Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
(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 […]
Race 8 at Menangle last night was a disgrace. The favourite Yianni blew from $2.15 to $4.40. Jimmy Locke was backed from $21 into $10. Yianni went to the lead shortly after the start and looked the goods. Then at the 1200m mark Jack Callaghan on the 2nd favourite Straddie decided to crucify him, and […]
Peter Russo is a drug cheating trot trainer from a family of trot cheating trainers. Russo’s uncle Paul is serving eight and a half years for drug cheating, his brother Mark was up to his neck in the green light bribery scandal and was convicted of nine criminal charges relating to harness racing rorts, and […]
The McDowell family of Allied Express fame have put a huge amount of money into harness racing over five decades, and won some real good races along the way too. Through the Allied Express company they are one of the biggest sponsors of the sport in NSW, and passionate devotees of it too, not that […]
There were 8 races run at Menangle yesterday afternoon, and this eight favourites. Four of them were odds on. Not one of the eight horses was pre-race blood tested. The average price of the runners that were swabbed prior to the race was $32.60. Below are the odds of the fave in betting in each […]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe Sydney’s leading reinsman Cameron Hart tried very hard on the new addition to the J. Grimson stable Brevity in this race. In fact it’s my opinion that he didn’t really try at all. Brevity is the one back in last place in the blue and gold […]
Lyell Creek? Maoris Idol? Sundees Sun? Yesterday’s news. Today it’s all about Lindy’s Love, the bonny little three year old filly who obliterated all world trotting records by running 1.48.0 on Tuesday at Menangle. What a filly, what a run. Wow. What’s that Mum? Do I reckon the times are right? Umm ….
Even though Snow has refused to co-operate, we will continue to pursue the matter to ensure the integrity of thoroughbred racing has not been compromised That is Peter V’Landys speaking in 2019 in the wake of the TAB’s boss of fixed price racing Sally Snow – the god-daughter of Robbie Waterhouse – being warned off […]
Was that debacle at Scone yesterday the worst day’s racing since the one the week before? Does PVL really have to inflict this sort of rubbish on us just so that he can keep his patron John Messara sweet by running a metro meeting at the bloke’s home track? Hasn’t V’Landys transcended that sort of […]
