A Simple Question
If wind turbulence caused Gaita’s horse to gallop …. Then why are the leaves in the tree standing stone still?
All Hail Gaita – The Quick Thinking Queen of the Scheme
So watch this. Gaita Pullicino – a very smart woman indeed when it comes to a dollar and the trots – is driving the leader. It’s been backed for a stack, but it gallops on the turn. It’s driver is supposed to take it to either the inside or the outside of the track, but […]
Ray Green Confirms What I Have Always Told You – Harness Racing in NZ North Island is Fucked
Ray Green says just like Copy That was forced to get fit for the cup in another country last year, the lack of racing here now forced him to adopt the same path to ready the horse for the $1 million slot race, The Race by Grins, at Cambridge on April 14. Ray Green … […]
More on the Hes Ideal Saga – For and Against
ARCHIE THERE ARE COUPLE OF THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE HE IDEAL CASE. THERE HAVE BEEN 31 HORSES THAT QUALIFIED THE LAST SIX MONTHS IN TASSIE THAT HAVE NOT GONE THE REQUIRED TIME SET OUT IN THE STUPID POLICY THAT WAS PUT TOGETHER BY STEVEN SHINN BEFORE HE COPPED THE HUSHED UP FLICK. […]
Cracker Bluff and Bullies His Way to Winning the Shepparton Gold Cup – That or Something Else
There are two schools of thought about the former Kiwi pacer Cranbourne’s win in last night’s Shepparton Cup. One is that it was the boat race from hell. It certainly looked like it. The other is that Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack simply bluffed and bullied his rival drivers into submitting to his will, and ground them […]
A Great Advertisement For Tasmanian Harness Racing
This is the last race on the feature Devonport Cup program. Look at the name of the trainers. It’s easy, for there is only one. Chainsaw. Aka Ben Yole. The bum has got the whole field. It jumps in a couple of minutes. I reckon Yole might win it, don’t you? What a great advertisement […]
The Trot Tips – Part 2
MENANGLE Race 5 no 8 – Spirit of St Louis Went into the ID22 series as favorite but was terrible. He’s back home at Cobbitty Farm now, and that will make all the difference. LAUNCESTON Race 6 no 13 – Like a Wildfire We’ve written a lot about Hes Ideal this week, and I have […]
The Trot Tips – Part 1
SHEPPARTON Race 2 no 4 – Bettor Robyn This is a weird race, and one I probably shouldn’t come into, but $14.00 about Bettor Robyn is such a ridculously over the odds price that’s it’s worth throwing something on. Race 3 no 4 – Moreton Bay The form guide says this trotter is trained by […]
The Madness of King (Justin) Case
This Tasmanian Director of Racing Justin ‘Case’ is off his nut, or at least when it comes to making ruling about things he clearly knows sweet Fanny Adams about he gives every sign of being so. Look at this crap at the top, which are his reasons for allowing the unqualified odds on favourite Hes […]
Sometimes Oranges Are Just Lemons
Watch this. It’s race 1 at Nelson in New Zealand yesterday. Blair Orange in on the leader. Fast forward to the 1 minute mark which is when they are on the turn coming in for the bell. Watch what Orange does. How the hell did he know that James Cagney was going to zoom around […]