Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Group races in galloping are for the best of the best. Some of them are age restricted, but every one of them is open to all comers, and they are almost always won by horses who are at the top of their game. It’s different at the trots. Lots of things are, particularly in NSW. […]
The NSW gallops stewards must eat the same crackers for breakfast as their colleagues at the trots do, because their standard of officiating is about the same. Their whole suite of skills was on show at Rosehill yesterday. In race 3 Sam Clipperton pummelled his horse with the whip all the way down the straight, […]
The idea of pre-race blood testing is to stamp out cheating. It only works when you test the right horses. Which makes you wonder why Harness Racing NSW don’t. I suspect we all know. It’s all just random they say. Just like the chook raffle at the pub where the barmaid palms the winning ticket […]
Positions Available Apprentice/ Trackwork Rider Above award wage. Greg Hickman is not a top ten Sydney trainer, but he is one who always seems to have a horse in his stable that provides him with a lucrative earn, a galloper like Private Secretary, or Royal Purler, or Murjilisa Lass, or more recently the $2.9 million […]
Adam Hamilton raised an interesting point in his column this week on thetrots.com.au when he stated his belief that Kevin Seymour’s NSW Derby winner Leap To Fame was still at this stage only the 3rd best three-year-old in Australasia behind the Kiwi star Akuta and the Victorian based Catch a Wave. I thought I would […]
Melbourne racing fans may have seen the last of champion mare Verry Elleegant with Chris Waller confirming that the six-year-old would by-pass the All-Star Mile. The reigning Melbourne Cup heroine received more votes than other runner in the $5 million event, to be run at Flemington on March 19, but Waller said she would run in the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes (2000m) […]
Atlas was a champion Titan stayer who was handicapped to carry the sky in the Zeus War Stakes. Anamoe is at this stage only a top-line three year old sprinter-miler, but he’s been tasked with carrying the sky too. I’m talking about the weight that the NSW handicapper has given the James Cummings trained colt’s […]
If the Stewards don’t raise questions about the running of race 7 last night at Menangle, then we might as well lock up the integrity office, turn off the lights, and throw the keys in the Nepean River. This race was off like prawns left six days in the sun. Luke – sorry, Belinda – […]
The Cran Dalgety trained pacer Trixton Time boasted the unenviable record of 35 starts for just 2 wins coming into last night’s Addington meeting, and had not won a race in it’s past 8 starts. It’s best winning time was 2.00.0. It is strongly rumoured that prior to the running of Trixton Time’s race, the […]
They pay down to tenth place in NSW thoroughbred racing. You get $500. Calmer Karma finished eighth. The five hundred was in the bag. Or would have been if the lead had stayed there. Look where it fell out. It’s hard to earn half a ton in this tough guys town isn’t it?
