Penrith Finally Speak – But What the Hell Are They Saying?
It’s well known by now that the local MP Stuart Ayres and his man the NSW Premier want to resume the land on which the Penrith Paceway currently races and turn it into a new stadium for the Panthers. What is less known is the Penrith Harness Racing Club’s position on the whole thing, and […]
Archie Analyses Today’s Ashburton Flying Stakes, and Comes Up With a Bird – It’s Assured
The Ashburton Flying Stakes is – like the NZ Trotting Cup for pacers – one of the silliest named races in the world, for if you didn’t know you’d guess for all money it was a mobile start over a mile. It’s not though, it’s a 2400m race from a stand. It is also one […]
Angus Chokes First Up – But Hy Voltage Rocks n Rolls
Angus Garrard left the dim haze of Brisbane to go down to the Emerald city of Sydney and drive under the bright dazzling lights at Menangle last night. I think the being on the big stage spooked him, at first at least. Have a look at this crazy drive on Hy Voltage in the second […]
Cam Hart Kicks the Punters in the Wazoo – And Screws Them There Too
Majestic Cruiser started the $2.40 favourite in the 1st race at Menangle last night. You’d love to know who laid it on Betfair, because it didn’t try an inch. Cameron Hart drove it as dead as a doornail, and gave it no chance to. Alta Orlando first walked them through the first 700m, and then […]
A Most Curious Conundrum Indeed
As you might have realised, for various reasons I have a bit of a thing for the racing rules. It is weird interest I know, but if people are going to use rules against you then you need to know and understand them better than the people, otherwise they are going to beat you up. […]
Copy That Becomes the First Horse in 22 Years to Win Off the 55m Mark in Auckland – And It’s Only Just Begun
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 […]
Jill Boots One Home
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 Stunned, Just Like a Mullet
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 […]
Butt Butt, It’s a Future Champion!
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 […]