Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 5 at Gloucester Park in WA on Friday night was a horror show. The second favourite McCardles Gem driven by it’s trainer Brett Smith was drawn in gate 2. $10 shot Cavalry Call was drawn the pole. Emily Suvaljko was it’s driver, and unsurprisingly she wanted the lead, for the horse had won the […]
I am not sure that I have ever seen a bigger hook job than Turbo Trainor’s drive on Stravinsky in the first at Newcastle on Sunday. At the vert least Turbo’s steer was the deadest of the year. At worst it was absolutely criminal. Stravinsky is a speedy type with a lot of class, who […]
Robert (Robbie) Morris is one of NSW’s leading reinspersons. He is also the Godson of the Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny. On Tuesday the 30th of November 2021, in the home stretch in the first race at Menangle, Robbie Morris hit the galloping mare Skyzclearnsunny that he was driving with his whip. The mare […]
This is the bloke you want to say g’day to at Menangle on Saturday night It was a big day out for young Lleyton Green at Newcastle this afternoon, with the kid driving a treble for his employers Dean and Kerry McDowell at the all up odd of $26.40 for your single gold coin. Not […]
Mark Billinger is a legend of South Australian harness racing. His whole family is. Dad Val fell in love with the trots as a kid driving a horse and cart around Adelaide delivering flowers. He became a hobby trainer and kept it up his whole life, even during the forty years he worked at the […]
Maurice McKendry MZNM (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, an honours title) is one of NZ’s greatest drivers, as his ten premierships and almost 3500 career winners prove. He is adornment to the game, a wonderful man who gives back to the sport that gave to him, and he is universally admired, including […]
In a lifetime of watching the trots, and attending every Inter Dominion for near on 50 years, I have never, ever seen a horse try to bite a drivers head off in the first race on the card on the first night of the heats. Never. Until now. Jack Callaghan, stand up and take a […]
It was only a couple of days ago that we told you about veteran driver John ‘the Russian’ Stariha being outed for a month for running crazy stupid sectional times on a leader in a race at Albion Park. Well he did it again in the last race last night. The Russian was driving It’s […]
Young Angus Garrard is usually one of the cleanest drivers in the game, and one of the better ones too. Not on Tuesday he wasn’t though. Angus had a real off day. First of all he totally misjudged his drive on the odds on favourite Couldntmisafalcon in race 6, hooking it out and around from […]
Do you remember the story we wrote a couple of weeks ago about driver Phoebe Betts deliberately shifting her horse out in the straight to release the favourite from a pocket and allow it through to win? Or the follow up story in which we said we bet that Betts gets a spell? Well we […]
