Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Want to know how a race fix at the trots works? Then watch this one above. Wayne Hill is on the odds on favourite Deadline. It is drawn in gate 2, and sails to the lead as expected. Hill’s sister Dani is on the second favourite Illawong Kim, drawn in gate 6. It comes across […]
There is a little known standardbred stallion named Huntsville, who only served one season in Australia before being inexplicably banished from these shores for reasons unknown, to this author at least. That breeding season was in 2018/2019, when Huntsville served 205 mares who dropped 133 of his live foals, each of whom have just turned […]
Cruz Bromac won as predicted all right, and they even bet you $2.00 on the Vic Tote. I was wrong about the time though. Our guess was 1.51.9. He actually ran 1.51.3, six-tenths quicker. It was the fastest time he has run in years. No doubt he will be breaking the 1.50 mark next time […]
If you see Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor walking toward you down the street this week, cross to the other side. At the moment this bloke is just pure bad luck. On Saturday night at Menangle he drove the $1.20 tote favourite Tungsten Terror in the 4th race. It was a funny betting race this one, for […]
Million-dollar earner Cruz Bromac will make his debut for the Jason Grimson stable at Menangle today. The former Victorian pacer was previously trained by Dean Braun and prior to that Mark Purdon in New Zealand. Having collected $1,060,645 in stakes throughout his career, Cruz Bromac spent more than a year away from the racetrack and […]
For the last 30 years people have been complaining that the trots have gone the way of the dinosaurs, never to return. I don’t believe them. Everyone bets on the gallops, but unless you are rich enough to buy one – i.e. worth a couple of mil or more in change – or keen enough […]
They reckon it was worth the $75 ticket to the Bathurst Harness Racing Awards night on Friday was well the price of admission just for the fights. First up there was Mrs Nigel Frisby v Mrs Josh Turnbull in the ladies loo, allegedly blueing over news that for reasons unknown Josh had been cut out […]
Well in half a century of kicking around trot tracks you’ve seen so much cheating that you often feel that you are coated in it, so much so that you become half convinced that you will never see anything again that surprises you. But then something like race 4 at Newcastle comes along and you […]
Trainer Tom Bagrie is driver John Dunn’s cousin, which means that trainer Robert Dunn is Bagrie’s uncle. Robert Dunn of course was earlier this week appointed to the board of the Auckland Trotting Club. The club runs Alexandra Park, the track where the rort above occurred. Tom Bagrie didn’t lodge a stable return because he […]
I was very sad to hear about the passing of Roy Purdon overnight. I only had the chance to meet Roy once – I remember I called him Sir, and he laughed at me – but I’m very friendly with his son and training partner Barry and his wife Katrina, and I know that they […]
