Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Spirit of Anarchy has had 50 starts both in New Zealand and Australia, and won 10 of them. The horse was trained until a few weeks ago by Victoria’s 3rd leading trainer Brent Lilley, and before that across the ditch by Cran Dalgety, one of the Kiwi’s fined. The fastest winning time he could run […]
No Notthebuttons was a very well-placed Emma Stewart trained youngster who won 9 races, none of them in particularly notable grade. After finishing third in a no-name race at Melton, he disappeared for a few months before re-emerging in the stable of Darren Elder. Elder couldn’t get him to go at all. Nine starts for […]
Wanna see a great drive? An absolute masterclass? Then look no further than Luke McCarthy’s winning drive on Steno at Albion Park tonight. It was sheer perfection, and in quite unexpected circumstances too. Drivers steer. Maestro’s adapt and perfect. Luke McCarthy is the leader of the orchesta. Just have a look and see. https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM27062608.mp4
Gee wasn’t Marketplace impressive winning at Albion Park tonight? The 4YO Kiwi was racing against horses who will next month be lining up in the heats of ID26, and he treated them with contempt. The time wasn’t anything flash, but he ran home in 26.5 and Luke never cranked him up from 3rd gear. As […]
Archie Did you watch the trial at Albion park today? Dangerous. What a disgrace to the sport this is. Apparently Grimson has only had the horse a week. He’s no GOAT, he is a fucking cheat. My mates have trained heaps of Group 1 winners and they couldn’t do that. No-one is that good. It […]
Jason Grimson has had Dangerous for at best a couple of weeks. He got it off the horse’s life long trainer Shane Sanderson, a Group 1 winner. Dangerous has always been a very good horse – he ran 4th in the 2024 Inter Dominion final – but he has never been considered a superstar. Not […]
Why the hell do some people keep trying to fix things that aren’t broken? The Auckland Trotting Club tried to become property developers so that it could ‘secure the future of harness racing’, which was already sitting pretty and travelling well. Instead they sent the sport into the abyss, and their club and track with […]
Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson had three runners in yesterday, 2 at Menangle and 1 at Albion Park. They all won. https://www.harness.org.au/racing/trainers/jason-grimson/ He has two in at the Creek on Saturday night, Tokyo Rose and Maxo Mighty. The chances are that they will too. Most of Jill’s do. And the Winter Carnival hasn’t yet really begun. The […]
Kevin Seymour is all the above. Smart in this context because he entered three mares in the QLD Sun – an automatic qualifier for the G1 Rising Sun – and thus under the preferential barrier draw by age and sex conditions of the race secured the trio the inside barriers 1-2-3. Lucky because his other […]
How on earth did the starter let the first at Melton on Saturday night go? It was clear that the horses on the back line were not up on the mobile, and were thus denied a fair start. Anyone could see it, except the starter. All three on the back row were declared non-runners by […]
