Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Magic Man proves how tricky the turn at Auckland is by coming widest of all around the turn and winning on Simply Sam, just six days after he was certain that the rail was the place to be We wrote earlier in the week about the cynical campaign that Lincoln Farms is running to […]
Jack Chapple just turned sixteen. On the day he did, he applied for his junior trot driving license, before he even opened his presents. This is a kid who lives, breathes and eats harness racing. He calls races, he studies videos and does form, he works horses with his dad before school, and mucks out […]
Another week goes by, another week an anonymous idiot blogger whose name is Archie Butterfly kicks the self-appointed and promoted harness racing expert Jason Bonnington’s arse on the tip. Archie 3 – Jason 0. Even though he’s playing every game at home, and the Far North Queenslander away. I guess that’s why we have brekky […]
We are spotting Bon Bon $50 start this week after taking him to town 2 out of 2. To give himself a chance he’s upped the stake to $300. Happy days. You can find Bonnington’s tips at the link below. https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/articles/bon-ups-the-stakes-with-300-tabcorp-park-game-plan/ Here are ours. May the best trot man win. MELTON 4 LEG WIN MULTI […]
Watch this drive by Maurice McKendry on the 2nd favourite Simply Sam at Alexandra Park last Friday week. McKendry is in the green colours with the white cap, sitting one off the fence directly behind and trailing the eventual winner Harder Than Diamonds. See what he does on the turn, and in the straight. Why […]
This time last year Anthony Butt was driving Copy That in the Rising Sun, and driving winners at a rate of 1 in 4. Things have dropped off a little since then*. Ants strike rate is now just 11.4%, less than half of what it had been over the previous two seasons. He hasn’t got […]
(Our) Princess Kennedy was a legless walker in New Zealand. In 7 starts all she managed was a solitary 2nd, in a weak race for maidens at a Riverton meeting run at Winton in which she sat on the leader Meghan Markle’s back (two princesses in one race) and couldn’t run it down in a […]
You would have expected that a Principal Racing Authority would have double checked the conditions of its biggest harness race of the year to make sure that it was correct before they published it, wouldn’t you? It’s both proper business practice, and simple common sense. So why didn’t Racing Queensland do it before publishing the […]
Trainer Michael Stanley is calling for his 4Y0 pacer Rock N Roll Doo to be granted automatic entry into Queensland’s $305 000 race for 3 and 4-year olds the Rising Sun to be run on the 9th of July, which is a rather curious thing to do given that there are only 4 guaranteed spots […]
You would imagine that the 12 horse field for a hotly contested $305 000 feature harness race would have a very clear selection criteria so that connections of the contenders would know what they had to do to get into the race. You would also imagine that an Order of Entry updated in real time […]
