Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What the heck was Grant Dixon doing here on the $1.22 favorite Blackjack Crippa yesterday at Albion Park? Blackjack Crippa is drawn gate 2 in the Greg Mitchell colors. It is not a flying beginner, but surely it was up to Dixon to at least have it up on the gate so it didn’t give […]
Albion Park 20 November 2025 Race 8 GARRARDS HORSE AND HOUND PACE 1660m MS Son Of The Shark is a five-year-old that coming into this race had run 55 times for just 5 wins. The quickest of them was the last one, 20 months before, when he had won in 1.53.7 over the mile at […]
NSW harness racing trainer Joe Fenech has escaped penalty despite pleading guilty to a presentation offence involving Levamisole, after raising his use of the supposedly ‘safe’ wormer Fenbender 100 to explain his breach. The Stewards of the Hanging State accepted Fenech’s explanation, finding that the trainer’s culpability for the offence was negligible, as he could […]
The Sunshine Sprint was a tremendous race, and the Janitor was outstanding. But not as good as Don Hugo. The form guide says he got beaten by a bit, but gee he was unlucky. McCarthy got snagged 2 behind the horse in the 1-1 that had a heart attack, and lost his position, a couple […]
The NSW Greyhound Welfare Integrity Commission is taking a hard line against trainer who make their dogs disappear without trace into thin air, and quite rightly too because we all know where dogs that disappear go, and it ain’t any place where they are still barking or breathing, and that is no good at all. […]
There is no better example of the vagaries of the National Ratings system employed in harness racing and its inherent unfairness than the first race yesterday at Menangle. It was trotters race for square gaiters rated up to NR 55, and the field it threw up was a dog’s breakfast. At one end of the […]
South Australian reinsman ‘Super’ Mario Borg has had a wretched luck in the cart this year, with the horses that he has driven seemingly being checked or galloping or managing to find some other misfortune every time that Super’s gone around. It’s that terrible run of luck that saw him line up behind the mobile […]
Morning Archie Something is definitely suspect about some race times being recorded at Albion Park. Last night Taylad To Use led all of the way to win the 2025 Somerset Farms Darrell Alexander Trotting Championship Final. Nothing at all wrong with the win and training performance of Grant Dixon – thoroughly deserved the win and […]
The Waipa (gallops) Racing Club is in the Waikato. So is Te Awamutu. Funny things happen south of the Bombay hills. Racing Club Manager stole $160,000 12 December 2011 Lea Margaret Temm, the 55 year-old Manager of the Waipa Racing Club was today sentenced for stealing $162,172.38 from her employer over a period of ten […]
Leap To Fame holds five of the seven tracks records at Albion Park for pacers, a never before and never will be again achieved feat that on its own stamps him immortal status. One of the records Larry doesn’t own is Yulestar’s 1.56.2 set in the 2001 Inter Dominion Final for 2647m from the mobile, […]
