Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
This is Lord Bazalup. He is a pacer, but more accurately, he is a walker. Jamie Durnberger from Summit Bloodstock owns him. Summit Bloodstock is Australia’s larges harness race horse owner by volume. Ben Yole is Lord Bazalup’s trainer. Last week Ben was honoured by Harness Racing Australia with an award as the nation’s leading […]
A huge controversy has erupted in Tasmania over the racing authority Tasracing seemingly hooking the fields to allow the Ben Yole stable to race its horses up to four times in ten days at the expense of pacers from other stables in the State which are being denied a run at all. Under the Tasmanian […]
Dear Paul, I am writing as a follow up to my email sent on Friday 21st January which did not receive a reply and needs to be addressed. BOTRA has received a high volume of calls and messages in relation to the TTC meeting on January 26th since Friday the 21st. Participants are outraged with […]
