Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On Friday night the 6th of May we wrote a story about the Summit Bloodstock owned/Ben Yole trained pacer Machs Mareta running and earning prizemoney in low grade restricted races that it wasn’t eligible to enter. There was no mention whatsoever in any Stewards Report about an inquiry being launched into the matter. We questioned […]
The incident you see above happened right as they crossed the line at Albion Park in the protest race last night. Angus Garrard was driving the horse circled in the yellow. It was steaming home through the middle late and coming fast, but just was reached the winning post the horse inside him bored out […]
Darrell ‘the Dazzler’ Graham drove I Am Sparta, the horse in the white with blue and red sleeves and yellow cup here. It was the firm $4.40 second favourite. Noddy (Pete McMullen) drove Gotta Go Milking, the one directly on Graham’s outside in the pale blue with red, white and stars. That horse had been […]
On the 24th of April a pacing mare named Mach’s Mareta – owned by Summit Bloodstock and Bain, and trained by their man Chainsaw Yole – started in a race at Hobart. It ran second, and earned $1530 dollars in prizemoney. The problem is that the race was restricted to horses rated NR53-57. Machs Mareta […]
Velocity Stride is a walker, Coming into race 6 at last night’s Hobart meeting it’s record over the past two seasons was 1 win from 46 starts, and it was about to run around in a race of higher class than it had been getting dizzy in lately. So it was a huge surprise to […]
Would you have given the horse coming the widest around the turn any chance in the world of winning from that position on the tight turning Gloucester Park track? Richard Bell is one of the most accurate callers in a race in the country, and he didn’t. I didn’t either. We were both wrong. Gee […]
Victorian trot trainer Tim McGuigan is 56 years of age, and has been training since season 1986/87. Over the course of that 35 years his strike rate has been 8% the win and 22% the place. All of sudden in his golden years McGuigan is this year hitting winners at double the rate (17%) and […]
Getting diagnosed with terminal cancer is a trigger for most of the poor buggers to reflect back on their lives, and try to redeem their sins, in the hope that despite all that they have done wrong they still might somehow make it to heaven. Not trot trainer Shane Loone. He knows that there is […]
Beware Trojan horses: it is not a $15 million increase as it is being sold; the boost is plus $5 million, maintained over 3 years (if we are lucky) Harness Racing NSW this week announced a warmly welcomed $5 million annual increase to funding for the sport, the largest part of which will be allocated […]
Why on earth would you hold the launch of Queensland’s gala trot race at an expensive inner city rooftop function space, when you have your a number of function venues of your own at the track that you have just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sprucing up, and hiring them out is part of […]
