Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Santa and the reindeer brothers grim What happened yesterday when the Stewards allowed a race to start while a distressed horse was lying stricken on the ground stuck under the gates was an outrage, an absolute disgrace. They did it because the race was running real late, and they didn’t want to lose their spot […]
At Globe Derby on Monday a horse called Giftedfromtheheart was the medium of a nation-wide betting plunge that saw it frim from $101 into $2.90. The moment that the betting opened they started coming out of trees to back the horse, and the money didn’t stop until they jumped. For a moment no-one could understand why. […]
Take a look at this replay above will you, and tell me if you think the infringement – if that’s what you call it, which I don’t – in the incident here is worthy of a 15 day suspension. You are looking at the horse in the death in the red with green V and […]
Getting diagnosed with terminal cancer is a trigger for most of the poor buggers to reflect back on their lives, and try to redeem their sins, in the hope that despite all that they have done wrong they still might somehow make it to heaven. Not trot trainer Shane Loone. He knows that there is […]
The last at Globe Derby last night was a weird one. It’s a three horse race. There were six, but Gaita Pullicino scratched one of hers, and Shane Loone pulled out two of his. That gave them both a run in a race that wouldn’t have been one of their scratched horses hadn’t accepted to […]
Once upon a time ‘Super’ Mario Borg was the darling of the South Australian harness administrators. That was back in the days when he was the President of the SA Country Harness Racing Clubs Association, and those in charge needed his vote on the board to assist them in the cause of their civil war […]
Trainer Shane Loone is going easy on his 14-year-old warhorse Bien Hoa this season, He’s only had eleven starts in the past six weeks, and eight in the last month. The next thing you know Loone will be putting him out in the paddock for a winter spell. What a shame there is no racing […]
Jimmy Mack is the best pacer in South Australia by panels. Since coming across from WA the horse owned by Merv Butterworth of Copy That fame had won 12 of his 15 starts coming into the 6th race at Globe Derby last night, which is why he started at $1.28. The only times that Jimmy […]
Question: What the hell is going on in South Australian harness racing? Answer: Everything. It’s a free for all, and I don’t mean the class of the race. Now they are even allowing drivers to turn around and punch rival runners in the head. The reinsman you see in the picture with his fist cocked […]
Not a day goes by when there isn’t a hot race at Globe Derby, so the only surprise about there being another one on Monday would have been if there wasn’t. That’s what terribly low prize money and the need for cash to feed your horses does to a sport. Monday’s red hot one was […]
