Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are reports that Lil Lenny, the runner-up in the 2nd at Globe Derby yesterday, broke a knee during the race or in the run on after they passed the winning post. Lil Lenny was a 4yo gelding having its first race start. The serious injury may have just been the result of bad luck, […]
Remember the story we told you last week about Tasmanian trot driver Mitch Ford hooking an Emma Stewart trained odds-on favorite named Free To Play at a recent Launceston meeting? Well the Tassie stewards have found Ford guilty of failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures during therace to ensure that Free To Play […]
What the hell was driver Mitch Ford doing here in the 6th race on the Emma Stewart trained Free To Play (no 9. 2nd from the inside on the 2nd row)? Why did he allow the despised $91 outsider Shooin to cross him at the bll? Why didn’t he come out 3-wide ahead of Didyoulousaroosta […]
The simmering feud between the Ison and Elder trot clans has taken on Shakespearian proportions, with Molly Ison playing the role of Juliet and Brad Elder that of Romeo. There has been bad blood between the families for more than a year now, with the tensions flowing over in November last year in an incident […]
There were 45 harness races run in 5 cities around Australia on Saturday night. Not a single one of them was won by a horse sired by a colonial bred stallion. Not one. All those millions thrown at breeders bonuses, races and incentives, and this is what we’ve got. An antipodean outpost for American semen […]
Harness Racing NSW’s swabbing regime again came under the spotlight in the semi-finals of the rich 2YO Breeders Challenge series at Menangle on Saturday night. Only eight horses were pre-race swabbed across the 4 semi finals. Just two of them were favorites, with both being trained interstate, Path To Greatness in NSW and Sanchez in […]
An unenviable number of seemingly healthy young pacers from the Steve and Amanda Telfer stable have broken down on the track in the track in recent years, and another victim was added to the tally yesterday when the 3-year-old Kashkeeper, a $210 000 yearling buy at the 2022 Christchurch yearling sales, broke down in the […]
Mark Jones ‘magic’ run with Rush continued when she made it 4 from 5 since joining his stable in the rating 51 up trot. How much time is Jones really spending out at Woodend Beach. Bob Butt spends a lot, because he’s stabled there. His trotting star of the Brisbane winter Bet N Win was […]
The track surface looked like it still needs to pack down a bit, but it raced fast and well. The best time of the night was 1.56.7 and they ran sub-1.58 in three races, so its a pass. They need to put hoardings on the outside fence from the turn out of the straight to […]
Emma Stewart has 7 of the 12 runners in the Derby. The most favored of them Best Deal leads off the gate. It’s stablemate Some American comes around it and crosses to the front. Storm Ryder, Miki To Success, and Bay Of Biscay sit 1-1, 1-2 and 1-3. Stewart controls the race and the pace […]
