Thanks Mate, Cheers
It is cheap at $20 a month when you think about it, isn’t it? How much is a $2 avocado smashed on toast these days? Bloody hell. I’d rather spend mine on a subscription.
Who is the Mug Now?
A lot of people who don’t like the challenge that we throw down to the harness racing establishment reckon we are mugs who wouldn’t know Edgar Britt from Doris Day when it comes to the trots. Of course these experts are right. That’s why we live in Port Douglas and sleep in until we want […]
Poor OId Neil Finnigan, Finnigan – Poor Old Neil Finnigan
No doubt frustrated in his career ambitions by the seemingly incredible survival of the stray cat with 9 lives, QLD’s chief harness racing steward David Farquharson, the highly respected QRIC stipe Neil Finnigan has accepted a life drinking from the poisoned chalice by taking up the role of Chief Steward in Tasmania. If he didn’t […]
Two Wizards, One Race, and a Faster Time Than Laz
I have been telling you since before Merlin even stepped foot on the track as a 2-year-old that this young pacer is a champion. I’m not often wrong when I make these pronunciations, and I wasn’t here. At just his 2nd start as a 3YO Merlin won the race in perhaps one of the greatest […]
Ben Yole is a Koala, And the Rest of the Tassie Trot Industry Are Truganini
Fuck me dead. There were 12 horses in race 7 at Launceston on Sunday. Ten of them were trained by Ben Yole. One of the two that wasn’t sat out the back the whole way apparently with a bung tire. The driver of the other one Scottlyn Beach – a bloke named Malcolm Jones – […]
Going, Going, Gone – Clip, Clip, Clop – NZ Harness Racing Bops
Know how many horses were permanently exported from New Zealand to Australia this year, including one owned by the CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand? Around 50. Which is pretty normal for a nation that exports around 500 horses a year. https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/statistics/exportedhorses.htm Know how many yearlings are sold in NZ each year? Here is an […]
It Just Gawler Gets Worse in SA – And This is Only the Intro
Last night the committee of the Gawler Harness Racing Club stood down it’s Secretary Angela Goble from duty for 3 months. Why? Because the good lifelong volunteer Mrs Goble dared to ask questions about how the club’s freshly elected President Kaye Halliday had managed to turn a committee resolution to oppose the unwarranted removal of […]
South Australian Harness Racing – An Even Sadder State of Affairs
We mentioned in our previous article that a man named Levi Mitchell was appointed to the board of HRSA as its Legal Director, but never took up the role. It is perhaps easy to see why. Levi Mitchell was never a lawyer. He still isn’t. According to his Linkedin page, which is authored by Mitchell […]
South Australian Harness Racing – A Sad State of Affairs
After a long period of relative stability on the board of Harness Racing Australia there have been 14 Directors resign in the past 4 years. There are really probably 15, because a chap named Levi Mitchell was appointed to the board in late 2021 but appears never to have taken up the role. That is […]
God Bless The Redcliffe Trots
Jesus, what high class racing we have at Redcliffe on a Wednesday night. The sort of card that is only for the true believers, the desperate punters, and the crazy. Just look at this field. Between the nine starters they’ve had 225 starts. Each have won as single race. That’s 9 wins all up across […]