Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We friar tucked the fix in race 5 at Addington tonight after blowing Charlie Brown’s cover with our story overnight. The others read it too, leading to rival driver Robbie Close declaring before the race that he wasn’t going to allow the Dunns to get one over him and everyone else, and he meant it. […]
You’ve never seen a team drive in your life like the Stonewall crew’s job in the 6th at Addington. The heavily backed favorite Ohoka Connor flies over from the outside of the front and goes to the lead. Almost the second that he gets there, Jonny Cox on the stablemate Alta Meteor which has blown […]
It’s hard to guess what Adam Richardson was thinking when he pulled the $2.80 favorite Racketeer off the leaders back and into the 1-1 on the back of Allmighty Max in the death seat That pacer had done a power of work in the run and isn’t known as one who can do that and […]
The word out of the apple island is that Tasracing, still reeling after its big defeat at the Racing Appeal Board, are making application to the Supreme Court to prevent Ben Yole from racing his stable horses in his planned comeback to the track this week. The grounds for the mooted application are unknown at […]
How can Ben Yole have horses racing this weekend at Hobart & Burnie when they haven’t and can’t have been in the care of a licensed trainer for the last 28 days as required by the rules, given that until a week ago Yole was warned off? If you are warned off, obviously you can’t […]
The hot mail from New Zealand is that the fix is on Race 5 tomorrow at Addington. This is how it is supposed to work. The horse drawn the pole Charlie Brown, driven by Lurch Dunn, is the one. The plan is to back it heavily, and make sure that it wins. Blair Orange is […]
The verdict in the case of the prominent NZ harness racing licensee charged with sexual offences against boys in his care is expected to be handed down tomorrow. It is said that the licensee blamed the boys for initiating sexual contact with him. What a load of crap. This sort of defense just goes to […]
Something real strange went on in race 6 at Mildura last night, but we can’t tell you what because the race was abandoned and the replay hasn’t been put up so you can see what. All we can say is that it involved the Naomi Kerr trained horse and the pair trained by Julie Douglas, […]
You’ve read the official report about race 7 at Albion Park yesterday at the top of this story. The Chief Steward Steve Shinn – a former top level trot driver who once steered Pure Steel, and a man well known to be partial to a bet – allows the cousins Nathan Dawson and Pete ‘Noddy’ […]
