Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A month ago we warned you that the fix was in against ‘Clip Clop’ Kevin Seymour, and that his Grant ‘Moses’ Dixon trained wonder colt Leap To Fame risked being denied one of the two invitational spots for 3YO’s to run in the Rising Sun for political reasons. Well guess what? We were right. The […]
The NSW Derby is one of the great races on the Australian harness calendar. The honour roll boasts named like Vincent, Lenny the Shark, Smolda, Elsu, Il Vicolo, Courage Under Fire, Westburn Grant, Rowleyella, Rufus Youngblood, Rip Van Winkle, Paleface Adios, Peak Hill, Lawn Derby. Stars one and all. This is a good horse’s race. […]
Kowhai Shadow is a Kiwi pacing mare that until a week ago had started 46 times over three seasons and only won twice, both on the grass. One of them was at downtown Amberley, the little town of 1800 famous for building a statue of war hero Charles Upham outside the council building, even though […]
For a long time now we have been telling you that it takes three weeks to get a horse up and going on a three-pronged drug cheating regime that transforms them from a camel into Superman. It used to be three and a half weeks, but the synthetic EPO formula has been tweaked, and now […]
Young driver Phoebe Betts has breached the rules quite a few times in recent months. At first I just put it down to inexperience and youthful enthusiasm, but it just keeps happening so often that now I’m no longer sure. Betts escaped a suspension for hocking last week when the camera angles supposedly couldn’t display […]
Shannon Suvaljko is either: (a) The greatest judge of a close finish in the world; or (b) Overly excitable and prone to going to the early crow; or (c) A bloody idiot. I favour the latter option. What the hell was he doing giving the big whip raised in the air victory salute 10 metres […]
Cool Hand Luke McCarthy is the greatest healer of crocks and cripples that the world has seen since Jesus H. Christ left Jerusalem to fly up to the St Peter’s Gates ground to play fullback for the Angels. First he brought Bling It On back to life and cut a swathe through them in his […]
You may find this hard to believe, but it is true. Whether it’s straight and true is another question all together. At his past 51 drives for the Emma Stewart stable, reinsman Mark Pitt has driven 38 winners. That’s a winning strike rate of 75%, or three of every four. This isn’t a fluke streak; […]
Driver Johnny Cox was on the horse behind the leader in this race at Addington last night. The sprint lane was only 30 metres away. But rather than sit and wait for it, he pulled out onto the runner in the death seat’s back. When he did he could have shot the gap to the […]
There a couple of trot licensee brothers in north-western NSW who should be starting to get a bit nervous after the arrests of the two rapists in New Zealand I reckon. After all, gang banging intellectually disabled young women is not quite the done thing is it? Spitting on them and beating them up isn’t […]
