A Mug Lair
I guess you are entitled to get a bit excited when you drive home a 40-1 winner. But did Kevin Weidenbach really need to showboat like he did as went past them on the line? All it makes him do is look like a mug lair.
A Tom Ison Team Drive at Tamworth
The leader in this race was the odds on favorite. Trainer Tom Ison had 4 runners in the race. One of them was the horse he drove, the one that used to attack the leader unmercilessly from the death. It finished out the back after doing it’s job and softening the leader up enough toget […]
How a Driver Can Still Win a Juniors Award at Age 37
Travis Bullock was awarded the Bathurst Junior Driver of the Year Award, and good on him too. But doesn’t it seem a bit strange that a 37-year-old like Bullock can compete for a junior driver’s award in the first place? He is, but the phrase ‘junior’ is misleading, for it should be called the concession […]
The Russian Gets Outed Again – And Does the Favorite Backers Over on the Way
John Stariha is widely known in harness racing as a pest. At Albion Park yesterday the elderly veteran of the sport once more demonstrated why. Just have a look at this maniacal drive by the man they call the Russian (even though he’s Ukranian) on Its Back Page News in the 6th race. Stariha fires […]
Red Hot and Smoking
What do you think of this strange drive down the straight by Paul Nairn on the horse outside the leader? I reckon it was a wee bit red hot. Why was he looking around so much when he had a lapful of horse that he never let go? Why didn’t he let it go? The […]
What’s Four or Five Pegs Between Friends?
This Steward’s report of race 7 at Albion Park is wrong. Isla Rochelle didn’t just shift inside the marker pegs on the final turn. It went to the sprint lane at least 4 and probably 5 pegs too early, meaning that it gained a 50m advantage on when it should have been able to access […]
Sujvalko Gets 12 Days, Grand Couteau’s Connections Get Robbed, and the Local Pushout Rule Needs to Be Chucked in the Swan River
So Shannon Suvaljko gets suspended for 12 days for shunting Chilli Palmer out onto Grand Couteau when (Suzalko) pushed off the fence into the running line right underneath him. Grand Couteau’s connections lose all chance of winning the race, the black type status and near on $30 000 in prizemoney. Who got the better end […]
Lenny Cain’s Very Lucky Day
Take a look at what Leonard Cain does on the leader here. Two things to know as you watch. 1 – The horse that comes around on his outside is trained by Cain’s great mate Jonah Hutchinson and driven by his partner Paige Bevan; and 2 – Bevan’s horse has been backed from $4.20 into […]
Enough is Enough – The Abuse of the Push Out Rule in Perth Needs to Be Pulled Up Right Now
We’ve written twice recently about the ridiculous nature of the local push out rule in WA, the one that allowed Gary Hall Jr to shunt Never Ending off the fence at the bell in the Nullarbor and forcibly push Hot And Treacherous 3-wide for the last lap https://peterprofit.com/the-adjourned-inquiry-reconvened-and-the-cone-of-silence/ and the other the incident at Pinjarra […]
The Big Bang Theory
The theory sweeping through harness racing circles the nation wide is that the dream team of Jason Grimson (trainer) and Cameron Hart (driver) is no more. The theorists are claiming that the pairing which together won almost every race worth winning during their partnership of several years went their separate ways after the Goulburn Cup […]