Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The sprint lane at Ashburton starts at the red marker poles. Those black and white poles you see are part of the track. They are the rail, or what used to be. Driver Craig Thornley on the horse you see at the top has clearly and quite deliberately cut the corner. Watch. Let’s call a […]
This terrible accident occurred in race 2 at Menangle yesterday. It highlights the risk that trot drivers take every day, and the perils that they face on the track. I don’t think it was anyone’s fault. It’s just one of those things that can happen in racing. We hope that horse and driver are okay. […]
Nathan Rothwell is a young lad whose parents owned harness racing horses, but weren’t involved hands on in the game as trainers. He wanted to be, so he enrolled in courses at the Gippsland Training Centre and undertook both theoretical and practical studies designed to furnish him with the skills to achieve his dream to […]
Watch the horse in the bright red headgear, back second last on the fence. In particular, watch it’s driver Jeremy Quinlan and see what he does. Now watch the head on. Quinlan comes clearly into shot about 5 seconds in. Watch his actions closely. They are disgraceful. What justification in the world can there be […]
I write often about harness racing drivers ‘hocking’ – kicking their horses to make them run faster – for I consider it a cruel and barbaric practice, and one that must be stamped out by stomping down hard on drivers who do it. Would you run out onto the oval and kick your kid in […]
What has happened on the turn entering the home straight in the Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prix is nothing short of disgraceful. Chris Angove and his family had spent more than three decades getting their trotter Sundon’s Courage to this race. They’d bred him themselves, and they had bred his mother and his grandmother […]
We wrote last week about the huge disparity in sentencing the NZ Racing Integrity Board has been displaying in regard to harness race drivers who deliberately cut the corners or go inside the pegs of the sprint lane in order to gain an unfair advantage in a race. As our example we used the case […]
The Yaldhurst Hotel – known to one and all as the Yaldy – is a big favourite of the Woodend Beach crowd because it’s got a TAB and pokies, a beer garden where you can smoke, a friendly publican who never asks questions about why you go to the toilet so often, it’s a late […]
I gave Nathan Jack a huge wrap for his drive on Mach Dan, and I will give him another one for his steer on his Dad’s horse Just Hope in the NSW Oaks last night too. This bloke is a freak. He gets tipped out for years on what now appear to be bodgie charges, […]
You would go a long way to see a better example of brilliant aggressive driving than Jack Trainor’s demolition job on Stylish Memphis in the Group 1 mares race at Menangle tonight, and even then you might not find it. It was sheer genius. Guts, balls and glory. Turbo shot the gate, and then took […]
