Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Divest of any real ideas to address the dire problems that Alexandra Park has in attracting trainers to race their horses at it’s Friday night metropolitan meetings, the Auckland Trotting Club has come with a band aid fix in the shape of a $200 starters bonus paid to owners or trainers of non-win trotters, three-year-old […]
Know how many favourites on the eight race card at Menangle last night got pre-race swabbed? Two. There were 16 pre-race tests taken in total. Only six of the sixteen horses tested were under $10 in the betting market. Seven of the other ten were $23 or more in the betting. Three of them were […]
There were just three Stewards on duty at the metropolitan Eagle Farm race meeting yesterday. Chief Steward Peter Chadwick was the Chair, and he had his Deputy Chief Daniel Aurisch and A. Schofield on the panel. That’s one less than they had at both the provincial meetings at Rockhampton and the Sunshine Coast the day […]
This Stewards finding is a load of palaver. Theresachance is an old low rated NR58 pacer. They don’t run first quarters in 26.2 seconds and win races. Not now, not ever. It doesn’t matter what tactics a trainer tells a driver to adopt – once they are out there in the sulky holding the reins […]
I can’t quite remember the last time I saw a drive as bad as John ‘Lurch’ Dunn’s pathetic effort on the favourite Highgrove in the main trot race at Addington last night. Highgrove was drawn the backmark of 20 metres in the massive 15 horse field, and he is a dodgy beginner at the best […]
Northview Hustler is an 8-year-old Open Class pacer who coming into Friday’s return to Albion Park after the floods meeting had won ten races in Australia. Eight have them had been when he had led, and the other two had come when he sat behind the leader and used the sprint lane. He had never, […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole won 4 of the 8 races at the Hobart trots last night. It was no surprise given that he trained more than 2/3rds of the runners on the card. How the hell could a half-smart punter possibly have a bet on a program like this? It’s ripe for race fixing, and race […]
Everyone’s talking about Glen Boss’s announcement that he’s becoming a trot driver. “I want to win the Hunters Cup” Bossy told Adam Hamilton with a straight face, clearly ignorant of the fact that it’s called the Hunter Cup. Kate Gath played along too, perhaps a bit too far. Bossy was filmed driving one of her […]
Are the Harness Racing Victoria Stewards for real? A Kiwi pacer having its first start for Alex Ashwood rears and the start and falls, crashing heavily to the ground. The vet inspects the horse and declares it unfit to run. While he is removing the harness from the horse Ashwood – a coward with well […]
Friday night is Alexandra Park’s big night, the main metropolitan meeting of the week; the showcase if you will. That’s what makes this so bad. There are just six races on tonight’s card. Three are them are for trotters: one for maidens, one for horses that have won only 1 race, and the other for […]
