Only 7 days ago Max Delight won the Bendigo Cup off the back of a genius Nathan Cracker Jack drive. That made it 3 in a row for the reborn veteran, who all of a sudden looked to be running on young legs. Hurricane Harley was a tough thing beaten in the same race off […]
It’s All Just Bubbles and Froth
Well our gallops tips today were shite – 1 winner and 4 placings from 11 races – but the trots are our speciality, and over there we were spot on. Earlier in the week we tipped you Illavabubbles as a good thing, and urged you to get on early. We hope you did, because you […]
Could You Possibly Believe That the Inside Didn’t Win?
The picture you are seeing above is a still shot from the replay of the finish in race 3 at Shepparton last night, You can see as well as I can. How could the inside possibly have been beaten? But it was. If this isn’t the worst camera angle in the world then I don’t […]
Was the 3rd at Launceston a Wee Bit Red Hot?
It’s not the best look in the world for harness racing when a $1.20 favourite that leads on a track with no sprint lane kicks away needlessly at the 600m mark with it’s stablemate sitting on it’s back and smoking the pipe. The first rule of trot driving is that you always keep the one […]
Oh, Oh, Oh, Rickie’s on Fire
After God knows how many years of training, and 10 Group 1 winners, all of sudden Rickie Alchin has caught ablaze again. Last night he took two horses to race at Newcastle, and both of them won. That was an easy 10 grand for a 6 hour drive. The cash was good, but the best […]
Aussies That You’d Love to Have With You in the Trench
The video below is of the terrible fall in the 2nd race at Melton last night. The leader drifts off the fence slightly, and the driver of the horse on its back tries to slip up inside it. Without a head on replay we don’t know if there was a run there or not, but […]
A Tip or Three For the Nelson (Richmond) Trots Today
The overnight word out of Woodend Beach is to back horses trained by the little known small time mentor Kyle Austin at the Nelson trots today. Apparently Austin has been seen in Nelson recently in the somewhat close company of a Group 1 winning expat trainer who knows their way around plungers, nebulisers, drenches and […]
Who Reads Rule Books These Days Anyway?
Scroll through to 2:45 of this video below and watch the leader. In particular watch Allanon’s inside wheel. https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC09012413.mp4 Did you see what I saw, and the bloke who told me about it too? Driver Nathan Dawson took it inside at least 4 marker pegs coming around the turn, maybe 5. You can’t do that, […]
The Tragedy of Temora
Temora is one of the few towns in the world known for a trotter, or a pacer to be more correct. That pacer’s name was Paleface, Paleface Adios. He won 108 races across the length of the country, and was one of the greatest champions Australia had ever seen. The little town he came from […]
Harold From Hampden Park Responds to the Debate on Horse Deaths
Sir, In my original correspondence with you I was making an attempt to answer your question ‘Why did Jilliby Jetpack drop dead and die?’ (sic). The answer to this question is because it was a racehorse and these things happen. I made the point that it does happen but is rare. I wrote probably about […]