All Hail the Queen
What I said about Larry I repeat for Keayang Zahara. Wow. All hail the Queen. The greatest female trotter we’ve ever seen.
TAB Blunder Costs a Horse a Start in a $10 000 Final
The $10 000 Stawell Toyota Pleasant Creek Final was the feature race on the Stawell program last Friday. To qualify for the final horses had to run in one of the two heats run as the first two races on the card, but here is where is gets slightly odd. Instead of having ten or […]
The Clash of the Titans
Right in between The Trot and The Race tonight is another clash of the titans, this time down south at Addington in what looks to be a match race between the best 3yo in the country Jumal and one of the top two 4yo’s in New Zealand in Got The Chocolates (Marketplace, who is not […]
The Great Race/s
The top-shelf harness racing circus moves t0 Cambridge, New Zealand tonight, and what a night of racing it is. The Race (formerly by Grins, them by Betcha, and now by Sports Nation) is the headline act. And what a great race The Race is going to be. It is a three horse affair in my […]
What Has Happened to Max?
Max Delight has been a great horse over the years. He won 3 Derbies, a Breeders Crown, a Victoria Cup and many more top races among his 37 wins for over $1.5 million dollars in prizemoney. But at the age of 10 has Max’s career come to an end? Judging by his atrocious performance when […]
You’re Never Too Old, Only Too Ugly – And You Can Never Accuse Brittany and Steph’s Dad of Being That – He Punches Too Hard to Take the Risk
Chariots of Fire winner the Dazzler, second from left in the front row wearing no 7, back in the glory days when he was slim DW Graham hadn’t trained a winner all year, and most people thought that the old bloke (I can say that because we’re the same age) with 4 Group 1’s, 2804 […]
Breaking News – The Ford Brothers Have Got Bail
The news hot out of the NSW Supreme Court is that the three harness racing Ford brothers – Nathan, Mitchell and Tyler – charged with serious drug offences in NSW have this afternoon been granted bail. At this stage we don’t know the terms of their interim release from jail or what bail conditions the […]
Here We Go Again, and Again, and Again – This Ain’t Normal Bubba – It Ain’t Normal At All
We have written extensively about horses connected to the McMullen clan recently improving their best times by huge margins, and here is yet one more example. Havetimetodream came across from NZ to join the Chantal Turpin/Peter McMullen stable late last year as a 4 start maiden with a best time of around 1.58.5 run on […]
Elkins Works His Magic Again
7-year-old pacer Martin Magic had won 12 races from 99 starts before being sent north to trainer Matt Elkins, the last of them a year ago in 2.01.0 at Terang, which was 8.4 seconds outside of the track record. The fastest the horse had ever previously won in was 1.58.2 at Horsham three years ago. […]
Ever Heard the Phrase “As Dead as Doornail” ……?
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM03042607.mp4 Take a look at Gary Hall Jr’s drive on the 7 A Little Silence in the last race at Gloucester Park last night. It blew from $1.70 out to $2.20. The winner Luvbite firmed $3.30 into $1.80. When you see Hall Jr’s drive you will immediately understand why. The highlight comes in the back […]