Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You have to wonder whether the NZ Government has properly thought through the knock on effects of the shut down of greyhound racing on the gallops and trots? I doubt it. The Wanganui and Manukau dogs race on stand alone tracks, but the other four greyhound venues all race inside either trot tracks (Cambridge, Palmerston […]
Racing Queensland’s decision to recommence racing at Redcliffe before the new $6 million LED lights were connected to the power probably wasn’t the brightest idea in the world was it? The comeback meeting on the triangle had to be cancelled before a single race was run. The power on the old lights went out, and […]
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Harness Racing NSW have published a revised Official Trials Policy, with changes to the policy having taken effect as of the 28th of November 2024. It is clause 12 of the policy that is of interest here. This is what it says: 12 HORSES NOT HAVING RACED FOR 60 DAYS 12.1 Any horse, including a […]
Kiwi junior driver David Anderson was outed for a month on Sunday for failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to give his horse Bobbie’s Rock its best chance of winning race 10 at Forbury Park. It was the wrong offence. Anderson should have been charged with Slaughter. Bobbie’s Rock was the favorite in […]
The heats are over. We’ve been to Newcastle and then to Bathurst and back. Only the fittest survived. Twelve of them. The ID24 field. One will become champion. Who will it be? In a weeks time we will know. Before then though let’s have a re-look the highlights and lowlights of the series so far. […]
Hopple shorteners – are controlled by the driver and he/she may shorten the early length of stride the horse may take in the first strides from a standing start or mobile start to help eliminate the possibility of the horse going into a full stretch gallop and losing all chance. When the driver is content that […]
The hardest job in harness racing this year is being a judge of the Australian Harness Racing Awards. There are three outstanding candidates, each of whom have undeniable claims to the Horse of the Year Award. Leap To Fame would have been regarded as a certainty to win it three months ago, but with the […]
I wonder why the Wagga Stewards would have required trainer Jake Stockton to hold back his $71.oo winner Shoobees Charm back 3 hours for post-race swabbing? Was it because a couple of weeks before he had ducked one of his horses off the course early before it could be swabbed? Could it be because Shoobees […]
Far be it for me to question Queensland’s leading reinsman Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen about his driving tactics in races, but please allow me the indulgence of doing so on this one occasion. My question relates to the race in replay above, and it is this. How far would the favorite Aardies Money have won race […]
