Trot Tips
MENANGLE Race 3 no 7 – Blazing Banner Race 6 no 11 – Captain’s Queen Race 7 no 6 – Fire Fox Race 8 no 8 – Tay Tay ALBION PARK Race 4 no 3 – Governor Jujon (E/W) Race 5 no 5 – Argyle (SPECIAL) Race 9 no 7 – LL Cool J MELTON […]
A Plea to Save the Grassroots of WA Harness Racing, From a Stalwart Who Loves the Sport
Dear Premier/Ministers I draw your attention to a tragic accident just recently in Tasmania in which 4 racehorses died and which we can all be thankful that none of the 5 young people travelling with them, though some seriously injured, were also killed, though they very easily may have been. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-30/people-injured-four-horses-dead-after-crash-in-northern-tasmania/101905420 An incident of this […]
The Nullar Bore and the Million Dollar Leak
Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) runs the 3 codes of racing in the State, and doesn’t have a clue. The people who run it don’t have a clue about any code of racing, but in particular they are clueless about harness racing. “Let’s put on a million dollar slot race as part of a […]
The Weasel That Runs Forever – And the Light That Never Goes Out
Only 10 percent of Weasels in the wild live longer than 2 years. Very few live more than ten years in captivity. Weasel the pacer is at last count 16 years old and still going strong. Well not really. After a seemingly incredible 423 starts the old bloke’s alive and well and – quite amazingly […]
The Deadest Heat I Have Ever Seen
When I first watched the 9th race at Bathurst I was going t0 write a story about the atrocious call, for I would have bet my life that the inside horse had won the race, while the caller firmly believed that the outside had. We were both right, and we were both wrong. It was […]
Can This Story About the Captain and The Mile Possibly Be True?
The Captain actually looks a bit like Cracker too, doesn’t he? All Nate needs is the hat. There is a red hot story floating around about the Miracle Mile, Captain Ravishing, it’s owner, Mach Dan’s driver, undue instructions on how to drive that horse, Emma and Clay and a stable change. Sound confusing? It is, […]
Let’s Talk About Race 10 at Melton on Saturday Night Shall We Plod?
Ryan Backhouse is only 18, I get that. But trot racing is a big kids game, and people invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on each race. They expect better than what young Backhouse gave them in the last at Melton on Saturday night, and if the lad can’t deliver it while he’s a teenager […]
Meet Bluey – A Spike on the Run Man From Way Back
The bloke in the picture is Gary Lane, known to one and all in New Zealand as Bluey. Bluey used to work for the horse moving company Majestic Transport, until he was accused of spiking up horses with prohibited drugs on their way to the track. These days he works for Robert Dunn and his […]
Welcome Back Bon-Bon – We’ve Missed You Son
It’s been about seven weeks since Bon-Bon wrote his last masterpiece, and gee we’ve missed him. Just like Tim Tzsyu missed Tony Harrison yesterday. Richard Branson didn’t say if you ‘reach higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you ever dreamed’, as out man Jason claims. What he said was that if you […]
