Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Merlin broke the New Zealand record for 3YO colts and geldings last night at Cambridge, in winning a heat of the Sires Stakes. Yes, a heat. Only one male pacer had ever broken 2 minutes over the 1700m distance before. That was Republican Party, who ran 1.59.9 over the trip when he won last year’s […]
What hope would you give the horse sitting in last position as the video starts of winning this race? Very little I would imagine. Gus is the trotter’s name. You’d give it even less chance if you had seen him blow the start and lose 50 metres. He is the horse starting from underneath the […]
Have a bloody look at this race will you? It’s the first at Phar Lap Raceway on Tuesday. Rocking Va Va has been backed for a stack. The punters who came out of trees to back it in are in a world of pain at the quarter pole, for driver Cheree Wigg has somehow managed […]
The ABC has missed the big picture. They’ve zoned in on a couple of tote bets on Ben Yole horses in a race rort. That was just some bum in the camp who got greedy. The real money is running through Steve Walters and his wife’s Betfair account. Walters is the brother of Robbie Walters, […]
Our mail is that NZ’s no 1 trot trainer Jenna Dunn – one half of the Robert and Jenna Dunn partnership – got done for drink driving one afternoon not very long past. It is said that she was driving a vehicle with a Diamond Racing horse float attached to it they say, which she […]
Wouldn’t it be great to see Merlin lead? I wonder what he could do from the front? No I don’t, I know. The New Zealand 3Yo record over the distance is held by Darling Me, at a mile rate of 1.51.4. That’s flying. Merlin won’t break it tomorrow night, because he has bigger fish to […]
Look at the way Dragon paces. He doesn’t. He prances. Now look at the explosion below. How good is this horse? He is not. Dragon is great.
The Waikato Flying Mile is run on Thursday night. It is a great race, whatever they call it. It always has been. Look at the horses that have won this race will you? Luxury Liner. Christopher Vance. Ginger Man. Christian Cullen. Holmes D G. Young Rufus. Elsu. Mister D G. Bailey’s Dream. Auckland Reactor. Changeover. […]
The Eureka is the big talk of the moment in harness racing, and so a $2 million slot race restricted solely to Australian bred 4YO’s, with $1 million of the prize thrown in by non-slot holders should be. How good a rort is that? I reckon we should put on a 10 horse slot race […]
Natalie Rasmussen is in my book the 2nd best harness driver in the Dominion. I rate them this way. 1 Mark Purdon 2 Nat the Rat 3 Zac Butcher 4 Kate Gath 5 Luke McCarthy 6 Greg Sugars 7 Greg Hall 8 Blair Orange 9 Nathan Jack 10 Jack Callaghan Tell us yours and I […]
