Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Sometimes race stewards make decisions that leave you scratching your head and wondering if what you just saw and read with the same pair of eyes is real, or whether you are in fact walking around in some sort of parallel world hallucinating. Take this stewards report of race 3 at the Geelong trots on […]
Loui had raced 18 times prior to October. It had won twice. The time it ran in that win was 1.57.2. This horse had always been trained by Ross Adams, and still is. Adams had driven it in it’s every start too. But 6 weeks ago all of a sudden first David Morris, and then […]
Prior to arriving in Victoria, Spirit Of St Louis had won five of his 14 Aussie starts including victories in Queensland’s 4YO Championship and a heat of the Inter Dominion series. But nothing he’d achieved before the Bendigo Cup could have helped predict what’s transpired over the past 17 days. These three regional features staged […]
