Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The defense lawyer for Ben Yole’s float driver in the terrible accident last year that left 2 young stable workers with permanent injuries has told the court that his client and the 4 other Yole employees in the car towing the float had worked from 7.30am on the day before the crash through to 1.45am […]
By Jessica Moran A 21-year-old former stable hand who crashed an unregistered and overloaded horse float last year has been sentenced to ten weeks’ jail, wholly suspended. Lily Blundstone was driving a white ute that was towing a loaded horse float at about 1:45am on January 30 last year, when it crashed on the Batman […]
53.40% CLAYTON TONKIN 40.60% AARON BAIN 38.67% EMMA STEWART 37.31% RYAN HYRHOREC 32.64% GARY HALL SR 30.72% MARGARET LEE 29.62% GREG AND SKYE BOND 27.10% JASON GRIMSON 26.00% SEATON GRIMA
There is not much good that you can read into the results from the just concluded APG National Mixed Standardbred Sale. On almost every metric it was a gross failure. Clearance rates were atrocious, with only just over 1 in 6 lots being sold. That means that just under 5 in every 6 horses offered […]
Sales Numbers (Sold/Lots) 2019 – 61/113 2020 – 98/193 2021 – 107/198 2022 – 79/205 2024 – 33/176 Sales Volume (Totals) 2019 – $422 450 2020 – $600 950 2021 – $688 900 2022 – $515 800 2024 – $190 650 2024 (Exc. top lot) – $100 650 Clearance Rates 2019 – 54.46% 2020 – […]
Lots offered – 176 Lots sold – 33 Clearance rate – 18.75% Gross volume – $190 650 Average price – $5 777 Average price (excluding top priced lot) – $3 145 Average price (excluding top 5 priced lots) – $1 916 Median price – $1 750 Top price – $90 000 Second top price – […]
This is an opinion piece written by a long time harness racing participant and reader. The words are theirs, only the name has been changed to protect their identity. The views published below are Bill’s not our own, although we do agree with a number of them. Archie APG mixed sale results = 31 sold […]
Tasracing’s allocation of its slot in the Eureka to last night’s Beautide winner Fighter Command is farcical. The horse may be bred in Tasmania and owned largely by Tasmanians, but it is trained in Victoria by a Victorian trainer and driven by a Victorian driver, and until last night it had never raced in Tassie […]
Outside of the State drivers premiership, in which the energizer bunny James Herbertson leads by 36 wins and has at his mercy, the race for the rest of the Victorian titles is as close as its been in recent memory. Mark Pitt and Greg Sugars are tied at the top of the metropolitan drivers ladder […]
Major Moth had 28 starts for Australia’s leading trainers Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin. It won 13 of them. The fastest winning time it ran was 1.54.3. Last night Major Moth won under double wraps over 2138m at Albion Park first-up from a 9 month spell. It was the horse’s first start for its new trainer […]
