Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
A punter sitting on top of a rock on Kapiti Island, wondering how Aaron Bain manages to get Kiwi horses to run so much faster in OZ. I have three things to say about yesterday’s Gawler Cup. The first is a message I wish to send to caller Jim Jacques about racism. Jim, I know […]
Shane Loone is the South Australian trot trainer whose horses were switched in races at Globe Derby last month, although he got sprung before the planned plunge one could run. You remember Loone. He’s the bloke who said that he wasn’t at the track on ring-in night for more than a few minutes until he […]
