Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sir Jason Grimson has only been back in Sydney for less than a week, but it was plenty of time enough for him to pull off another of his famous miracles. Denis William hadn’t raced for a year and half since breaking down at Cranbourne in July 2022 when trained in Victoria by Simone Walker, […]
Starters are supposed to be impartial, and are not allowed to bet. This one in race 5 at Canberra obviously did. The 3 horse was backed from $7.00 into $2.oo, and started even shorter at $1.55 on the tote. It won. Listen to what the starter says as he lets them go. This is a […]
Sir Jason Grimson and royal page boy Turbo Trainor were notable absentees from last night’s Menangle meeting, with both presumably still on the other side of the ditch celebrating Swayzee’s victory in the Cup and drowning their sorrows about their foiled fix odds price stooge plunge on Akuta on Friday. In the trainers absence their […]
Harness Racing NSW Stewards have finalised an Inquiry into an incident in the race day stalls following the running of Race 6 at the Tamworth Harness Racing Club meeting on Thursday 2 November 2023. Evidence was taken from HRNSW Steward Daniel Westwood, licensed Trainer / Driver Tom Ison, licensed Trainer / Driver Darren Elder, licensed […]
Driver James Locke is on the inside here. Driver Taylah Osmond is on his outside. Locke knows that she is there, because before the tape started rolling he looked across and saw her. It is not so easy from this angle to see what happens next, but it did happen. For reasons known only to […]
Want to see how good Jason Grimson is? Or how bad, depending on what way you look at it? Then make sure you watch the time honoured Group 3 Junior Free For All at Addington on Cup Day this Tuesday. Since arriving in New Zealand last week Grimson has gained a new horse, a lowly […]
Wednesday is the day for the hearing int0 the recent incident violent incident involving members of the Ison and Elder families at Tamworth. The word is that each of father Brian and sons Bryan and Darren Elder in the blue corner, and father and son duo Andrew and Tom Ison in the red, are required […]
It looks to us like a Ben Yole special. That’s no surprise given that every one of the 8 Darren Elder trained runners in the 1o horse field is owned by Yole’s major stable owners Aaron Bain and/or Summit Bloodstock, and 4 of the 8 are former Yole trained horses. Bain and Summit are like […]
This is the Stewards report into the Ison-Elder fracas at the Tamworth trots on Thursday. It doesn’t tell us much, other than that something happened. We told you in an earlier article yesterday what the basic guts of it was. The stipes job is to get to the bottom of it. This ain’t over by […]
Rumours are floating all over the north-west of NSW about a major incident that occurred between the Ison and Elder families yesterday at the Tamworth trots. Tensions that have been brewing between the families for some time after Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock elected to move their horses in the region from the Elder stable […]
