Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Betterzippit was a good horse but by no means a great one when he was in New Zealand. He won 5 races from 28 starts, three of them at the B-grade Cambridge circuit, one at the C-grade Manawatu course, and only one – a rating 49 to 58 affair – at the metro Alexandra Park […]
Who said prizemoney is everything in Australian harness racing? The Seymour’s K. and K. AM collected $285 000 to add to their billion when Leap To Fame won last year’s A.G. Hunter Cup. This year due to Harness Racing Victoria’s dire financial straits they will take home only $142 500 less deductions when he goes […]
Last Saturday week the Stewards interviewed starter Jason Suli seeking an explanation for his decision to call a false start when two runners, one of them the heavily backed favorite Savage Storm, galloped separately free of any interference to them and causing no interference to any other runner. As much as punters might be aggrieved […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM25012501.mp4 When Hot And Treacherous won 1st-up for new trainer John Livingstone in late November, we all thought for a fleeting moment that the former Kiwi pacer had reversed the long running trend of horses being ruined as racing propositions when they leave Jason Grimson’s care (if you call it that). Sadly were wrong. Hot […]
Do you remember that Kiwi clown called Mark Jones? It’s okay if you don’t, because he’s not very memorable. Jones is the South Island trainer who threatened to sue us a year or back after we wrote a story featuring him that the poor precious dear didn’t like. He even went so far as to […]
Will Rixon drove he and Valley Start into a bit of bother in the 2nd race at Menangle on Tuesday afternoon. Rixon was 3rd the fence when they reached the straight for home, but rather than wait for the gap to appear he decided to make it appear, so he pushed out underneath Sofia Arvidsson […]
Mate I normally agree with pretty much everything you write but not with what you written about Will Rixon. If you see the video and look closely you notice that the wheels jam together tight and that’s because Sofie has a UFO gig which are bad for this happening with and everyone knows this. Instead […]
King Island is not a very big place. Only 1600 people live there. Few of them are involved in the trots. At the meetings run so far this summer only four trainers have turned out a horse. Two of them are the father and son team of Peter and James Jakowenko. Shane Keeler is another. […]
In late 2023 the trotter Melpark Magic was disqualified from its win in a race in January after throwing a positive swab to the anti-inflammatory drug Flunixin. That sounds pretty standard, except for just one thing. According to the official Harness Racing Australia records which are based on information provided by the States the horse […]
Riverina based trot trainer Phillip Martin has been disqualified for 9 years after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the powerful anaesthetic 3-hydroxybupivacaine after a recent win at Albury. Mr Martin is obviously a slow learner. It was his sixth positive swab. If brains were dollars some people would be bankrupt. Phillip Martin would […]
