Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Misterfourthousand is a wee 2-year-old who at his first prep was good enough to win a heat of the Gold Crown. He has panels on the lower class pacers running around at Bathurst on a Wednesday night in NR 48 races, despite being only a pup. Which is why he started at $1.12 off the […]
I have to admit that I was skeptical at first about media personality Yvonne Sampson’s appointment to the board of Harness Racing NSW, presuming that it was just tokenism. What a dickhead I was. Sampson is an extraordinary woman, and a hugely worthy selection to steer NSW harness racing into the future. She’s a horse […]
The word from the Creek is that the Stewards are going to lay racing rule breach charges at Jason Grimson and Jack Trainor over the melee at Albion Park on Blacks A Fake night, and that their penalties for bringing racing into disrepute are likely to be very stern. That’s the least of the pair’s […]
Did you say the recently retired Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny (ponounced Dumesy)? Give yourself a gold star. John Dumesny drove 5 winners, and by his own reckoning was at one stage equal leading driver in the Western Districts area. Very briefly. Here is another winner Dumesny drove. I am watching a ‘A Life […]
Everyone in the world knows that Zac Lloyd is brilliant, but he needs to pull his head in big time, before he puts someone down. How many suspensions has Z. Lloyd had now for careless riding? I’ve lost count, but it’s a lot. Yet still he continues on, riding in breach of the rules and […]
I can’t quite work out what went on here in the 7th race at Newcastle yesterday.. So I will have a guess. Summit Bloodstock and Aaron Bain had 2 horses in the race. Dollarsign was trained and driven by Brad Elder, Baker Creek was trained by Darren Elder and driven by Blake Hughes. Baker Creek […]
The bets were on, and now it was time to go. They score up behind the mobile and the first thing we see is that the horse who has been backed from $7.50 into $4.80 in the final seconds of betting Dollarsign is in a muck lather of sweat. Horses who sweat like that before […]
After trying twice to get to the lead and give him a sit, Lleyton Green has realised that Blake Hughes on Baker Creek is either a lunatic or driving a drugged up horse or both, and has resigned himself to a trip spent in the breeze. Green takes hold of Pikarso, and when he does […]
Funny things happen in racing. At the trots drivers who can’t count time sometimes make them happen. And irony abounds. Blake Hughes went too fast on Baker Creek in the 3rd quarter, even with whatever drugs were in it. He stuffed it up. The hot horse kicked on and lead until the last 30 metres, […]
This above is the Stewards summary of race 1 at Newcastle on Friday night. There appears to be a substantial inconsistency between it and the official Stewards Report extracted below. One says Josh Gallagher was suspended for 14 days for his drive on Silent Legend in the race. The other says he copped 18 days. […]
