Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Christian Cullen was like a shooting star, he exploded onto the scene and took all before him and then he was gone, banished to the breeding barn by cruel injuries that slowed him down. Not before he had won 12 from 12 his four year old season though. His win in the Miracle Mile was […]
How strange it is that the rise of NZ South Island trainer Craig Ferguson coincides so neatly with the fall of his close friend Cam Jones, the disgraced drug cheat currently serving a long stint in the sin bin. Up until Jones got caught red handed on race day throwing a syringe in a bin […]
A special Melbourne Cup fund-raiser for Katie Cox is being held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 7. The talented Canterbury-based trainer-driver has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung cancer. Her plight has prompted a massive outpouring of support from within the harness racing community, with a trust already set up to […]
The announcement of the life disqualification of the obviously continued incorrigible live baiter Anthony Bullock is welcome breath of fresh air from a fetid Tasmanian racing environment. Bullock – the mate of Ben Yole, and the man who chainsawed his unwanted horses into pieces and fed them to his hounds – has been put out […]
A most curiously named 2YO gelding raced in a heat of the Sires Stakes at Ashburton yesterday. His name was Auntie Deb. One wag has suggested that he’s the Boy Named Sue of the 21st century. It’s hard to disagree. He reminds me more though of the Tony Herlihy trained 4YO mare that’s currently racing […]
A young employee of Yole Harness Racing Stables who was involved in a serious accident that killed four horses and left three passengers injured has fronted court charged with five offences. Rowella woman Lily Kathleen Blundstone, 21, appeared in Launceston Magistrates Court on Tuesday. She is charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm by […]
Rex Horne is a former Chairman of both the NSW Harness Racing Club (was Harold Park, now Menangle) and Harness Racing NSW, and the recipient of Australian Harness Racing’s highest award, the Ern Manea medal. The grandstand at Menangle is named in his honour. Leon Jurd is one of his close friends. The pair share […]
Shayne Cramp trained six of the seven winners at Mildura that fateful night in November, all of them no doubt filled to the eyeballs with juice, but it’s the 7th one that he didn’t drive himself that is of interest, for I suspect he fixed that one too. The second suspect race was race no […]
Almost 10 years after the Cramp race fix occurred the great unsolved question about the whole thing remains exactly that, unsolved. How did Gary Hall Jr get out of the whole thing unscathed? There has never been any suggestion that Hall was involved in the fix – he couldn’t have been, because he was on […]
NZ trot driver John Dunn is having a horrible run of outs, with it being 45 starts ago that he last steered home a winner. His wife and his father’s training partnership is going even worse. It’s been 64 starts since the premiership table toppers last greeted the judge. What the hell is going on […]
