Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Where I grew up the starters at the trots were always neutral. The blokes on the track working with the horses were all there to get them faced up straight to the tapes, and to get them away fair and clean. They weren’t there to get one going faster than the other. That is the […]
It seems that a certain leading driver in Sydney has taken a sudden interest in Swedish affairs. We are not sure whether he has mixed up the blue and yellow flags of the Ukraine and Sweden, or whether he been dazzled by the bright blonde light, but one thing is for certain. A certain Melbourne […]
King Kulafu’s got rainbows on the soles of his feet Tamworth pacer King Kulafu is owned by my great mate the Boxer, the former heavyweight champion of NSW, and a one-time contender for the Australian title back when the man who twice went the distance with Ali, the incomparable Joe Bugner, owned it. The King […]
The sprint lane at Ashburton starts at the red marker poles. Those black and white poles you see are part of the track. They are the rail, or what used to be. Driver Craig Thornley on the horse you see at the top has clearly and quite deliberately cut the corner. Watch. Let’s call a […]
PBD/Sex means preferential draw based on gender, not how many times you get it away At a time when a storm is raging in world sport about whether gender neutral and trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the male or female sporting category of their choice, Harness Racing NSW has elected to do […]
I think we might have beaten the Wagga Advertiser to the story by a few lengths. Perhaps even we lead the charge. You always hear it first here. Each and every time.
We again thank reader Bill Edwards for this fascinating look back at the history of harness racing in the NSW Western Districts. A few more lines about Jim Chisholm whose daughter Nancy married Frank Donohoe. Jim was a butcher on the south coast of NSW. In those days most horsemen also chose butchering as their […]
Two years after a colt by Captain Treacherous out of Ravishing Girl was purportedly sold to a buyer named A. Portelli for $80 000 as a yearling at the 2020 APG Sydney sale, the now 3Y0 remains in the ownership of Australian Pacing Gold. Given that the company is a registered not for profit organisation, […]
I am joking. I think. Suspensions in NSW don’t really happen, they are just fictions on paper. Robbie Morris copped 28 days in the first round of ID21 late last year, and hasn’t served a second of it. Jack Trainor was given 21 days a fortnight ago, and he is still driving. Aaron Dunn will […]
