Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Smoking Joe Connolly is one of the hottest hobby trot trainers that you would ever meet. A copper by trade. Smoking Joe spends his spare hours making slow horses go fast, and from time to time – usually but not always when his runners aren’t pre-race swabbed – he does it really well too. Last […]
As we keep saying, you always here it here first. The eyes don’t lie, even if people do. And the trot people of the Riverina rejoice. There will be food back in the drivers room before you can say Ben Johnson, Pride of Canada. The only thing we got wrong was Newcastle. The southerners made […]
Here is how to make a winning start to a big weekend. ALEXANDRA PARK (NZ) TROTS Race 1 – No 1 – Miki Montana Not the most bomb proof pacer in the world, but getting better each start and with age, Leads or – more likely – sits on the leaders back. Should win either […]
The New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame is relocating from Alexandra Park to Cambridge. Hall Of Fame committee members voted unanimously last Friday to move the iconic museum’s exhibits to a new building which will be constructed as part of Cambridge Raceway’s extensive development programme. Given a notice to vacate by the Auckland Trotting Club, […]
This time last year the Aaron Bain/Summit Bloodstock owned pacer was running last getting beaten 116.5m in low grade races in the harness racing backwaters of Hobart. Fast forward 12 months and now the horse is suddenly being backed off maps into odds on and blitzing his rivals by almost 20 metres in roughly the […]
Check this one out. It’s the last race at Menangle on Tuesday. There are only two possible chances in the race. One of them is the $1.20 favorite in betting Peaceful, the other is Jewel Melody at $3.50. The next closes horse in the betting is at $34.00. Jewel Melody beats Peaceful by a half […]
In what sport in the world are a bunch of largely unqualified officials left to decide whether breaking the rules to win okay or not? Mmm, Ben Johnson was juiced up on Stanozolol, but would he have won the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics if he wasn’t IOC Ian? Of course he would have […]
The favorite in this race is Atreacherous. It is trained by Jeremy Seal and driven by Ryan Hryhorec, who as we shall soon see is about to have a very bad night. Atreacherous is drawn in gate 2, but no-one expects him to lead because he hasn’t done so at his past 22 starts over […]
We move now to race 4, a contest for lowly rated horses in the NR50’s run over a mile. The market only has two in it, Icy Reception trained by Aaron Bain and driven by Wayne Hill at $2.15 and drawn gate 3, and the $2.50 pop Shazzam in gate 6, which is once again […]
And so we move to race 6, the final leg of the quaddie. Race 4 was the 2nd leg. Take My Wallet drawn the outside of the front in gate 6 is the $1.45 favorite. Just like the slaughtered shorty before it’s trained by Aaron Bain and driven by Wayne Hill. The main danger is […]
