Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Kiwi junior driver David Anderson was outed for a month on Sunday for failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to give his horse Bobbie’s Rock its best chance of winning race 10 at Forbury Park. It was the wrong offence. Anderson should have been charged with Slaughter. Bobbie’s Rock was the favorite in […]
The heats are over. We’ve been to Newcastle and then to Bathurst and back. Only the fittest survived. Twelve of them. The ID24 field. One will become champion. Who will it be? In a weeks time we will know. Before then though let’s have a re-look the highlights and lowlights of the series so far. […]
Hopple shorteners – are controlled by the driver and he/she may shorten the early length of stride the horse may take in the first strides from a standing start or mobile start to help eliminate the possibility of the horse going into a full stretch gallop and losing all chance. When the driver is content that […]
The hardest job in harness racing this year is being a judge of the Australian Harness Racing Awards. There are three outstanding candidates, each of whom have undeniable claims to the Horse of the Year Award. Leap To Fame would have been regarded as a certainty to win it three months ago, but with the […]
I wonder why the Wagga Stewards would have required trainer Jake Stockton to hold back his $71.oo winner Shoobees Charm back 3 hours for post-race swabbing? Was it because a couple of weeks before he had ducked one of his horses off the course early before it could be swabbed? Could it be because Shoobees […]
Far be it for me to question Queensland’s leading reinsman Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen about his driving tactics in races, but please allow me the indulgence of doing so on this one occasion. My question relates to the race in replay above, and it is this. How far would the favorite Aardies Money have won race […]
Club Menangle CEO Bruce Christison has been openly critical of Harness Racing NSW in the club’s recently released annual report, lending weight to rumors that all is not well between NSW’s richest club and the Principal Racing Authority. The issue behind the rift is the distribution of the State’s harness racing wagering revenue, which Menangle […]
First came the Miracle Mile. Next the Ladyship Mile. The Battle of Beersheba came after that. Then there was the Eureka. And now we have Club Menangle’s newest race. The extract at the top is from Menangle’s 2023/24 Annual Report. Cost pressures obviously meant that they had to make the proof reader redundant. But in […]
This is the race that was the catalyst for the QRIC Stewards seizing Nathan Dawson’s phone. It is race 2 at Marburg on the 7th of April 2024, run over the sprint distance of 1850m. Dawson is driving the odds-on favorite Kiwi Royalty trained by Trent Hodges. Kiwi Royalty is drawn the 1, and is […]
Many are wondering how Its Tough got a run in Friday night’s NZ Derby at Addington over Next Level, who has been made 1st emergency despite having a higher rating than the other horse. https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/fields/120632fd.htm#field-66311-race-8-dl The answer is simple. The horses who were 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Group 1 Canprint Flying Stakes at […]
