Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ladbrokes have this quite unique feature on its app where all wagers placed with the bookmaker are published in live time as they are placed. The names aren’t shown but the bets are. This one was spotted by an eagle-eyed reader last night. It’s a 100 percent fair dinkum bet. $300 000 on a threes […]
Aaron Bain Racing’s rapid rise in South Australian thoroughbred racing is set to go to another level with the move to the former Lindsay Park property in Angaston. The historic horse haven in the Barossa Valley, made famous by Colin Hayes as Lindsay Park and then Kildalton Park with the McEvoy’s will be known as […]
Brad Steele – who was spotted in Christchurch earlier this week – is universally considered a certainty to get the job of CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand. But does he still want it? There is hot but unconfirmed rumor floating out of Addington that Steele is having second thoughts about accepting the position. According […]
Grant Dixon this week told Adam Hamilton that he is going to ride the rail on Leap To Fame from the inside of the 2nd-row draw on Saturday night and drive for luck, hoping that a gap opens up after the start that allows him to slip off the fence into the line. Dixon claims […]
Central north-west NSW trainer Dwayne Brown has been training for a long time, and until recently hasn’t had a whole lot of success, winning only around $125 000 in prizemoney in the 22 years from 2ooo to 2022. After more than 2 decades of trying it suddenly seemed to click for Brown in 2023, and […]
The horse may have been a “bleeder” but under the rules it’s only defined as a bleeder if there is visible blood at both nostrils, which the trainers is required to report. At the races it would/should be apparent to the vet and/or stewards. If a horse bleeds at trackwork trainers should report it, but […]
Saginaw has bled NUMEROUS TIMES. He was a bleeder when they received it in QLD. This is why it was always driven for one run; it never did any work in the run. It was a speedy horse so they wouldn’t put it away. When it spelled it’s come back bleeding heavier. Summit rarely spell […]
It appears that we will have to wait another month for the worst kept secret in harness racing to be publicly revealed, the appointment of Albion Park chairman Brad Steele as the new CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand. The timing is perfect, for that will allow Steele to serve out his time through to […]
Saginaw – trained by Seaton Grima’s close associate ‘Smokin’ Joe Connolly, a servind NSW police officer – ran in the first race at Menangle on Saturday night and finished a weakening 7th. After the race Saginaw was inspected by the vet and diagnosed with colic, which is most unusual condition for a horse who five […]
The horse Major Cyclone that you see above is an unraced trotter that is trialling at Rangiora today, which in normal circumstances would be apropros of nothing and a case of so what? But this one is a little different, for there are huge question marks over the bona fides of its registered owner and […]
