Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The hot gossip last night at Cambridge was that Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen are no more, and all is not well in what used to be the Stars. The All Stars. They say that Nat the Rat only found out about the new situ yesterday and was absolutely spewing, although given her avowed aversion […]
Stop laughing ya bugger, it’s not funny Melbourne Merv Butterworth is a man whose cups currently floweth over. He owns the elite class NZ 3YO Sharp N Smart, AND he owns the champion pacer Copy That. Some people have all the luck, but it’s earned not gained. Merv told me Copy That was a certainty. […]
Dean Elliott (top), and Flik from A Bugs Life (above). Twins separated at birth. Despite all the bullshit, bluster and bluff, it appears that one way or another Ben Yole is stuffed. That is blindingly obvious by the fact that Harness Racing SA CEO Dean ‘Flik’ Elliott is openly telling harness racing participants that he has […]
Back when I grew up in Geebung, if your dog bit the drunk next door who beat the crap out of his wife so hard every night that she screamed and wailed the Council would seize it and take it to the pound and put it down. Not the prick who took his belt to […]
Harness Racing NSW have dismissed suggestions that a number of horses were ineligible to race at Riverina Paceway on Saturday night. While the Wagga Pacers Cup was part of the program, chief executive John Dumesny confirmed Carnival of Cups conditions, which would have ruled out a number of New Zealand bred pacers from competing, did […]
We’ve received correspondence strongly suggesting that our story yesterday about Matthew Anderson being over in New Jersey working for harness racing stable was wrong. We are still attempting to follow the issue up, but if our story was an error we apologise in advance, not that we are conceding that fact yet. In the course […]
The intrigue that has surrounded the Race By Grins has taken a stunning twist and turn after the barriers were drawn last night. Copy That has become the clear favourite after pulling the perfect barrier 4, which will become gate 3 after the almost certain scratching of the 2 horse Smiffy’s Terror. There is very […]
(Background note – Dr Lynn Hillyer is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Head of anti-doping) There have been multiple cobalt cases during Dr Hillyer’s tenure as Chief Veterinary Officer, but O’Brien’s violation goes to the heart of everything that’s wrong with her anti-doping programme Pedisnap ran four times as a three […]
The draw for the Grinner will take place at 6.00 tonight, 4.00pm Australian time. It’s going to be a great race, that’s for sure. Mark Purdon has 3 of the runners, and – quite remarkably – the Australian trainer Jess Tubb has 2. That’s half the field between them. There are ten runners in the […]
On Saturday night the Wagga club hosted the finals of the Riverina Championships. Two $100 000 finals were run, one for 4 and 5YO mares, and one for 4 and 5YO horses and geldings. There was no problem with either of those. The issue is with 5 of the other events on the card. 7 […]
