Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Grant Dixon drove the perfect drive to win the Wondais Mate on Leap to Fame on Saturday night. Dixon was smart at the start, letting the speedster Turnitup power out past him, and then using the space he left behind him in his wake to pop off the fence and land immediately into the running […]
Grant Dixon is faced with the devil’s dilemna aboard Leap To Fame from the 1 gate in the Wondais Mate at Albion Park tonight. Does he do what he never does and fire the champ out hard off the arm to try to get the lead? Or does he let the natural speedster Turnitup cross […]
Gary Hall Jr has been handed down a 5 week suspension for unnacceptable driving on Wildwest in the race you see above and below, with two weeks of the five absorbed into a separate suspension for the same offence that he has already on the out for, meaning that for this particular piece of cheating […]
Have you ever heard of the rule that requires a reinsperson to drive their horse on its merits, giving it every reasonable chance to win or finish its best possible place in a race? David Moran the driver of Roryville – the horse on the extreme outside in the blue and white – obviously hasn’t. […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC25062405.mp4 This is race 9 at Albion Park yesterday. Trainer Chantal Turpin has two runners in the race. Turoib drives the $2.50 second favorite Zena Rayne Bow, drawn in gate 2. Husband Pete McMullen drives the $1.75 favorite Duke of Scotland drawn outside her in gate 4. Zena Rayne Bow has early gate speed, so […]
On Friday night it was Leap To Fame who went down at unbackable odds of $1.04, last night it was Swayzee who got beaten at$1.08. Both red hot faves went down for the same reason. They went too slow early with a devastating finisher glued to their back, allowing the horse behind them to keep […]
I can understand the driver of the leader in this race Tom Ison getting a little bit preturbed at the horse behind him running up onto his helmet. Anyone would. But most people wouldn’t cock their neck and give the horse a reverse head butt like Ison did, and for very good reasons too, concern […]
It seems a bit harsh being critical of the drive of a 16-year-old reinsperson, but when they are the youngest person ever to drive 100 winners, and sit 5th on the State premiership ladder like the wunderkind Jett Turnbull does it makes him fair game, particularly when his steer costs punter hundreds of thousands of […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14062416.mp4 A number of questions arise from Peter McMullen’s drive on Antetokounmpo in the race above, which was the 8th at Albion Park on Friday night. The first is why McMullen took the 3rd favorite out of the perfect 1-1 trail and put it 3-back on the fence in a pocket instead? It was a […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PEC13062405.mp4 Take a look at the replay above of race 1 at Penrith last night, and ask yourself this question. Was Josh Gallagher on the grey horse driving to win the race? Or was he driving to get the odds on favorite in the lead beaten? It sure looks like the latter to me. The […]
