Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Clayton Tonkin rolled another 2yo off his production line last Friday night at Shepparton that could prove to be the number 1 juvenile in his team. Always Hot was the horse’s name. It won on debut beating the high classs 3-time winner from the Aaron Dunn stable Forty Love. That wasn’t the best of it […]
It seems a bit harsh being critical of the drive of a 16-year-old reinsperson, but when they are the youngest person ever to drive 100 winners, and sit 5th on the State premiership ladder like the wunderkind Jett Turnbull does it makes him fair game, particularly when his steer costs punter hundreds of thousands of […]
34.02% – Jason Grimnson 33.0% – Emma Stewart 27.27% – Brad Hewitt 23.4% – Seaton Grima 20.93% – Jack Trainor 13.53% – Luke McCarthy 12.73% – Rickie Alchin 10.81% – Joe & Mary Rando 10.60% – Jarrod Alchin 7.10% – Kerry Ann Morris
Clayton’s Tonkins team of two-year-olds have only been racing for 3 months. In that time he had 18 juveniles race. 14 of them have won a race. That gives Clayton Tonkin a winner to starter strike rate of 77.8% The team of 18 have had 40 starts between them for 22 wins and 12 placings. […]
Two years ago we told you that the then 2-year-old Merlin was the best pacer in New Zealand. Want to See the Best Pacer Since Lazarus? We weren’t whistling Dixie were we? Here we are being provem right. Look out Mr Seymour AM and Larry in the NZ Cup. The Wizard’s going to take Australia’s […]
Published on Save Harness Racing in Tasmania I thought I’d prepare a guide for those intending to gain a Trainer’s Licence in the Harness Racing Industry in Tasmania as there are places available. You should be wary of any previous indiscretions you may have committed when a young adult, as those can come back to […]
Brittany Graham stepped up to the world stage on the weekend with her coverage of the North American Cup, and she did herself, her family and Queensland proud. I was going to sat what an honor it was for Britt to get North American harness racing’s biggest gig, but that would be painting it all […]
Cameron Fitzpatrick was a star of the NSW harness racing scene in the early part of the century who by the time he reached his mid-20’s had won a Metropolitan Drivers Premiership and been awarded the prestigious Harold Park Medal, and was considered one of the top ten horseman in the industry. What no-one knew […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14062416.mp4 A number of questions arise from Peter McMullen’s drive on Antetokounmpo in the race above, which was the 8th at Albion Park on Friday night. The first is why McMullen took the 3rd favorite out of the perfect 1-1 trail and put it 3-back on the fence in a pocket instead? It was a […]
Back to yesterday’s about the ongoing rort being openly pulled by the Dunn stable in New Zealand, whose horses are falsely registered as being trained by John Dunn’s father and wife so that he can circumvent the rules about trainers driving their own horses. Well it didn’t take long for an illustration of the rort […]
