Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The field for the NZ 3YO Sires Stakes on Tuesday is a cracker, oozing quality from top to bottom. It’s just a shame about the draw. Mark Purdon has six runners in the race. His best two – Sherlock and Don’t Stop Dreaming – are drawn 1-2 off the front. Another three are 1-2-3 off […]
As we have written before, by virtue of his share in the biggest and most successful punting operation in Hong Kong, the video form guru and harness nut Tim Vince is the richest man in the Kiwi trots. Vince is also an oft partner in horses with Summit Bloodstock, which in my book a huge […]
We saw it with Deauville Legend in the Melbourne Cup. Some idiot in the media who hasn’t studied the UK form any closer than looking at the printed results of it’s career form sees Group victories in England, Googles its sire Sea The Stars and realises that it’s the dad of the world’s greatest marathon […]
Can anyone tell me exactly how the wins of the offspring of Captain Treacherous, Downbytheseaside, Sweet Lou and Shadow play afford a timely boost to the Australian standardbred breeding industry? Always B Miki does, because he stands the southern hemisphere season in Australia, but the other four? Give us a break. Captain Treacherous stands all […]
Sometimes when I spot a blatant cheat in a race, my deep but healthy dose of cynicism about all things punt and racing leads me to look for the immediate dollar outcome rather than the one next week. That’s what I did when I wrote that Rod Lakey must have taken a First 4 when […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/ECC31052209.mp4 Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole brought two horses all the way from Tasmania last night to race in the 9th at Echuca. One was Machavelli, a 7-year-old rating 37 mare who had won 5 of her 43 starts in the Apple Isle over the past 2 seasons. She was drawn in the one gate and driven by […]
Well I have to say that I have enormous trouble believing this one. Mach the Knife is an 8-year-old retired light bay gelding that was stood down from racing in February, and hasn’t graced a track since. Steeven is a 4YO darkish bay gelding. The don’t look a whole lot alike. Or at all really. […]
Have a look at this race will you. In particular have a close look at the drive on the horse 3 back the fence in the black. Watch it closely over the last 100m, and keep one eye fixed firmly on the driver Rodney Laker. Why did Lakey do that? There can only be one […]
Last night at Hobart the State’s leading trainer Ben Yole had 37 runners across 5 races on the 10 race card. He won just one of them, in a race in which he had 9 of the 12 starters. Ben Yole is a brilliant trainer they say. Some people say Elvis is still alive and […]
The Monday between Derby Day and the Cup is always super slow, and somewhat boring. You can liven it up and build your bank betting on the Kaikoura trots. For those of you unfamiliar with the place, Kaikoura is in the South Island of NZ, north of Christchurch, and it is the most beautiful trot […]
