Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Having gate speed Timmy and not using it is like having a cock and not pulling it. Aiden De Campo, proving Keith from QLD’s famous adage that any man who says he doesn’t pull himself is a wanker. QRIC has an obligation to uphold the Rules of Racing and, in doing so, acts to preserve […]
This is a marketing exercise as much as anything, need to attract young people. Angus is the hometown “young gun”, and Carter is very smart at marketing, and marketable, made a big impression in the US a few months ago, Blair might be the established driver but he doesn’t have what Carter has when it […]
Unless we are all seeing things, the WA Stewards got this wrong. Our Sandy Shore (drawn 1 on the front row) didn’t gallop as the start was effected in the Mares Classic on Friday night. She galloped about 10 to 20 meters before the gates released. Given that horse drawn on the inside of the […]
By Chris Barrett November 24, 2024 — 5.00am Harness racing is embroiled in a drug-testing scandal after two up-and-coming drivers from Sydney submitted urine samples that were found with all but mathematical certainty to have come from the same person. In a bombshell case like few others in Australian sport and racing, Jack Brown, 20, […]
The dream team are back – Trainer John and driver Brent Livingstone, aka Hot And Dangerous (Owner Clint’s the And) Who needs Jason Grimson and his steroid pumped muscles and tatts, when you can have Johnny Livingstone and his coke bottle glasses instead? Livingstone showed the world how its done with ex-Grimson trained horses when […]
The Wolf Signs Divided Open Pace at Albion Park doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a really really interesting little pace, mainly because it acts as a litmus test about whether any trainer can get a horse going again after Jason Grimson has had it and it has left his care. Many have tried and […]
HARNESS Racing New South Wales advises that the licences of Neville Hargraves and Paul Sapio have been suspended pursuant to Australian Harness Racing Rule (AHRR) 183 after Stewards commenced an investigation into a report received that WHYIMAN had been stomach tubed or attempted to be stomach tubed prior to its engagement enroute to the Menangle […]
Chris Svanosio suddenly became very disinterested in driving when he realised that Highpoint had no chance of winning or running a place in race 7 at Melton last night. Me thinks he might have been more interested in dropping a ratings point. If that was his aim he succeeded. At the expense of course of […]
These are the trees that cost Mr Seymour’s team $43 000 for cutting down with the wrong permit. I wouldn’t pay 2 cents for them myself. They’re ugly bloody things. But so is what comes next. Now you see them. Now you don’t.
Major Mal is a 7-year-old pace who until tonight hadn’t won a race in its past 39 starts, with his winless drought extending for almost two years. That’s because Mal wasn’t trained by the Miracle Maker, our good mate Seaton Grima. He is now, and the drought’s over. Super Seaton had only had him for […]
