Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Need You Now was one of New Zealand’s best pacing mares. She won several Group races including the G1 Harness Jewels, and beat horses of the calibre of NZ filly or mare of the year winners Amazing Dream, Belle of Montana and Bettor Twist, and G1 winners Spellbound and Stylish Memphis just to name a […]
Trainer Shane Loone is going easy on his 14-year-old warhorse Bien Hoa this season, He’s only had eleven starts in the past six weeks, and eight in the last month. The next thing you know Loone will be putting him out in the paddock for a winter spell. What a shame there is no racing […]
As we showed you yesterday, New Zealand’s leading driver Blair Orange’s wilful disregard for the rules and for the safety of other participants in a pursuit of a $30 000 first prize directly resulted in the death of an innocent horse. Orange – who has driven 680 winners in the past 3 seasons – was […]
Mach Shard ran second to Ultimate Sniper in the Inter Dominion at Alexandra Park two years ago, and ten months he later came out and beat Copy That and Belle of Montana in the Spring Cup at the same track. That’s some sort of form, cracking in fact. Despite having won a race at Melton […]
Emma Stewart and Mark Pitt did something last in Launceston that no trainer or driver have ever done before. They made history The pair competed in nine races, and won every single one of them. The only reason that they didn’t train and drive the card was because they didn’t have a runner in race […]
Poker players usually have something that gives them away when they draw the right card. For some its their pupils widening. Others bite their lip. Some touch their face, or tap their foot, or exhale. There are many types of signs, the trick is to spot them. Trot driver Pete McMullen has a give away […]
Watch the video above. Keep your eyes on this horse below. It’s driven by Blair Orange. Did you see it? Orange comes straight across in front of the horse on his inside in the green, when he had no right whatsoever to do so. There was no run there. Blair Orange forced it by slamming […]
This is the start of the $50 000 Group 2 Easter Cup at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Our picture is taken exactly at the moment that the starter released the tapes. The horse in the blue off the 2nd row is clearly not in position. The one off the 30m mark is way up […]
We wrote a story earlier in the week about how you would have almost doubled your money if you had laid every odds-on favourite at the Gloucester Park trots over the past two months. Well the run continues. There were 7 favourites on last night’s card that started in the tomato sauce. Four of them […]
Deadest drive you’ve ever driven? Bettorz Beach at Mildura last night. The long standing track record at Mildura over 1790m is held by the Joe Costa trained Beachstar, who ran it in a mile rate of 1.56.2 in a fast class race on Australia Day 2016. Beachstar’s early splits that night were 11.6 for the lead […]
