Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hall of Fame member and harness racing legend Barry Purdon returns to the cart for his first drive in six years this afternoon at Alexandra Park. Purdon, whose last race drive was way back in 2019, takes the reins on his highly talented but often temperamental 3-year-old square gaiter Higher Power in the fourth race […]
Punters who are planning to take the odds-on about The Lazarus Effect in race 4 at Addington tonight on the basis that it will boot up and hold the lead from gate 1 might want to reconsider their maps. The mail out of the South is that The Lazarus Effect’s driver Bob Butt has done […]
Over the course of the year we have highlighted a number of driver by QLD leading reinsman Nathan Dawson that we believe raise serious questions. Dawson’s drive on Dragon is race 3 at Albion Park yesterday is yet another of them. Dragon began well off the arm and had a look for the lead, but […]
Axel Rose was the odds-on $1.80 favorite to win race 4 today at the Wyndham trots, and with good reason too for it has stepped away well, sat 1-1 early, been taken to the front mid-race and bolted in to win on debut at this track eighteen days ago and looked set to repeat the […]
We all know harness racing at Mildura has always been red hot – think Rod Weightman and the Cramps – and nothing’s changed. You only need to look at Jack Laugher’s drive on the odds-on favorite Wattaflynn in race 5 last night to realize that. Wattaflynn is a fast beginner, and from gate 2 with […]
I know there was probably nothing in it, and that she can’t help who she is related to or that her horse is a hard pulling mutt, but if you didn’t know these things like a lot of punters don’t, then gee Dannielle McMullen’s drive on the favorite Im Boo in race 5 at Albion […]
Fate Awaits started $1.35 from gate 1 in the tenth race at Albion Park last night. He got beaten. I blame Grant Dixon for that. Dixon drove the fave out hard from gate 2 with an average beginner inside it, but Final Deadline from out in the deep began faster, and one Fate Awaits reached […]
Well the mystery of how trainer Luke O’Neill was allowed to attend Globe Derby on Saturday night is solved. O’Neill can attend the trots because Harness Racing SA Stewards have put no ongoing sanctions in place that prevent him from doing so. All HRSA did was suspend his license for 6 weeks from the 25th […]
Watch the horse in the yellow and white, in front on the rail as the film rolls. It’s driver Will Rixon pulls it off the fence to let Cameron Hart behind him in the blue and gold through. Then Rixon turns and looks, and sees that Hart doesn’t quite have enough room to get up […]
Whoever said that modern day harness race driving wasn’t a young person’s game is either delusional or a liar. 26-year-old Cameron Hart drove six winners at Menangle last night. Across the border at Melton 25-year-old James Herbertson landed five winners. Up in Brisbane 29-year-old Nathan Dawson scored four. Gone are the days of the likes […]
