Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Dazzler lives out his childhood dreams by spending an hour dressed up as Goofy Well I never thought I would see the day that the former halfback from Logan would take up playing and promoting the sport of polo. It just didn’t seem like his type of game. But pictures don’t lie, and here […]
Foaled in 1997 and inducted into the Queensland Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2008, Flashing Red was a star of the track in the mid-2000s. He won a string of feature events including the first of two New Zealand Cups in 2006. In the same year, he won the Ashburton Flying Stakes and Methven […]
Excuse my language, but how the fuck can you race a horse just two weeks after it has suffered from a lung infection? It’s insane. What are they going to treat with to get it back so soon? I will tell you. Airway openers. They don’t fix the damage caused by the infection, but they […]
VIC – Stewards Supplementary Report Mildura – 1 July 2022 RACE 7 – TASCO PETROLEUM PACE (1790 MS) Stewards initially adjourned an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the winner of the event Budd Sidewinder being able to obtain a run to the inside of the leader Sammys Ideal (Ashleigh Markham) inside the final 200m. During […]
This is race 7 at the Mildura Trots on Friday night. The leader in this race and the one on it’s back are $13 in the betting. Both are trained by Ashleigh Markham. He drives the leader. The horse in the death is the $1.25 favourite. Markham puts on a suicidal pace in front, running […]
https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/inside-penrith%E2%80%99s-multi-million-dollar-stadium/14061994 The link above takes you to a real interesting ABC program about the battle to save the Penrith trots from being taken over by the Government to build a new stadium for the Panthers. That’s just a smokescreen of course. What this is really about is the Government taking the trots land to give […]
What you see above is what Lochinvar Art’s driver Leigh Sutton told the HRV Stewards when asked about his drive on the horse that set the race up for Nathan Jack and Copy That on Saturday night. The first bit is true. Sutton didn’t start serving it up to the leader and favourite Bondi Lockdown […]
Adam Hamilton wrote this about Lochinvar Art yesterday. He was talking about the horse internally bleeding in the race at Melton on Saturday night. A minor bleed he says. It was in fact Grade 4 Exercise‐induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH). That ain’t minor. You’d hate to have Adam Hamilton as your vet. He’d tell you that […]
In December 2020 the South Australian Chief trot Steward issued this media release declaring that it was his intention to charge Amanda Turnbull with breaches of the rules for allowing her then unlicensed boyfriend Nathan Jack to train her horses that were contesting the rich Southern Cross race series in Adelaide. It was an egregious […]
Australia’s one time pin-up pacer Lochinvar Art has run his last race Down Under. Owner Kevin Gordon said the former Hunter and Victoria Cup hero would either be retired or be sent to North America to continue his career. The shock decision came after Lochinvar Art had a minor bleed and was stood down from […]
