Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch driver Bruce Harpley on the leader here. See him look around on the turn, inside and out. Look at him pull the whip. Bruce thinks it’s the last lap. He’s going for home. But they are only at the bell. There’s still a lap to go! Harpley tells the Stewards that he knew what […]
Poor Emily Suvaljko. She thought she was home 20 metres out from the finish of Perth’s richest and most prestigious race the WA Cup, and in a rush of premature excitement she turned to the camera and the stand and gave the world the raised whip twirl salute in celebration. You know what thought thought […]
If you see Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor walking toward you down the street this week, cross to the other side. At the moment this bloke is just pure bad luck. On Saturday night at Menangle he drove the $1.20 tote favourite Tungsten Terror in the 4th race. It was a funny betting race this one, for […]
Gee, I wonder why the Stewards are looking at G. Hall Junior’s whip use. He’s the one in the yellow and blue one off the fence in the death. I suspect little Gaz may have breached the whip rule. How about you?
Well in half a century of kicking around trot tracks you’ve seen so much cheating that you often feel that you are coated in it, so much so that you become half convinced that you will never see anything again that surprises you. But then something like race 4 at Newcastle comes along and you […]
The track record over the 1780m at Redcliffe – a distance the best horses rarely run – is 1.53.3. All the best horses run over 1800m at Globe Derby. The track record there is 1.53.9. So Redcliffe is on paper 0.6 of a second faster than Globe Derby, but in reality it is at least […]
When trot drivers in Australia go out after the races on the night before the next meeting they get on the double coke and coke, the powder and the liquid, and the reason that they do so is because they can have a whale of a night and still drive clean the next morning because […]
Remember the story we told you a couple of weeks ago about a horse called High Flying Harry, and how we believed the Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator Olivia Jarvis – the partner of a lawyer who is friendly with the horse’s trainer John Dunn – had erred badly by not finding that the driver Korbyn […]
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
NEED YOU NOW – raced wide early and middle stages. Held up final turn and lost momentum when having to be strongly restrained by driver J Dunn just prior to reaching the passing lane and contacted a marker as a result. Stewards were satisfied that no unfair advantage had been gained that had affected the […]
