Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Copy That won a Free For All at Alexandra Park on Friday night starting from a back mark of 55m. I am happy to be corrected, but to the best of my knowledge the last horse to do that the high class pacer Agua Caliente, way back 22 years ago on the 19th of May […]
Watch this. It’s Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson on the eventual winner. He’s the one I have circled above. Keep your eye on his right foot. See it? If you didn’t then watch it again. Grimson has hitched his sulky tight, and it twisting his foot so that it comes into contact with his horse, using its […]
Mick Guerin is generally regarded as the best harness racing broadcaster and commentator in what we used to call the Dominion. But even legends balls it up. Guerin declared that Copy That couldn’t win over 2200m last night at Auckland from the back mark of 55m. He said it would have to run around the […]
Some of the smartest people I know in harness racing got sucked in to the Tim Butt spiel about this French trotter HOLZARTE VEDAQUAIS that he was syndicating, and paid large sums of money to jump into the ownership. It just goes to prove that we are all chasing dreams. The horse is a cat. An […]
So the trotter Holzarte Vedaquais (HV) is purchased for a fortune in France, Tim Butt makes his usual huge clip on the ticket, HV travels half way around the world to record a duck egg at Maryborough, then it wins a shit NR52 midweek race worth $3 990 against walkers at Yarra Valley, and Harness […]
I wonder if this horse was anything like Gatsby Perrine, the first trotter than Tim Butt saw on his Harness Racing Australia funded all expenses paid ‘study tour’ to France a couple of years ago? Butt tried to syndicate that one for $400 000, even though it cost him nothing to find it, and the […]
I get very confused trying to follow Copy That’s program through a campaign. Anyone would. Ten days ago the reigning NZ Cup holder wasn’t racing again until the big one on the second Tuesday of November. Now all of a sudden he is racing two weeks in a row, tonight at Alexandra Park and next […]
You don’t often see a protest at the trots for interference at the 600m mark, but you did last night at Bathurst. It was the right decision too. Have a look for yourself. The horse that lost on protest is 3-back the fence. Turbo Trainor is the driver. The one that one is last in […]
DON’T TOUCH THIS – Stewards questioned driver R Morris in relation to the tactics employed in the event, in particular during the early stages when electing to shift down to the marker pegs from a running line position. Mr Morris explained that, during the early stages when trailing ERATIGENA in the running line, he believed that runner was […]
Profit: And Pigs Fly The undisputed heavyweight clown prince has been at it again this week. I speak of course of Jason Bonnington, the man who when he is not falling off horses, kicking his bet homes like a demented loon, justifying juxtapositions and critical correlations in his near unintelligible rambling column on thetrots.com has […]
