Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is lot of conjecture about the 3rd race at Newcastle on Wednesday night, the suggestion being that it was a Turnbull team drive fix. I am not so sure that I agree with it. Rather than explain both sides of the argument, I will give you some required background info and let you work […]
The very strong mail is that a Stockman Stud owned horse trained in the North Island stable by Steve Telfer has thrown a positive swab. At the moment the horse is not known, but the substance is believed to be phenylbutazone or something similar. It will all come out next week. In the meantime stable […]
Last night at Melton they kicked off the ridiculous series of fifteen 1200m races run over three weeks as part of HRV’s self proclaimed and much acclaimed exciting new plan to invigorate harness racing and spike turnover upwards and through the roof. This was the sort of racing that all the imaginary young folk out […]
There are still slots available in the Eureka, where the holder is yet to make a choice. The field of 4-year-olds is skinny. A 3yo is a risk. It’s one I would take though. Better Be The Best is the one that anyone looking for their runner wants. He is the forgotten horse in the […]
I dunno where Jason Bonnington has been for past two months. He has sort of disappeared off the face of the earth. Maybe he’s sick. Perhaps he’s travelling the world. He might be on a secret assignment. His family may have suffered a tragedy. He could even be writing a book of alliterative poetry. Hopefully […]
Misterfourthousand is a wee 2-year-old who at his first prep was good enough to win a heat of the Gold Crown. He has panels on the lower class pacers running around at Bathurst on a Wednesday night in NR 48 races, despite being only a pup. Which is why he started at $1.12 off the […]
I have to admit that I was skeptical at first about media personality Yvonne Sampson’s appointment to the board of Harness Racing NSW, presuming that it was just tokenism. What a dickhead I was. Sampson is an extraordinary woman, and a hugely worthy selection to steer NSW harness racing into the future. She’s a horse […]
Albion Park is being shut down, sooner rather than later. No-one seems to know the exact date of lights out yet, but it is looking very much like it’s going to be somewhere between after next years Winter Carnival and Xmas 2024. Albion Park have absolutely no say in this. The club doesn’t own the […]
The word from the Creek is that the Stewards are going to lay racing rule breach charges at Jason Grimson and Jack Trainor over the melee at Albion Park on Blacks A Fake night, and that their penalties for bringing racing into disrepute are likely to be very stern. That’s the least of the pair’s […]
Every rugby league fan know who the young man standing second from the left it. It’s Peter V’Landys of course. The bloke to his left (as we are watching) is less well known to people outside of the harness racing bubble. His name is John Dumesny, the recently retired CEO of Harness Racing NSW. The […]
