Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It was Boort Cup day on Sunday, and a great day of harness racing it was in the main indeed. But there were two major blights on an otherwise fantastic card. Races 6 and 8. Each was run for prizemoney of a miserable $4000, with just $2000 to the winner. The worst races at Burnie […]
If there is one thing in this life that I hate, it’s being taken for a f**king idiot. Call me crazy, call me mad, call me a total idiot if you like, and you won’t be far wrong on any count. Just don’t call me stupid, because I am not. Even if the HRV Stewards […]
Hey Archie I can understand why WA doesn’t want to use the national ratings system. It’s an absolute joke. The worst thing I have seen enforced on the industry in my time. Not one trainer likes it or wants it. It’s killing the industry. Written by a World Famous Trainer
Remember we tipped you a couple of months ago that one of Jason Grimson’s horses had thrown a positive swab? Well the jungle drums are beating louder and louder that its true, although presently we have been unable to confirm it. We don’t what horse it, is or what the substance or drug may be, […]
A gold star to the HRV Stewards for smarts. They keep the two greatest champions of the modern era under all day watch, but don’t do the same to any of Jason Grimson or Emma Stewart’s. I get that they were trying to protect their employer’s bonus, but as HRV have told us a million […]
So Jason Lee drove two horses in the Southern Star final last night, and Glen Craven drove a pair too. It would be a bloody amazing feat wouldn’t it? So would Harness Racing Australia getting it right. No need to be accurate. It was only a Group 1. Puh-lease.
There was huge controversy after the Hunter Cup when the judge declared Leap To Fame ran second. The Kiwis in the Republican Party team objected. Who could blame them? Their horse looked to the naked eye to have run second for sure. It went to the Stewards room. Finally after a long delay the stipes […]
I’ve known James Herbertson’s grandfather Geoff ‘Mick’ Clover for donkey’s years, way back to the days when my Mum and Dad used to have a beer with him after the Albion Park trots with him when I was a kid, and I love the bloke. The reason why is because he was (and remains) a […]
Leap To Fame is magic, because he has brought people back to harness racing, who for a long time have been lost. Immediately after Larry’s magnificent win in the Cranbourne Cup I received a barrage of messages, many of them from gallops and greyhound people who wouldn’t have watched a trot race for years. They […]
Archie and I have been discussing lately how epic the talent that’s here and NZ. It’s truly an era my romanticism recognises from 40 plus years ago. I have always had Popular Alm on a pedestal and make no apologies for it. There were probably better horses in the last 40 years so I’m not […]
