Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Please take the the replay of Leah Kilner’s fall down from your website. I don’t think it’s appropriate at this time.
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 […]
