Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just when we start bagging South Australia for programming 2yo trot races over the mile from the stand, the Queensland race scheduler decides to dress up like a clowns and buy a ticket to the madhouse too. Race 1 at Albion Park yesterday was a 2YO trot from a standing start. Five juvenile trotters lined […]
The appeal hearing resumes, and as per the usual practice Justice O’Brien delivers the verdict. We get the preamble first explaining the background of the matter. Reminder this is an appeal on penalty only, that penalty being a 3 week suspension. O’Brien reads out Cain’s submission that he felt Kerr was placing him in danger, […]
Supplementary From Redcliffe 4 September 2024 Race 7 Hearing 10 September 2024 Albion Park Stewards Room Stewards Panel S Shinn (Chair), W Barr, A Dowsett Stewards today inquired into the actions of Leonard Cain, driver of Three Machs, in race 7 at Redcliffe on 4 September 2024. After taking evidence from Mr Cain and viewing […]
Lenny Cain has rocked up with former trot driver turned lawyer Scott Neaves as his representative. Steve Shinn is representing the Stewards and Wayne Kelly is there as lawyer for the QRIC. The panel is Justice O’Brien, Juanita Maiden and Daryl Kays, who I must say is looking well. Cain is here to appeal a […]
Shinn is rambling and raving now. QRIC’s lawyer Kelly gives him a prod and tells him to shut up. Shinn shuts up. Panel member Maiden pipes up and asks for the race vision to be replayed so Cain can point out where exactly Kerr’s horse ran up onto him. The footage doesn’t help Cain a […]
When he was a youngster the then all-conquering All Stars Stables rated Aladdin as their best, and when early into his 3-year-old season he ran 3rd in the Group 1 Sires Stakes at Addington beating home the later Derby winners American Dealer and Krug, and then won the rich and prestigious Harness Million at Alexandra […]
True Grit was the $1.85 favorite to win the last leg of the quaddie at the Pinjarra trots yesterday. His backers started cheering when he stormed up the inside to gather in the leader and sail past him with 50 metres to go. Poor buggers failed to see the black crow sitting on the winning […]
Race 1 at Gawler yesterday served as another demonstration of the ineptness of the people currently running harness racing in South Australia, and why they need a good kick up the arse. Or so it seemed anyway. The race was a 2yo trot. Now anyone who has been around the trots for five minutes or […]
In order to confirm or refute our contention that under CEO Matthew Isaacs watch Harness Racing Victoria is grossly failing punters and participants by operating a sub-standard swabbing regime, we decided to crunch the numbers. To do so we used the week of the Vicbred Super Series finals in the year before Isaacs took up […]
I’ve been following the trots for half a century, and never in all that time have I ever seen a betting market anything like what the one in race 5 at Cowra yesterday. $6.50 the field. Can you believe it? Some things never change though. The bookie’s we betting 126.7%. It seems the Japanese weren’t […]
