Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A lot of people are asking a lot of questions about James McDonald’s ride on the $2.80 favourite Delexo in the fourth race at Randwick today. Sadly for punters, the NSW Stewards do not appear to be among them. They asked a cursory question, and took J-Mac’s answer as read. Not everyone does. What do […]
I am buggered if I know who the horse trainer Jack Brown is. All I know about the bloke is: (a) He trained his first winner in 2013 (b) From 139 starters in a decade, Brown has trained just 9 winners (c) Jackie boy’s strike rate is 6% (d) On Saturday he raced a horse […]
Well in half a century of kicking around trot tracks you’ve seen so much cheating that you often feel that you are coated in it, so much so that you become half convinced that you will never see anything again that surprises you. But then something like race 4 at Newcastle comes along and you […]
This is Lord Bazalup. He is a pacer, but more accurately, he is a walker. Jamie Durnberger from Summit Bloodstock owns him. Summit Bloodstock is Australia’s larges harness race horse owner by volume. Ben Yole is Lord Bazalup’s trainer. Last week Ben was honoured by Harness Racing Australia with an award as the nation’s leading […]
Poor old Nathan Jack. He’s only been back in the game for five minutes, and a horse kicks him fair in the head. It must hurt like hell, but I guess he’s probably used to it. After all, Brent Fisher and the HRV Integrity Team have been kicking Nathan in the teeth for years now. […]
We wrote yesterday about the outrageous decision in the case of leading SA jockey Jason Holder, who switched his dirty urine sample for one that was clean, deceived and lied to Stewards, and then finally threw a positive test result to banned substances when forced to do a second test. In a disgraceful decision that […]
Jason Holder Stewards concluded an inquiry into the circumstances relating to two urine samples provided by licensed jockey Jason Holder on Thursday 9 December 2021. Evidence was taken from Jason Holder and written submissions by third party professionals, relating to Jason Holder’s personal circumstances, were also considered. After considering the evidence Stewards charged Jason Holder […]
Those tricky buggers from Harness Racing NSW have spliced the film so you can’t see it and I can’t show you, so you will have to rely on my accuracy and honesty here rather than evidence of your own eyes I am afraid. Trust me though, what I am about to tell you is 100 […]
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
King of Swing has just been crowned Australian Horse of the Year for the 3rd consecutive year, and quite rightly too. He made his return to racing last night at Menangle in a Free For All, and blew in the betting market from $1.25 to $1.50. Colt Thirty One has won Queensland Horse of the […]
