Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you’d backed Back In Twenty last night you were feeling pretty good about yourself coming to the home turn. It was the horse behind the leader on the inside. And then this happened. Ouch.
King of Swing has just been crowned Australian Horse of the Year for the 3rd consecutive year, and quite rightly too. He made his return to racing last night at Menangle in a Free For All, and blew in the betting market from $1.25 to $1.50. Colt Thirty One has won Queensland Horse of the […]
NEED YOU NOW – raced wide early and middle stages. Held up final turn and lost momentum when having to be strongly restrained by driver J Dunn just prior to reaching the passing lane and contacted a marker as a result. Stewards were satisfied that no unfair advantage had been gained that had affected the […]
If you dived deep into the tomato sauce on South Coast Arden in last night’s Cambridge Classic you would have been having a heart attack over the last 100 metres. When Harness Jewels and NZ Free For All winner who is generally regarded as the 3rd best pacer in the country behind Copy That and […]
The Premier Mares Championship run at Addington is a Group 2 race featuring most of the best mares in the country, including twice Filly and Mare of the Year Belle of Montana, the almost certain winner of last year’s postponed 3-year-old filly of the year Bettor Twist, the 2021 4YO Diamond Jewels winner Need You […]
See the horse in the 1-1? The one in the blue? It’s Scaramucci, the 2nd favourite. Do you thinks it’s driver Greg Rue is trying? I don’t. Unless he is frozen in the middle of a heatwave, Rue is definitely not doing his best to win the race, and it looks very much to me […]
Stewards today concluded an adjourned inquiry into the running and handling of Its Super Easy ( Angus Garrard) from Albion Park Race 7 – 11/01/2022. After an extensive review of the betting, which showed no abnormal betting and reviewing the horses previous racing characteristics, confirming the horse hangs in his races. Today after taking further […]
If the Harness Racing NSW CEO is going to put his nephew on the payroll to write feel good stories in response to ours that raise questions about a trainer’s extraordinary success in putting never before seen speed into the legs of aged and battle weary pacers, he should at least hire him a research […]
Ben Yole had a winning hull on New Norfolk Cup day. Another Ben – Lexcen – had one on the yacht Australia II when it won the America’s Cup too. It had a winged keel. The yacht designer Lexcen did something in his victory that Yole didn’t do in any of his six-pack of wins […]
Up until now a casino operator in Florida – and indeed in many other States of America, although not all – had to put on live racing in order to qualify for a license to operate poker (slot) machines in their establishment. Poker machine licenses are equivalent to a license to print money, so Isle […]
