Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well in half a century of kicking around trot tracks you’ve seen so much cheating that you often feel that you are coated in it, so much so that you become half convinced that you will never see anything again that surprises you. But then something like race 4 at Newcastle comes along and you […]
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
You would think that a driver of Inter Dominion Trot winner Greg Sugars stature would be good enough to hook a horse without it being so obvious that the whole world could see it, but you’d be wrong. Look what Sugars does here tonight in race 1 at Bendigo on the favourite. Sugars is in […]
Have you ever seen a more blatant hook job in your life than Samantha Pascoe’s pull up on Stylish Heaven in the last race at Globe Derby on New Year’s Eve? I mean come on, this is just so blatant that it’s outrageous. Have a look at it. Pascoe is on the horse that sweeps […]
The former Kiwi pacer Nerano has had six starts since coming across the ditch. It’s won them all, and done it in brilliant fashion too. That’s why is was so surprising that there was no money for it in race 4 at Wagga on Tuesday night. There was plenty of money for So Much Bettor, […]
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
In 2017 drivers Shane Graham and Matthew Neilson were charged with the criminal offence of race (match) fixing, and banned from the sport. As a result of police and QRIC incompetence they were some years later cleared of the charges, and had their licenses and status in the sport restored. It’s a crying shame, for […]
I am not sure that I have ever seen a bigger hook job than Turbo Trainor’s drive on Stravinsky in the first at Newcastle on Sunday. At the vert least Turbo’s steer was the deadest of the year. At worst it was absolutely criminal. Stravinsky is a speedy type with a lot of class, who […]
This is race 6 at Launceston on Friday night. Ben Yole trains ten of the eleven runners in the race. The only one that he doesn’t train is the leader Major Seascape. Yole used to train it, but its new owners sent it to the barn of trainer Mark Reggett, where it got fed and […]
