Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see above is the message sent out to participants by Harness Racing SA explaining the cancellation of last night’s Globe Derby meeting. It’s a load of horse manure. There had only been 14mm of rain fall on the track at the time the meeting was cancelled, bugger all in harness racing terms, and […]
Take a look at this for a suss race. It’s the 4th at Globe Derby yesterday. Budding Caesar hasn’t won for 24 starts and a year. The 9yo’s recent form reads 06766, and in those past 5 runs its’s been beaten an average of near on 30m in each. It opens up at $41 in […]
Guess how many members there are of the SA Harness Racing Club, the association that runs Globe Derby? 135. Guess how many voted in the election held over the past couple of weeks for members of the club committee? 99. What this means is that the club that holds more than $18 million in property […]
Hi Peter, Comments on protected species. In the late fifties and throughout the sixties Alby Holberton (trainer) /Jack Butler (chief steward) did to South Australian trots what the Ben Yoles, Emma Stewarts, Peter Tonkin (the godfather) and Clayton Tonkin (convicted of blue magic use) have done to the game in the modern age in other […]
Harness SA can say whatever they like, but the cold hard truth is that Kevin Seymour AM – Clip Clop Kev – has bought control of the $18 million asset of the land at Globe Derby for just under $4.something million. The man’s a genius. The idiots who run Globe Derby are just that, fools. […]
We told you a few weeks ago that well-known and much-liked SA businessman and harness racing identity Joe Carbone was in the ICU fighting for life after suffering a serious medical incident. Well Joe fought a great fight, but the good Lord who had tried to take him to the Pearly Gates track before this […]
Well known Gawler harness racing owner Paul Cormack, a great supporter of the trots, passed away last week after a long and brave fight against illness. His death has been felt by the many in harness racing who loved him, and he will be sadly missed in the sport. Paul’s funeral will be held next […]
Popular South Australian harness racing identity Joe Carbone (pictured), a businessman and former prominent trainer, and later owner of good horses like Tact Hayley’s Delight and Major Lincoln, is in a bad way in the ICU right now after suffering a serious medical incident earlier this week. It’s not good news, but Joe’s been there […]
Vaughn Newman is a small time licensed South Australian trainer who lives just a couple of streets from Globe Derby, where to date he has been working his horses. He was doing exactly that 4 weeks ago when he noticed that the surface of the track was to his mind sub-standard, and detrimental to the […]
The Emma Stewart stable sent a team down to South Australia this week to contest the heats of the SA Derby and SA Pacing and Trotting Cups, but unlike in previous years they didn’t send one of their own drivers down with them, preferring instead to let Gaita Pullicino handle their horses. After what happened […]
