Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Iden Forest is a slow horse, a proverbial toad. Or at least he was until Super Mario kissed him and turned him into a prince. Now he’s like Robin Hood. The Prince of Thieves. In all of his nearly eight years on this earth, Iden Forest had never run three sub-30 second quarters in a […]
Crossing the reins (also known as bridging the reins) – This means putting one rein over the top of the other, to form a small hoop about 10cms (4in) long, which you hold between your hands and which fits over the horse’s neck. It is often used by harness drivers to drive their horse with […]
Ryan Hryhorec is driving the horse behind the leader. He pushes out underneath Mario Borg in the black and white with red cap outside him, and sends the Maltese Falcon skidding sideways, straight into the horse outside him. They lock wheels and that’s their race done. Then he tries to do it to Dani Hill […]
Dani Hill is South Australia’s leading trot driver. She is also a match fixing cheat. If you don’t realise that by now you ain’t looking. Just in case you have just found your glasses after they have been lost for a couple of years though, here is another reminder. D. Hill drove the odds on […]
A horse named Our Mantra failed to finish in the Kangaroo Island Cup on Saturday. The five Stewards on a sojourn to the island for a weekend away must have all been watching Justin Huxtable making a goose of himself by standing up in the irons to give the salute and then promptly falling off, […]
See the horse above named Ghent? The one that has been backed from $7.00 into $3.50 without any falcons passing on a tip. It is trained by Gaita Pullicino. Gaita and/or her son have been banned from harness racing in just about every State in Australia, bar South Australia, which issued her a license to […]
Ghent is a trotter. He is usually not a very good one. That is because he is slow, and 11 years old. In 10 starts this season until yesterday, this Gaita Pullicino trained old bloke hadn’t run a single place in a race. So it was a surprise when all these folk of Maltese and […]
Want to know how a race fix at the trots works? Then watch this one above. Wayne Hill is on the odds on favourite Deadline. It is drawn in gate 2, and sails to the lead as expected. Hill’s sister Dani is on the second favourite Illawong Kim, drawn in gate 6. It comes across […]
We wrote yesterday about the outrageous decision in the case of leading SA jockey Jason Holder, who switched his dirty urine sample for one that was clean, deceived and lied to Stewards, and then finally threw a positive test result to banned substances when forced to do a second test. In a disgraceful decision that […]
The track record over the 1780m at Redcliffe – a distance the best horses rarely run – is 1.53.3. All the best horses run over 1800m at Globe Derby. The track record there is 1.53.9. So Redcliffe is on paper 0.6 of a second faster than Globe Derby, but in reality it is at least […]
