Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last week in the Shepparton Cup, Jack Callaghan gave us a masterpiece of big race driving. Tonight in the Ballarat Cup he presented us with the Mona Lisa. What a drive. What a driver. Jack Callaghan is the best thing since sliced cheese. If the McCarthy’s had put this kid on in the Inter Dominion they […]
Greg Sugars, driver of Eiffel From Heaven ($2.70 fav), was questioned regarding the tactics adopted on the mare, in particular his decision to not direct the mare wider between the 400m to the 200m to fully follow Mister Cracker and further his decision to direct the mare wider on the track upon straightening and not […]
Aldo Cortopassi is a fool, a rude and ignorant one at that. When asked what he planned to do at the start by the on-track interviewer just before the field for the Fremantle Cup scored up, Aldo all but spit in his face, and said only pray. Cortopassi obviously didn’t pray too hard, or perhaps […]
You would think that a driver of Inter Dominion Trot winner Greg Sugars stature would be good enough to hook a horse without it being so obvious that the whole world could see it, but you’d be wrong. Look what Sugars does here tonight in race 1 at Bendigo on the favourite. Sugars is in […]
Colin ‘Captain/Coach’ McDowell might be just a touch over 40, but he is as fit as a Mallee Bull and like a good bottle of Grange Hermitage, he’d just got better with age. Only his phalanx of super capable PA’s know how Allied Express keeps delivering the parcels on time when the boss is always […]
Hot off the press this afternoon is news that Nathan Jack has won his license back. Quite peculiarly, given that he is one of the nation’s most skilled drivers, a condition has been placed on his new license that Jack has to drive in 15 trials prior to him starting driving in races again. Anyone […]
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 […]
