Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I had a good bet on Mac Bon, the winner on protest of the last race at Newcastle yesterday. Even after watching the replay six times I am still not sure I should have collected. Mac Bon is the horse behind the leader as the side-on film rolls. You can’t see much there that would […]
Trainer Paul Tonkin must be the most hard done by man in harness racing. He has just been hit with an 18 month disqualification by Harness Racing NSW Stewards after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the potent painkiller Tapentadol, a drug that he takes himself under prescription to treat chronic pain […]
Archie This might be interesting. Ants (Anthony Butt) mentioned he’d just got a positive in NSW to something that he didn’t know what it was in one of the interviews/stories about the state of Vic harness racing but he wasn’t too worried about it though it obviously wasn’t good timing but not too bad as […]
Major Mal is a 7-year-old pace who until tonight hadn’t won a race in its past 39 starts, with his winless drought extending for almost two years. That’s because Mal wasn’t trained by the Miracle Maker, our good mate Seaton Grima. He is now, and the drought’s over. Super Seaton had only had him for […]
John Shiels has been in the trot game a long time. He trains out of the Wagga Showgrounds. His daughter Kim does too. Their beloved son and grandson also keeps his pony at the showground stables. These people are the grassroots of harness racing, salt of the earth people who participate because they adore their […]
If you are going to pull over to drench your horse on the way to the races, then the Ampol Service Centre at Pheasant’s Nest isn’t the place to do it, for it gets a thousand cars every hour stopping there and the odds are that one of them might be a Steward, the last […]
Do you remember the story ‘Taking The Piss’ that we wrote a few weeks back about driver Jack Brown and the switched urine sample at Goulburn? Taking the Piss – Jacko Stooges the Stewards by Pulling the Old Switcheroo Well we didn’t name the fellow driver who provided Brown with a sample of their urine […]
Dear TROT TRAINER, We are writing to inform you that we have recently signed an agreement with Wagga & District Greyhound Racing Club Ltd. We regret that, as a result of this agreement, effective from 1st January 2025, we will no longer offer harness trainers stabling and track use at the Showground. This should come as […]
The trot trainers in Wagga who work out of stables at the showground were yesterday given eviction notices requiring them and their horses to be gone by the 1st of January. The reason for the show society’s decision is unknown, but it is a cruel pill to hand many of their long-term tenants just prior […]
Make what you will of Nash Rawiller’s ride on How Dare You in the 5th race at Canterbury last night. We’ve made ours and the Stewards have made theirs, and our opinions don’t align. This thing looked as dead as a maggot to us. The stipes don’t agree. What’s your view? RACE 5: Piccolo Me […]
