Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Mr Butterfly Your queries will be addressed in due course. As you could appreciate, we are a small operation in SA and have a number of priorities currently. With respect, it would be disingenuous to suggest you are not aware of what I’m alluding to. I attend about 65 harness meets per season. Being […]
GLOBE DERBY INVESTIGATION – Saturday 4th September HRSA Stewards have continued their investigations into the circumstances in which the registered horse LETS GET SHORTY contested Race 5 at Globe Derby Park on Saturday 4th September 2021 in place of stablemate, JAKE SPORTSWRITER. On Wednesday 8 September 2021 Stewards heard further evidence from Trainers S Loone […]
Take a look at what happens here in the last race at Victoria Harbour yesterday afternoon. Officials at the track say that the mobile lost power. Many say that the barriers weren’t tested before take 2 of the start. Fortunately if they are correct. then the arm started properly second time around. It still should […]
The Michael Stanley trained $81 shot Soho Honey Rider won the $100 000 final of the Group 2 Bathurst Gold Bracelet on Saturday night, but if it hadn’t been for driver error by Zara Fitzpatrick’s dad Blake it wouldn’t have. B. Fitzpatrick had the leader and favorite Lux Aterna’s back on his brother’s horse Libby […]
The already seemingly golden season of superstar 2yo pacers had another contender for best in show added to its ranks when the Russell Jack trained Its Confidential brained its rivals by 31m yesterday over 1760m at Wagga, running final sections of 27.9 and 26.9 to record an overall mile rate of 1.54.2. That’s super time […]
After Carter Dalgety won the last at Addington on Saturday with a brilliant steer on Watermelon Sugar, the Trackside NZ commentator declared that he was the best young driver New Zealand had seen since the days of Dexter Dunn or Anthony Butt. It’s a proposition that’s pretty hard to disagree with based on his record […]
The last race at the feature Bathurst Gold meeting on Saturday night ended after 11.00pm. After that the trainers and their drivers had to attend to swabbing requirements, wash their horses down, load them and their gear onto their floats and trucks, take them home, unload the horse, stable them and make sure they have […]
We wrote earlier about the rules being bent to allow Gary Hall Jr drive horses in races trained by others against his own horses that he trains, and here we have another example, again from Friday night. Gary Hall Jr’s (Junior’s) father Gary Hall Sr (Senior) is one of WA’s leading trainers. Junior also holds […]
152 Priorities concerning horse to be driven (1) The owner or trainer of a horse in a race shall not drive any other horse in the race except with the permission of the Chairman of Stewards. (2) A person who owns or trains more than one horse starting in a race and who desires to drive […]
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country – John F Kennedy, Inaugural Address Kevin Seymour is the first to admit that it’s been a tumultuous last six months. From being at death’s door after a heart attack to the euphoria around his boom pacer […]
