Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A place for everything, and everything in its place. This durable dictum, most often attributed to prolific polymath and American forefather, Benjamin Franklin seems, on face value, to represent a truism simplistic and self-evident by nature. In spite of initial appearance, however, this plaintive platitude, this fundamental cliché has confused and confounded its adherents in […]
No doubt the harness media who are on the payroll of either HRV, or certain trainers, owners or breeders will wax lyrical about the Emma Stewart stable getting 27 runners in the 72 horse fields for next week’s rich Group 1 Breeders Crown finals, and for sure they will be acclaiming her 9 wins in […]
Colt Thirty One didn’t gallop off the mark. He broke into a skip after he had paced about three strides. The skip only lasted for about 10m, and then Grant Dixon got him straight down again. Putting him to the outside of the draw for that seems a bit rough. I suppose the Stewards are […]
The now 10-year-old Bernie Winkle lined up at Mildura last night at his 3ooth lifetime start in a race aptly named Congratulations Bernie Winkle 300 Race Pace, and the great warhorse delivered. It was his 64th career win and, by my count, his 41st victory at Mildura, which is an incredible achievement for a pacer […]
Lannoch Boy was backed from $2.90 into $1.55 to win at Penrith last night. He didn’t. The poor bugger went like a busted arse. It’s stablemate Saginaw was specked as well. That horse went real good. It won and run a time that was just 7/10th’s of a second outside the track record. I am […]
Back to the TAB Eureka and Dixon said he felt a mix of pride and deflation with second spot. “It looked like our race to win, but you can’t expect any more from him,” he said. “You wonder if I’d done anything differently, would it have changed the result, but I’m not to know that some horses […]
Tim Vince is probably the most interesting bloke in harness racing. He doesn’t look much, but that’s deliberate because he is as smart as a whip, and knows that looks can kill, or get you robbed and killed. So it’s all a blind, and probably comfortable too. The stories T. Vince could tell would fill […]
It’s a cracker of a meeting at Melton this weekend with the semi-finals of the Breeders Crown series at various ages and sexes filling the massive 12 race card. Emma Stewart dominates the entries with 36 horses nominated across 11 of the semis, and she can be expected to win a minimum of 5 of […]
It’s not a bad effort to have 8 horses in a race and not run a place is it? Ben Yole did it in the the race at Launceston on Sunday night. This is what you get from buy, drug, race til they drop then dispose in bulk merchants like Yole, the multiple time Australian […]
The question is this. How does the NR120 rated pacer Act Now – the winner of 19 races from 40 starts, including the 3YO Breeders Crown, the Victoria Derby, 2 heats of ID22 and 3rd placegetter in the final, and earner of just $700 000 at the tender age of 5 – get balloted out […]
