Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Belmont Major was a former New Zealand pacer sold at the Red Mile Mixed Winter Sale too. He was a very smart pacer at home, but nowhere near the league of Ashley Locaz. When he left New Zealand’s shores on the 3rd of June last year to go and race in the USA Belmont Major […]
Does anyone remember the former Purdon and Rasmussen trained pacer Ashley Locaz? In 2017 as a two-year-old Ashley Locaz beat Spankem, The Devil’s Own and All U Need Is Faith in the $150 000 Group 1 Harness Jewels. Two years later he ran 2nd behind Poster Boy in the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire, beating […]
Spot the Aussie. Then try and spot the West Aussie. Friday night’s $300 000 Fremantle Cup at Gloucester Park is a ripper of a race, an absolute bottler. It’s also a stark illustration of the current state of Western Australian harness racing. We often lament the situation in Tasmania where, operating under a business model […]
The man in charge of Tuesday’s controversial New Zealand Cup start has been replaced. Long-time Canterbury harness racing starter Peter Lamb was informed by host club Addington he will no longer be their starter, with the role going to former assistant starter Ricky Donnelly. The start of Tuesday’s $540,000 Group 1 great race was widely […]
Last week Sundees Sun won the Group 3 Southern Lights in almost a canter. It’s a huge shame that this trotter has such a huge illegal performance enhancing drug cloud over him, for without it he is almost certainly the best trotter that the Southern Hemisphere has seen since the Freak, the world class Lyell […]
Mario Borg simply does not like Mondays. I am sure of it. What other reason could there be for his Barry Crocker of a day yesterday at Globe Derby? First he gets find for hanging his leg in the breeze because he had a cramp and it was hurting (see previous story), and then he […]
Poor young Mario copped a fine for his drive in this one yesterday. I wonder why? Keep your feet in the stirrup Mr Borg. That’s what they are made for.
For some strange reason the $1.50 favourite in the second race at Globe Derby yesterday Vapar Jack galloped when its driver Gaita Pullicino drove it’s head into the mobile barrier arm just as it was about to release. I don’t understand it. When my mum used to give me a clip around the ear as […]
Rackemup Tierpie has had a lot of bad luck in recent runs. The high class Ian Stanley free-for-aller was due some. He finally got it yesterday in the Maryborough Cup. Batman Barry, the second favourite in the race, was a certainty to lead early from the pole, but having caused a false start the first […]
Lachie Manzelmann is a talented driver, but unfortunately he is a most reckless and dangerous one too, as he proved in the first race at Redcliffe last night. The further question is whether there is something else behind his crazy drive in this race as well. There were two chances in the first last night, […]
