Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For a long time now I have been telling you that the NSW swabbing regime at Menangle is off. The Stewards proved it again last night. In the main race of the night there were only three horses in the betting market, the McCarthy trained Spirit of St Louis at $2.40 and Bondi Lockdown at […]
I don’t mean to pick on Jason Bonnington, for I have never met the bloke and have nothing against him personally. It’s just that he speaks utter crap with such authority that I fear that unsuspecting punters might start to mistake his elevated levels of self-confidence for competence, and start believing the rubbish he spouts, […]
King Island is not the fastest track in the world, that’s for sure. Grass gallops tracks in the middle of the Bass Straight that are only used at mixed code meetings tend not to be. But no matter how slow the grass is, you don’t see things like you saw in Race 3 there today […]
Do you remember when Ride High was the next big thing? A superstar they all said, the best horse in Australia, and maybe even the world. Yeah right. Here are the horses that Ride High beat. Idealsomemagic – 82 starts for 13 wins. Last season had 5 starts for no wins, 1 second and a […]
Sometimes Chainsaw Yole’s horses are dead when they were alive too. Look no further than the last race at the Burnie last Sunday to see. Cheating trainers don’t just back their horses or lay them on Betfair anymore. That’s all too obvious, and easily detected. What they do is couple the live goer up in […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PEC25012305.mp4 Cameron Hart won last year’s NSW Driver’s Premiership. Which means you should have been able to expect a whole lot more that he gave you in the 3rd race at Penrith on Wednesday evening. Hart was driving the $2.10 favorite My Buzz Lightning. You would almost swear he was driving it to lose. The […]
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We will set the issue of the self-proclaimed ‘expert’ sporting analogist Jason Bonnington’s utter humiliation of himself by wrongly declaring the Hagler-Hearns 1985 world middleweight title bout a 12 round slug fest in the Sun-Herald yesterday aside (it actually went 3 round, and ended in a TKO), and instead focus on the nonsense he spouted […]
What you see above appears in the Harness Racing New Zealand 2021/22 Annual Report. The names of the four in the obituary section are never repeated again throughout the report. Neither are the names of other good trot people who over the course of the year went to the great race track in the sky. […]
If a harness writer is going to employ boxing metaphors to try and tell a story about the trots, then it would help greatly if they actually knew anything about boxing, or checked their facts. Marvellous Marvin Hagler and Tommy ‘the Hitman’ Hearns didn’t trade blows for 12 rounds in their 1985 fight – immortalized […]
