Hang On! – How Is That Not a Dead Heat?
This the official photo finish in the Catch A Wave race. It’s on the outside, Yambukian is on its inside. Where’s the margin? That’s a dead heat for sure. Protest!
Not Waves, Ripples – Leap To Fames Main Eureka Rival Gets Beaten by His Brother at $1.05 – Is This an Omen For the Blacks A Fake?
Oh my goodness. Leap To Fame’s main rival in the Eureka – the Chariots of Fire and Miracle Mile winner Catch A Wave – has just gone down 1st up at Melton at odds of $1.05! His half brother and stablemate Yambukian – a rating 97 pacer who has never won a big race, or […]
The Mates and Men Who Are Trying to Kill Harness Racing – And Doing a Good Job of it Too
Earlier this week we told you how stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele – who is facing charges of rape and sexual assault of 2 young employees during his time as a senior executive at the Brisbane Racing Club – was in attendance at a recent harness racing golf day held at the Virginia […]
Ray Hadley Calls Albion Park CEO Greg Mitchell a Liar About Alleged Rapist Scott Steele
A new video sent into Ray Hadley shows former CEO of Albion Park Harness Racing Club, Scott Steele, leaving a club function despite only being allowed to attend events as a member of the public. This comes after Steele was stood down from his position in July last year following rape allegations. Ray was also […]
Let’s Spendthenitetogetha
Everyone’s favorite Woodend Beach based trainer John ‘Lurch’ Dunn employs the young driver Devon van Til (pictured below), or at least his father John and wife Jenna do, or anyway that’s what the registration books say. Yeah right, whatever. According to this article above, Van Til’s 1st introduction to harness racing was when Lurch let […]
A Miracle of Modern Science? – Jesus Come Back to Earth? – Or Just Plain a Con?
A couple of days ago we told how the previously healthy pacers Eight Carat, Juggernaut and Steam Punk died in training on the Byford track. Well would you believe it Jesus has turned up and – mistaking them for Lazarus – raised these 3 horses from the dead. The Stewards must have known that the […]
Mick From Mindarie-Halidon Sets us Straight
Where have all the good NSW horses gone you ask? They are right in front of your face Archie. Leap To Fame is NSW bred. Funny as it might seem, his grand dam was raced by Kevin Seymour, who had to send his man down to the APG sale in NSW to buy him back […]
How to Solve the Victorian Harness Waging Turnover Crisis – Pretend That Horses are Dogs, And That Sense is Cents
There is this huge myth that has gained currency throughout the upper echelons of the harness racing code that the decline in betting on the trots in favor of the dogs is all about the fact that the younger generation of punter has a short attention span, and is drawn to betting on the greyhounds […]
Where Have All the Good NSW Pacers Gone? – How Many Blues Will Be Selected to Run in the Eureka? – One
Every harness racing fan in Australia is excited about the Eureka, and so they should be too, for with Leap To Fame, Catch A Wave, Captain Ravishing and The Lost Storm lining up against each other head to head over 2400m it’s going to be an absolute cracker, one of the best races we have […]
Stonewall Stud is a Failure – Here are Some Tips on How to Make it a Success
With almost 2/3rds of the New Zealand racing season gone, the Stonewall Stud stable owned by Steve Stockman and managed by Steve and Amanda Telfer is sitting 6th on the Premiership Ladder with just 28 wins, and has earned only $430 000. The stable has 100 horses in work, which must cost a conservative million […]