Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 22nd of December 2021 a NSW trot trainer named Michael ‘Mickey’ Muscat raced a very appropriately named pacer called Knight Walker in the first on the card at a TAB meeting at Bathurst. The horse went exactly as its name suggested, like a busted arse. It sat in the death and got beaten […]
The prospect of running the Miracle Mile at Menangle on Saturday night are looking bleaker and bleaker by the minute. Like many trots tracks, Menangle was built in a flood basin, and the whole joint’s under water. That’s not then worst of it. The track sits next to the Nepean River. It is at its […]
To Infinitynbeyond is a 10-year-old pacer who until yesterday had not won a race for 5 years. I’m not sure whether that is a record for the longest gap ever between wins, but gee if its not it must be close. In his whole long life as a racer, the old pacer had never won […]
This is Menangle this morning. The flood levels are predicted to rise before the fall. “We can’t race on a half mile track” the trainers scream. What do they race the Little Brown Jug on fellas? You know, the world’s most famous race, the one that all the greats win. Forbes Chief, Tar Heel, Adios […]
After reading our story about the boxer cum trot trainer Tony Peacock yesterday, racing historian and footy and boxing devotee Gold Coast Greg wrote in to let us know that A. Peacock is the heir of a proud lineage of pugilists who wielded the reins. Huge thanks to Greg for digging the info contained in […]
I have been banging on about hocking in NSW harness racing for months now. It’s for a good reason, many of them in fact. Hocking is the practice of kicking your horse in the back of the leg to propel it forward, the purpose being to inflict pain on the horse to tell it not […]
Take a look at this disgraceful piece of abhorrent animal abuse inflicted on the horse Comet Crusader by its driver Blake Hughes in the 2nd heat of the NSW Derby last Saturday week. Comet Crusader is the horse on the inside rail in the white. The one gone and going backwards. Hughes left right saws […]
Stop smiling Mr Seymour AM. You’ll be wrong one day. Maybe. Perhaps. Dear Moses Ever since you got and The Colt got done like a paua fritter by the Kiwis in ID2019 I have been bagging you. Time and time again I have written that you are to big race driving what hollandaise sauce is […]
Muscle Bart started favourite in a semi-final of the VicBred Super Series five starts back. It’s easy to see why. He didn’t beat much at Newcastle yesterday, but gee he beat them well. This is one seriously good horse, and he is still only a rating 43. I’d hate to be racing against him as […]
I got my usual thrice weekly email this morning from a mate and mug who claims to be a NSW trot form expert. This is how he assessed the Dean and Kerry McDowell trained runners in races 6 and 8. Race 6 @ 4:37pm No. 5 – Pikarso – needs a blacksmith badly, this is […]
