A fortnight ago we wrote about the amazing run of success being enjoyed by trot trainer Tim Williams, and told you how he had improved a slow old horse named Manly Mach so much that he had taken 5.6 seconds off it’s previous best time when winning a race with it at Menangle. Well, in […]
Garry White Cops Two Years For Needling Horses on Race Day – He Should Have Been Warned Off For Life
NSW gallops mentor Garry White has never been a great trainer, or really anything much more than struggle street Stan. His career strike rate is about 11%. Between April and September this year he all but doubled it. 10 from 50 at 20% White returned during this period. It would be nice to think that […]
There Might Be Only One Troy Williams – But He Can Do it Twice, or More
In 30 starts for respected and experienced and well respected trainers Darren Reay, Bill Dimech and Blake Fitzpatrick the pacer Major Statement could only win one race and run a winning time of 2.01.7. In 27 starts for Troy Williams the same horse has won 7 and been placed 11 times. Now he can run […]
There is Only One Troy Williams – There Can Only Be One Sir
Australian Rules Football has only one Tony Lockett. They can have him. He’s a dogs man. Harness Racing knows the real truth. There’s only one Troy Williams. Troy – the Plugger of the trots – is a superstar. Before he moved into Plugger T’s tender loving care the pacer Therecanonlybeonesir couldn’t even get out of […]
The Great Harness Racing NSW Wagga Anti-Vaxer Dilemma
Harness Racing NSW has a huge problem. The new CEO of the Riverina Paceway that HRNSW brought over from Canada with the future view of assuming John Dumesny’s job when he retires is an avid anti-vaxer who refusesto get the jab. But the rules are that if you are not vaxed you can’t go to […]
Shocking Reports Out of the Riverina
Seriously concerning reports are emerging out of Wagga suggesting that Greg Gangle (pictured), the CEO of the Riverina Paceway, has been stood down from attending the next six race meetings held at the track because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. The word is that Gangle, a self-described ‘real estate investor and entrepreneur’ who arrived […]
Twilliams is the New Bob Knight
I have written of my admiration for the skills of NSW trot trainer Troy Williams before. On Tuesday at Menangle the master trainer Williams impressed me even more. Manly Mach used to be a cat, much like the footy team that is named after. Aaron Bain couldn’t get it going in Adelaide, Ben Yole wouldn’t […]
There is Something Very Wrong Going on Here
This afternoon I was contacted by a harness racing identity who wanted to alert me to the fact that Petes Said So – the heavily backed winner of the last race at Menangle on Tuesday ($4.60 into $3) – had run a near full second than it ever had before, and that the horse been […]
It is My Melancholy Duty to Inform You That Peter V’Landys Has the Victorians Totally Covered – Part 4 – V-Day
A week ago on RSN, Messara said there had been little or no progress in chipping away at Racing NSW. Asked if a “blow up” was inevitable, Messara said “that would be a fate worse than death.” “I don’t even want to contemplate it but it’s a possible outcome, one we certainly don’t want to […]
A Ring a Ding Ding – Santa Who’s the Menangle King?
I can’t remember the last time that Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor went ten starts without a win as a trainer. It certainly hasn’t happened in his last 100 starters. Not until now anyway. Turbo’s phone got seized by the HRNSW Stewards on the 24th of October. He hasn’t trained a winner from his ten runners since. […]