Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Races 1, 4, and 9 The South Australians scored the hat trick on Saturday night. Three favourites beaten at 4-1 on ($1.25) or shorter, all on the same night. Crackerjack isn’t it? The first to go down was the Aaron Bain trained Kapiti Express, which only last start looked […]
While we are on the topic of the Parkes harness race meeting held last Friday, it would be remiss of us not to mention the madness in race three. I don’t know what experienced drivers Matt Rue and Mitch Turnbull thought they were doing in this race, or if there is some high degree of […]
Now driver Phoebe Betts is only eighteen and still learning her craft at the professional level, so I am loathe to be critical of one of her drives. But she has had 607 of them now, and this one is so highly questionable that it cannot really be allowed to pass without comment. We are […]
The whispers out of Victoria are that a formerly widely liked, respected and defended trot driver may be in more trouble than Flash Gordon, and it has nothing to do with giving up easy leads, hooking horses or having bets. People don’t realise the dreadfully powerful pull of the punt that compels pulsies (compulsive gamblers) […]
Sometimes when I see what the Stewards get all worked up about I begin to wonder whether I am living in a parallel universe or something. Take race 3 at Albion Park last night for example. Grant Dixon is driving the favourite Beast Mode, drawn the 1. Obviously from that draw he either wants to […]
What the hell did driver Richard Williams hope to achieve by attacking the odds on favourite Asterism with his $23 shot Famous Three in the 6th race at Tamworth last night? Was he deliberately driving his horse not to win, but to get the short-priced favourite beaten? It sure did look like it to me. […]
Arma Veyron is a very fast horse off the gate. In 11 starts in Queensland it has sped off the arm, led, and either held the front or handed up, with the exception of when it was drawn 5 and came across quick to the death, and when it drew one off the back line […]
Noddy wasn’t the only one who looked at his sister Narissa’s actions at the start. The Stewards did too. Narissa McMullen sat at the rear on Arma Veyron after jagging it back off the gate. She pulled it out on the turn, when it was far too late, and went a hundred wide. It got […]
Take a look at Darren Billinger on the leader Futurist here in race 2 at Globe Derby Park on Saturday night. Darren certainly had a good look too. He was looking for Futurist’s stablemate Breach the Beach, which was behind him. When Billinger spotted him he started driving Futurist on one rein – the left […]
You will remember the story we wrote earlier this week about the controversial protest decision in the NZ Cup lead up on the weekend where Self Assured was awarded the race after Natalie Rasmusssen allowed South Coast Arden to drift up the track to impede Mark Purdon’s line. Well take a look at this one […]
