Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
SUNDAY 23 JUNE HARNESS racing’s two biggest guns Leap To Fame and Swayzee will lock horns again earlier than expected and deliver by far the biggest race Redcliffe has hosted. In an absolute coup, connections of both superstars have confirmed they will tackle Saturday night’s $100,000 Group 2 Redcliffe Gold Cup. Adding to the occasion, […]
The Cup has been max 20 metre handicap for a long time – Darren Garrard, Chaiurman of the QLD Breeders Owners Trainders Reinspersons Association (BOTRA) https://x.com/dgreleven/status/1805169236337455424?s=43&t=zeWZ5rLZxhvas4bZl21PLA Under the conditions of the Redcliffe Cup, Swayzee and Leap To Fame will share the maximum handicap of 20m on Saturday night – Adam Hamilton, paid contributor writing on […]
Jason Grimson’s cup of top class contenders for the Blacks a Fake looks to be overflowing. Swayee, Nerano, Frankie Ferocious, District Attorney, Hotandtreacherous, Himynsmeisjeff. How many once unsound horses turned super fast freaks can a single trainer have in his stable? The answer is that there is always room for one more star, and Grimson […]
I’m no mathematician, and neither is my friend the Librarian, but we both looked at the fields for the Launceston trots last night and thought exactly the same thing. What are the odds of one trainer having 7 horses entered in 7 races and from them pulling 5 x gate 1 and a gate 2? […]
Warning – This Stewards Report is satirical, and the events detailed in it didn’t in the main really happen. People without a sense of humor should only view when under Parental Guidance. RACE ONE – ALLIED EXPRESS PACE 2300m BLUTO NZ: When questioned about the defeat of the favorite BLUTO NZ trainer/driver B. Hewitt advised […]
On Friday night it was Leap To Fame who went down at unbackable odds of $1.04, last night it was Swayzee who got beaten at$1.08. Both red hot faves went down for the same reason. They went too slow early with a devastating finisher glued to their back, allowing the horse behind them to keep […]
I wrote last year that if Leap To Fame had just one flaw it was that while he can reel off a quartet of sub 28 second quarters that crush his rivals into the ground, history had proven that he couldn’t run his final quarter under race conditions in any faster than about 26 1/2 […]
The trick to working out sectional times is not to take them at their published value, because some horses in a race cover more ground than others by sitting one off the fence in the death or running line, or coming home wide like bad draws in when in Melbourne so often forced District Attorney […]
Jason Grimson didn’t make District Attorney run any faster. The horse could always go fast, and had proven it 3 times in his last 4 runs at Melton when he went his last splits in 26.02, 25.88 and 25.72. Grimson didn’t need to do much at all with him. All District Attorney needed to beat […]
The mail out of the North Island is that dual-code trainer Graeme ‘Rogie’ Rogerson, whose joint training arrangement with Dylan Ferguson ended about a month ago when Ferguson resigned, will soon set up a new training partnership with widely respected horseman James Stormont (pictured below). Stormont, who is presently working down in Christchurch at Claymore […]
