Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Four-year-old Kiwi mare Xcite Me came to Australia a in July as a 13 start maiden, and didn’t look to be any world beater. She didn’t in her six starts for skilled Sydney trainer Paul Fitzpatrick either. He did get her to finally break her duck in weak race at Bathurst, but after that she […]
Injuries per 1000 starters 14 Thoroughbred 3 Harness Medical conditions per 1000 starters 610 Thoroughbred 57 Harness Deaths per 1000 starters 33 Thoroughbred 1 Harness Source – Qld Racing Integrity Commission Click to access Equine-lifecyce-and-on-track-injury-report-2023-24.pdf
We declared during the week that Luke McCarthy was the greatest driver in Australia bar none, and last night in the ID24 final the man we call Cool Hand proved us to be absolutely right. McCarthy’s drive on Don Hugo to win the final was a work of majesty and absolute mastery, a demonstration of […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14122408.mp4 I have seen some pretty questionable drives in my time, but Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen’s steer on Miki Magic in the 6th race at Albion Park last night was right up there with the best (or worst) of them. Miki Magic opened up as the equal $3.10 favorite for the race, but despite being a […]
Keep your eye on the inside tyre of the leader in this replay of race 2 at Addington on Friday night. It goes flat and comes completely off the rim at the candy pole. Somehow the horse races on its rim for a quarter mile and still manages somehow to win the race. Now that’s […]
Sophie Jack is bred to be a Group 1 winner. By Daniel Jack (Nowitzki) out of Sonia Mahar (Self Denial), her sire and dam are both winners at the elite level, as is the closely related Nathan Jack (her uncle) and both her grandsires. These bloodlines run strong, as young Sophie proved last night by […]
This morning we published a story about the protest in the last race at Kilmore last night. In the story we were critical of the decision of the HRV Stewards to relegate the winner, suggesting that they had forgotten that the Lapped On rule had been repealed, and describing the relegation as a joke. Well […]
Victorian trainers David Vozlic and Aaron Coad – the pair whose feud on social media we wrote about yesterday – just don’t know when to stop. Here they are at it again. If Harness Racing Victoria weren’t going to go after them already for breaching the Social Media Policy and/or the rules, they almost certainly […]
Former dual code licensed trainer Glenn Powell is one man who certainly won’t be going to Menangle on Saturday night to watch the ID24 final. In a week when greyhound racing has been all over the news, it’s fitting that his unavailability is all about dog. The story goes like this. Powell was out in […]
Who is the 50 something former Brisbane jockey seen chasing a much younger woman around the Cairns RSL and Rattle and Hum one recent night? Was his eventual success in the saddle due to the yarn he spun about the romance with his also much younger girlfriend having cooled off, when in fact she was […]
