Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well respected former bookies clerk Fred Crews has had some major successes as an owner in both codes of racing, not the least of which was winning the Sydney 2YO Triple Crown with Dance Hero and the Inter Dominion with Maori Law. One thing he’d never done before yesterday though was land a Trotters FFA […]
Tim Williams is 3 back the fence as the film rolls, in the black and white Stonewall Stud colors We’ve written before about how New Zealand driver Tim Williams seems to have an inside run with the RIB Stewards and Adjudicators, both of whom are employed or contracted by a 5 person board, one of […]
Archie You’re living in dream land thinking that Merlin can beat Leap to Fame in the NZ Trotting Cup. Larry the legend will do to the great fake Merlin what the Kiwis have done to their own industry in NZ. The great Merlin got carted into Friday night’s race at Alexandra Park by team driving […]
Way back to before he even had his first start we have been telling people that the Kiwi pacer Merlin was a champion, and by now most people agree, including the judges who last weekend named him the NZ 2023 Horse of the Year. On the strength of what we saw last night in the […]
Leading NSW trot trainer Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor has lost his challenge at the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel against his 6 month disqualification for presenting Chubby Checker to race with the prohibited substance levamisole in its system. The Appeals Panel’s decision is yet to be handed down so we can’t elaborate on the reasons for […]
You have never seen a slaughter job in your life as bad as this one by Alana Cameron aboard King Arthur. Her error of judgement cost this horse the win in this race for all money. The Stewards charged Cameron with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to ensure that King Arthur was […]
QLD Derby winner Major Hot was sent out as the heavily backed favorite in the 1st race at Menangle on Saturday night. The punters who backed the horse were robbed. Major Hot loomed up to go to the lead on the turn with a lap to go and wouldn’t have been beaten if he had […]
Keepcrackingjokes is a 6yo pacer trained (on paper) by Maryanne Laffan, driven by her partner Steven Matson, and owned by Matson’s daughter Dellareece. On Tuesday night the horse turned out to race in an NR up to 34 affair at Albury, the track where it had last won a race fifteen starts back in December […]
In a week in which the hapless Harness Racing Victoria have announced the first of what are certain to be several tranches of cuts to prizemoney and bonuses that will devastate the sport in the State, we get a vivid illustration of what ails the sport by the fields for the feature age group races […]
The protest decision in race 3 at Menangle on Saturday night was an interesting one. The driver of the 2nd horse Promiseland protested against the winner Foxy Dada under rule 155, on the grounds that it raced roughly and broke gait prior to the finish therefore gaining an unfair advantage. Under the old rule 155A Foxy […]
