Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were 6 starters in the fifth race at Canberra last night. Trainer Michael Hawke had four of them, and took full advantage of it. Major Huss was the plunge horse of Hawke’s four. It was backed from $3.40 into $2.50. Crime Don’t Pay and The Talk stayed at about their same price in the […]
This race was so good that it sent shivers down my spine. Call me weird, but I get excited by head to head sporting contests like this. Boxing matches, tennis finals, rugby tests, footy finals, horse races, sex with Maggie, it doesn’t matter. Watching the best of the best go at each other one on […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PCM12022204.mp4 Well aren’t you lucky I told you not to fall for the con and buy The Fortunate Son for $25 grand thinking that as a horse who had just run 1.49.4 he was a chance in the Miracle Mile sportsfans? It’s the oldest rule in the book. When something looks too good to be […]
These drug cheats in racing are nothing but a stain on our sport, and shit on our shoe. NZ harness Robert Dunn and his son John are primary among them. The Dunn’s – who use the name of John’s wife on their license, even though she can’t hopple up a horse, just so that they […]
Watch driver Bruce Harpley on the leader here. See him look around on the turn, inside and out. Look at him pull the whip. Bruce thinks it’s the last lap. He’s going for home. But they are only at the bell. There’s still a lap to go! Harpley tells the Stewards that he knew what […]
Say it ain’t so, Joe please Say it ain’t so That’s not what I wanna hear Joe and I’ve got the right to know Say it ain’t so, Joe please Murray Head Well it seems the mystery of Sergeant Joe’s sudden success on the track with old slow horses that he transforms into free-legged superstars […]
Three years ago a trot trainer named Shaun Anthony Simiana was disqualified from the sport for 16 years after being found guilty of hitting his horses with the highly illegal substances EPO and peptide, the same gear that discredited sports ‘scientist’ Stephen Dank once used to inject into Essendon players arses. Simiana had been suspended […]
Walkabout Creek didn’t hit the race track until he was four, and when he finally got there and ran a dull third on debut at lowly Dubbo under the hardest driving you’d seen since Neville Clarke smashing Gammalite, he didn’t look like ever becoming much either. That assessment seemed confirmed the next week when Walkabout […]
Seriously, this Sergeant Joe Conolly needs to go a bit easier on the spike if he want to avoid the attention of the authorities and the heat, because this is just getting crazy. Golden Year is a seven-year-old pacer who hasn’t won a race at its past ten starts. The fastest winning time that it […]
KRUG NZ Stewards questioned driver Jack Trainor with regards to the horse breaking stride in the run to the first turn. Mr Trainor advised Stewards that the horse had become unbalanced when he was looking steer down the track and find a position in the running line. Mr Trainor further advised the he did not […]
