Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well sportsfans, after four resounding victories we’ve stepped back to the $200 metre mark for week 5, which in this game is about half a lap. Bon-Bon’s got $200 start, off a $300 bank. Surely he can win this week, surely. Here are his tips. https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/articles/game-plan-form-panel-have-you-ready-to-take-on-shep/ Here are mine. Race 2 no 6 – Beach […]
Everyone I know with an interest the trots is talking about this Saturday’s Queensland Sun, the incredibly unimaginatively named local trained only qualifier for next week’s $315 000 Group 1 race for three and four-year olds the Rising Sun, and with good reason too, for it is one of the most intriguing races that you […]
By Adam Hamilton 10:43am • 28 June 2022 TOP trainer Grant Dixon thinks his outstanding three-year-old Leap To Fame is a false favourite for the $305,000 Group 1 Rising Sun. I wonder if trot writer Adam Hamilton ever checks the betting markets before he writes stories about them. This one published on Racenet yesterday works on […]
There is something seriously wrong with harness racing in Wagga, and it’s got nothing to do with the horses. It’s Harness Racing NSW. First they spent outlandish sums of money in the vicinity of $15 million constructing a new track, one that was supposed to cost circa only $3.5 million. After delay upon delay, and […]
I Cast No Shadow is a smart pacer, there is no doubt about that, but is he really good enough to run 1.4 seconds faster than three-time Australian Horse of the Year and triple Inter Dominion winner Im Themightyquinn to break the track record at Albion Park over 1660m? First-up since April? In a trial? […]
Boncel Benjamin won the Inter Dominion last year. Not long before that it was running in claimers. I don’t need to tell that rock n’ roll Jill – Jason Grimson – trained it do I? Jill could train a three legged donkey 14-year-old camel to win the Miracle Mile if you asked him to. The […]
Forbury Park is a famous trot track in Dunedin in New Zealand’s south, which from 1890 until the decision of the new NZ Racing Board to close it down last year was the spiritual home of harness racing in Otago. For over 12 months now the track has been sitting idle and unused. Not any […]
Earlier this week we published a story based on information gleaned from a story written by journalist Cameron Barclay and published in the Otago Daily Times. In our story we repeated the assertion made by Mr Barclay – who was present at the Stewards inquiry into the relevant rule breach hearing – that Jones had […]
Ben Yole had 60 of the 99 runners in Hobart last night in the three races he contested. That’s just ridiculous. What is going on when he brings horses over to race in Victoria is even worse. Chainsaw had two runners last night. The first one Miss Tyler was driven as dead as a doornail. […]
Poor old Jill Grimson. He runs up to QLD chasing diamonds and hands, and his Sydney stable falls to pieces. Since he’s been gone his horses at home have suddenly lost a leg, and mysteriously transformed into camels. There is a lesson in this. Either Jill is the greatest trainer in Australia as we all […]
