Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Amanda Turnbull drove the red hot $2.10 favourite Smooth Baht in the first race at Menangle last night. Red hot it was indeed. Her drive I am talking about, not the price. Turnbull took Smooth Baht back to last off the gate. And sat there. Sat and sat and sat and sat. She did nothing […]
Tarleton Riley is an 10-year-old pacer who has been racing since the year 2014 and has had 225 starts. Riley raced in the last at Hobart last night at 11.00pm. He sat three-wide without cover for the last lap and finished a tired sixth. Today – less than 24 hours later – the poor old […]
On the 25th of February trot drivers Brad Williamson and Tim Williams decided for no reason at all to go war on each other in a race at Methven. Williams had the lead, and Williamson decided he wanted it, so he took him on. Tim Williams wouldn’t give it up, and Brad Williamson wouldn’t give […]
We spoke to Copy That’s part-owner Merv Butterworth tonight, and in between sips of Johnnie Walker Blue (me) and Glengoyne Legacy Series Single Malt (him) he gave us an update on he and Meg’s great horse that was robbed of the New Zealand Pacer iof the Year Award. Merv was philosophical about the award heist, […]
How can a horse who won the most money, the most races and the New Zealand Trotting Cup not win the Horse of the Year title or at the very least the Pacer of the Year? The only explanation is that Harness Racing New Zealand made an administrative blunder. In May, HRNZ announced it was […]
John ‘Lurch’ Dunn and his mates from Woodend Beach are hotter than Carl William’s crew were back in the gangland war days. They don’t shoot or kill anybody, but they sure do rob people blind. Just have a captain cook at this race will you? Bob ‘But But’ Butt trains and drives the 1 horse, […]
We’re left to wonder how ‘The King’ will be remembered. He wasn’t the fastest horse in history, nor the most versatile or breathtaking. He was, however, brutally durable, crazily competitive and always prepared to face the battles that mattered. In basketball terms he was Bill Russell, in tennis terms he was Novak Djokovic and in cricketing […]
Harness racing in the South Island of New Zealand is on the nose, and the smell is so bad that the stench floats all the way across to the Great Barrier Reef. It’s not global warming that is killing the coral, it’s drug cheating and race fixing coming out of Woodend Beach. Race 4 at […]
I’m a completely clean trainer and can sleep well at night because I’m a honest trainer just trying my best I’m glad your a fan – Ben Hope, promising young trot trainer swimming down the wrong stream You are wrong Ben, we are not a fan. We think you are a young smart arse who […]
Adam Hamilton raised an interesting point in his column this week on thetrots.com.au when he stated his belief that Kevin Seymour’s NSW Derby winner Leap To Fame was still at this stage only the 3rd best three-year-old in Australasia behind the Kiwi star Akuta and the Victorian based Catch a Wave. I thought I would […]
