PVL Delivers a 200% Prizemoney Increase, Over a Period When Inflation Was 18% – Love Him, Hate Him or In-Between – You Gotta Admit That the Man is a Genius
What can you say? Take another bow Peter V’Landys. You must be getting good at it by now.
Numbers Never Lie – So Look at These, and Remember Them While You Are Listening to JD’s Long Reign Lauded
In 1980 the Melbourne Cup carried total prizemoney of $300 000, plus trophies worth ten grand. This year’s Cup is worth $8 million, plus trophies valued at $270 000. That is an increase of 2670%. The Golden Slipper prize purse in 1980 was worth $250 000. Today the prize pool is $5 million. The Slipper […]
Updated Betting Market For the John Dumesny Replacement Parkes Spacemen Stakes (Group 11)
Report on the Parkes Spaceman’s great victory against Canowindra, after they cheated by sending the opposition’s linesman off There has been a flurry of early betting activity on the John Dumesny Replacement Parkes Spacemen Stakes (Group 11) so we’ve had to revise the market. We have also taken some bets by request on punters not […]
Ding Dong, the Kitsch is Dead – Here’s the Betting Market on His Replacement
Thousands of harness racing participants around NSW are popping the champagne corks tonight at the news that long-standing harness racing administrator John Dumesny has announced a date for his retirement as the CEO of Harness Racing NSW. The bad news for them is that he is not going for almost a year, meaning no doubt […]
I Am Not Quite Sure About This Drive Either
Darren Binskin drove a very weird drive on the odds on fave Wolf Stride in race 5 at Menangle last night. I didn’t like it one little bit. Binskin is in the yellow colours, going back off the gate at the start when he should have gone forward. Watch what happens next, and look at […]
Wagga You Know Cowboy?
Remember the story we wrote a while back about how the Wagga Harness Racing chief Greg Gangle going to Albion Park? Well it’s true. He has pissed everyone off at Wagga, and they don’t want him. Why would you want a bloke who tries to ban a lovely lady who spends hundreds of dollars of […]
Balmain Benji – Delivered to Leichardt by Express Courier in a Sulky
Colin McDowell is a trot man who is a Tiger through and through. Now that he has delivered Benji by first class courier back to Balmain he’s decided to take a new approach to naming his yearlings. Next year’s crop are going to be named after the club greats they say. Sirro, Benny, Gee-Jack, Ellery, […]
A Request to Racing NSW
Please take the the replay of Leah Kilner’s fall down from your website. I don’t think it’s appropriate at this time.
Wagga Hell is Going On Down in the Riverina? – Does Head Office at Bankstown Have Anything to Do With It? – Is the Pope Still a Catholic?
There is something seriously wrong with harness racing in Wagga, and it’s got nothing to do with the horses. It’s Harness Racing NSW. First they spent outlandish sums of money in the vicinity of $15 million constructing a new track, one that was supposed to cost circa only $3.5 million. After delay upon delay, and […]
Amanda Reverses the Kennedy Curse – And Bags 5 Winners in a Night
(Our) Princess Kennedy was a legless walker in New Zealand. In 7 starts all she managed was a solitary 2nd, in a weak race for maidens at a Riverton meeting run at Winton in which she sat on the leader Meghan Markle’s back (two princesses in one race) and couldn’t run it down in a […]