Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our old mates from Summit Bloodstock were silly enough to buy a horse off Stonewall Stud recently. Stonewall don’t sell good ones. Miss Hathaway was the horse’s name. It came over to Australia on the 30th of March this year. The new trainer gave her a workout. She dropped dead. It was not Summit’s fault. […]
The Stewards have some major questions about the race won in scintillating fashion by Captain Ravishing at Bendigo on Friday night. They want to know why driver Allan McDonough took the winner’s $151 stablemate out of the single file from last after the field had found their places, but only went as far as he […]
12.2 – A horse seeking re-inclusion into the barrier draw is required to barrier trial at a Qualifying Trial or in a race on two consecutive occasions to the satisfaction of the Stewards before being re-instated into the barrier draw. Both trials/races cannot be performed on the same day. 12.4 – To be deemed a satisfactory start:- […]
Nathan Jack, driver of Copy That NZ ($4.60), was questioned regarding the performance of the horse which finished in 8th placing beaten 22m. Mr Jack advised that the early use made of Copy That NZ had taken its toll over the concluding stages, as it did on other runners which contested the early lead. Mr […]
South Australia races twice a week at the trots these days. A mere decade ago they raced four times. In the last week of August in 2012 the prizemoney across the meetings was $93 600. The same week this year – just a fortnight ago – it had fallen to just $67 000. It’s death […]
Thank you very much to peter profit reader Rhonda for drawing my attention to the fact that we were wrong about Bien Hoa being the oldest pacer in Australia. That honour of course belongs to a Queenslander, which is no surprise because we’re the toughest State by far, and if you don’t believe it then […]
Over in the South Island of New Zealand there lives a pacer named Pocket Call. He is a slow pacer, a very slow one indeed, perhaps even the slowest in the world. Pocket Call has had sixty starts over the past 3 years. He hasn’t won or run a place in any of them, although […]
Bien Hoa is a pacer who was born all the way back in 2007, the year that Kevin Rudd became the Prime Minister the first time around. He made his debut at Bankstown in 2011, the year Dunaden won the Cup. He won that race and two more in a row. In his first 25 […]
No horse had ever broken 1.50.0 at Albion Park until last night. Blacksadance did, breaking his own track record by eight-tenths of a second to do it. He ran 1.49.2. By my reckoning it’s 3rd fastest time ever run on an Australian track outside of Menangle. Lochinvart Art went 1.48.6 at Melton, Ride High ran […]
Surely that couldn’t have been the two NZ trotting identities who are charged with sexual assault of a young female industry participant that were seen together drunk in a bar in the South Island over the weekend, could it? Don’t their bail conditions contain no contact conditions, and restrictions about intoxication? I guess the pair […]
