Take a look at this for a suss race. It’s the 4th at Globe Derby yesterday. Budding Caesar hasn’t won for 24 starts and a year. The 9yo’s recent form reads 06766, and in those past 5 runs its’s been beaten an average of near on 30m in each. It opens up at $41 in […]
Readers Comments Re Emma Stewart
Archie, you’ve raised basically the same questions I have about “poor Emma’s injustice”. Credit to her for pleading guilty, no doubt this got a discount of the two 6-month penalties being served cumulatively. But, after pleading guilty and copping a discount, she appeals the severity? As for the drips, I would have thought saline drips […]
The Interdom Series – By Keith From QLD
I’ll start by congratulating whoever at Albion Park decided that the series heats be Friday, Tuesday then Saturday and the final the following Saturday. It’s about time a good trots decision was made. Ok now for the honest truth! The depth of pacers just isn’t there. Without NZs best or at least some of them […]
The Worst Drive of ID23 Round 1 Without Doubt – Michael Stanley’s No Can Doo
We’ve written a couple of articles critical of Michael Stanley’s steering of Rock N Roll Doo in recent months, and here is another one on what was once the southern hemisphere’s biggest stage. Did you see Stanley’s drive on Doo in Heat 1 of ID23 last night? If you did you’ll wish you didn’t, for […]
The Wizard Casts a Spell on NZ’s Best 3YO’s
Nine months ago we told you that the star Kiwi youngster Merlin was unbeatable from the front. Merlin is the Best Horse in New Zealand – Why Kevin Seymour Might Run Away Scared Last night after finally getting there after a run of bad draws in races he had to run from the back the […]
Chainsaw Wins Five – A Moron Could Do it When They Dominate the Fields Like He Does
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole is making hay while the sun still shines until Ray Murrihy’s full report into his nefarious activities is publicly released, which surely can’t be too far away. Chainsaw won 5 of the 8 races on the card at Hobart last night, which wasn’t all too hard given that he trained most of […]
Cracker Returns Home in Triumph
Nathan Jack is from some little hillbilly hamlet called Uranquinty, about 40 minutes out of Young, which is where he cut his teeth as a junior horseman. He’s been gone a long time as his star has risen, fallen, and then risen again, but last night on Young’s biggest trot night of the year he […]
Views That We Find Impossible to Share
The connections of Magnificent Storm mustn’t have won enough by cheating to win the WA Pacing Cup, for now RWWA are holding 4 horse charity events for them. Clearly the owners and trainers are not brave enough to follow in the footsteps of Village Kid, Jack Morris and Im Themightyquinn by travelling back over to […]
Secrets, Lies and Invasions of Castles
What you see above is the lawyers for the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board’s response to trot owner Tim Vince and his non- harness racing participant neighbour’s complaint about officials of the RIB trespassing upon their properties to conduct surveillance operations for reason unknown. The RIB declare that integrity chief and former copper Neil Grimstone […]
The Tyranny of the Minority – Welcome to SA Harness Racing – The Men (and Women) Who Sold the World
Guess how many members there are of the SA Harness Racing Club, the association that runs Globe Derby? 135. Guess how many voted in the election held over the past couple of weeks for members of the club committee? 99. What this means is that the club that holds more than $18 million in property […]