Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
South Australian harness racing has become a lawless land, a modern day version of the American wild west. It is getting out of control, and needs to be stamped down on hard. I don’t think the current Stewards have it in them. Slaps with wet bus tickets just don’t do the job. The problem is that […]
Monday 25 October – Globe Derby Race 2 This one involves a horse – the leader – who had been backed each way from $31 into $18 in a seven horse pay 1-2 the place race. Gina Bell is an experienced driver who has been around for ages now. She is driving the leader. The […]
Monday 25 October – Globe Derby Race 8 James Kettel – Super K – opens up the favourite but blows out the door. He ends up starting 3rd favourite. Shane Loone’s horse Lets Go Shorty – remember him, the one that was involved in the ring in? whatever happened to that inquiry? – opens at […]
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Race 1 Charming Major is the long odds on favourite. It is expected to lead easily, and win. Any of his rival would be a fool to take him on, for it would ruin their own chances of winning. Michael A. Smith, the reinsman with a preacher’s name, doesn’t […]
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Races 1, 4, and 9 The South Australians scored the hat trick on Saturday night. Three favourites beaten at 4-1 on ($1.25) or shorter, all on the same night. Crackerjack isn’t it? The first to go down was the Aaron Bain trained Kapiti Express, which only last start looked […]
If the South Australian harness racing authorities can’t get the fields and drivers right, then they should not publish them, for all it does is mislead the public and make them look stupid. Gaita Pullicino is a wonderful driver, but for obvious reasons she cannot possibly drive three horses in a single race. She can’t […]
The 3rd at Globe Derby on Saturday night was not a race. It was a disgrace. A boat race. Premonition was favourite and drawn the 1, and its driver Mark Billinger had made it clear to anyone who asked that he wouldn’t be handing up the lead under any circumstances. Cavalryman was drawn on the […]
Rule 156(2)(a) A driver shall only apply the whip in a wrist only flicking motion whilst holding a rein in each hand with the tip of the whip pointed forward in an action which does not engage the shoulder. (b) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (a), “wrist only flicking motion” means:- […]
Take a look at Darren Billinger on the leader Futurist here in race 2 at Globe Derby Park on Saturday night. Darren certainly had a good look too. He was looking for Futurist’s stablemate Breach the Beach, which was behind him. When Billinger spotted him he started driving Futurist on one rein – the left […]
We have written extensively about the myriad of unaddressed issues in South Australia harness racing over the past decade that have led to its slow decline and the industry in the State’s death by a thousand cuts, and latterly have been commenting that the sport in SA is on it’s last legs and spinning slowly […]
