Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tonight at Melton they run the finals of the rich Vicbred Super Series, with each of the six pacing finals worth $130 000 in prizemoney. I’m running a sweepstakes on how many of them the Emma Stewart/Clayton Tonkin stable will win. My guess is five. Stewart has 8 of the 12 starters in the 3YO […]
A WA bikie chief and a local racing identity have appeared in court over allegations they were found with close to $500,000 in illegally obtained cash. Police allege they stopped Karl Labrook, 52, in Ridgewood on Wednesday and after searching his car uncovered $210,000 packed inside a box wrapped as a Christmas present. Police allege the gifts were addressed to […]
Two years ago the long time harness racing lover, administrator, owner, breeder and benefactor Kevin Seymour AM, one of the giants of the Queensland and Australian sport, offered the SA Harness Racing Club that runs the famous Globe Derby course and club a life line to save them from crippling debt. Seymour extended the club […]
“One thing we need to know is what will be the horse population look like in the future. Do we have enough highly-rated horses to make our top races fair and competitive?” Gary Woodham, CEO Harness Racing New Zealand. August 2022 “This goes in line with trying to keep our breeding numbers up and encouraging […]
Early talent is profitable talent. And, critically, the extraordinary evolution of training techniques, calendar amendments, and standardbreds generally, has all but ensured that juvenile and three-year-old racing won’t affect the chances of star pacers and trotters also going on. More than ever before, young gun babies are developing into open class heroes. These are the […]
This Saturday night at Alexandra Park sees the running of the $50 000 Group 2 Franklin Cup. $50 000 is damn good money for a Kiwi trot race, and every owner wants to win a Group race. The problem is that in Auckland there are no horses left to race in them. The race has […]
I say – and have said consistently for 2 years – that harness racing trainer Jason Grimson is a nothing but a cheat, a cheat of epic proportions. Now we can test my theory. Grimson has just acquired the once good but now busted former New Zealand pacer Sicario, who will be an eight-year-old coming into […]
For the 6th year in a row. It was a no brainer this one. Any club that can fuck up a property development so badly that it lands over $200 million in debt, then sell the farm and all the land it sits on to pay the debt down to $70 million, and then claim […]
These are the menus for tucker at the dual code meeting at Geelong the other night. The trots food is on your left, the dogs on your right. Sixteen bucks for a roast beef and gravy roll? Tell them they’re dreaming. They are only nine dollars at Dave’s Fish and Chips shop on Macrossan Street. […]
Once upon a time that world was a series of villages, and racing was too. People would go to the track or TAB in their town and bet predominantly on local events, because that was all they knew. Then along came the internet and everything changed. Suddenly at the push of a button you could […]
