Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Copy That beat Self Assured into third place in the Race by Grins on Friday but with his placing “Jimmy” won the race between them to $2m in stakemoney won. His $100,000 third stake money takes him to $2,055,000 while Copy That’s $450,000 winning stake leaves him agonisingly close at $1,985,008. Those stats underline not […]
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Copy That and Self Assured first met not in a race, but on a card, at Alexandra Park on 14 December 2019. They won separate races over 2200m, with Copy That running 1.6 seconds faster in his. It was a portent of things to come. The pair’s first actual race contest was in the 2020 Ashburton […]
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It seems that Mark Jones might have been doing a bit more than working his horses when he was spotted recently jogging up pacers on the sand at Woodend Beach, which it has to be said is some distance north east of his base at Burnham. Either that or Jones is a miracle worker, judging […]
The tip out of Auckland is the young gelding who made the incredible debut Punk Rocker is a certainty from the pole in the 9th race at Alexandra Park tonight. They say that the switch from the barns of Steve Reid and Simon McMullan over to the stables of Sheryl Wigg and the Invisible Men […]
Did you watch the postponed Port Pirie Cup on Tuesday night? If not, you can watch it below. Greg Rogers, the driver of the leader Culture King, should have his head read. This race was run over a distance of 2530m, which is a long way at the trots. In this length of race the […]
It is with deep sadness and a broken heart that we advise the sudden passing of Norm McVitty. Normie was a talented and highly respected trainer, with the horses being a huge part of his life. It is with a smile that I look back on his career within the industry he so greatly loved. […]
Relating to sulkies Rule AR 170.1 (a) A driver shall, throughout the course of a race, drive with both feet in the rests of the sulky, unless he is activating approved gear. (b) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) hereof, when activating approved gear by foot, the driver’s foot shall not be moved in a downwards direction from […]
I think what’s happened is that a bolt has come loose on Zac Chappenden’s cart seat on the turn with a lap to go, and when he sat upright and got vigorous a lap later it gave way. You can see him look down to his right at the top of straight turning in with […]
