Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Imagine if Tommy Berry or James McDonald had been outed from the gallops game. You wouldn’t have to would you, for it did happen. The racing media were all over it. Now shift to harness racing, and think about what would happen if the ‘Greatest Trainer of All Time’ – the Goat – had been […]
It’s a great story. What a shame it’s a load of crap. She is blaming Johnny Scorse for all her problems. All the poor bastard did was have and a roadie and a cigarette on the way home. We all feel hugely sorry for Chynna about what happened to her. It may well have been […]
Snowy was real good looking once you know. Dr Harry was too. What the hell happened? Who the fuck knows what Bruce ‘Snowy’ Clark is on about these days? I doubt even he does. What on earth was he trying to achieve in the story published underneath? Where was he going with it? How does […]
My daughter is having twins on Wednesday, one of each to add to the stable, and names have already been approved. But there has been a late push to change the girl to a Matilda, Tilly of course for short. She has no-say in it, the protest will ultimately be dismissed, but had loads of […]
A growing feud between jockeys Bradley Appo and Sariah Champkin threatens to engulf the Toowoomba Turf Club community. Veteran rider Appo and apprentice Champkin have both been suspended following a July 1 trackwork incident. Appo has been banned for three months after Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards determined he was riding dangerously toward Champkin during […]
While harness racing has a rich history, we can’t bemoan the loss of what’s in the past or cry for the resurrection of things that worked 20, 30 or 40 years ago. This is now. Everything is faster, slicker and more polished. We’re in a ‘bite-sized’ world, but harness racing has remained largely unchanged. An ode […]
The Australian’s very well named literary critic Peter Craven has delivered a polemic in that paper this morning in which he defends the accused – and on the face of it quite certain pervert – actor Kevin Spacey against the allegations of sexual assault brought against him by four different and quite unrelated witnesses. Spacey […]
I greatly respect Tim ‘Tic Toc’ O’Connor as a harness racing enthusiast and author of stories about the sport, so this is not a personal sledge, but fair dinkum Tic Toc, are you for real? Now 1200m racing isn’t new to the sport – The Stampede dates back to 2004 and the Mercury80 to 2020 […]
If you could raise $100 million for charity by trekking the Kokoda trail there’d be a line up half-way around the world to have a crack. What this crew are doing to help others is hugely admirable, and I tip my hat to them all. Dig deep and kick in. But the headline is a […]
JUST when it looked like all was lost for harness racing in Queensland to claw back a lost generation of fans, a ‘gift horse’ has arrived that promises to reignite interest in the sport. It seems rather ironic that the couple who has done more to save the code in the Sunshine State – Kevin […]
