Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I must admit to being initially sceptical about Harness Racing NSW’s decision to throw a potential million dollars in bonus money at the Carnival of Cups, wondering if the million have been better spent on integrity or grassroots prizemoney. They are both pretty well looked after in NSW though, and the Carnival of Cups promotion […]
The Australian Turf Club has put two questions for its members to vote on. These two questions are, in essence, should the ATC (a) Sell Rosehill to the NSW government? (b) Replace Rosehill with a new Group 1 quality racecourse. Simple questions really, but multi-layered with complexity. For a start the phrase Group 1 racecourse […]
The indicator that a person is very good harness racing trainer is in the times horses run for them, and whether or not they can improve those times on what the previous trainer could get it the horse to run. Pacers run remarkably consistent times all through their careers by the age of four onward. […]
The cancellation of Friday night’s Broken Hill Cup meeting by Harness Racing NSW has not been well received by people at the grassroots. Cup night at the 602m track in the famous remote mining town of 18 000 people is one of the best attended trot meetings anywhere in the State, and I include Miracle […]
Last week, thanks to the genius of his barrister Jim “the Magic Man: Murdoch KC, Queensland gallops trainer Lindsay Hatch had his nine month disqualification for a positive swab to cobalt reduced by the Racing Appeals Panel to a mere $750 fine. Hatch, a repeat offender, also had the reinstatement of his previous suspended sentence […]
Trackwork rider Brock McDuff, who has a history of drug use, had been refused a license by Racing NSW Stewards the week before Christmas. Ho ho ho. It didn’t bother him though. He just kept riding trackwork like he normally did, license or no license. McDuff was out on the track at Griffith riding one […]
A young trainer on the rise who is having a real hot streak is Chris Judd. In just his third year of fair dinkum full-time training and his sixth in all, Judd is training winners in 2025 at a strike rate of 33%, Emma Stewart like numbers. 24 starters he’s had, for 8 winners. They’ve […]
Four out of the five race meetings scheduled for today were canceled, which meant that there was more money in the pools for the last man standing, Goulburn. Big pools Grandma. “All better to plunge you with” said trainer Richard Collett, big time jockey Jason’s dad, and a very canny horseman in his own right. […]
It’s not often you see a $151 rank outsider that is tailed off last at the 1000m catch the field, come ten wide around the turn, and fly home to finish third paying $25.00 for the place. You did yesterday in the seventh race at Cowra. Graeme’s Shout was the horse. They tell me Graeme […]
This last time last year we wrote a scathing article condemning Harness Racing NSW for exercising its discretion to leave Don Hugo out of the field for the Paleface Adios Stakes in favour of some lesser performed pacers, and thus denying the horse the opportunity to qualify for a run in the Group 1 Chariots […]
