Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
QLD Derby winner Major Hot was sent out as the heavily backed favorite in the 1st race at Menangle on Saturday night. The punters who backed the horse were robbed. Major Hot loomed up to go to the lead on the turn with a lap to go and wouldn’t have been beaten if he had […]
Keepcrackingjokes is a 6yo pacer trained (on paper) by Maryanne Laffan, driven by her partner Steven Matson, and owned by Matson’s daughter Dellareece. On Tuesday night the horse turned out to race in an NR up to 34 affair at Albury, the track where it had last won a race fifteen starts back in December […]
The protest decision in race 3 at Menangle on Saturday night was an interesting one. The driver of the 2nd horse Promiseland protested against the winner Foxy Dada under rule 155, on the grounds that it raced roughly and broke gait prior to the finish therefore gaining an unfair advantage. Under the old rule 155A Foxy […]
The horse that goes psycho in front is trained by Mark Currie. So is the winner. There are no obvious betting fluctuations that suggest the tearaway was a pacemaker for the other, buy if I were the betting steward I’d be inspecting the multi bets and the exotics. Whichever way you view it, this is […]
For the second week in a row we’ve had to wait 5 days for the Saturday night Melton meeting Stewards Report to be published, something that we in Queensland came to accept as the norm under Chief Steward Peter ‘the Plodder’ Chadwick’s watch, but is unacceptable in every regard. When we finally do see the […]
Archie Thanks for noting the Daniel Ganderton penalty, I missed that one hidden at the bottom of a steward report rather than being a separate enquiry as it should have been. Chief Steward Bruce Free ‘Ride’ had 3 misconduct matters to deal with, and he sounded like the old broken record on each one with […]
If this protest decision in the 5th at Mackay on Tuesday wasn’t a raw prawn left out in the sun for six days, then I don’t one that was. The horse in the yellow and olive diagonal stripes beats the one in the cream and brown on its outside by a nose. A protest if […]
On one of the biggest nights of the year in Victorian harness racing, when the horses are competing to win $1.5 million in prizemoney, guess how many runners on the 12 race card were pre-race swabbed? Eleven. One per race excluding race nine, when none were. How many of Emma Stewart’s 35 runnefrs were pre-race […]
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
