Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Freddie Taiba trained Nathan Street, the winner of last year’s NSW Breeders Crown, was second-up and only about 4/5ths fit when he contested the heats of the NSW Derby last week. Despite all this and an early gallop in the race that saw him lose 4 lengths, Taiba’s youngster somehow managed to run home […]
The hot word around the streets of Sydney’s west is that former Harness Racing NSW CEO and long-time Peter V’Landys handbag carrier and mate John Dumesny is about to be appointed to one of the three vacant independent spots on the board of the NRL club Wests Tigers. In fact the mail is that the […]
That’s not a rooster or a another derby Daz – it’s a fish! Was that Brittany Graham’s dad Darrel I spotted in the crowd during the broadcast of the NRL double header in Vegas yesterday? It sure looked like the great man who won the 2011 Chariots of Fire with triple Derby hero Lanercost, the […]
Ben Yole is back at Burnie and he wins four races, one of them as usual with every runner in the field. Chainsaw’s 72 year old father Wayne – who has trained just 3 winners in the past 15 years, but had a whole bunch of Bain/Summit/Solotrek horses transferred to him after his son was […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/BRC24022405.mp4 What the hell did this give this horse Iambecauseofyou that recently smashed the track record at Broken Hill by three seconds? Just watch it go. If this wasn’t a milkshake job and then something a bit more I’m not here. Iambecauseofyou is a good horse, but not this good. His trainers have a bit […]
This has been posted by Dean winter the ALP member for the Tasmanian state electorate of Franklin, a seat in which I once helped to run a successful campaign for the former opposition leader and Labor rat David O’Byrne. Winter says that 17 of Ben Yole’s horses have been scratched today because their drivers have […]
Jason Grimson wasn’t driving in the Chariots of Fire last night, but he still managed to totally psych out the drivers of everything in the race but his Frankie Ferocious, and it won him the race. Ever since the barriers were drawn on Monday there has been huge speculation about who might lead and how […]
Don’t Stop Dreaming ran only 6th in the Chariots of Fire tonight. Merlin beat him home for the 3rd start in a row, and after working a lot harder early in the run too. He beat him home to win the NZ 3yo of the year award too. So how does Don’t Stop Dreaming get […]
A fortnight ago we gave you the tip that HRNZ board member’s son John ‘Lurch’ Dunn was gaming the system by entering a not guilty plea to a charge of careless driving that was sure to land him a suspension if proven, and that he was doing it for the purpose of avoiding being suspended […]
