucester Park on Friday night, and of the Stewards for not taking action against him. At the time we were unaware of the circumstances of the salute, they being that Suvaljko had just been informed that […]
You may find this hard to believe, but it is true. Whether it’s straight and true is another question all together. At his past 51 drives for the Emma Stewart stable, reinsman Mark Pitt has driven 38 winners. That’s a winning strike rate of 75%, or three of every four. This isn’t a fluke streak; […]
