Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The great question coming into Sunday’s season starting APG Brisbane standardbred yearling sale was how much all the wads of cash that company and it’s shareholders threw at the sale in an attempt to beat off the challenge from the newcomer to the trot auction scene Nutrien would stimulate the prices of the youngsters being […]
Kevin Seymour is a man that people in harness racing tend to have very polarised views about. They either like him or they don’t like him, and most hold a view. By and large in recent years they have been against. It’s not because Seymour is an unlikeable man – he is certainly not, in […]
Prizemoney Increase Last 5 Years – (including breeders bonuses and payments) QLD – 65.5% NSW – 9.0% VIC – 8.4% Prizemoney as Share of Revenue QLD – 82.1% NSW – 49.2% VIC – 46.0% Profit/Loss 2021/2022 Financial Year NSW – $15.7 million VIC – $2.9 million QLD – ($7.3 million) loss See these figures above? […]
Editor’s Side Note I will tell you something else about Kevin Seymour too. He’s a very good friend if you are in the team and stay loyal, and indifferent and no problem if like me you are not (in the team that is, not disloyal). But if you do the wrong thing by him, and […]
These are the results of the APG Mixed Online Sale held last week. Every one of the 14 trotters and pacers in the catalogue are being sold by APG as vendor. Each of them – all 14 – was purchased by the APG as agent. WTF? Agents for whom? Were these really genuine sales, or […]
It is not often that I fully agree with Jason Bonnington. I do here. ————————————————- From a purely cultural perspective, the chasm between regional and urban Australia has never been greater. And based on Saturday night’s metropolitan trotting results, this chasm may extend to standardbreds as well. Last weekend, Shepparton hosted top-class racing action to […]
Leap To Fame Ripp Ladies In Red Better Eclipse Kashed Up Beyond Delight Big Wheels Captain Crusader Ideal Dan Manila Playboy Sebs Choice Spring In His Step (Not in barrier order) Last year the Rising Sun had Copy That, Amazing Dream, Expensive Ego, Krug and Spirit of St Louis in it. This year we’ve got […]
Have I gone mad, even more so than I have ever been? Harness racing ‘expert’ Adam Hamilton reckons that the Inter Dominion – run in November December – is programmed too early in the harness racing season. Hall of Fame trainer Anthony Butt agrees. This is what he said: In the past, owners and trainers […]
These hush-hushers who run the Albion Park Harness Racing Club have got to be kidding haven’t they? Two-tenths of fuck-all members of the public go to the trots anymore, and I know that for a fact because 1/10th of the attendees are three of my mates. In Queensland harness racing is losing $5 million a […]
Tim Butt’s trotter Kar Manor is the new Doug, the money sucking beast that breaks at almost every start. His galloping record in QLD is 7/10 so far, five of them when well in the market. He is the sort of horse that should be stood down from racing until he trials acceptably twice, and […]
