Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jason Grimson is far too good for the mere mortal trainer to match. He took the seemingly busted arse pacer HI MANAMEISJEFF from running last tailed out in a claimer to winning in Miracle Mile type time in the space of a fortnight. Who else but Emma Stewart could do that? Perhaps Clayton Tonkin, maybe. But […]
Have a captain cook at this will you? Gary Hall Jr on the heavily backed 2nd favourite Master Publisher forces his way off the fence and comes out right under Chris Voak on Carrera Mach in the purple and white on his outside. It is reckless, it is dangerous, it’s foul, and it’s a clear […]
The picture speaks for itself. Doesn’t it? IV drips are normally used to administer bleeder drugs, or to be more precise anti-bleeder drugs. Horses who are over worked on steroids or peptides usually bleed in races because they are running beyond their clean capacity. The IV infusion if the bleeder shot is to prevent it […]
The most striking feature of last night’s VICBRED Super Series wasn’t the fact that Emma Stewart won 5 of the 8 finals that her stable runners contested, or that she finished 1st 2nd and 3rd in two of them. Sadly for the sport at large, that’s become normal. It wasn’t that her trotter Susan Is […]
There is not a huge amount of difference between the case of former RIB swabbing steward Nicole Lloyd and that of Jason Grimson, other than the inherent conflict of interest in RIB members who once may have worked with Lloyd hearing and determining the matter. Lloyd was at the pub down the road from the […]
Darrel Graham is a very good harness racing trainer. He has won more races than most punters have had hot dinners, with some pretty good ones among them too including the Triads, Derbies and the Chariots of Fire. So you can see that the Dazzler is no slouch when it cones to teaching a pacer […]
We wrote earlier about the dearth of Free For All class pacers in the North Island of New Zealand, and how it is indicative of a real problem within the sport. The problems seem to be here in the deep south of the South Island too, places like Invercargill where this Friday’s 8 race program […]
Once upon a time NZ Free For All racing in the north island featured fields full of the highest class horses in the land. Now due to the mass outflow of horses sold or transferred to Australia it has come to this. A five horse field for a $20 000 FFA, with one horse – […]
The appeal of Jason Grimson’s mate Justin ‘Tatts’ Downey has just concluded. It was a bit of a fizzer, highlighted by the fact that neither Murdoch KC for Downey or – more particularly -Michael Copley KC for the QRIC seemed to have any knowledge at all about the history of matters of assault on a […]
A lot has been said about the Eureka, but very little has been spoken about the incredible training performance of Ahmed Taiba to bring Captain Ravishing into the mile and a half race first-up and run 3rd. It should be, for it was an outstanding achievement. With all the problems that the Captain has had, […]
