Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the greatest race on the Australian calendar and not many of the greatest horses that have ever been on the track have not won it. Like the previous Grand Circuit races I’d go through the honour roll from my earliest memories but you can look them up for yourselves, I’m too angry. I’ve […]
On Friday night at Gloucester Park we had the rare privilege to witness what must have been the worst quality WA Cup in living memory, a race just like the Fremantle Cup run a fortnight before where three of the first four home sat 1-2-3 in the run over the staying journey, which is never […]
I suspect that it may be a while before we race at Alexandra Park again. This photo was taken yesterday. What a bloody mess.
Holzarte Vedaquais is a young trotter that Tim Butt bought out of France for $440 000 while on an all expenses paid by Harness Racing Australia ‘study tour’ and flogged to all comers with a pitch declaring it to be the next big thing. Butt said the same about the original horse that he wanted […]
Why are teenage kids driving home from one end of Tasmania to other at two in the morning towing a float with four horses in it? What time did the driver start work? Why are they towing four horses in a float pulled by a Ford Ranger, when the Ranger’s towing capacity is a maximum […]
Yesterday the SA Harness Racing Club that used to own Globe Derby voted to sell it. Well sort of anyway, but not quite. The club has been run as a rort for years, in various different ways. Dodgy land deals have been done, cash floats have disappeared, alcohol stocks ever consistently vanish, odd robberies occur […]
Five young people all under the age of 21 are in hospital and four horses are dead after a car after a white Ford Ranger that one of them was driving at 1.45am last night left the road, crashed into a tree stump and rolled on the Batman Highway. The poor kids are trots people […]
Tasracing Review Report 2020 – Tasmanian Government Well look at this will you? Every single Tasmanian adult contributes $58.68 from their taxes to fund harness racing on the Apple Isle. Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole wins most of it. He won more last year in prizemoney than the other nine of the top ten trainers combined. So […]
I want you to have a look at two races at Albion Park on Friday night. Before you do, just remind yourself of these connections. Peter McMullen – husband of Chantal Turpin; brother of Narissa, Taleah and Danielle; cousin of Nathan, Kelli and Trent Dawson. Chantal Turpin – sister of footy player Jake Turpin; daughter […]
So we turn to race 7, and here we have the inter-connections as follows: 1 – trained and driven by Trent Dawson, owned by Crystal Towns 2 – trained and owned by Ryan Veivers 3 – driven by Nathan Dawson 5 – trained by Ron Sallis, driven by Narissa McMullen 7 – trained by Ron […]
