Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer Mario Borg has scratched hiswhole team from meetings three times lately. We called him on each occasion to ask why. The first time he said that the oppressive heat conditions in Adelaide that weekend presented a welfare risk to his animals. Time two he was sick. Third time around he couldn’t run at the […]
Hi Archie Save your bank for a new set of glasses for yourself re Catch A Wave. His run wasn’t just one of the best runs of the year, but one of the best runs of the decade. You probably don’t appreciate that it is impossible to get around GP when you are three wide […]
I must have been watching a completely different race at Gloucester Park on Friday night than Adman Hamilton, for how else could you explain his assessment that Catch A Wave’s run when beaten by a bunch of WA walkers was a bottler? It wasn’t at all. It was ordinary. Sure Catch A Wave was posted […]
Brendan Barnes drove the $1.70 favorite Promising in the 4th race at Albion Park on Saturday night. Drove it like a lunatic straight to destruction. Barnes took Promising straight to the death off the gate, but at no stage did he have a dig for the lead. The lead time was run in a flying […]
A lot of trot people won’t like this, but the new cognitive testing requirements introduced by Harness Racing NSW are a hugely positive thing. I grew up watching and worshipping Tke King Wally Lewis, the greatest rugby league player of my lifetime. One of the toughest too. Wally’s ability to take a hard knock and […]
I wonder which one of these is the horse owned by the HRA Chairman’s wife? Wayne Yole has 42 runners at the Launceston meeting on Sunday night. That is more than he has had in any entire season since 2007/8, with the exception of 2021 when he had 43 starters across the year. They are […]
This is the photo finish of the 1st race at the Mt Gambier trots on Sunday afternoon. The judge declared it a dead heat. But is it? My eyes are far from perfect at my age, but it looks to me as if there is a narrow margin for the outside horse. I may be […]
Everyone’s favorite Queenslander Keith sent in his synopsis of the two slot races in New Zealand on Friday night. He tipped the exacta in order in both. The one in the trot slot race paid $6.80, and in the pace it paid $13.80. Keith of course had done his dough on the gallops before the […]
Joe Nien is an old pacer now aged 9. No 9YO gets any faster than they were than when they were young as a general rule. But Joe breaks the rules. Last night he had his 2nd run back in the stable of Leon Jurd, the best mate and private trainer for Rex Horne, the […]
The Albion Park Raceway will play no role in the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite once being touted as the likely site of a new Brisbane stadium. The Queensland government opted to rebuild the Gabba instead, until an independent review this week recommended a new stadium at Victoria Park. The government then decided not to have an […]
