Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For a long time now there have been a growing number of NZ harness racing participants decrying the dominance of the Robert Dunn and Mark Purdon stables, and saying that there is something very, very wrong about the way they dominate the feature events in the country, particularly in the South Island. After what we […]
Tiger Moth ran his heart out in the Melbourne Cup in 2020 trying to claim one of the few big international races to have eluded Aidan O’Brien since he started training at Ballydoyle in 1996. He also had a jockey on his back who was ready to whip him half to death to make sure […]
This appeared in the Steward’s Report from Ascot, WA on Wednesday. Call me juvenile because I am, but I thought it was funny. Race 5. BYRON BAY PREMIUM LAGER HANDICAP (1500m) Jockeys W Pike (GREATNESS AWAITS) and C Parnham (PAT’S GOT SASS) appeared before Stewards in relation to GREATNESS AWAITS being placed on the hindquarters […]
On the 8th of October this year the racehorse Jimmy Neutron, a classical nonnie that has had 32 starts for no wins, was barred from racing for three months after bleeding in a midweek race at Doomben two days before. That meant that the galloper would not be seen again at the racetrack until the […]
Two days ago we were told that Modern Games had reared in the barrier before the Breeders Cup and hit his head, and that this was the reason for his scratching when the vets standing behind the stalls erroneously thought that he had broken through the barriers. Now we are told that no such thing […]
The Hunter is Quality Handicap run over 1300m at Newcastle. It is worth a million dollars. If Zaaki was in this race with 56.5kg on his back he would start at $1.20. Timeform rate Top Ranked 1.5kg above Zaaki at the time he left Europe to come to Australia. That is about 2 to 2.5 […]
Des Nolan (2nd from right) is a farrier who runs a family owned horse products supply business in South Australia. He is also father of a young daughter, and reportedly a devout family man who ferries his daughter to and from school, music lessons, sports training and games, and play dates. A normal person would […]
What is wrong with this picture? Everything. The Breeders Crown is the harness racing equivalent of the Golden Slipper and the Caulfield Guineas. Harness Racing NSW will disagree, but they are the ones restricting their premier age group races to pacers with a NSW connection, not HRV whose championship is open to all comers. Imagine […]
Last week we wrote a story bagging the Bondi as joke. Yesterday Lease proved us right. This A.J. Cummings trained galloper ran third in the million dollar race named after a topless beach. At Randwick on Cup day he led in a 1600m BM68, and got run down by a horse whose sum total of […]
They should put a huge poster of Willie Pike riding Mrs America to a nose victory in the 7th at Ascot at the door of every apprentice school in Australia. Watch how he is in the irons. See how low he is in saddle. Look at how his body is almost horizontal. Stare in wonder […]
