Wonderland With No Alice – Welcome to the NSW Trots
Dr Adam Cawley is the Science Manager of the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory (“ARFL”), the drug testing lab owned by Racing NSW that perhaps for reasons of efficiency, or coincidence, or not, lives at the same 51 Druitt Street Sydney address as both it owner, and of the peak gambling body Clubs NSW, which is […]
An Unmitigated Disaster Delivered by People You’d Expect it From
The Ladbrokes Sunshine Stars Yearling Sale, to be conducted by Nutrien Equine at the Magic Millions complex on March 11 and 12, will be the keystone of an iconic weekend at the Gold Coast. The brainchild of the Albion Park Harness Racing Club, the sale has attracted well bred yearlings from leading breeders in Queensland, […]
Smoking Joe Shows Us Why He’s So Hot He Burns
Smoking Joe Connolly is one of the hottest hobby trot trainers that you would ever meet. A copper by trade. Smoking Joe spends his spare hours making slow horses go fast, and from time to time – usually but not always when his runners aren’t pre-race swabbed – he does it really well too. Last […]
Ding Dong – Gangles is Gone
As we keep saying, you always here it here first. The eyes don’t lie, even if people do. And the trot people of the Riverina rejoice. There will be food back in the drivers room before you can say Ben Johnson, Pride of Canada. The only thing we got wrong was Newcastle. The southerners made […]
A Few Tips For the Trots Today Tonight
Here is how to make a winning start to a big weekend. ALEXANDRA PARK (NZ) TROTS Race 1 – No 1 – Miki Montana Not the most bomb proof pacer in the world, but getting better each start and with age, Leads or – more likely – sits on the leaders back. Should win either […]
The Hall of Fame is Saved, as the Auckland Trotting Club Sinks Further Into the Mire
The New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame is relocating from Alexandra Park to Cambridge. Hall Of Fame committee members voted unanimously last Friday to move the iconic museum’s exhibits to a new building which will be constructed as part of Cambridge Raceway’s extensive development programme. Given a notice to vacate by the Auckland Trotting Club, […]
An Ever So Slight Improvement
This time last year the Aaron Bain/Summit Bloodstock owned pacer was running last getting beaten 116.5m in low grade races in the harness racing backwaters of Hobart. Fast forward 12 months and now the horse is suddenly being backed off maps into odds on and blitzing his rivals by almost 20 metres in roughly the […]
The Sultans of Swab
Check this one out. It’s the last race at Menangle on Tuesday. There are only two possible chances in the race. One of them is the $1.20 favorite in betting Peaceful, the other is Jewel Melody at $3.50. The next closes horse in the betting is at $34.00. Jewel Melody beats Peaceful by a half […]
Don’t Worry About the Forward Pass – McMullen Would Have Scored in the Corner Anyway
In what sport in the world are a bunch of largely unqualified officials left to decide whether breaking the rules to win okay or not? Mmm, Ben Johnson was juiced up on Stanozolol, but would he have won the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics if he wasn’t IOC Ian? Of course he would have […]