Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing NSW has just announced Chocolate Starfish as one of their headline musical acts at the feature Carnival of Cups meeting at Newcastle. For a sport that’s heyday is well in the past, it’s probably appropriate. Chocolate Starfish – which by the way is colloquial slang for asshole – have only ever has one […]
We keep asking questions about the competence of the current batch of QLD trot Stewards, and the answers we are getting aren’t good. What happened on Friday night is yet another illustration. It was standing start trot race, with eight horses drawn off 20m. That’s okay, because they start 8 across from the stand at […]
Emma Stewart continued her annual pillage of the Vicbred series last night at Melton by winning all four finals that she contested, and her stable taking home around $370 000 in prizemoney. That’s not as much as in previous years, due to HRV slashing stakes, but it’s still a pretty good night at the office. […]
I have been having a long running debate with some prominent harness racing identities about which position in running is better for your chances, the 1-1 or 3 back the fence. Almost to a person they say 3 back on the paint. I disagree. So to give us a point of reference, I decided to […]
The story we published earlier this morning about APG funding sales races tonight was wrong. They are of course Vicbred Super Series finals being run tonight at Melton, not APG sales series races. APG are merely sponsoring the races, not paying the prizemoney. Our bad. Wd have made an appointment for a new set of […]
We told you that the 2YO Kiwi trotter Duke of Bourbon was unbeatable if it didn’t gallop. But that is was every chance of doing so. It did. 30 meters out from the line when it was home to the world. This horse will be a ripper if Scott Phelan and Barry Purdon can ever […]
An asymmetrical return is a favorable risk-reward skew where you make substantially more when you are right than you lose when you are wrong. Investing strategies based on this approach focus on identifying opportunities where the potential upside significantly outweighs the potential downside, thereby creating a favourable risk-reward scenario. Which is why I think the […]
I hate to be the one who has to tell the QLD trot Stewards this, but the $2.40 favorite Sir Brigadoon in the third race at Redcliffe on Monday didn’t break gait as the starter – who is not a starter but is only doing the job because the real ones are stood down for […]
HRV CEO Matt Isaacs told attendees at the organization’s annual presentation held at Bendigo last week that harness racing only gets 3 cents in every dollar that is bet the sport. What he said though is not quite true. In fact it is not true at all. Wagering Service Providers – bookmakers or the TAB […]
When you have three minutes spare take a look at the excerpt below from CEO Matt Isaacs address to Victorian harness racing industry participants at last week’s HRV annua presentation. Isaacs says that he and his HRV Chairman Bernard Saundry are meeting with the leaders of Harness Racing NSW to reshape the businesses, and says […]
