Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In order to confirm or refute our contention that under CEO Matthew Isaacs watch Harness Racing Victoria is grossly failing punters and participants by operating a sub-standard swabbing regime, we decided to crunch the numbers. To do so we used the week of the Vicbred Super Series finals in the year before Isaacs took up […]
I’ve been following the trots for half a century, and never in all that time have I ever seen a betting market anything like what the one in race 5 at Cowra yesterday. $6.50 the field. Can you believe it? Some things never change though. The bookie’s we betting 126.7%. It seems the Japanese weren’t […]
Not content with having won more than $1.5 million prizemoney in Victoria and over past 10 days, Emma Stewart is now sending horses to race in Tasmania and scoop up stakes from the locals too. Stewart had 4 runners at the Apple Isle on the weekend, 1 at Hobart on Friday night and 3 at […]
In our story yesterday we predicted that Emma Stewart would win six of last night’s VicBred Super Series finals. Bang on the money we were. Stewart won every single one of the pacers final, and ran the quinella in each of them too. Her horses filled the first 7 placings in one final, the first […]
The big questions in harness racing tonight are how many of the Vicbred Super Series finals Emma Stewart wins, and how much prizemoney her stable takes home. Let’s see if we can work it out. Race 1 – 4yo Entires and Geldings Pace $150 000 Stewart trains 5 of the 12 runners in this race […]
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
So what has the Auckland Trotting Club’s president Jamies ‘Watches’ Mackinnon achieved with his messages to members sent out this morning? Let’s number them for posterity shall we? Watches has variously: Confirmed that everything peter profit has been writing about the Chinese land developer not coming up with the $90 million lump sum required to […]
The Auckland Trotting Club has filled a casual vacancy by appointing the President’s daughter to the board. No advertising of the role. No call for expressions of interest. No invitation for members to apply. No testing of the market. No merit based selection process. President Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon merely steps out of the room for […]
Early favorite Akuta is out of this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup. The Nathan Purdon trained 5YO has reportedly broken down in his early lead up work, and won’t be seen again this year, with his future is said to be under a cloud. Akuta becomes the 2nd topline pacer from the Purdon barn to […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
