Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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. […]
As you can see from the Harness Racing NSW policy above, which the CEO is likely ignorant of, it is the Starters responsibility to make sure that the correct horses run under their right name in races. The Starter has to identify all horses entering the parade yard against the Brands report. They have to […]
Rising star young trainer Cameron Ross, who recently moved over the desert to set up a training base with his true love and fellow trainer Jocelyn Young in Perth, has been stood down from all forms of racing across Australia by HRNSW Stewards after one of his winners in Sydney in February threw up a […]
How bizarre is this? The Aaron Goadsby horses who ran under each others names at Newcastle on Friday night were not disqualified because they weren’t who they were supposed to be, but rather because they started from the wrong positions on the mobile. That appears queer to the extreme. Surely horse A starting as horse […]
The picture you see at the top is a still shot taken from the ring in race at Newcastle. As you can see, the heavily backed winner (later disqualified) Kozaczynski is wearing white harness, and 5the unplaced Artistic Scott is wearing black. Artistic Scott is wearing some sort of white cross over band on its […]
New information has come through in the middle of the night about the disqualification drama in the last at Newcastle on Friday night. It was a ring in! Kozaczynski went out and raced as Artistic Scott, and Artistic Scott raced as Kozaczynsi. And in the first instance the Stewards missed it all. Oh dear. The […]
A week and a half ago we wrote to the Harness Racing NSW Integrity Manager Michael Prentice about a start at Bathurst, the one in which half the front line missed the jump, but not the two starters trained out of the man in the mobile David Micallef ‘s barn. We asked Mr Prentice to […]
